Everyday scenes

Anna- Crazy hair, always with little baby, & blankie. Here she is very seriously singing "You are my sunshine" That's OUR song :)

Trying to make an everyday thing & make it "crazy fun" :) the bubbles weren't working, so we added balls. 
Little craft boxes & Momma blogg'n

Brutis, the whoosie dog, playing with his kittie friend from INSIDE. It is 5 degrees outside, even a dog knows when it is too cold to play outside :)

Winter morning activities a.k.a. The Hive

Sophia has always been an early morning girl. She wakes up around 5:30 - 6:00 am. (Anna, is not in these pics, because she sleeps to a normal time of 8!) Agh. We used to "nuggle" & watch cartoons, but lately that  isn't cutting it. So, she wakes up w/ oodles of energy. So, I have found some fun books that have activities to keep us busy! "Big Book of Things to Do, Art Starts for little hands, & The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book"So busy that I have called the kitchen our "hive" & I am the queen bee, of course!

We have "sculpted" w/ clay, learned to tie shoes, cut cardboard hearts & covered w/ foil, screen printed, baked cupcakes, made countless other dishes,  made drawings from thumbprints. That was this week. I'm tired. 

Clay animals & faces. We sculpted, baked, & painted them! So much fun for the girls... ok I had some fun with it too :) Anna did this activity. It was in the afternoon. :)

Sophia taking my picture, after we mastered the art of teaching/learning to tie shoes. 

Sophia, celebrating after she learned to tie :)

Look at the concentration in the loop progression. Way to go!!!

Trick-or-treating

Here are a few pics of the girls very first time trick-or-treating around a neighborhood. Since we don;t have one of our own, we adopted our friend Jen's. It was great wonderful fun to be w/ friends & see the excitement at getting a candy at each new house. So fun! Sophia decided to be a butterfly, so we did a last minute hair & make-up. When sh saw herself in the mirror, she said "oh, I like the way I look." Anna was a very sleepy clown, but it didn't take long for her to catch on to the idea, of walking to a house &  getting candy. On the way home she said from the backseat "Momma, I liked that very much" :) 

Halloween - Early

Vance had to snuggle the two, they were too cute, who could resist?

Last week the girls had a Halloween party at the school. Sophia was a puppy & Anna was a clown.  They decorated (& ate) cookies, decorated masks, ran & played with friends. What a great time. Sophia is asking about getting more candy, so we'll try & go "trick- a- treating" this Fri. 

 Happy Halloween!!!

Anna is 2 !

Happy Birthday! Our Annabella is 2. Wow. Look at her sweet baby picture. All that black hair! She is SO blonde now! When the nurse had brought her to me, after cleaning her up a bit, she had put this sweet bow in her hair.  Life would be so blah without her funny antics, laugh, hugs & kissess. She is never without an armful of blankies, babies & bottles!!! :) We love you Anna!!!

(Ok, so, she was 2  a few weeks ago :) anna, please forgive me ) 

Happy Birthday Sophia!!

Today is Sophia's 4th Birthday! This pic was her as we were leaving the hospital, & she has always had the same expression. So wise, so poised, so not impressed by others attempts to make her smile :) 

Last night at dinner we had this conversation-

Sophia: "Momma I wish I were queen, that way I could have anything I wanted"

Me: " what would you want that you don't already have?"

Sophia: "Spongebob Square Pants toys. I don't have ANY." 

well, guess what daddy had picked out- yep, spongebob figures, & some other fun things that I think she will enjoy :) 

The next few posts will be about Anna, I haven't forgotten about you, baby!

Beautiful!!!

Beautiful Sophia & I had a chance to spend the day together, ( with my Mom & sis Michelle) at my Beautiful cousin Kristin's wedding. Anna was able to spend the day with Daddddda doing all kinds of farm things, wish I had some pics of their day!. 

Saturday felt like a day for just the 2 of us at "the Ocean". Really it was Lake Superior. It was a wonderful day! Here is Sophia in her party dress. Since it was 60 degrees on this July afternoon on the shore, we wore pants & sweaters over our party dresses. :)

Sophia enjoying the surf....

& enjoying the sand!

and the dancing!!! We really like the square dancing! So much twirling & clapping & stomping & swinging!

& the Beautiful couple!!!! We love you Kristin & Michael!!!!!