a few of aaron...

i felt like it was much easier to get pictures of aaron today than all the girls, but i did get olivia's little head up in the little window.. such a fun place to play!!









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a little note from ruthie

cutie cousins..

It is amazing to look at my two children and think that they don't really look anything alike and then you put four cousins together and you can often see similar features, yet completely different features!!! Amazing.. but they are all so cute! at one point i hear olivia asking bella " can i take my shorts off mommy?" and bella's reply was priceless "this isn't sweden hunny... you can't just run around naked and this isn't our backyard either... you are going to have to leave your pants on" very diappointed olivia kept her pants on!! the things mnnnnnjyou have to say to children... maybe i should start writing down the things i say to the girls.... funny stuff sometimes, especially this delightful season of the potty training.\\\\\\\\\\\\....



a little note from ruthie.. whom should not be touching the computer!!!!

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This is what i usually get

I usually have to take about 10 pictures before i can get the faces of only one child, so you can only imagine how many i took to get a picture of all 4 cousins faces... let's just say a lot... Thank you Jesus for digital cameras.. i mean back in the day... they couldn't waste film like we do... amazing technology!

Our life these days...

I am so very sorry for how long it is in between posts, especially for the family over the ocean and through the woods... we miss you guys over there a lot and think of you often. we are so excited to that mickie is moving in with us this up and coming week... sorry for stealing her rocky and elisabeth, but we need her around here... life without mickie just isn't quite complete... who else can i get annoyed with for never having their key with them when they come home and have to knock on our window to let her in... we are so eager and excited to have her here with us...we closed on our house on wednesday.. it seemed slightly uneventful, but i guess it is exciting... i guess every month the mortgage is due, it will be exciting to mark that date off!!!! Next, Jonathan started school this last week, he is taking chemistry and computer programming online. Chemistry takes up a lot of time, but i have enjoyed helping him with it.. which brings me to my reason for not posting often... we ordered internet over a month ago and it has worked less than 50 percent of the time..needless to say uploading photographs was worthless... but some nice att man helped us out a little, so i do believe i am back on track!!!! looking forward to blogging more now.

Ruthie takes memphis

This picture cracked me up because she looks like the marshmallow man in ghostbusters.... great camera angle tristan!!! so impressed with my camera/picture taking abilities.. honestly. anyways.. my friend and jessica's friend andrea came to town last week and we had a lot of fun with her and played games a lot and ate a lot and just enjoyed each other's company a lot. i also went out with some great ladies on saturday night for the play sound of music.. had a blast!!! so overall, minus i am sure the times where we sat at our house all day long while children took naps, which some days happens here at our house... we had a very fun time. i wish i could get together with jaime and jessica more... what fun girls!!!!!

Water fountains downtown...

I would like to say that we all enjoyed our downtown experience, but overall it felt slightly uneventful for me and of course jonathan and i argued the whole time about whether or not memphis felt like a city..i am sure andrea finds our arguments hilarious and pointless.. i guess i should ask her. Anyways.. we went to see the ducks at the peabody.. way too many people there, but the girls got a kick out of the duck anyways.. and then we walked to the hot dog stand that sold hot dogs way too small to feed anyone that hadn't had lunch and hour ago... so we were still hungry and when i say we.. i mean the girls and i!!! everyone else seemed satisfied, so we munched on animal crackers until we got home. then we walked to the fountains... they were kind of fun, but a little chilly and very powerful for small children and ruthie kept falling backwards and hitting her head on the glass on the ground, but i did get a couple pretty good pics! anyways.. i will quit complaining.. i had a good time, just not the best, maybe i was grouchy that day..hmm.. retrospect.

funny little ruthie

I often refer to ruthie as little, but she behaves as though she is so big. She does everything beyond her time... definitely hard to keep up with.. i feel like she needs to learn new words or commands constantly, just to add to her already too large for her age vocabulary.. but there is also a side to ruthie that is extremely silly. i am not sure who she gets it from because both jonathan and i have extremely silly sides... i guess we all four do... hmmm. anyways.. she had the time of her life wearing her swimmie diaper on her head.

Typical Breakfast for little miss Ärta...

Here is Ärta eating her breakfast so peacefully... everyone watching desiring exactly everything she has.... i think ruthie said Ärta 40 times while she was eating breakfast this day.. you would think ruthie was starved considering how much of Ärta's breakfast she ate. I had forgotten i had taken these pictures.. but times like this are just priceless at our house...i think we need to get a spray bottle though or just cut one of each of the cat's legs off to keep them off the table.. seemed to work with our first one.. hmm....????

THE potty training...

some good days... some not so good days.. i am not sweating it though....i am sure by the time she is twenty... she will be pooping the potty. We have about 50% poop down and higher peepee... i think ruthie might be fully potty trained before elly m. she at least talks about it more than elly m. does. gotta love two little talkers.. but i mean check out how cute little elly m. is in her little girl undies...adorable i think.

Sardis Lake

We went to Sardis Lake a couple of weeks ago.... fun was had by all.. clothed and naked!!! We had grilled hot dogs and turkey burgers. We went swimming... danced in the water.. sang songs... and then both of our girls did head first falls into the sand and that is when we decided to go home..... so much fun!