Sunday!!

We went to church only to stay ten minutes and come home and take naps. After the nap, Elly M. climbed up the plant and sat in it waiting so patiently for me to come and get her to put her in the van to go pick daddy up at church. After that we attended jonathan's soccer game. I forgot to take pictures of jonathan, due to the fact that the game only last about 30 minutes because men can't seem to keep their hands to themselves..... it is such a pity that some people never got spankings when they were little. But anyhow... elly m. and her friend joel david... well joel david likes to tell elly m. what to do and pull her along everywhere. they have a love/hate relationship right now. then there is adrienne with little ruthie. they have a love/love relationship. for those of you who don't know who a. is... she is jessica, my friend from college's sister. i love her and her whole family. her blog is the gray family blog on my page. she rocks.

A saturday hike

Sometimes you just have to get out of the city. The walls of memphis sometimes start to feel really tall to jonathan. So we went for a saturday hike, but ended up on germantown parkway at chick-fil-a. what a shame i thought to myself. a little rest and snack at our halfway point. it was a nice day to just be out. the weather right now is quite lovely.

roofy poofy

horrible nickname i know, hopefully it won't stay around for to long. little ruthie is a litle over 7 weeks old and growing like a weed. i will have her 2 month check up on the 13th, so i will fill you in on all her info then. she did roll over last wednesday for the first time. pretty strong little thing.

keep me away from the craiglist

For those of you who don't know about the craiglist, it is like an online yard sale... and for those who have small children, but love yard saleing... the craiglist feeds the need for the yard sale bug. I went out and bought a new car seat for ruthie and this cute bouncy horse for elly m. and ruthie someday of course, but isn't it cute. i got it for 15 dollars, and they sell online for a lot more than that. anyways... it is dangerous for me because i have so much fun doing it.

sorry... it has been awhile

Sorry everyone.. i have been slacking. okay, maybe not slacking, but there has been a slight lack of napping here at our residence. i just can't seem to get ruthie to nap somedays. she seems wired to the max.

Elly Märta is starting to love to sit on the counter while i do dishes. it is nice for her to be up there, because when she is on the floor, she is screaming at me constantly. on the counter, she can eat rotten fruit at least. she offered me some, but i declined. the other pictures are her attempt to help her momma put dishes away. it is amazing the things she understands or well, slightly understands. hopefully next time it will be clean dishes in the drawer next to it with the silverware in it.

6 weeks old..

the smiles have started, but catching them on film is a completely different idea. i tried today and i will try tomorrow. here you go though, this will have to do for now. she is growing like a WEED. it is so crazy how fast they grow and change. they are so great though.

the latest of elly m.

here are a few of just elly m. she is hilarious sometimes. i can remember the desperate pleas with my mom to let her know that what i wanted was top notch importance at the time, but elly m. goes very far with this. she is hilarious... can you not see how desperate she is to get down. so funny.

the other one is what her hair looks like by the middle of the day, even though she has had a bath the night before. and for those of you who want to see the baby she sleeps with at night, that white poofy thing she is holding is it.

close eye...

i just can't keep near the close eye on elly m. that i used to be able to, but it sure does lead to a lot of cute pictures. what a fun age, one year olds are so much fun.

Aunt Heidi and Uncle Manne from Sweden are here!!!

Uncle Manne and Aunt Heidi have been here for a little over 2 weeks, but i am absolutly horrible about taking pictures of the girls with people for some reason. i guess the camera is super handy around the house, but one more thing in the full diaper bag and my goodness it weighs more than my first born child these days. oh, what a fun time in life when your diaper bag is filled to the max!!!! i will look back on these days and wonder.. how did i do that???

anyhow... we went to the hunky dory little ol' bluegrass festival today where the small town drunk makes a fool of himself and the good ol' boys break out their banjos. it was fun. very fun actually. elly m. enjoyed every minute of it. so here are some photos of the fun.

Auntie M's genes

There really is never a moment's peace in our house at this point. i cut jonathan's hair yesterday, finished it today and while we were in the bathroom elly m. climbed into the tub to read her book. i didn't know she could climb or fall for better words into the tub. but lo and behold, just like her auntie m... she loves to take baths. my mom always told us that my little sister emily used to love to jump into the bathtub with anyone that was in there. getting angry if she couldn't, well her little niece is the same way. she gets pretty perturbed if i say no to her joining me in the shower these days, and now it looks like it will be very hard to keep her out, clothes and all.