alrighty then

i don't know what happened here. 

but, boy was it funny!

sweet awesome

olivia drew this for me the other day!

she is becoming a fabulous artist!

chocolate covered pretzels

sally got us to try some new things while she was here.

chocolate covered pretzels were the first one the list!

she was a great aunt and let the kids "help".

they did awesome with the sprinkles!

a hair we found in the chocolate!

i know, gross.

goodbye childrens museum!

we have loved living near the childrens museum here in indy. 

it boasts to be the largest in the nation!

the museum has been fabulous for cold days,

or now that i think about it too hot days too!

we are sad we can't go anymore but are very glad to have been able to go so much

when we lived here!

happy birthday bubba!

kale is 2!! 

we had a family party with the vails.

he got the sword as a present and wouldn't let go of it.

we sang, ate some cake and opened his presents.

he was so cute eating his cake.

kale didn't want to get messy.

(he did have a nasty double ear infection, boo)

SILHOUETTE! i love you.

i got a vinyl/paper cutting machine with my christmas and birthday money!

i have loved having it and here are some of the projects i have done.

i would be vinyling our whole house

if we weren't moving!



reading olivia

olivia and i have been working on the book,

how to teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons.

it is fabulous.

she is a great reader already.

we are on lessons 40 out of 100!

great job olivia!

boys

we have a blue baby chair i have used to strap down contain

olivia and mallory when they were little, if i needed to have a shower or something.

i had one of those days today and needed to make sure kale stayed

someone, anywhere, while i had a shower.

well, this is what i got.

mid-shower.

a not so happy, yet REALLY smart little boy!

(is it awesome i didn't quickly get him out but ran to get my camera!

oh, blogging, what have you done to me?)

fun

santa brought bubble bath and bath finger paints for christmas.

EVERYDAY olivia asked if she could use them.

me, being the mean mom i am, said no.

santa must not have know how sad mallory, aka casty, would have

been to not be able to take part.

so we waited and waited and waited.

right when we got back from getting mallorys cast off...

the kids were in the bath!

free at last!

be gone casty

it's FINALLY off!

thank goodness.

both mallory and me were very excited to get this nasty thing off!
the dr. said everything looks great and she healed perfectly!

a true sunbeam

mallory FINALLY made it to sunbeams this sunday!

she has been in nursey for 5 years now (ok, just seems like that).

we were both very excited because i am the primary choirister and

we got to see eachother.

see was very well behaved.

she ran over to me and gave me such a sweet hug

and told me she loved me!

definitely a sunbeam!

(she just ate some toast with nutella on it.  anyone how knows mallory,

knows she still gets a little messy when she eats!)

christmas visitors!

we had fun with these two!

brett was behind me obviously making really funny faces!

those are some GOOD smiles!

of course the kiddos made a sign to welcome

our visitors!

it's so fun for them and me!

even kale gets in on the action now!

christmas presents

i made some christmas presents for wendy, sara and rebekah this year.

here they are!