News of the New Exchange Student

We are happy to announce that we have recieved our slot from the Box Elder County School District, and will be hosting another student in the coming school year. 
We will welcome Paulina Gundlach to our home in the first part of August.  We will be hosting another German girl.  We are so excited to get to learn more about her, and share our life with her.
This will make our 3rd student in 3 years, and we are still finding that we are just as excited and just as nervous as when we welcomed our first student from Germany and the second from Norway.  The kids are so excited to have yet another big sister in our home, and we look forward to making many memories with her.

I Must

I Mustache you a question-

Will you be my Valentine?



Beautiful Girl!

 Ellie came to me and asked if I would take some pictures of her.  She told me she has been working on her smile in the mirror, and said she thought she was ready to have pictures taken so she could

see if her smile was perfect.  I of course was more than willing to take pictures of my beautiful Ellie.

 She put on a dress, necklace, and had Karolina help do her hair.  Then she marched out to the snow

and told me to get busy cause she was not going to be able to smile perfect all day.  (LOL)

Turns out she is ABSOLUTELY GORGOUS, and her smile is PERFECT.

I LOVE YOU PRETTY GIRL!!!

Merry Christmas

 Christmas Eve Jammie's

 Karolina choking the stuffing out of the kids! ;)

 Christmas morning.  The kids slept in until around 8:00.  I was really quite shocked because Jake is usually up by 6 everyday.  I was not complaining though.

 

 Ellie and Jake were very pleased with their gifts this year,

and  were very thankful for what they received.

 Jake decorated the tree this year pretty much by himself.  He asked Ellie and Karolina if they

would like to help, and they both told him no.  I offered to help and he told me he was

going to let me take a break from tree decorating this year. 

what a nice boy Jake is!  :)

Another Tooth

See this cute kid?  He lost another tooth. 

 He pulled it out all by himself, and was so proud of himself for being brave/tough enough to pull it out without mom or dad helping him at all. 

Sick Little Grandpa

Grandpa had been at Traceys house visiting when he got really sick and was rushed to the Hospital.

At the Emergency Room they found out that he  had a hole in his small intestine (about 6 inches long) they did an emergency surgery on him last night. We were told after his surgery last night that he would be sedated for 36-48 hours but this morning he came to & was alert most of the day. All he wants is to get that dang tube out of his throat & lungs so he can tell his jokes to the nurse!! ...ha He will be up here in ICU for at least 2 weeks then he'll be in a rehab for 2-4 weeks following his hospital stay. Please include him in your prayers, he has a long, very painful road to recovery!!
(his thumbs up are because he had Whitney and I constantly putting rags in ice water then onto his head & legs so he wouldn't die of heat!!)



Ellie's World Fair

 In sixth grade you get to be apart of the World Fair. 

Ellie chose to do hers on Norway since Karolina was here and could be her helper,

and answer any questions people may have about Norway, or in case somebody

wanted to hear what the Norwegian language sounds like.

Karolina was nice enough to share some of her Norwegian treats with the people

who were there to hear about each country.  Ellie thought it was really funny when

Mr. Klien (the principal) grabbed a piece of the pepper turkey licorice that Ellie had samples

of and he about died.  He grabbed several pieces of the Norwegian cookie just to get the yucky

taste out of his mouth.  He then told Ellie he would be back with some of the teachers so

that he could se if they would like or dislike the licorice.  Karolina says that everyone in

 Norway loves this kind of licorice, and she was a tad offended that everyone was

 gagging  over the taste of what she thought was a yummy treat.