Holidays 2010 - Part Two

The holiday sprint ran a bit long this year - starting with Julia's Christmas program on Dec 11th and ending with the Ringenberg Christmas on Jan 1st. It was a ton of fun and quite exhausting! Here's a recap of the couple weeks leading up to Christmas - Julia's school program "Bato Senco" is Portguese "Jingle Bells."

We also went with the other Ringenbergs to Santa's Breakfast in Elkhorn. Kids had fun sitting on Santa's lap and also sending letters to Santa!

Holidays 2010 - Part one

Thanksgiving brought some exciting news! Kyle's sister Katie is engaged and getting married July 9th here in Omaha. Very fun! We are looking forward to being involved in the planning and fun coming up - Julia is particularly excited to be a flower girl - as noted by the beaming smile in this photo!

Elf on the Shelf, aka Lincoln in our family, arrived the day after Thanksgiving and was a fun twist to the Holidays. Julia loved checking every morning to see where he "landed" after he got back from the North Pole! He also "managed" the advent calendar items so she thinks he is pretty cool.

Jade's Baptism

Baby Jade was baptized on October 31st. It was a great day and we were lucky to have all of our immediate family there. Julia had fun bouncing around up at the altar and had fun bringing here doll Ellie in a matching dress to church.

Halloween & LOTS of Fall Fun

It was a busy fall for us! Unfortunately I am trying to roll an entire three months into one blog post - my apologies! I know my Grandma Brown has been patiently waiting :)

We are in reverse chronological order here so bear with me as I attempt to narrate!

Halloween was great fun - Jade was baptized that day (we'll never forget her baptismal anniversary now! see next blog post for pics) and we hosted soup and trick or treatin at our house. Katie and Drew made the trip back which was great and the girls were super fun in their 'Princess & The Pea' garb!






































We made two trips to Vala's this year - one with playgroup and daycare and one with the whole fam for a campfire and cookout - lots of fun - probably will have to be an annual tradition from here on out!

We also went to playgroup at Ditmar's Orchard - ambitious of me with a 2 week old!


Julia loves her sister and enjoys her even more now that she is smiling at her! So Fun! She also thinks matching her is really cool!!! We'll have to remember that when she asks us in 20 years why she and her sister wore the same clothes :)