Our Little Basketball Player...

Sophie started basketball at our church last week. I think she looks cute in her uniform, but I guess it's not really a fashion show! She has some pretty good b-ball skills too! I KNOW she doesn't get that from me!!! We'll be working on getting the games uploaded for you to see... I just know you're dying to see them! We're especially proud of Sophie's basket that she got in her first game! Of course, as parents, we're proud no matter what!

Christmas

I'm probably the last person in the world to finally be blogging about Christmas, and I really don't have much of an excuse, other that just not wanting to do it!!! I'm sure you all want to hear about Christmas now... because it's the middle of January!!! Here's a few pics of our Christmas this year!

Aiden in a Santa hat- Grammy had silly hats for everyone to wear this year while we opened gifts. There were santa hats, elf hats, reindeer antlers and mistle toe hats. It was fun!

Santa left a letter for the kids again this year! They had fun seeing that the toffee and chocolate milk that they left out for him was enjoyed! (Sorry about the glare on the TV!)

Santa brought Aiden Mac & Cheese in his stocking! This was probably his favorite gift, or at least the one he talks about the most! Way to go Santa!!!

Aiden got a Cars racing game for the Wii from Santa. The soccer goal was a part of our living room for nearly a week... can't wait until it get warm enough outside to use it. It's in our family room until then...

Yes, that's Aiden in a dress.... again!!! Those are ornaments from Sohie's little Christmas Tree on his ears...how creative... he's going to thank me for sharing this picture when he gets older!

Papa and the kids made a gingerbread house this year. I took myself off house building duty this year. I think Papa enjoyed it!

The kids ate more candy than they managed to get on the house!

You get to break the rules when Papa's around... they thought it was pretty cool to be able to sit on the counter and watch Papa pretend to be Julia Child in Gramma's apron!

The Klassen family Christmas picture... I got it on the first shot this year!

Merry Christmas!!!

Since we are having our Christmas celebrations early, I thought we'd wish you all a very

Merry Christmas!!!

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Family

We got to Spend Thanksgiving with Travis' family in Springfield this year. While we were there, we got to take some family pics (minus Steve who had to stay home and work.) I got to use my new tripod I got for my birthday for the first time!

Signs

Sophie is into making signs. These are a few of the signs I have found around the house lately.

This is on her bedroom door... her Christmas decoration!!!

"Do not come in if you put little stuff in your mouth."
Also on her bedroom door. Apparently, she is worried that someone will choke on one of the 10,000 beads that she got for her birthday.

"I love Aiden a lot."
This was hanging on the front door so Aiden would see it when she got home.

"Do not flush toylit."
This note was written on a piece of toilet paper. Our shower is leaking, so Daddy put a note on the shower not to use it. Apparently she thought we shouldn't use the toilet either! She is such a goofball! Oh, well. I love my goofball, and we learned the correct way to spell toilet!

Happy Birthday

November is Birthday month for our family. This year we made last minute plans to go home to Wichita to celebrate the kids' birthdays, and then at the very last minute, had to cancel our last-minute plans because we all ended up with the flu. Everyone was so disappointed that we didn't get to go home and see our family. For some of you, it's been a very long time since we've seen you! Aiden turned 4 this year and is very excited that he is four. When people ask him how old he is he holds up his fingers and says, "I'm one- two- three- four!" Sophie is super excited to be six and when she realized that she would be seven next year, she nearly cried from excitement. We continually have to remind her not to wish away her childhood. We all know you'll never be able to go back!

Sophie and I had the flu on Aiden's birthday, so I had to purchase Aiden's cake this year. He was fine with it because he got blue icing!

The cake wasn't very good, but it looks like Aiden liked it!

Aiden wore his halloween costume all day on his birthday. Here he is showing us how old he is!

Aiden got a super fast race track with a "loopy loop"!

I made an angel food cake with pink icing for Sophie's birthday. She enjoyed it!

Six candles is a lot to blow out! Sophie got a pet fish for her birthday, that I failed to take a picture of. She named it Purple and surprisingly, it is still alive!

I wanted to thank everyone who mailed birthday gifts and cards to the kids. The continual packages that showed up at our house were so much fun for them. We were all so disappointed not to be able to have a party and to get to see our family our their birthdays. It sometiems feels like the party is more for me than them! Even though we didn't get to party with our friends and family, you still managed to make their birthdays special! Thanks!