VIDEO - Dan playing castle with kids - Jan 4 2008

This post and the following 3 posts are 4 select videos from January. Enjoy.

VIDEO - Snow Fort - Jan 9 2008

I love Ethan's definition of a "boys only" snowfort! :)

VIDEO - Krystin Counting (Sort of) - mid Jan 2008

VIDEO - Dining Room Race Track - end Jan 2008

December 07 - Our Annual Couples Christmas Party - Friday, December 7

Ok - the plan was that the kids got their own little snack and play-past-bedtime party in their room while us adults partied downstairs. It worked pretty well last year.....

Early on in the party.

You can see some of the munchies at the bottom of the pic. One of Dan's and my favorites was the Danish Puff I made using Grandma Werner's recipe.

More Mingling

Every year I try and have at least 1 or 2 organized games. But the "Popcorn Toss" makes it on the list every year. Couples stand across from each other and see how many kernals of popcorn they can throw into each others mouths in 2-3 minutes. I think the winners this year got 26.

Yep, it makes a big mess - but I make the guests help pick up! :)

OK - so this year was a large turnout and pretty noisy. The kids did not stay upstairs as well as last year and came down often. Here you see Krystin our "sneek" snacking on popcorn during the popcorn toss game. (she almost snuck a beer, too!)

And our little monkey-see monkey-dos wanted to play too :)


1/2 of the group:

(people from our church unless noted with a "N" for neighbor)

back: Sam & Kara, Marci & Bill, Wade & Coral, Mandy & Brad(N)

front: Matt and Kim (N), Matt and Joelle

Back: Britt and Dan, Daffny and Todd, Kim and Jim (N)

Front: Jeff and Kim, Becca and Jonathan

Late comers Daren and Dorothy

(perfect pose, don't you think?) The party came to an end after a couple of boardgames

November 2007 - Misc

11/15/07

Britt's New Do

11/17/07

The Krops came over to make gingerbread houses

(Actually Graham cracker houses)

Krystin and Tyler did more eating than decorating :)

Time with Dad

The girls are becoming closer friends


On Friday, 11/30, Jenny came over to help me finally paint the Dining Room. What a good friend (I did provide peanut M&M's as a bribe and promised to help her paint the trim in her house..... but she would have helped anyway :)

I know it looks like we are painting the same color - but I forgot to take pics of the first coat - we are painting the second coat in these pics.
Ta-da! The semi-finished look

(I have more decorating finishing touches to add)