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| Christmas Day skiing | 
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| Chilling in the lodge with her kindle and snacks | 
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| No snow, except on the hill | 
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| Boys entertaining Ruth and Naomi | 
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| Cookie decorating | 
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| Julia's honor choir | 
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| Covid  | 
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| Covid quarantine decorating | 
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| Covid | 
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| Entertaining Hez with balloons | 
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| Looking cute with his broken foot boot | 
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| Playing Isaac's electric shock game | 
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| New kindle | 
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| New kindle | 
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| New phone | 
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| Kid "smartwatch" | 
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| Surprise | 
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| Kid "smartwatch" | 
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| Jongsma Christmas | 
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| At Caleb's band concert | 
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| Nathan and Caleb  | 
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| Isaac's band concert | 
-Current phrases in our home- Stephen says that's "sus" as in suspicious. And Caleb and Isaac often yell, "Let's go!" for anything exciting. 
-Julia finished her Saturday tennis lessons
-Stephen and Lexi did Saturday morning basketball skills clinic thru school
-Caleb's covid quarantine ended Dec 5 and Stacy's Dec 8. Stephen and Lexi had to quarantine til the 8th as they weren't fully vaccinated yet
-Stephen and Lexi got their 2nd covid vaccine this month!
-Isaac finished a fun basketball season. He made the A team and they only lost 2 games. 
-Caleb finished indoor box lacrosse. 
-Stephen and Lexi had the Sunday School Christmas program
-Julia had a choir concert, Isaac and Caleb had band concerts
-The kids and Stacy had a two week Christmas break. Some of us saw the new Spiderman movie and Sing 2 in the theater. Nate put a ski rack on top of Caleb's car and Caleb and some friends did a day trip to Caberfae. 
-On the 23rd we got together with the Jongsmas for Christmas. 
-On the 24th we had Enedina's family here, they left and we went to our neighbor's Christmas Eve service and then opened presents. 
-On the 25th we drove to Caberfae and skiied for the afternoon. The slopes were icy and Julia tried, but was happy to spend some time in the lodge. 
-On the 26th we drove to Ohio and spent two nights with Steph and family. We were excited to hear they are expecting a baby! Hez has warmed up to us and we all had fun playing with him.
-We spent New Years Eve at the Gabrielse house with the Stielstras. We played games and everyone made it til midnight. And Stephen and Lexi slept til 9 am New Year's Day- a miracle!