Mother daughter photo... a couple of beauties...

... if looks could kill, I'd have a deadly, communicable disease right now. (I still like this pic though)

Cowboy day for the kindergarteners at school today.

Cowboy Karsten

1st & 2nd grade basketball

Zane had his first Parks & Rec game tonight. His team made an exciting comeback in the second half and only lost be one point. Zane didn't score, but he did get a few shots off.
Gunnar watched surrounded by a stair stack of cousins Theo, Ransom, and Louie. Jerome is playing on Zane's team, and Uncle Rob is coaching.

Zane played great defense, guarding one of the other teams best players and holding him scoreless. He also blocked out for rebounds which none of the other players at this level did.

The first kid with braces!

It has been a rough couple of weeks! I got some kind of intestinal bug that wiped me out over two weeks ago, and just as I was feeling better the flu (first time I remember getting the flu) laid me out for a couple days. I'm still a little weak and congested, just in time for Nick and Signe to both come down with it.
While they are home (and Signe spends all day watching HGTV reruns like "Fixer Upper"), I took Zane to the orthodontist to get a mouth full of gear. He has an expander in the roof of his mouth that I will enlarge by tiny increments every other day, in order to make more room in his narrow mouth. Zane went back to school drooling like a St. Bernard until he gets used to all the new stuff taking up space.

On the ice... ice fishing soon.

Boys and guns

Abby likes Nick’s new fur hat.

It's an Ushanka-style hat. Muskrat fur.

Christmas dinner panorama.

Christmas dinner panorama.