Dad visits the Classroom!

This morning was Leah's HIGHLY anticipated pre-K event entitled, "Donuts with Dads".

She made that tie for Steve, gave him some other cute gifts, and then ate a donut that was apparently the size of her head.

Leah, my Photographer

"The plumber always has leaky pipes," or so the saying goes.  This photographer doesn't have many photos of herself, or of her whole family together.

Yesterday my mini-photographer, Leah, took some steps in resolving that for me!  She held my very bulky and heavy camera up to her little face and snapped some pictures of Mama and Jane.  Yes, in these photos I have a hairstyle that is decidedly *not* styled, I don't have make-up on, and more than likely I have spit up all over my shoulder.

I love them!!!










Thanks, Leah-loo.

She's Six!

Grace Olivia is such a smart, passionate, clever young lady! She asks lots of questions, always wants to know exactly how and why things are the way they are, is good at math, and is now interested in collecting coins and rocks. Grace loves to be outdoors having adventures. Out of all the kids, she is the one that likes to be in the garden. Some more favorites: "I like to play baseball when it's hot and eating cake" she says! Also, the color yellow, speaking in a British accent, Skyping with Uncle Matt, wearing pants (last year, she mostly refused them), trying new things, and her absolute favorite food is Chinese, especially stir fry.

Happy Resurrection Day!

She's Two!

We had a whirlwind week this past week, traveling all the way to Birmingham, AL to visit with friends for the first part of Spring Break.

Throw in two birthdays, two birthday parties to plan for, and Easter celebrations, and you've got one neglected blog for the month of March!

Here's one photo of the birthday girl for now.  We now have an unshakable family tradition of getting donuts from Carlson's for breakfast on a birthday.  Then the birthday person gets to open gifts from our family and blow out candles at the breakfast table.

Avery doesn't realize what's going on one way or another, so during breakfast time I was actually still asleep recovering from returning home from Alabama at 4am that same morning.  This photo was taken later in the morning when we stuck candles into a chunk of donut that was left over.  And she didn't get her gifts until bed time.  And we "shopped" for said gifts in our attic, where we store toys and clothes that are out of rotation.

Yes, we re-gifted.

She loved the baby doll bath tub and fancy Moroccan slippers (that Leah outgrew).

Happy Birthday to the sweetest, most affectionate, goofiest, funniest two year old Avery!

Our Oldest, literally

 Grace and the rest of Kindergarten dressed like they were 100 years old for the 100th day of school!

Two-Wheelin'

 She did it all by herself for the first time today!