Picture this...

I got some wonderful gifts from my family. One of the gifts were pictures from slides (that is a long story...)that were in the basement.
Joe lovingly ,painstakingly turned the slides into pictures... here are some of the best!








Ah those were the olden days!

Baby Zoey

I didn't have any really good pictures of Zoey from yesterday but today I am babysitting for her and she reached for the rings on her play thing... so I took some pictures of her...
She grabbed the rings all by her self and then discovered that she could move the butterflies... she was pretty happy about that!




I didn't have any really good pictures of Zoey from yesterday but today I am babysitting for her and she reached for the rings on her play thing... so I took some pictures of her...

Merry After Christmas

Christmas eve we went to Jeff and Kirstin's house. We are ham and cheesy potatoes and had fun with some of Kirstin's family. Grandma and Grandpa Larsen were there along with Tana and Braden and their kids. Papa helped Logan climb on the chair.

Joesph watched something else while Lorelei and Logan watched tv. Logan looks ready to fall...
Later Logan and Gretchen tried out the new Star Wars table and chairs.
Liam was quite proud of his climbing skills


As was Logan...

We did sit at the other new table and do some puzzles
and read a magazine...

There were the new Christmas jammies... complete with names on the butts!


They were both adorable!
On Christmas day everyone came to our house. Here is Liam reading about Elmo...

Nora took a break from puzzles to sit and watch the party..
Logan had his Christmas sweater on but had to take it off because Nana made the house hot cooking!

Here is everyone relaxing after opening the gifts..
Liam checking out the new race track with uncle Jed

Logan hijacked the baby and the stroller... Nora was playing with the racetrack at the time...All in all it was a great day. We did miss Matt who was home with a stomach bug... get well soon! I love my kids(in-law ones too) and grandkids! Thanks for being such great people!

Almost Christmas

This was a fun weekend... We celebrated Matt's 30th birthday at our house. Amy and Matt hosted the event... It was lots of fun!

Joe, Katie and Nora were there. They are excited and relieved that the new baby is a boy and healthy... Jed joined the party and had fun... he is happy he has no finals!
and last but not least Jeff, Kirstin, and the "Doodles" joined us... they needed pictures for a card so it was a great opportunity to get everyones pictures done...


Sunday we spent a beautiful day just sitting around... as you can see I did some digital scrapping and read a little...
It was so hard to wait to give the babies their presents... I guess it isn't that long til Christmas...

Pictures

Playing with puzzles...



Playing ball with Papa


Jumping and climbing o9n the couch with Papa...

This is the smile that I got when Nora saw my camera!


Here she is eating her "hots"

Not happy at getting dressed...


here are some pics of Zoey... taken by her mean mom and dad~





Aren't they the cutest!

Another Monday Morning

Here we go again with another week... This past week we saw all of the kids... starting with Wednesday noght... we babysat for the boys..... we played with puzzles and balls and then did some furniture climbing... I was going to show pictures but blogger won't upload them...
On Friday night we went to Mankato and stayed overnight... we looked under the couch cusions for Babee.... ( baby Jesus from the playmobile nativity set...Nora liked it a lot and carried it around but it has now gone missing...On Saturday I went with Katie, Mary and Granny to visit some homes in Minnesota Lake... It was very fun and the homes were beautiful... Nora was funny... again I had some pictures...
Sunday we did some Christmas shopping and We may be done...
After shopping... we stopped to visit Zoey she is so cute... very smiley and mostly happy even tho she has mean parents who take pictures of her... and wash her... poor baby!
I will add pics later i guess... gotta go to work...

It's been a while...

Good morning... This was a long busy weekend... starting with babysitting on Wednesday night and finishing up with a crafty Sunday...



Thanksgiving was very nice... Amy and Matt had everything undercontrol and everyone had a great time...



Matt actually posed for this picture!Nora was not feeling well on Friday for the 10th Annual Tree Decorating party...at least until the Tylenol kicked in...
The "Brother's" had some fun...
Uncle Jed had fun with the babies...
Zoey had some tummy time and showed off her muscles...

Logan had fun just being at Nana and Papa's


Logan also learned that Christmas trees are for looking....
Liam took the hard way to dig in the toys...

Nora perked up and watched Auntie Amy load up Zoey...

Liam was concentrating on something here...
and as usual when Matt wasn't hogging Zoey... Papa was...
Saturday night I babysat Zoey so I did get to hold her a lot... Sunday I relaxed and made a few cards and a big mess in the "Room"... and that was the weekend...