Church Christmas Program

Before the program:

Simon, our little shepherd

Calleigh with baby "Holly"

Calleigh was supposed to be an angel but wanted no part of going on stage at the practices so we decided it was better for her to just watch the boys.

The boys did the opening welcome

"We're glad you came to join us
For our Christmas play tonight
May you feel God's love
Wrapped in the gift so bright.

To celebrate this season
We sing 'Jingle All Way'
but tonight we share the real reason
In our Christmas play,

Twas the Night Before Christmas"


Micah was Mr. Mouse, the main character.

Simon, the little shepherd with Pastor as a shepherd.

In the play, Mr Mouse learns about the real reason for Christmas,

Jesus!!

Micah & I then sang, "C is for the Christ Child" before Pastor gave a short message.

Family Pictures

Every Christmas we try to get a family pictures as well as some individual ones.

The whole family

Almost a family of 7


Schellenberg's

Derek and his girlfriend Pam

Klatt Christmas

We had Christmas with my side of the family last weekend, December 5th. We don't usually have it this early but Derek & pam came up from Estevan so we all celebrated toegther then. We have always had Christmas at Mom & Dad's but this year Heidi hosted in their new home. (the wall behind with the "Family" plaque on it was mudded, sanded & painted all that day before we arrived - it originally had a door there)

This was not a planned/posed picture.

Bryan was sitting on the couch & all the kids gathered round.

I didn't get any pictures of our meal together. Then we opened gifts. Katelynn reminded me so much of us when we were younger. "Is it time to open presents yet?" "When can we open presents?" etc. It was so hard to wait as a child.

Dad read the Christmas story before we opened gifts.

Calleigh was so surprised that there was a present for her. She said, "For me? a present for me?" She was amazed. She got this Little Mommy set from Grandma & Grandpa. She loves it, she carries the doll around with her wherever she goes. Calleigh really is a little Mommy, she likes to change the doll's diaper & feed her. She will be a good big sister.

Jaken got this Tonka truck and enjoyed rides in there.

We had Heidi & Tim's names and gave them this frame/rack along with a gift card. The frame says, "Treat your family like friends and your friends like family"

(in the above picture you can see hwere they added patio doors to replace the original door, that was to the left)
The girls each got these hats and bows, flowers, etc that attach to them, from Uncle Derek & Pam.

Simon figured that since the girls had their pictures taken together then all the boys that got hockey sticks should also have a picture together.


The Marble "game" from Uncle Derek & Pam. It is tricky to get it all set up but the kids all loved it. And Simon's Hungry Hippo game.


This day was crazy enough, I don't know how we did it at Heiberg Christmases with 13 grandchildren in Grandma & Grandpa's little house.

30 Weeks

These ultrasound pictures were taken on December 2nd at 30 weeks. If you can't tell, they are the babies faces.


Baby A is proper position for delivery and they say that is all that matters. So it okay that baby B,on my right side, keeps changing positions from breech to vertex to breech to tranverse. That baby is breech most of the time.
They are both growing at a proper rate and doing well. I am feeling pretty good with the exception of my aching hips, lower back and legs. I am so thankful that I am feeling this good and really cannot complain, I am getting very close to the end or the beginning, however you want to look at it. The end of pregnancy and the beginning of our adventure as a family of 7. (doesn't that sound crazy?)

I saw the specialist last week and she said that it can be anytime now but we are hoping the babies wait until after Christmas. We all know that babies come when they are ready. I told the Dr that I will be really surprised if I go into labor because I have never gone into labor on my own before. She said that it can be different with twins. We'll see.....