Outside Fun

I took these pictures the other day, Dec. 10. As you can see there is no snow on the ground and barely any on the mountains. We took advantage of the unusually warm Dec. day and played outside for quite awhile.

beautiful Becca, I just love that faceclean faces are totally over-rated

Gretchen and Nevaeh

Becca having fun on the big swing. This is the best I could get, she wouldn't leave her eyes open.

Pancakes Anyone?

Gretchen has been asking for pancakes for breakfast and since we were out of milk I decided she would get her wish. All the girls love helping in the kitchen and pull their little chairs in to "help". Gretchen is getting really good at putting the ingredients in the bowl and learning how to use a whisk. Here are pictures from start to finish. Enjoy!

Beautiful Eyes

I know that I'm a bit partial to my kids beauty, but you have to admitt these brown eyes are beautiful. Can you tell who these eyes belong to?

Dani's School Christmas Program

I vow every year that I'm going to get good seats at my kids programs. Our seats weren't too bad, but I hope to have better seats for Than's program next week. I was having a hard time getting my camera setting right so this is the best picture I got. The school divided the classes for the program and put the kindergarten class with the older class which is nice.
I think I have my settings and lighting figured out so I can get more pictures at Than's program.

A Morning for Us Goes Something Like This......

A typical day in our house goes something like this: Than gets up and in the shower ( I wait in bed for the water to go off) I get up and we start getting breakfast and lunches, double check the backpack, and Than heads of to school while I wait for my babysitting kids to arrive. Gretchen gets up between 6:30 and 8:30. I prefer the later time myself. She gets her morning milk like most people get their morning coffee. Most mornings she wakes up pretty happy and goes off to play with the kids. Thankfully she waits for Becca and Dani to wake up before going through her entire wardrobe. Becca and Dani get up around 9:00 (Dani is in afternoon kindergarten so she can sleep in). When Gretchen knows that the other girls are awake to fashion show begins. The outfit of choice lately is either a swimming suit or pj's. We take Dani to school at 11:30 and from that time Gretchen usually has changed her outfit 3 times. Pj's to swim suite to something in the dress up trunk back to pj's. I have fare warning that we are about to leave and take Dani to school. The pictures below is what she decided was warm enough to wear out and about. Thankfully it was a pretty warm day out.

The inspiration behind these pictures is my friend Kathy. She thinks it is so funny to take pictures of crying children. Becca just got in trouble and put herself in time-out. This is a new thing of her's. She goes and sits by the wall (where the babysitting kids go to time-out) and cries and cries.

The 3 Little Princesses

My sister Erin and her kids, Cam and Bailey, were here for a week in November and the kids got to spend some much needed time together. I didn't get any pictures of Cam that turned out good, but had a lot of opportunites to get pics. of Bailey with Gretchen and Becca.

We can't wait to see you in a couple of weeks for Christmas. Hopefully we will get enough snow to play in. We love you tons.

Vampires are still in the air

Dani got this lovely mouth piece at the Harvest Carnival. Gretchen and Becca thought they were the funniest things and loved playing with them. My petite little Gretchen doesn't have big enough mouth the accommodate such accessories. Becca on the other hand had no problem donning the beautiful mouth piece.