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Christmas 2016

We hope that you and yours had a wonderful holiday season. We had a great time with lots of family visiting.

Wilbert's brother and his wife were visiting from Calgary and Wilbert's sister was home from the Bible college she is attending. We all love when they visit and my kids love having all of the extra attention.
Kids on Christmas Eve before we opened gifts

Opening gifts with Wilbert's family.
A gift from our family from Wilbert's brother...a place to display the kids art work. It is nicely hanging on a wall in the play room now.
 

Wilbert and Jander spent a good chunk of a morning working on playing "I Will Wait" by Mumford and Sons. It sounded quite good by the end.

Mataya really enjoyed playing games with everyone and she can play a modified version of Spot It quite well.
 We also had a small gathering at our house for New Year's Eve. We let Joash stay up until midnight for the first time this year. He thought he was pretty big stuff, but he was very tired by the end.
Playing shulbok or Dutch Shuffleboard on New Year's Eve. 
We also did another Escape Room with the adults and went bowling with the whole family. It was a great holiday season and a great start to 2017.
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