Church Christmas program!

Hip Hip...Hooray!!

Truax family Christmas at Long Lake!!

What a great day! A day for many memories....

We spent a few hours on the lake skating, sledding, playing football, and running!!

We were also all waiting anxiously for a call from Evan and Melissa for news of their baby (a few weeks early!)

Caden James Amundson was born in the afternoon...so neat he was born on a day we were all celebrating Christmas!!

Austin refused to wear snowpants so he was drenched after playing tackle football with Drew. Of course the coldness set in right during the big family picture...I only got one shot before he took off for the house running and crying!

Katelynn tried skating!

Joel tried skiing!

Zachary helping Katelynn (so sweet!)

Austin and Brady....later Austin thought it was pretty fun pulling Brady around! :)

Poor Zoe!

Waiting so patiently!!

WHAT A FANTASTIC DAY!!

Christmas baking....I made fudge for the first time..regular and candy cane fudge! The kids helped with the pretzel, M&M treats! NUM!

Austin's preschool Christmas program!

Katelynn's 7th birthday party!!

Cobber Kids Pals!!

A couple girls weren't able to come..the ones that did were all girls that went to Cobber Kids together when they were babies/infants!! I guess that Concordia connection starts early!

 Fun cupcake holders from Creative Kitchen.

 Katelynn wanted yellow frosting so it looked like a flower!

Making wreaths...they did a great job!

Austin desperately wanted to be involved...he made a wreath with the girls...then he wanted all of them to play basketball! haha! (I laughed because he wanted them to guess the password he was thinking of...what football team starts with a B?)....so outnumbered! :)

What  a fun day!

Too much fun at the Watzke house!!

We had a great night of appetizers and drinks!

The kids had a great time playing...Katelynn fell asleep on the way home...it was tricky getting her PJ's on that night!

Advent Fun Shop (to go)!

We always do the Advent FUN shop at church! It is normally in a big room and lots of fun! This year it was in the CROWDED basement. I paid for Katelynn for the older craft...Austin the younger ones, so I was trying to go back and forth and help both of them. Austin was done in 5 minutes and Katelynn was still on her first one! So, I paid for Austin for the older craft and thought we will just do them together...he did 2 and I decided it was too crowded ...and they were pretty hard for him. Then, he decided he was hungry and thirsty...they were serving a sloppy joe meal. Of course I had no cash left becasue I had to pay for the older crafts for him (I had to borrow $$ from Rachel for that since I was planning on him doing both). He was mad because I couldn't buy him food! He finished Noah's sloppy joe and I decided it was time to go! We took this last one Katelynn was doing "to go".... I think Daddy is going to come next year! :)

Basketball

Austin LOVES Saturdays because those are his game days! And he gets to wear shorts and short sleeves! (it's the little things!) :) Tyden and Austin have really been having fun (and getting along!) at basketball!!

Team Huddle!