Seth Graduates from Preschool

Seth graduated from Preschool today. He had a great teacher, (just 4 houses down on our street!) Mrs. Larson. I can't wait to hear about all his adventures next year in Kindergarten. Way to go SETH!

Aaron's Driver's Permit

EEK! There's only 6 months until he's 16 and Aaron went and got his Driver's Permit today. He passed on the first try with an 84%. He's pretty excited, I'm pretty nervous, and Matt is wearing the instructor cap. Time sure flies!

Field Trip to the Fire Station

Seth's preschool class took a trip to the fire station. He LOVED it!

Levi as George Washington

The 2nd grade class put together a Hero's Program. They sang songs and talked about different heroes throughout history and in the community. Levi was asked to dress up as George Washington. He looked great and they did a good job!

Aaron Vs. Sledding

2017 sure has started out being a wild adventure! The 2nd week in, Aaron was sledding at an activity at church and decided to go down the hill head first on a sleding saucer. At the bottom of the hill he hit a manhole cover, which catapulted him off the saucer. He slid across the snow with his face (which unfortunately was crunchy and icy because it was not fresh snow...) and collided with some chunks of ice. He rolled his arm and now has a spiral break on his left arm. He will be in a cast for about a month and we will get him rechecked. 

He is healing nicely, but it really wasn't much fun seeing him bruised and broken.

Christmas Cookies!

Micah in his happy place! (trains!)

The kids

Seth, Justin, Aaron, Caleb

Janice, Justin, Levi, Kellie, Jill

Seth and Jessica

Jason and Levi

Aaron and Jake

Janice and Caleb

Kellie and Julie

Temple Square at Christmas

This was the first time our family has been to see the lights at Temple Square for Christmas.

 It was worth the wait!

Kids at Christmastime 2016

Merry Christmas from the Christiansens!

Kellie, Micah, Aaron, Caleb

Levi, Seth

Levi

Kellie

Caleb

Micah

Seth

Aaron

Kellie's Christmas Dress

We were friends with an amazing family when we lived in Colorado. They had 4 boys and 1 daughter, Megan. It was kind of like our family, just a little bit older. Megan was the youngest and just a bit younger than Aaron. Even though Kellie was a few years younger than Megan they became friends and developed kind if a sister-ly relationship. They both understood about being the only girl in a family full of boys! When they moved, she gave Kellie her favorite dress, which no longer fit her. Today Kellie is finally big enough to wear Megan's dress. We have a happy Kellie over here! I sent a picture  of her to Megan, who was pretty excited, too! I'm so glad these girls have each other, even long distance. :)

Decorating Grandma and Grandpa's tree

Now that we live closer to family, we are able to see them more and help out, too.

The kids were pretty excited about being asked to help set up Grandma and Poppa J's tree and holiday decorations. 

Seth was pretty quick to snag this cute animal ornament. It has been on my parents tree for as long a I can remember. In fact, when I was little I used to try to snag it before any of my brothers or sisters could get it so that I got to be the one to hang it on the tree. Funny that my Seth did the same thing this year.

Winter sunset in UT

Here's the view of our mountains...

Just a typical Saturday morning in December...

Christmas Village 2016

Sisters! Janice, Julie and Jerri

Aaron and his cousin Justin

Aaron and the soldier

Aaron pretending to shoot deer

Aaron, Jake and Stetson, with Seth on top

Our family

A group of the kids

Jerri's family; Jessica, Jerri, Jason and Jennifer

Cousins!

Jamie's friend Laura, Caleb Justin and Jamie

Jennifer, Seth, Jake and Aaron

Jennifer, Jason, Stetson Aaron and Justin

Micah and Jamie looking through the train window

Jamie and Stetson

Jamie and the soldier. (I think she needs a date...)

Janice, Jared and Kellie

Jennifer holding hands with the soldier. She's "in love!"

Jessica's turn with the soldier. 

Jon and Stetson

Jake, Seth and Jon

Kellie and Julie

Justin in a box.

Soldier Justin

Jill and Kellie

Levi and the train.

Levi and Jerri. He loved using his own camera to take pictures of the displays.

Matt and Caleb

Julie and Matt

Matt and Micah

Micah loved this train. He could have stood there all night, fascinated.

Micah was in awe of the window displays.

Micah and Jessica

Jake and Seth

Jennifer and Seth

Seth

Seth

Levi was tired...

Jill

Jon

Jared, Caleb, Matt, Justin and Aaron