Jedi in training?

I found these photos on my phone... and wondered if we found a new Jedi in training?  

He is pretty sneaky and seems to find my phone even when I cannot...

Oh.  Nope.  It's just Lars.... 

Taking selfies is like his favorite thing in the world.  

Yep... he gets bored.  He takes selfies.  I guess I can understand for a 5 yr old.  Not sure why there are so many grown ups with selfies (on Facebook).  

So I decided to try my hand at it.  Because I don't usually have photos of myself.  

But I liked my "new do" so I thought I would share.  :)  

 Here is a good shot of Thor out on the ice -- Tournament weekend with Oahe.  Lost both games -- but the boys played TOUGH and kept it tied up... lost in the last 30 seconds... :(

 A good shot of Anika before church this morning -- taken by Lars!  (His 2nd favorite thing to do when he is bored...)

And last but not least... this awesome shot of Lars with cutie-pie Drew, from our church.  The look in Lars eyes says it all!!!!

life is back to "normal"

January has snapped us back into shape quickly returning to our normal routines of school, hockey, staff meetings and traveling for field service (Dirk).  Thor is experiencing his first true set of "Finals" at Stevens this week -- then gets a long weekend (Thursday 10am through Monday off).  Anika has an early out Friday -- and all of us (except Dirk) will have Monday off for the MLK Jr. Holiday.  I have always thought that I should plan ahead a little better and make use of some of these 3 day weekends... once upon a time we used to try skiing or tubing... but with hockey we just don't have the time and funds... too many "fun" weekends traveling now!  :)   I guess Monday we will enjoy sleeping in and staying in our PJs... maybe watch the 3rd Hobbit together?  

I couldn't resist sharing this picture from kids church... you can see me with... Darth Herod aka DJM. :).  He was a hit with the kids -- and really helped them put into perspective how horrible and ruthless King Herod of the NT really was.  :( 

Thor loves this pic of Lars -- sporting two of his favorite things -- GBPackers and R2D2.  :) 

These pics are some of the evening fun Dirk has been having with Lars -- on the cool racetrack Dirk made from Thor's hockey stick box.  It is now a Rescue Bot track and works just great.  Don't they always say the box is more fun that what came in it, for the kids away??  

happy NEW year!

Happy New Year!
I've been waiting patiently to post these photos of our family -- but wanted to wait until most all some of the Christmas cards had a chance to arrive where they were going.... and since I was a super normal but bad procrastinator.... they got mailed Dec 30th.

So here goes.  Our best photo shoot in quite a few years... well, our ONLY photo shoot in quite a few years.  :)