First Christmas

While G&G Vogt were here we fit in a lot of things! Kaylynn went down to the Children's Holiday Party at work and saw Santa and painted an ornament.

We also had our first of many Christmas's this year.
K was pretty excited to get "Kit" an American Girl doll.Her and Kit are inseparable these days!
And some "horsing" around with Grandma:
Here are some random pictures of the Christmas tree and and kiddo, too:
Hope you are all ready for Christmas...!

Our Angel

Kaylynn was the star of the show (as far as I was concerned!) in the Nutcracker ballet last weekend. Of course there are no camera's allowed during the performance so here are just a few backstage photo's of our little angel. She did awesome in her dance and it was so nice to have Grandpa and Grandma Vogt, Aunie and Charlie and Cindy and Otis there to see our sweet little girl up on the big stage.

SkyVenture

Since I still like having Cory around and don't want him to sky dive, I gave him an indoor sky "flying" experience for his birthday. He went to use it the other weekend and seemed to enjoy it (even though it was not the real thing)! It was hard to take pictures when he was flying around a wind tunnel at 150 mph, but for what it's worth here is a shot a some!
Prior to "jumping in":
And "flying":

Godchild

Here is Asa, our new Godchild. He is such a sweet little boy!
Proud Momma and Dadddy, Josie and Gus:

Greater Grand Forks

It was great to be back in ND for the weekend! Cory gave a nice seminar for the UND Department of Atmospheric Sciences and then we stayed for a few extra days to take in a few hockey games at the "new" Engelstad Arena. What an amazing place! The Sioux split, but it was fun to be there and see them on their home ice. Here are some pictures of our Alma Mater.

Campus looked really nice, especially around the English Coulee. No snow...yet!


This "tube" was new since we were there. It goes over University between some dorms. There were several other new tubes around campus as well. I bet they are very nice when it is 40-below!
The "new" Engelstad Arena.
For the Friday night game our seats were in the very last row. Good thing there are no bad seats in the place!
For Saturday night's game we were 3 rows up behind one of the goals. It was fun to see the game from two very different vantage points.
Our friends Cory and Krista's son, Caleb, was lucky enough to get his jersey signed by all the Sioux players on Friday night and was very happy to be wearing it on Saturday!
We had a great time and hope it won't be another 10 years before we get back up there. And next time we need to bring K. I am sure she will want to see the campus she will be heading up to in a few years!

Trick-or-Treat?

Have you ever gone trick-or-treating with 19 kids in a group...now that is a scary Halloween night! They all had fun, though, and came home with a TON of candy - success!

Another season ends

Kaylynn played her last soccer game for the season and it was by far her best one yet! She played great defense and was aggressive on offense too. It was fun to watch the girls improve this year. Here are some fun pictures to wrap up the season. (I was taking a bunch after the game and Kaylynn said, "Mommy, that is enough pictures, everyone else is already gone!")
Go Butterflies!