Remember how Finn wrote his letter to Santa? Well, this week he got a letter FROM Santa! He was so excited! He giggled and gasped and did a little dance. He enjoyed hearing daddy read the letter. 

And here is Finn with his cousins after the NPCA Christmas Program. Finn’s class doesn’t participate, but he joined all of us to watch Rowan!

We also had fun one evening making chocolate caramel pretzel treats thanks to the bag of caramel hershey kisses from Grandma Armstrong. Finn was a champ – he unwrapped almost every kiss himself, and put each one of the pretzel. Then after they were in the oven he topped each with the m and m.

All Aboard – It’s the Polar Express! We had a really fun weekend at Grandma and Grandpa Beilstein’s house with a couple of overnights, yummy meals, and of course the awesome treat of our Polar Express Adventure! We were on the Saturday afternoon train ride along with the Bethune, Kessler, and Manning crews. It was a 2 hour train ride with a short stop at the North Pole where we saw Santa and waved as he drove by on his sleigh. Later on, however, Santa came through our train car and talked to each of the kids. It was a nice and sunny afternoon and everyone enjoyed a cup of hot cocoa and a chocolate chip cookie (amongst other treats too, lol). 

And on Sunday we went to church and got to hear Grandma play her flute! Then we had some after church shenanigans with Grandpa.