winter fun

Blaine got the girls an 8 foot toboggan(not pictured)-and wow-it is pretty cool. The only bummer is that the girls were all pumped up to ride it and when it arrived in the mail, there was a big gash in it from shipping! So-he borrowed his folks and than the toboggan guy said to go ahead and use it till the replacement comes. Last Saturday night me and my girls got a pull with the 4-wheeler from Blaine over the river and through the fields to grandmas for hot chocolate and popcorn. Yum! Owen and Olivia came over to play too and so there has been some fun in the snow around here-snow angels included.




blaine pulling the kids through the woods behind our house

Jen and Livie





had to laugh at the fact that Owen finally cracked a happy little smile when the sled finally took off

I thought I'd throw this in too....My littlest one-she really is something else and her personality-the good and the not so good-is showing all of its colors. Boy-I think there is some of her momma's attitude in there somewhere. I think she wanted me to pick her up here and I wasn't re-acting to her fast enough and I was able to catch one of her classic looks. (not her best look if I do say so myself-ha)

Garden of Eden

Tonight I was reading the twins the story of Noah and the Ark. In the book, it starts out with the Garden of Eden and how the world was without sin. I wasn't even paying attention to the name of the garden, when I read it again, "Garden of Eden" and Elle blurted out, "And ELLE". It took me a second to realize that she wanted to have a garden too.

fancy nancy

The girls got a 'Fancy Nancy' book for Christmas. For whatever reasons (because I think I am losing my mind---alot), the thought hasn't crossed my mind to braid the girls' hair. My mom braided their hair last week and the twins LOVE their new "Fancy" look. Elle calls them her fancy braids. Besides the fact that they're adorable in braids, I love their fancy braids because their hair doesn't get as tangled and is easier to comb-which hair combing can be a nightmare some days. Poor baby---she doesn't have hair to braid.....and in these pictures she had just rubbed her head while eating yogurt for lunch. It doesn't smell very pretty.

(the twins braids are post nap here-so aren't so fancy-but you get the idea-Ha!)









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