Christmas 2011

We started with the traditional dinner and Nativity and Grandma & Grandpa Great Rogers house. Kara was Mary, Andrew was Joseph, Kaylee and Anna were angels. 

 Then we rushed home to get ready for bed and see where Santa was on the NORAD Santa tracker.
Christmas Morning:

 We made the kids wait until Grandma Larsen came- aren't we mean? (it was 7:00)

 In their new Christmas PJs in front of the tree.

Then we all got ready for church with enough time left for some pictures.

 

The Christmas program at church was great! I love going to church on Christmas. That afternoon we went to G&G Rogers house for dinner and MORE PRESENTS!! What a great Christmas!

What, Already?!

Monday morning during breakfast Andrew complained that his tooth hurt. I asked him if it was loose. He wiggled it and said "yes!". By lunch it was loose enough that he wouldn't eat. Five minutes before the bus came I pulled it out. Fastest tooth loosing I've ever seen- and early too! Kaylee and Kara didn't loose any teeth until 1st grade.

Christmas Party and An Answered Prayer

Saturday was the Larsen Christmas party. We (the youngest 5 siblings) were in charge this year so it was a little more stressful than usual. We had dinner at 5:00 5:45 (the person making the kids quesadillas was late). Yummy Cafe Rio style buffet. Then the hugest game of Elimination EVER! I think about 50 people played. Lots of prizes for the winners. Then Santa came!

 There were fun activities like face painting...

 fishing...

 and other fun crafts...

and games.

We finished the night with a slide show of pictures of Grandma & Grandpa. It turned out to be afun night and if we had started on time we would have been done by 8:00. Alas, 8:45. I counted 113 people in attendance. After clean up we got home at about 9:30.

While getting the kids ready for bed Anna fell and hit her head on the post by the stairs. I picked her up and hugged and kissed her and came away with bloody lips. Wes took her and covered the wound while we said family prayer and put the other kids to bed. In the prayer Kaylee asked that Anna would be okay and that her cut would stop hurting. After examining her Wes decided she needed stitches. Fortunately that is something he can do at home. The worst part of stitches is always the numbing because he has to put a needle in the cut. It is usually pretty painful. Anna just laid there and didn't even flinch. Two stitches and some ibuprophen later and she was ready for bed. Now you wouldn't know she had been hurt. It is definately and answer to prayer. It's amazing how negative things can become faith builders and lessons for us and our children.



Anna- Beacuse She's So Stinkin' CUTE!

Jenny took this video last night while we were watching the Christmas Broadcast.

• Anna calls me "mudder" now. As in, "Can I have more please, Mudder?" or "I love you Mudder".
• Yesterday Anna got in trouble and Wes took her to her room. When he went back to get her she said "I'll be good Fadder, King".
• She just ran up to me and said - in a tattley voice, "Mom, Andrew didn't hit me".
• Anna loves to color. She makes marks and then decides what it is. For example, the other day she made a long skinny oval. It became an alligator. She added eyes, legs and a tail.
• Her letter to Santa reads "Dear Santa, It's Christmas Time. Alligators. I want a Barbie Princess. Love, Anna
• When she doesn't like a food she says it's " uh-sgusting".
• Anna's prayers are all "Father, Bless food, name Jesus Christ, Amen" so we've been trying to teach her that we don't always bless the food. So now before each prayer she asks if she can bless the food.
• This morning I stepped on a toy and hurt my foot. Anna came up to me and said "I can make you feel better, here's my corner". Then she handed me her special corner of her blanket.