We went to iowa...

Here are some pics. from iowa. the girls and i took a trek up north the cold. it was so great to see my family and hang out for the week. a bonus was elijah, my sister's son turned five. it was fun to watch he and elly m. fight and play together. the picture of the cute lady and the baby is my sister-in-law jessi and my nephew owen. owen is sooooo cute.. when he gets super excited... he puts his fists up in the air and shakes them. usually the excitement is over food.

OH winter go away...

Bella came over today and i just vented about how much winter can make you not like things that you should.... like spending quality time with your children. ruthie is all over the place now and choking on leaves all the time and elly m. has to get to the bottom of everthing... literally everything.

another birthday video

I can't help but post both of them....elly m. is so cute... mitzie... here mitzie....

happy birthday mitzie... or mickie i mean.

We wish that we could be there with you to celebrate your 21st birthday. we love you and miss you a lot mickie.. .elly m. can't wait to see you.

Little Ruthie...

not so little ruthie... she weighs about the same as elly m., so she isn't the smallest, but she is our smallest. She had yet another ear infection last week, had an allergic reaction, and then got on the right medicine and of course has had gas and loose stools since. we just can't win here at our house. i haven't taken many pictures lately, i will try to do better this week.

going back to babyhood....

Here is elly märta wanting to be a baby again, crawling back into the little toy baby bassinet. she is so funny!! as you can see she doesn't really fit.

There she goes...

I think ruthie is about to start walking... she wants to be just like her big sister...she stands up and goes back and forth, back and forth, back and forth from the play table to me, from me to the table. she is changing too fast. Elly Märta loves to crawl into things...boxes, laundry baskets, even baby beds!! so funny. and then she will look at ruthie and she will say "come!"

happy birthday jonathan...

J. is 28.. finally caught up. here we are celebrating him in the morning time. It is always fun on jonathan's birthday to get up at the o'crack clock to make him his pancake cake... this year it was even better with ruthie and elly m. they both found it very interesting singing and dancing about daddy. even the cat tried to eat the cake.. silly cat. maybe i will even post more pics. from the family party later.... happy birthday jonathan.. you are the bestest friend in the whole world.

a tent from the in-laws

Jonathan is very thankful to the in-laws for his family size tent!!!

Happy Birthday Jonathan....

I sometimes hate that this is how stuff shows up on blogger.. but these are the beginning of jonathan's pics. and his pancake cake.. swedish birthday cake that jonathan loves for his birthday breakfast.