Ben Learns to Cross Country Ski and other Holiday Fun

This Christmas was definitely marked with firsts... aside from being Andrew's first Christmas, Kallie and Hailey finally found someone willing to watch to their babies for them.

Ava suddenly realized this was not the job the girls had made it out to be.
Kallie and Ben got to grind their first wheat to help make a healthy breakfast.

Kallie shows how easy and fun it is to grind your own wheat!

Ben finds the chore a little more exerting... Ben also learned how to cross country ski! He was so excited and couldn't wait to go. He wore the cross country skis that I learned on when I was his age and I have to admit it was a tender moment for me. He was a real pro and even managed some small hills. A natural to say the least, he begged to go out again every day after. Not to mention that Katie also went cross country skiing for the first time and LOVED it.

Another first was "P.J.'s Sleigh". Thanks to the artistic and thoughtful efforts of Uncle Alex, Papa Joe got a heavy duty sport sled for Christmas. As you can tell its just big enough to hold three kids and Katie while being pulled behind a machine. And the lip is just tall enough to give you back pain for a week...

And since Ben got a cool tent for Christmas we of course had to find out how many people could possibly fit inside at one time. Somehow we got Aunty Amy to think it was a good idea to be the first one in.