Where is Baby Jesus?

Linnea gave this sweet nativity set to Lily on her first birthday...

The kids have spent many fun years playing with all of the pieces...

 One night, after getting all the kids to bed,
I came out into the living room and noticed that someone
had been playing with the set and had put them in a particular arrangement...

They were now, no longer surrounding the manager,
but in lined up in single file order led by the angel

followed by Joseph, Mary,
and Sankta Lucia

 the wise men, a Madame Alexander doll

 and of course all the animals in the stable.

As I studied the scene,
I realized the reason for the parade

 Baby Jesus had gone missing

He was gone for 2 days

 until a little Bubba walked into his room
and came out five minutes later
with Baby Jesus
held tightly in his little fist

and then, Greg straightened out our tree.

Christmas Card Picture

This is what happens when I try to corral the three kids to take a picture for 

our Christmas card 2011

Not too bad, but not true smiles from the girls...

Oskar takes a break in the next few pictures...

 Everyone on break...

bribed to come back with cookies...

all three with a mouthful of cookie...

and, we're done...

Not sure which will make the cut....

Just a quick post...

I thought this was a beautiful picture of my mom and Oskar

taken by Nela

and posted on facebook

Still Trying

While I am still not able to download new pictures to my computer

I do know what the problem is,

I need a new picture reader thingy....

maybe it will be in my stocking this Christmas!

But, until then I thought I would use Greg's computer real quickly

to post some new pictures.

No story to tell here, but I was fooling around 

with the settings on our camera one early fall day and got some 

pretty pictures of the girls while Oskar napped.