Tale of Three Thiesens: 2012

Sunday, December 23, 2012

It didn't dawn on me to take these pictures in October. Jeff was out of town twice then and we were all sick. Then in November he had his mustache. Then he went out of town a third time. Then it rained for several days. Finally there was a good weekend. Unfortunately it was slighty cold out, like "only" 58 degrees. Some of us weren't very happy about that. So, I got a few good pictures, but then forgot to check how to do the timer on my new camera, so there was no pictures of all of us. These are my favorites from that day. I almost used these to order a late Christmas card, but then I just LET IT GO! I think it has been a crazy few months for us and I needed to just not worry about cards and addresses and focus on my sweet family that I love so much!

Here they are...

So this is take 2 from last week on a sunny, warmer day. Not everyone was in the mood for pictures, but I got one of all of us which I will post later!

Friday, December 21, 2012

Christmas Joy~

Just needed to see some joyful pictures today. These are some of my favorites.

"Arise, cry out in the night,...pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord.

Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children..." ~Lamentations 2:16

Thursday, December 20, 2012

A Christmas Carol~

Mikayla was in her school's production of A Christmas Carol!

She was Belinda, Mr. Crachet's daughter and a few other parts like a party goer and a caroler, passer-by, etc. I did all the photography again, so most of these are from dress rehearsal. She did such a great job! I love watching her on stage! She always stays in character even when her friends miss a line or giggle.

Here she is as a party-goer.

Belinda and her sister and mother.

The passer-by when Scrooge has his change of heart and gives money away on the street.

Landen waiting to give flowers to his sissy.

With Papa

And Grammie

And RuthAnn

And G&G Thiesen

Everyone wanted a picture with the star! That's fake snow in her hair, btw.

There is one with me and Jeff and Landen, but it was raining that day and my hair blew up to 10x it's normal volume so that one will just be for the scrapbooks.=)

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

The Star~

We finally put the star on the tree. Jeff was out of town again so we waited for him. Our tradition is for him to lift one of the kids up to put on the star. Of course, there wasn't even a question, it was Landen's turn.=)

Not a good picture, but the only one I got with his Elmo slippers on. He hardly ever wears them so I think this is just really cute!

So proud!
Our living room has horrible lighting for pictures.

The final product!

I just had to post something on 12~12~12! Mikayla wants to try to do a cool picture since she is 12 yrs. old. Not sure what, but hopefully we will think of something!