Friday, February 3, 2012

Gracie's Imagination

Gracie can entertain herself for hours with pretty much anything.  She spent 45 minutes (I timed it) talking with these magnets on Wednesday.  Joel took this video on his phone about half way through.  It's 3 1/2 minutes long and she really did this for 45 minutes!  She was oblivious to everything else and only stopped because we went out back to play.


I love it!

Monday, January 30, 2012

An Update

As you may have noticed, this blog has been abandoned by user.  
So sorry!  

I do hope to get back into posting updates for everyone on a regular basis.  We shall see.  Here's how lazy I've gotten in the picture-taking department: when I uploaded the following pictures from my phone I noticed I don't even have a 2012 folder yet!!  

Let's see...today we played outside for 3 glorious hours!  The girls swung out back, then we played tag, marco-polo, red light green light, and duck duck goose.  Good exercise for all of us!  We took a lunch break and then they rode their trikes in the driveway for awhile.  
Don't you love Ava's outfit?! 
Then we played next door with Amarah and Alyssa.  They have a Barbie jeep and a much bigger swing set so the girls were VERY excited to go over there.  Here's Alyssa, who is 19-months-old, wearing an adorable 4T sundress:
So cute!

We've still been going to the Library Story Hour on Wednesday mornings.  They've had several play dates with their friend Lila.  We've had a lot of nice days in January so we've been to the park a couple of times.  They received 3 sets of the BOB books for Christmas and are doing really good with them.  Each book is probably 5-7 pages, with just a couple of words per page, and each word is no longer than 3 letters.  They're really starting to understand how to sound words out and 'read' them.  It's pretty awesome.

So, there's a tiny update!  More to come soon, hopefully.  

Monday, December 26, 2011

Happy Birthday, Jesus!

We made chocolate cupcakes with white filling yesterday morning:

The girls picked out the cupcakes and candles last week and have so been looking forward to this!


We sang Happy Birthday to Jesus and blew out the candles!

Delicious!!

We've had a lovely weekend with Joel's family and we'll get to have another celebration with my family very soon!

One of Joel's Facebook friends posted this and I thought it was awesome:

"I'm excited to celebrate the birth of Christ!  But do you know what's better than Christmas?  Easter!  And do you know what blows the socks off of both?  Pentecost Sunday!  The birth would be insignificant without the cross, and both would still not regenerate us without the indwelling of the Holy Spirit."

So thankful!

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Sunday, December 18, 2011

Christmas Dresses


We made these chains last week and they have each been taking one circle off each day as we count down to Christmas!!
And when these chains are done, we'll make new ones that show how many more days until Grandpa and Grandma come!

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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Vintage Christmas Banquet

Jody set up this old-fashioned scene for our church banquet.  
The girls tested it out the day before: 

Justin and Joel: 
=) 
Joel looked the part but I couldn't find anything for the girls or I.  Jody loaned me the shawl so that helped a bit.  =)