sisters captured

Reminding myself. Most days they do more than fight.

Walking?

She's been walking for such awhile that it seems funny to even mention it now. Remember the video I posted that said she was teaching herself? Popping up and down lasted maybe a week and then it was on to cruising around. She's running at this point!

Teeth!

They were just starting to show in these pics. Took them a week or so ago? I thought it was just the bottom two but a couple of days ago I happened to notice the top left had broken through as well. Poor baby! No wonder she was such a fuss pot for a while. She's been back to her usual sunny self the last couple of days.

Snow'd in

But that's not an excuse for no posts. Not having working computer to get pictures off the camera or any sort of software to get pictures to the web is a pretty good excuse. Nathan bought me a new monitor for Christmas and whilst installing it he managed to destroy our computer. Luckily my most generous and wonderful brother in law Weston offered up a mother board and his equally wonderful wife Allison got it in the mail to us. So big, big thanks to them. Many late nights later Nate has got everything up and running! And he did indeed have everything backed up like he promised. Funnily enough I just figured out that I could have done a free trial of a software on the laptop. Whoops! Because boy do I have a lot to catch up on. Birthdays, snow, teeth, walking, holidays...

more of Christmas morning

the cutest little santas you ever did see

a new trick

She's teaching herself to walk, it's quite interesting to witness. I love the look of pride and joy she gets on her face when she makes those little legs do what she wants.

merry christmas to me! and you too...

I bought myself a flip video recorder for Christmas. It's digital or something - basically an idiot proof way to record home videos. So now I'll get to put up video snippets of the girls for you to see! Remind me not to complain about things - I've been whining about the state of the house and my kitchen. I just got back from a girls weekend and this is how I found my kitchen, it's in both videos. I suppose a hobbled together kitchen with no stove was better than no kitchen! I also need to learn to not talk to myself while using it!

sup?

Not sure if she's saying hey or all hail juju but this is her version of a wave. And you'd better darn well respond in kind.

our little helper

She has such good technique.

Thanksgiving '09

I keep rewriting this in me head and there is just no good way to describe how this years day was tinged with sadness but a wnderful holiday too. Our hearts ached for family that we missed and family that we never even got to know but at the same time Grandma's legacy wouldn't let me not be thankful for all that we've been blessed with. It was a lovely fall day and we enjoyed a delicious dinner with Mimi and Papa. The drive down to their house was a relaxing break from the disaster that is our house and as always the girls had a blast outside with the puppers and got to do cool things (I never know exactly what they're up too) with their beloved Uncle Josh. The sweet potatoes were the favorite of both Juju and Rosie too who kept eating the marshmallows off the top and exclaiming " mmm these sweet potato's are soo good"!

"I'm pinky pie and this is candy cane " ...."so go to my website ..... dot com"

Part of back seat dialogue heard coming home from church.
It was incredibly funny and we don't want to forget. I so wish I'd had a recorder to get it all.
I think pinky pie and candy cane are my little ponies .... the funniest part was the dot com because that was the whole web site name. Maybe you just had to be there?

Seriously, snow?

In Huntsville? And it's not even really winter. We let Juliana touch it and she cried. Of course I took a picture but I can't decide if it's funny or just mean.
Oh and all my northern family, please stop laughing now. It's white so it counts.

attack of the juju monster

spying

just a peek out at the big girls while the little sister sleeps

Hmm. What could cause such seriousness?
Such determination?
Mmmm. Candy apples from this place. And frozen cider too.
(Seriousness caused by having to *gasp* pause to have a picture taken. Oh the horror!)
Good stuff. And amazing apples too. We made some lovely apple sauce. And by we I mean Mimi.
This one? Not enjoying the experience so much. Couldn't have the apples. Thought the cider was too cold. And she couldn't crawl because the ground was covered in chestnuts. My flip flopped feet didn't enjoy them either.
They're lethal.
But the apples were worth it. It was just a shopping place though, no pick your own or "fun" activities. I would have liked to be able to harvest our own but I didn't miss the cheesy activities that they charge disney prices for!
p.s. don't adjust your monitor. Those are some wonky colors going on. Fun times with photo shop. Maybe not successful times but I'm way too lazy to redo them all.

mone santo picnic

It was a pretty gloomy drizzly day but that just meant we had the trail mostly to ourselves!

just your daily quota

Happy Halloween

From our circus to you!