School Carnival

Here are some pics of the kids at their annual school carnival/fun night:

Emma is a reader!

Emma read her very first book all by herself on Sunday.



She was so proud of herself that she wanted to take the book to school to show her teacher. Then her teacher made her read it to all of her classmates. ;) She said that she did really well and didn't need any help with it. So yay, Emma!

Ice skating

I took the kids ice skating yesterday as a last hurrah before heading back to school from winter break today. Here is a link to the youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIhXPc3VHxE

Post holiday wrap up

The children are still not back in school yet....although I think they really should be, but we've got all the decorations down and it pretty much feels like January around here. We spent New Year's in MN with at my sister's house, but Christmas we stayed around here. Here are some shots of the kids opening gifts on Christmas morning as well as some from Grandma and Grandpa's house on Christmas day. My MIL and FIL made that great big Barbie dollhouse for Emma. I would have killed for something like that when I was a kid. ;)