Thursday, February 11, 2010

Life in February

Just some random pictures from the last couple weeks...



Casey put a swing up in the basement--
the kids have been having lots of fun on it!

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Tattoo Parlor

Well, that's not a blog post title that you'd really expect from us, is it?

Today Esther decided she wanted to put one of her temporary tattoos on, so then of course Peter remembered that he had some, and naturally Miriam had to have one as well.

Esther applying Miriam's tattoo:

Peter's fire truck:

Showing off the final products:


Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Sister Fun

Esther and Miriam have a new routine.  They go down into the basement where the dress up clothes are, and I'm not allowed to come down there.  They get all dressed up, and then tell me to sit on the couch.  Then they make a grand entrance and do a ballet show for me.  It's so cute how Miriam just goes along with it and totally lets Esther get her dressed up and then follows whatever she does!

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Cousin Cuteness

Esther and Miriam LOVE holding their cousin Cassie! 


Florida!

We were blessed to spend a week in Florida with my parents and sister.  We left Christmas night and drove straight through... 23 hours!  The kids did great overall, besides a little carsickness episode from Esther.  As smoothly as the trip went, I was very thankful to get on a plane and fly home on Saturday!

We had a great week of playing and relaxing together.  Here are some highlights:

*Celebrating Christmas beside a palm tree
*Several trips to Dairy Queen
*Bike rides with Peter or Esther on the tag-along
*Swimming in the pool
*Time at the beach
*Catching up with an aunt, uncle and cousins
*Casey and I visiting some good friends in Orlando for an evening
*Making fresh orange juice from the oranges off the friends' tree
*Seeing a cool crab on the beach and collecting shells
*Playing lots of card games and board games
*Working on a 1700 clue crossword puzzle
*Celebrating Peter's and my birthdays
*Not seeing snow for a week!

It's hard for me to narrow down the pictures, so there are a lot!  As you can see, it was a wonderful week!