One of my favorites on Valentine's Day

I may just use this picture for every Valentine's for years to come. How can you resist these sweet faces? What a difference a year makes!

Happy Valentines Day!
xoxo

The picture says it all

This week has been a tough one for my baby girl. 4 big molars coming in, a temperature and some sort of sickness has made her nights very restless and days very clingy and cranky. I'm hoping those teeth pop through soon so I can get my happy and independent girl back!

Holidays {a little late}

Our Holiday season was a lot of fun but very busy this year. We were lucky to have all of the family in Seattle this year, which meant lots of activities and 4 Christmas celebrations!

Here is a quick recap:

Candy can treat after the traumatic Santa experience.
Christmas card 2011
Helping Mamma with the Christmas decorations.
Trip to the zoo. Emma was quite intrigued with the gorillas.
Learning body parts with your sis is much easier!
Learning to hug each other after a "disagreement".
Lots of book reading with Daddy.
Christmas carousel at the zoo.


Snowflake Lane in Bellevue. Next year we will be going weeks before Christmas. Do not go the week before!
Christmas with our cousins Grayson, Ella and Cole.




Chairs from Santa (Grammie)!
Christmas day all of the family came over to our house-20 adults and 7 kids under 6. It was a fun but tiring day.
Racing up and down the stairs.
Avery checking out the big packages.
Christmas with Great Grandma Millie.
Trying out the new scooters from Great Auntie Carol.
Big cousins Anna and Callie were good present helpers!

I hope everyone enjoyed their Holiday Season as much as we did. Christmas with kids is SO MUCH FUN!

Santa

We took the girls to see Santa today. I was prepared for some crying but as you can see from the picture, we had a down right screamer! Emma started two seconds later so I hope the photographer got a picture of them both crying:) Poor Avery was shaking because she was so scared of Santa. Oh well, it will be fun to look back at this picture when they are older!

Enough said...

Dear God, thank you for using my mothering to bring me closer to the woman you’ve created me to be. Thank you for small mercies like hot showers and time to take care of myself. Amen.

A Spooktacular Weekend!

***This post is a bit delayed as the website kept crashing on me right before we left for vacation***

Last weekend we got to "sprinkle" DeLane and her newest little squish Taylor Rose. Since Halloween is DeLane's FAVORITE holiday, we made it a spooktacular event!




It was so much fun to take the girls out trick or treating for the first time. They especially enjoyed their first piece of candy!

Embracing Fall

We took a trip out to the country and found an amazing pumpkin patch at The Farm in Snohomish. They have a huge pumpkin patch and lots of activities that the girls will be able to enjoy next year.