Our days leading up to Christmas

Christmas Play at school/church

Thanks Grandpa Siffring for making a special trip

out to see it! 

We love you!

Game night

Naps...after lots of shopping

Let it snow...

Lunch with friends

Band concert at school

Grace playing her flute

This is her first year and I must say the flute section

did a fabulous job!

Bravo!

Isabel singing "Our God is so big"

using the table as her stage

cracking us up!

Its a family tree

Little People Nativity

all lined up in a row by Isabel.

I think she was lining them up to for Scooby to use

as a hurdle while he chased her through the kitchen,

which he cleared wonderfully.

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Chilly Winter Days

Yesterday was cold and the snow was staying around.
 A perfect day for sledding.
Mike and the girls headed out with our neighbors to the nearest hill.

Isabel loved every minute of it and hung in there

without a complaint.

There she goes...

They tried out many different sleds,

with a consensus that the round ones were the fastest.

Did the hill all.by.herself.

without any fear.

Isabel pulling up two sleds.

Girl Power.

Did you sled when you were a kid?

We did.

But always down some huge mountain of a hill

and at the bottom had to hit a jump to

cross a stream.

It always ended in casualties.

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Happy Sledding this winter!

More random pictures...

Warning:  Random pictures that could be very boring.


At my computer, I looked up to see this...

Awww...

Isabel playing at the mall

Whenever I take Isabel to a store that has cribs,

this is where I will find her.

She crawls in and pretends to be a baby again.

She just loves it.

:)

The girls playing with Grandpa

Isabel coloring at my parent's house

 

Sunset at my parent's house

The girls at a science exhibit at the

History Museum

They got to dress up and do real experiments

with real equipment and real computers and real

little fishy things.

Very cool.

They loved it.

Isabel in awe

Gracie doing a "mad scientist".

Very large salt and pepper shakers.

Those are the large size mason jars.

Black Friday shopping with Gracie at Midnight.

My Mom and Gracie playing catch

The end.



Ordinary Moments in Instagram

lunch at Target

walking Scooby

an afternoon in the park

Scoobers napping

i love my neighborhood in the fall

the girl loves her roller skates 

interesting trip to the Chinese market.

i loved looking at all the different kinds of produce

i had never seen before and thinking,

what do they do with this?

Chinese symbol for "life" and a special verse

(party favors for a friend's Chinese adoption)

a good decision

switched from coffee to chai in the morning

and I like it.

Isabel's always using these

fever

(she is better now)

words to live by

"his own little man" at my house again

church singing

(Grace is on the right)

more fall

a trip to Petco

friends.

watching tv with her baby doll

McDonald's

painting pumpkins

the cast came off

and the pins came out.

first snow

making cinnamon rolls with the girls.

they love rolling the dough, eating the dough,

kneading the dough.

Love the dough.

a view from my computer after school

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