the red dress

This red dress is so loved by elly m. right now that she wants and asks to wear it constantly!!! So if you see lots and lots of pictures in it! don't worry i wash it all the time! These are some pics from when i didn't have a camera, but i took them on my phone... oh the red dress! they are only children with child like ideas once!

happy birthday jonathan!!!!!

We aren't getting any younger, but we sure are having fun!!! that sounds like a country western song somewhere.. maybe i should be a songwriter! we celebrated jonathan bright and early in the morning with his swedish pancake cake and his presents! then he went to work and we spent the day with fun friends and then we took jonathan to a vietnamese restaurant and to bella's house for cake. i forgot i had a camera so i will have to get pics from bella.

can you believe it???

It isn't my fault or maybe it is my fault??? but i lost my camera at my mom's house at Christmas and spent jonathan's birthday gift cards on a new camera for the family!!! I am most pleased because i feel as though i have really missed a lot of "kodak" moments these last couple of months!!! so here we are!!!

The Laundry Basket..

Anything in the house that is not a toy seems to be so much fun to these two.... the laundry basket has proved itself time and time again....

laundry basket photoshoot ruthie

Ruthie took an early nap yesterday and we decided to do a laundry basket photoshoot. i guess when things like laundry baskets and boxes are sitting around, what is there to do if you fit in them besides sit in them. As you can see from the first set of pictures... elly m. thought it was a great idea too... but with the cat involved... these poor poor cats... they sure do get a lot of unwanted attention sometimes.

Sisterhood...

Having your children so close together can seem sort of crazy to some... but honestly..it really seems like the way to go for me. They are at a stage already at a little over one and a little over 2 and enjoy each other's company (most of the time). They look forward to each other's presence and notice when the other is not around. it is so precious lately how they are enjoying spending time together... just sitting and talking over things.. mostly the cats, but other things come up too... like shared friends and cousins...getting into makeup that shouldn't be gotten into, destroying things that really shouldn't be destroyed. maybe winter won't be so bad this year, maybe these two will find fascinating things to do... we have been playing hide and seek a lot... mostly in the same two places, but we are having fun none the less.

One thing i don't like about all of their pictures together is that they both decided the in thing to do when getting a picture taken is to say "Cheese" therefore the silly expressions often on their faces... kind of bummed about that one...but oh well... at least we get to see their faces.

Ruthie cute!

I can't help lately, but have more pictures of ruthie than elly m. Ruthie is a little cheeseball and elly m. ignores the camera like it's nobody's business.... ruthie wanted to sit on the potty tonight and i thought it was just too cute to not post.. i mean look at that beautiful body.

Hanging out at home...

here we are hanging out on the couch hoping for some Christmas movie on channel 3 and then nope.. no Christmas show yet. We also got some hand me down clothes from a friend and these really cute hats... we had so much fun playing in the hats.

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!