Top Favorites of 2025

This year flew by like all the others but we still had some family favorites. Below in no particular order are a few highlights.

• Trip out west to Washington, Oregon, and California
• Dad and Elyse traveled to Turkey and Greece to learn about the lives of the disciples 
• Mission trip to Ensenada, Mexico with Homes 4 Hope
• Celebrated 20th Wedding Anniversary 
• Kallen made the high school soccer team
• Ian started playing golf
• Maddie started volleyball
• Attended a United,, Timberwolves, and Twins’ game
• Traveled to Iowa State University and attended a Men’s basketball game
• Caleb started high school and Maddie started middle school

What a year of blessings, hope 2026 brings just as many fun memories. 

Iowa State University

Yesterday we adventured on the dangerous icy road conditions and headed south to Ames, Iowa to stop for a 24 hour visit to Iowa State University. We began by attending a men’s basketball game as they are ranked third right now. It was an extremely fun night as they won and we ate Clone cones. After the game we headed to Main Street to eat at Great Plains Pizza. Today we spent our day exploring campus. Kids saw the library, our favorite campus spots, shopped at the campus store, and shared some special memories. After leaving campus and before heading home we filled our stomachs full at Hickory Park. It was a very quick trip but the highlight of winter break 2025. 

Merry Christmas

Advent Day 24

Attend Christmas Eve Service

Advent Day 23

Decorate Christmas Cookies

Advent Day 22

Christmas Oreo Blizzards

Advent Day 21

Klauser Secret Gifts

Today’s Advent activity was a new one thanks to Ian. The object was to randomly choose a different name and were given $10 to spend on that person at Target. It was very fun to watch them think about what their person would like as well as not think about themselves. They actually all did really well with each other.

Elyse had Maddie, Caleb had Kallen, Kallen had Ian, Ian had Caleb, and Maddie had Elyse