Well, Brendan came home from Outdoor School on a "camp high" and he has been in a pretty good mood ever since! That is nice - it seems to have had a positive impression on him! Even though the "high" is wearing off and he is reverting back to his "usual" self, it is good to know that maturity is hiding away in his little mind and is there when he is ready to use it!
Friday afternoon, Kyla and her dance class had their end of semester performance. It was cute and she really enjoyed being in the dance class with the high school girls that were teaching it.
Today, Saturday, was a pretty busy day. We headed off to Kongeparken about noon for a special weekend event at "King's Park" which is similar to a Six Flags, but on a much smaller scale. It was all decorated for the holidays and had Christmas-themed and winter activities going on. The great thing about it...totally not crowded and everything we did was included in our special tickets! Most of the rides were closed, but there was a sled slide thing and a fun house deal and a couple other things, but the really neat part was all the crafts they had set up around the park for the kids to do. Brendan and Kyla each got to decorate a huge gingerbread cookie, decorate a plate, go to the "chocolate factory" and learn to make a chocolate treat in a plastic mold, build a wooded tray, roast marshmallows, eat hot dogs, drink cocoa...I am attaching a few pictures.
Shortly after that, we headed over to the Thanksgiving dinner being hosted by North Sea Baptist Church. It was a nice dinner - music, a message, fellowship with friends, good food - nice to spend time being thankful for all our blessings! We sat at a table with Wendy and Lamont and Bret and Stephanie and their two girls (one is Abigail, a friend of Kyla's).
Tomorrow, Kyla is going to Anouk's birthday party and then we are having our much anticipated "Sardine Party" after our trip to the cannery a few weeks ago. We actually have 3 families, possible 4 coming over...so, we may be packed in the apartment like sardines as well! Oh, well - the more, the merrier!
Monday we have some friends coming over for a goodbye dinner. Steve and Cheri and their girls will be moving to Kentucky next week. They are some of our NATO friends - we really like this family and are sad to see them go after just getting to know them! Their daughter, Hannah was on the same soccer team as Brendan and we just hit it off with them! It was their home we went to when we hung out with the NATO folks and had a great dinner a couple months ago.
So, things are just bopping along for us. I have been cranking out gingerbread cookies for every occasion I can think of and was super excited the other day to fine a few special grocery treasures at the MENY market! Dr. Pepper, Pop Tarts, REAL brown sugar, and a few other fun things...
On tap for this week - the COP Spouse's Christmas Luncheon at a fancy restaurant downtown!
We have been very lucky to have sunshine everyday this week! Despite that, the temperatures are still well below freezing (-4 degrees C) and there is still heavy frost and now the lakes are beginning to freeze over. The roads have stayed fairly ice-free, but any rain now would definitely make for slippery conditions! You definitely are more cautious walking and driving because there is certainly patches that could send you to the ground if you aren't being careful! I will have to get pictures of the lake frozen over - quite a sight! Apparently if/when it freezes 15 inches or so deep, they allow ice skating on the lakes...that should be interesting...
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