Busy, Productive Day

Today is a very busy day for us. We have not decorated for Christmas yet and it is only 12 days away. Today we went out to the woods and chopped down a christmas tree. We spend the daylight hours decorated the exterior of the house with the outdoor decorations. Duane was surely brave to get up on the icey and snowy roof to put the lights up.

Colton helped put the stars on the deck.

David helped put Santa up.

Trica put the lights in the trees.

Kirk helped out with the Reindeer.

Today is David 4 month anniversary in the USA. I cooked David's choice of Hungarian meals.
Gombapörkölt. A mushroom stew. I served it over Nokedli. I made chicken gravy over noodles as a second choice. David had tejbegriz for dessert. This is like grits. David added extra sugar and chocolate. I thought it tasted like brownie batter.

Colton cuts down the Christmas tree.

Duane watches Colton's progress of tree cutting.

Colton decorates the Christmas tree while singing aloud to the Christmas music.

Kirk hid the Christmas Pickle in the tree.

Duane decorates with some of his Christmas ornaments, all electronic-the cell phone and the laptop computer.

Trica decorating the tree.

Dakota decorating the tree.

Here is what our Christmas tree looks like.

We all pose for a Christmas picture after our long day.

Winter Orchestra Concert

Colton has been learning to play the violin. After many days of practice the orchestra entertains us with Christmas music.

PeeYew! What is that smell!

My lovely, beautiful, well-behaved boys.......
decided to have a cologne, body spray, and perfume fight. What ever they could get ahold of to stink up the next boy was used. You should smell the house! PeeYew!
And the boys..........stinky! Duane's going to have a fit... and
Of course I just stood by and took pictures, here they are.
David gets Colton where it counts.

Dakota and Kirk were lured into the fun.

Minnesota Vikings 20 vs Detroit Lions 16

Since David slept in the morning, he got to help peel potatoes for Sunday dinner. We had meatballs with mashed potatoes and gravy. While we ate, we watched the Vikings beat the Lions. Go Vikes!

David Tries A Green Olive

David tried a green olive today.

He did not like it.

Mall of America

We spent the day at the Mall of America. The largest shopping mall in the U.S.
The boys build racecars at LEGOland. We ate Häagen-Dazs ice cream. Did allot of walking and shopping.
Dakota building his racecar.

David, Colton, Duane and Kirk building their racecars.
It was quite a job finding the wheels and axels.

We took a break from shopping by playing an 18 hole round of mini-golf.

Colton was the most talented today getting a hole-in-one

and "flushing the toilet" on the 17th hole. David had a game of bad luck.

The rest of us were just average. We had fun anyways.

We ate at the Rain Forest Cafe.

Wipeout!

Our Family "Catching a wave"!

Full Day at the WaterPark of America

We went for a Keinanen Family record in time spent in a water park. Today 8 hours.
So much water not enough time. David thought we were crazy. We loved it, but we were cold, wet and water logged after 8 hours. We were in great need of some R & R.

Duane, Trica and Colton have fun on the Lazy River.

David, Colton, Kirk play basketball.

Dakota spent most of his two days in the hot tub.

We all tried surfing today. I only have pictures of some of us.

Kirk was a natural.

Colton

Duane

Dakota

Duane and Dakota enjoy some pizza.

Kirk blows Goo out of his Nose. Eww...

Kirk and David play with the Goo