Thursday, August 20, 2009

cuteness to the max...






I couldn't help but blow up ruthie in this picture. It just captures her fun personality to the T. She is a blast most of the time. Elly m., ruthie, and evie spend most non-nap times together doing fun things. We are so fortunate to have little miss evie and her parents as are friends. We get to do lots of fun things with them. I noticed that I have a lot more pictures of ruthie recently on the blog. i think i would like to say that most of my pictures of elly m. are of the back of her head. She will not look at the camera anymore. She is too busy doing other things like dancing and running and looking around at her surroundings. her world has opened up past just her mamma and daddy. it is fun to watch her be so curious. she loves to sit and talk about everything that she has just seen. at the end of the day, she will often lay in my bed with me and just talk about the things that she enjoys doing. She is definitely a little girl that needs to her word quota done before she goes to sleep. sweet little thing she is.

How old are you ruthie?

Happy 2nd Birthday Elly Märta

10 year reunion...



I mean i couldn't believe that it had been ten years since i had seen my classmates. of course lives have changed, spouses have been added, many have children and many have moved quite a ways away... but there was still the bond of spending almost 1/2 of our lives together so far. It was fun.. many laughs.. many pregnancies talked about, just lots and lots of fun for me. I am looking forward to the next reunion.. they talked about a 15 year... it would be fun to see how everyone's lives have changed!!!

more of cousins.






Here are some more of the cousins.

Fun with cousins.






My aunt brenda had a birthday and the whole family went out for pizza. the children had a blast afterwards just running around like chickens with their heads cut off from ice cream sugar highs!!! they have so much fun with each other... there is nothing like having cousins the same age!

Time at Meme and Papa's house






we had a great time spending an entire week at meme and papa's house. It is so nice to get out of the city and enjoy the country life for awhile. The weather was beyond perfect and almost a little bit chilly for this time of year. We would spend lots of time outside just playing and swimming and being children, all of us. Ask my mom!!! Ruthie was especially fond of my mom's homemade jams!!! yummy... i am definitely a fan too!

a family photo and more b-day






I just realized that I haven't been doing a very good job explaining things about the pictures and life. I find myself in a hurry trying to just get pictures up here so that I can get on with what is going on in life right now.

another kitty cat birthday!






Here is Elly M. opening presents and ruthie relaxing under a balloon at the birthday party. The other little girl in the pictures is cousin brooklyn. All of the little girls love love love the kitty cats. We had to get the girls each a kitty for their birthday because our three legged wonder cat got eaten and killed by two stay german shepard dogs. The kitties are still a big hit among all the little girls, except for evie maybe, she tries her hardest to stay away from them.

a few more pics. of the big 2 b-day!






here are a few more of elly m.'s birthday and guests. My brother and his baby owen are just too cute. I love little owen's chubby chubby cheeks! he is so cute! and the cake, I am still impressed with my own cake making abilities.