Stories

Lots of fun stuff happens on the mornings I get to sleep in.  (Thank you, Adam, for that blissful three hours this morning!)

This morning Adam captured the following stories from Raven and Julia:

Raven’s story on 12-15-12

Once upon a time there was a little drummer boy and he was sick.

He went up to the park. He fly fly fly up to the sky. He flied to the store. He buyed some Dora fruit snacks. He eat them all gone.

the end.

Julia’s story on 12-15-12

Once upon a time there was a princess in a castle. And then she saw a prince and she went to sleep and the she hear the witch and then a prince kiss her and then the princess waked up and then she got married. The end.

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I would say 5 or 6 times a week, Raven asks for Dora Fruit Snacks.  I promised them to her for Christmas.  I think we’ll get them as a treat for our plane trip.

And Julia is obsessed with Snow White… if you can’t tell. 

Pictures!

We enjoyed driving around and looking for neat places to take Julia’s 5 year pictures this year.  We settled on a few places:

• Downtown Arvada near the train tracks
• Sloan’s Lake
• Edgewater

It was colder out than we were expecting, so we snapped and dashed, but we were happy with what we got.  And this time little Anna joined in the fun too!

Carnivore

(Anna, Thanksgiving 2012)

Julia turns 5!

Hard to believe we have a five year old already…!  Julia celebrated her birthday the Saturday after Thanksgiving – thanks to two leap years since her birth, it was the same day of the week as the day she was born, so Mommy experienced quite a bit of nostalgia.

The birthday girl in the morning not long after she woke up:

We decorated the tree together – what fun!  Mommy let go of the Type A boiling up in her core and let the girls put approximately 20 ornaments in a 10 inch by 10 inch area.  Ha!  The girls had fun as this is the first year I really let them have at the tree.  Talk about dripping with ornaments.

We took the girls down the road to take Julia’s 5 year pictures – those will come in a later post. 

After lunch, we did Julia’s cake and presents.  Now, I have to admit, the cake looked and tasted (not as) terrible, and I don’t know that I’ll attempt another one from scratch for a while.  Ha!  But, Julia loved blowing out candles and opening presents.

After presents and cake, I took Julia to see “Brave” – we had gone to see it when my mom was here after Anna was born, and it was playing again at the Elvis Theater.  Julia enjoyed it, but after 45 minutes, she asked to please go home so she could play with her sisters.  Awwww!

Southern Influence

I have SO many blog posts to write, so many pictures to dig through, and little to no time.  We took Julia’s 5 year pictures two weeks ago… haven’t even taken the Christmas photo picture to send out to folks… and we went to Grand Lake over a month ago… I’ll get there.

Also… last weekend I spent time with my dear friends Angela and Chrissy in Charleston, SC.  Umm… amazing.  LOVED IT!  Then I ran across this photo on Facebook:

Between my weekend in Charleston and the influence of my dear Alabama friend Laura, I’ve become a lover of all things smocked.  I can’t get enough of it!  I also cannot afford it.  HA!

Hopefully will find time this weekend to post a plethora of pictures… until then, it’s back to work!

erin

Cow Pie

I read this great article in Better Homes and Gardens (THANKS, Chrissy, I LOVE THIS MAGAZINE!!!) about making pie crust and was given the idea of using cutouts instead of lattice or other crust tops for fruit pies.  I had made cherry pies with leaf and acorn cut outs for the girls for their daycare Thanksgiving and for Thanksgiving Day, I made…

A cow pie!

Love you, Wisconsin!

Nom nom nom!

BREAKFAST!  In a witch costume, no less.

Cupcakes! Hello Kitty!

Julia celebrated her birthday at daycare on Nov 20.  Miss Erikka (Miss Erika?) also had a birthday last week on the 22nd and had planned to have a party for the kids on the 21st, so asked that we bring in Julia’s treat a day earlier.  Julia picked out the theme (Hello Kitty) and mommy made the cupcakes – the frosting was a bit… umm… not pink, thanks to the amount of food color I used, but overall, they were DELICIOUS.  (Not so the cake, which we will discuss later.)

Happy Birthday, Julia!

My “baby” turned 5 today… Happy Birthday, Julia!

More pictures and more blogging to come.

Erin

Our baby is 6 months old!

It’s a gorgeous day and I absentmindedly put this dress on Anna only to remember in the middle of church that I had wanted to take her 6 month pictures in this dress, so hey, PROVIDENCE!

This dress was a gift from my mom when Julia was a baby and this dress fit Julia well when Julia was 9 months old.  It fits Anna well now except that it’s short (because Anna is tall) and I have always loved this dress.  So after church, Mommy and Baby headed outside for a quick photo shoot (Daddy helped too).

We’ve been working on Anna’s sitting this week and she did really well.