we decorated for christmas last night! fun for all and a very pretty tree.

i swear to you, i married a man with the patience and kindness of a saint. :) not very many men would sit patiently while trying to work on the computer and let their daughter put barettes and crowns on them.

grandma nelson comes for a visit!!!

emma's thanksgiving program at school...she was a pilgrim.

emma and lucy after the thanksgiving program and before the pie!

one very cute kid.

lucy "pretties" her shoes

lucy was happily playing with a craft drawer set, stacking all the contents on the top of it, and then she disappeared. she came back into the room with her black leather shoes and told me that they were "ugly boy shoes," to which i replied that no, they were cute little girl shoes. i didn't really think much more of it until i heard lucy say, "now they're pretty...mommy, my shoes are pretty now." i went into her room and found her with 3 bottles of puff paint and her now "decorated" shoes. luckily it washed off (i had to scrub it with a stiff brush) and miraculously it didn't get on the carpet or her dress. amazing. what a day.

playing catch-up

here are a few photos from the last year or so...

emma's first day of pre-k (august 2006)

is it really a pumpkin patch if the pumpkins are just sitting on the grass??

christmas 2006...the fluffy dresses that were worn well into spring

go soccadaisies!

lucy felt very comfortable in the water last summer, as shown by the kung-fu death grip on her teacher

emma was a superstar swimmer, though

vegas, baby... and the coldest pool in america

two cute texas gals find a baby longhorn at the fair in utah

back to school for my little bumpkins (august 2007)

emma loses a tooth and earns some cold, hard cash

halloween fun (lucy was not feeling well and thus refused to costume up)

we finally blog!

this might be a good way for us to keep up with all the picture demands! we'll give it a go and see if there is magic.