Merry Christmas!

We hope you all have a wonderful and blessed Christmas! May you and your family rejoice in the day and celebrate the reason for the season.

The Life of an Elf

Tonight, Nate, Elyse and I joined Tom, Jenny and Aiden downtown to go through the Macy's Christmas Production of "The Life of an Elf". Last year just Jenny and I took the kiddos and Elyse missed it all because she was only 3 months and slept through it all. I was super excited to take her this year as well as Nate since he's never seen it. As we got to the entry way, Elyse looked up, said, "Oooooh" and had lots of smiles as shown in the picture below.

Then we walked through the door and this was Elyse's reaction the rest of the time. As parents Nate and I were disappointed, but we couldn't help the fact that Elyse was terrified of the freaky mechanical elves. Therefore, two years unsuccessful, maybe next year!

After Naps

I love when Elyse wakes up after taking a good nap. She is in the best moods and loves to be read to. Recently after her naps if we aren't in a hurry to do something, Elyse has decided she doesn't like being read and rocked to anymore; but would rather do it herself. She will sit there for a good five minutes reading her books and rocking. It gives me great hopes that she will LOVE her Christmas gift from Nate and I.

Computer is still broken if wondering :(

The Things They Say

It seems like Elyse is learning a new word daily and completely understands 100% of what people are saying. So, I know every parent goes through moments where they laugh so hard because of something their child says. Well last night Nate and I had one of those moments. We were talking about adoption and the this is how the conversation went:
Natalie: God blessed us with a daughter that has so much of our personalities it's ridiculous.
Nate: Yes, very much so.
Natalie: Although Elyse is way more beautiful than what we would have biologically made.
Elyse looks up out of the box she was digging in
Elyse: YEAH! (spoken with lots of enthusiasm too)

Also Elyse and I spent some time shopping with our friends this past week and thought I would post a fun picture of how us Moms took over the mall :)

Body Art

I got the idea of painting with pudding from a friend a year ago and couldn't wait for Elyse to do it. I also knew a bath was to follow and it would be fun with a buddy. Therefore, when the family was here visiting, I thought it would be a perfect activity for Elyse and her cousin, Liam. As you can see from the pictures, it started as them nicely painting the paper (the intention) and grew to them painting themselves or more common, just to eat the pudding. They loved it, and us parents loved watching them have so much fun.

The Big 3-0

HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY, NATE!

Today is a very special day in the Klauser home, and that's because Nate turns 30. I love celebrating birthdays, especially when parties are involved and this one was a lot of fun for me. See on Sunday nights, Nate and I attend a bible study and it was suppose to be our annual Christmas party (hence the red and green decorations). However, I threw Nate a surprise party with our bible study friends, college friends, family and neighbors instead. Overall, it was a very packed house and a very successful party. That's right, a surprise party that actually was a surprise party. Nate had NO idea. Therefore, I want to thank everyone who attended for keeping it a surprise for as long as you did, you did great!
30 must also mean 2 cakes :) because Nate got the opportunity to have a small birthday party with his side of the family when they visited last week too.
Now to Nate...I love you so much. I feel so blessed to have you as my husband and the father to Elyse. Everyday I thank God for bringing you into this world 30 years ago. You really are a man of God and I love you so much! Happy 30th Birthday My Love!!! I hope you have a wonderful day.

Thanksgiving Week

I want to start off and say the computer still is not fixed. However, after attaching the camera to the computer, opening a folder, downloading the pics and uploading them one by one to Blogger, I am able to finally post pictures! Videos are still a no go though.

So this year for Thanksgiving, Nate, Elyse and I had the joy of hosting Nate's family from New Mexico and Iowa. Our nephew, Liam and Elyse really hit it off. Not only are they cousins, but they grew to be the best est of friends. Overall we had a very fun and packed week. Here's just a few things that we did...
Went to the Minnesota Zoo: Went to the Train Museum which was the highlight of Liam's week since the boy knows everything about trains! Took the kids to the Children's Museum in which they got to...
...hide in caves,
...play with water,
...grocery shop,
...and play doctor.

Even though I loved everything we did with the kids, my favorite thing I will post on Wednesday since a more important post will come tomorrow :)

No Such Luck

So here's the deal, computer is still at Best Buy and since we are 2 months over on warranty, they aren't in any hurry to check it out. It may be weeks before we get a successful blog post since this computer I am using doesn't have the power to do pictures or videos. Nate also surprised Elyse and I by taking yesterday off which means he didn't bring his computer home either. Maybe this week, I'm going crazy!!!

All I want for Christmas is my computer to post!

Some of the posts you can look forward to seeing are...
-Thanksgiving Week
-Fun With Pudding
-Wheels on the Bus
-Someone Turns 30!
-Oh Christmas Tree