It's beginning to feel a lot like

Christmas!!! Including at our house! We begged, we pleaded, we got on our knees, I acted like a baby, and finally Jonathan decided it was cozy enough to go get a tree! Yeah... so now it feels a little more like Christmas at our house! yeah...

oh Christmas Tree!

The Lake...the beginning!

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Lake pictures.

I love love the picture of ruthie staring at the lake...i had a more difficult time getting a good pic. of elly m. she runs around throwing rocks and sticks..but isn't the back and side of her head just beautiful!

On the way...

we went to Arkabutla lake a couple of weeks ago...to throw rocks in and just relax. We got our family Christmas photo there by sitting the camera on a rock and me running over to the fam in ten seconds to get in there...great picture. you will see it later. We stopped and went swinging in the park before our little trek to the lake.

BLACK HOLE!!!

I'm sure some of you with or without small children would understand this, but my phone and my usb cable for my camera have entered into what i would like to call the black hole of our house... can't find either of them anywhere...i have searched high and low for the camera cord with no luck, so i finally ordered one off of ebay for $3.79... couldn't believe it.. my phone wouldn't be so cheap to replace.. i guess i will look until i find one..... so we are doing great in case you were wondering. ruthie is teething, but we are still healthy headed into the turkey thankful week. looking forward to having jonathan all to ourselves for a couple of days.. maybe he will even have time to put up the curtains i have asked him to... maybe not... have a wonderful thanksgiving.. if i get my cord before thanksgiving.. i will upload some photo graphs for alll of you to see and maybe even order our Family Christmas card.

wow... i might be able to get that done this year.. so excited.

random post...

Here is a picture of our house.. i just realized that I haven't ever posted pictures of our house... how dare me... i will do it from all angles soon... i am charging my camera right now...

Elly M. has been playing behind the couch a lot lately... enjoying peaceful moments playing play sleeping with her little babies...

Ruthie eating a sucker... oh wait... she ate the package the sucker was in first... eekla!!

Happy Halloween a couple weeks later

Here are the girls on Halloween night... we went trunk or treating at Teresa's church, got some candy, went to chik-fil-a for FREE kids meals, and then walked to doug and irma's house for a treat even though they weren't handing out candy!

A couple weeks late!!!

here they are in halloween costumes... isn't ruthie the happiest cheer bear you have ever seen? I think she might of smiled once the whole night!!!

a borrowed crown!!

Here are the girls at the botanical gardens the other day or a week or so ago! Elly m. borrowed olivia's crown. I was thinking something funny the other day because someone called ruthie a little princess... and i just laughed to myself because i think of her more as a queen personality, so not a petite little princess... but more upper royalty in her blood... just ask her farfar in sweden.... with king blood running in the family... your bound to get a queen.

cat nap...

literally! I found ruthie sleeping with rubbah the cat!!! I am glad the only one that woke up was rubbah and not ruthie!!!

portraits in a boat

Here are the girls in the boat at the zoo..i think i have a hundred of these already from the boat at the zoo.

Friends!

I was telling Adrienne just the other day that I am kind of jealous of my children and their already wonderful friends! I mean if you start off as friends from the day you are born, you already have almost as much history as jonathan and i will have!!! What wonderful friendships my children are going to have!