havin' fun...

Just a few pics. of us havin' fun with little elly m. I imagine that she will only become more fun with age. she is such a hoot now though!

Crazy hair...

crazy haired lady!!! what in the world am i going to do with this hair.... somedays... i mean it is just wild when she gets up!

the stupid picture poster is out of sorts today.

Elly M. and Elly J. so happy together!!! We are really going to miss Mormor when we leave here, she has made our time here much easier often times. She is a very very special woman! We all love her.

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Teeth, teeth and more teeth. elly m. woke up this morning with two more popping up.... i guess they don't stop until they are finished!!! Ta-da!

the house

This is the house that we are probably going to move into in memphis. this man that is renting it out is so great. he sent us pictures over email. It seems really nice and perfect for what we need... Yeah!!!! A place to live.

This morning....

after we ate some snow, elly m.'s hands were pretty cold, and okay, she hadn't had a bath in a couple days, decided it was time for some new bath tub shots. Jonathan would probably say that it looks as though i am posting the same picture over and over again, but i feel as though each one shows a different angle of our babies extreme cuteness. anyways... i hope you enjoy.

Update on life in general: I am corresponding with a guy in memphis about a house that our friends might have found us. it sounds almost too good to be true. a washer, dryer, dishwasher, hardwood floors, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, a deck for all those wild parties that we don't have, but maybe we could save up some cash and buy a grill to cook hotdogs on this summer, that might be all we can afford...anyways... this guy wrote me and is going to send me some pics. sometime, so maybe i will post those on the blog when he sends them. i really hope it works out. it would be nice to have an extra bedroom for guests to stay in like my mom, sister and elijah, because i know that they want to come see me and the fam. in memphis. maybe someday we could even have a foreign exchange student. i always thought that would be fun. maybe even one from sweden. hmmm..maybe not.

Just bring it in.....

Well, it snowed a lot yesterday and it was too cold for us to go out and play, but why not bring the snow inside to eat. okay, i won't lie, i have went outside every day since it has snowed and brought in a big thing for me to eat, but today i shared it with elly m. i don't think she appreciated it quite as much as i did though.

Our vampire baby!!!

Jonathan took these photos about 2 weeks ago, but i forgot to post them. Elly M. is getting her teeth a little out of order, so we currently have a vampire child.

Silly Me, I forgot my camera last night and we went to see a friend Rebecka D. She is one of Bella's best friends and she is so much fun. I think i will harrass her until she sends me the pics. that she took, so hopefully i can get a hold of those soon. it was very fun to hang out with her and her family, they are always so much fun. The trip home was exciting, I guess Winter has officially started here, it was a blizzard on the way home. We we're following Rocky up a hill, but he was too busy on the phone to pay attention, so we slid backwards down a hill into someone's bushes, but we decided it didn't do enough damage to actually go to their house and tell them. Anyhow, we made it home safe and sound..... only 18 days left........yipeee... and speaking of memphis, our friends might of found us a house to rent..... we are in the process now of finding out all the details. yeah for friends finding houses.

Snow, Sledding and Skiing

It finally snowed enough to do some fun outdoor activities. We went sledding, jonathan went skiing, and we all had a good ol' time. It was a lot of fun to take elly m. down the hill sledding. She tipped over a few times face first into the snow, but she never cried and she seemed to enjoy it!!!

finally some sunshine!

Elly M. got to play outside for a few minutes on Sunday because it was warm enough to do so. i am not quite sure what she thinks of the sunshine... something so new.... but today it is snowing, harder than it has all winter. gotta love weather.

The next picture is of Jonathan's cousin Marcus teaching elly m. how to play piano. I hope our kids have the schmit family musical talent... oh i do hope so.

the last pics are taken in the only tourist shop we could find in southern sweden... at the airport. a little viking shot of elly m. when she gets older so she can know where she was born...