Preschool Fun

The girls were practicing a color recognition game tonight that they had gotten from our daycare. We are very fortunate that our daycare does a preschool curriculum. She has been sending home games for the girls to practice with us everyday. It's really special to see their love of learning start so early. Yea girls!

Celebrate with Great Joy!

Hi everyone! I know that there are still 6 days until December....but the Bakke house is all decked out for the holiday season. Tomorrow we are heading back to Jason's grandma's farm for Thanksgiving, so this past weekend we put the tree up along with all of our other decorations. The girls had a lot of fun putting up all their special ornaments as well as watching daddy and Uncle Chad string the lights and put the star on top of the tree. I think next weekend we will start making some Christmas cookies to put in the freezer, maybe even a gingerbread house. I can see it already....frosting and candies covering the girls from head to toe! We have a special night at church coming up. Every year the women of the church have a worship service and tea called Advent by Candlelight. It is really special and I can hardly wait.

My goal of having our Christmas shopping done before Thanksgiving may not quite happen- but I did come close. I only have three people left to buy for- all of the other gifts are wrapped and under the tree. Even our Christmas cards are being printed and the letter will be typed soon. Unfortunately I have been sick for the last few weeks, maybe it has something to do with all of the stress I am feeling at school. So today I am home drinking tea, wearing comfy slippers, and resting- I hope I can recover before the long weekend.

Time to go and rest, but some parting thoughts as this holiday season begins.... it all started in an unlikely place where unimaginable hope was born- Celebrating the hope that lights our lives in this season of love. Celebrate with great joy! Nehemiah 8:11. God bless and Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

A Fun New Look

So I discovered this website www.thecutestblogontheblock.com and I love it! They have free backgrounds for blogger sites and it is so easy. So....don't be suprised if I have a little fun changing up the look of our blog and as always I will try and post new pictures of the girls too!

It's beginning to look a lot like......

Well, to be honest it doesn't look a lot like Christmas today, but we have had a few mornings with snow. Last week it was great to wake up and see the white stuff covering everything. The girls really thought it was cool that they could wear their snowpants and winter boots. Ever since last week it has been cold and windy, but not enough of the white stuff if you ask me. I love the snow....well basically I love every season and look forward to each one. It's a good thing that I live in Minnesota, you betcha!

Speaking of Christmas, I have started to sneak a few decorations out of the crawl space. Everyday a little more red and green makes it way out of the Christmas bins. We will officially put up our tree this weekend, along with our outside decorations and nativity set. We are decorating a little earlier this year because we won't be around for Thanksgiving. We are heading back to Westbrook and Great Grandma's farm on Wednesday after school- if the weather permits. My parents will be alone this Thanksgiving, but they will have a full house come Christmas! We are excited to spend Thanksgiving at the farm this year. Our sister-in-law, Jen and niece and nephew Brooke and Brayden and Grandpa Doug are all coming from Arizona. It will be a very full house at the farm. Dare I say, close to bursting.

This past Monday the girls started back at their daycare. They were SO excited to see their friends again. They started their preschool curriculum again, which is wonderful! Our fridge is full of craft projects again and they come home exhausted. We love our daycare!!!

The girls have been into making towers. Really tall towers and then of course knocking them down. They are too cute! Enjoy the pictures!

New Family Pictures....

Hi everyone! Our new family pictures are now posted on our friend Matt Addington's website. Click http://www.mattaddington.com/ and then go to Your Photos and you will find them. Let us know if you would like to order any- you won't be able to download them off of his site. Enjoy! Here is a little preview.....

It's beautiful out!

Today the temperature reached 70 degrees. It made me wonder, is it really November? Hard to believe. But, unfortunately I am sure that the cooler weather will return this weekend. The girls had their bikes out today after school, without any jackets. Now that just doesn't seem right for Minnesota on November 3rd. The video is of the girls saying, "It's beaaauuutiful out!" I thought it was pretty cute.

Enjoy the pictures of the girls reading. Annika's favorite new thing to do is change her clothes, like 20 times a day. Now she likes to put on "comfy clothes or comfortables". Kate really likes to read on her bike and inside our IKEA shopping bags. Enjoy the start of your week everyone! Hugs and kisses from Kate and Annika!