Alstan is Turning 12

Sharing a virtual Spotchka with Aunt Nette.


We celebrated Alstan’s birthday yesterday, since we have school on his birthday. Elsie was able to have the full day celebrating her birthday, of course, Alstan also wanted a full day rather than just an evening. It just so happened that Aunt Megann and Tim were in the area visiting. We met at Governor Dodge for a hike!

First Grill-out of the Year

Elsie is Ten!

 

Elsie chose to have mug cakes for her birthday so Aunt Nette could have cake with us even though we weren’t together in-person. Grandma Zielicke makes a quilt for each of the grandkids for their tenth birthday. Good thing she planned ahead to get it here in the fall.

Snow Day

School was called off due to snow today, so we thought we would make it a game day!

PlayDoh Party

Alstan and Elsie missed being able to spend time with their little cousins this year. They both decided to spend some of their money to buy the girls birthday presents. Since Alstan gave Adalynn playdoh, they all had a zoom PlayDoh party.

Game Maker

Alstan has gotten into making board games. Usually he makes them in black and white, but he decided to add color for this one. This is the first one he made a box for as well. The games generally follow the movies or books he’s into: Jurassic World, Star Wars and Wings of Fire.

New Year’s Eve

Elsie received some cake decorating supplies for Christmas so of course she had to try them out for New Year’s Eve. We just had to drop off a couple to Aunt Nette this morning so we could share them during a zoom tonight. So, here’s to a new year!

Merry Christmas

Christmas 2021 style. Thanks for spending the morning with us Aunt Nette and the Moenk family! 

Cookies, cookies, cookies!

It’s a favorite family time when we all hang out together decorating cookies. 

Finished & Still Standing

We did it!! We were able to get them fully decorated and they are still standing!

Holiday Lights Show

There are plenty of things that we have had to cancel this year, so the idea of driving to the Madison Fantasy in Lights show seemed like a good way to get out of the house. We also stopped by Aunt Nette’s house for a walk too! We have done more winter walks this year than all our other years put together.

Gingerbread AT-AT Walker

Well, we finally have two AT-ATs ready for decorating. We have had some trouble keeping the heads attached, so we braced them while decorating. We thought we had them secure a couple of times, and then would randomly hear a crash sound come from the kitchen and find an AT-AT head on the table. We’re crossing our fingers that we don’t hear a loud thump in the kitchen again.

Birthday Cake

We celebrated mom’s birthday on Saturday with dad. Here is the Nutcracker cake Elsie made for her.

Mom’s Birthday Dinner

Dad had a basketball game tonight, so he told the kids to make sure to have mom go out to get dinner. We decided on Chinese. Luckily the place in Dodgeville offered curbside pick up. The kids weren’t so sure about it until they smelt in the car.

Starting Work on Our Gingerbread Display