Happy New Year!

New Years was at the Harker’s once again. We celebrated with the kids earlier so they were still able to go to bed at their normal time. Keeping them up later isn’t worth it for anyone as we pay for it for the next few days that follow. We had lots of fun and ate way too much.

2016 was an amazing year! It had it's hard moments, but we have been truly blessed and there was a lot of good. I am thankful for all we experienced in 2016.

Swimming

Since we had no plans to do much over the Christmas break or go anywhere, we decided put Lincoln and Lacey in swimming lessons for the week. They loved being able to swim each morning.  There was also open swim at the same time. But since their lessons were at 9AM, opened swim was dead. So we were able to swim with Oliver while Lincoln and Lacey did their lessons, then swim as a family afterwards. It was so much fun to just do family activities for a whole week.

Snow Fun

This winter has been a cold one, with few Chinooks. There have been quite a few days where it has been too cold to play outside. It finally chinooked after Christmas, so we were able to play in the snow. We made a snow tunnel with dad and played with our sno-markers.

Christmas 2016

Christmas was busy! On December 23^rd we went out to Cardston for the Harker Christmas at Bonnie and John’s. It was great to see everyone. Then we were in Magrath for Christmas Eve and Christmas morning.  We had lots of fun decorating gingerbread houses, playing games and getting matching pajamas. On Christmas Eve Lincoln and Lacey also got to say good- bye to Sparkle Buddy. The sure loved having him in our home for the month of December. Then back in Lethbridge to Nana & Papa - motor's for Christmas afternoon/ Christmas dinner.

True Meaning Of Christmas

I love Christmas time! The reason we celebrate Christmas. Family Time. The yummy food... December is such a busy month with everyone trying to get the perfect gift for everyone and get ready for the big day. Don't get me wrong I love giving gifts but I feel like the world has commercialized Christmas so much these days. So this year we tried to simplify Christmas and focus more on the true meaning of Christmas is the birth of Jesus. I hope that my children never forget the true meaning. This christmas season I loved watching Lacey carefully taking my nativity down off the sofa table and placing each piece on the floor very carefully. She would then sit and play with it. I loved watching her. This is what Christmas is all about!

Lakeview Christmas Art Show

 This year Lakeview school did a Christmas Art Show instead of a concert. It was so much fun seeing all the amazing art work and I loved seeing how proud Lincoln was of his two pieces in the art show. It was a fun family night.

Here's Lincoln's garde 1 collaboration art piece. Each student brought in leaves to contribute to this art project. Lincoln was pretty proud that two of his leaves of to be the owls feet.

They also had a photo booth with fun Christmas props. It took some work to convince to get Lincoln to get a picture with his family.

December 2016

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Oliver loved that Lincoln was including him in the fun.

Santa picture 2016 - Lincoln was super excited to see Santa. Lacey was still a little unsure, but she sat on his lap. Oliver didn't seem to mind Santa but wouldn't smile when the photographer was ringing the bells.

December is a busy month! But it was also a very good month. We were able to do lots of fun things as a family. Oliver got his first hair cut in a salon.