Meg loves to walk through Build-A-Bear when we go to the mall (just to look around since we never buy  anything since we already have so much stuff!)  I am pretty sure the store employees know us as "the people who never buy anything" but they smile at us anyways while Meg scrubs her (really…

Meg finally got the hang of skipping on our way out of Target… in her glass slippers that made such a cool noise with every step and hop.  :)       (I was as excited as she was to be able to watch it click!  And as nice as it may seem in theory to…

It was a grand adventure!  Pictures to come!  Love this one of our whole family though… and the fact that Nate asked a stranger to take it for me.  :)

  Emma was a royal subject in her school's production of the Princess and the Pea, and she did a wonderful job!  This was her first experience in a play and boy, was it a lot of work!  Lots of early morning rehearsals, practicing at home, and then a few more early morning rehearsals!  The…

The farther we got into March, the more time I spent refinishing the bunk beds my dad made me as a little girl for Emma and Meg's birthday… let's just say I learned a few things about spray painting along the way.    Meg has been putting herself to bed when she feels tired lately……

Since the girls got the bunk beds for their birthdays, it was finally time to move Meg out of the toddler bed (she was getting pretty squished in there!) and to take down the crib after having it set up continuously as a crib or toddler bed for more than TWELVE YEARS.   It made…

Meg likes it when I take pictures of the back of her hair so she can see what it looks like.  This one (as usual) was a special request from her… she has very strong opinions about her hair!  (and pretty much everything else…)    An afternoon spent dancing:               She…

I sat down Sunday afternoon to work on some family history, and all of a sudden had 3 kids who wanted to join in.  So we spent the afternoon reading about ancestors, (Carter was really interested in why all of them died), looking at family  trees, Emma called some grandparents to ask them questions, and…

We finally found a weekend that would work for an extended family getaway for everyone… at least, if we were close enough to home, everyone could make it work for some of the time, anyways.  :) After arriving at varying stages of Friday night, the kids all piled up in Grandpa's bed Saturday morning.   Immediately…

In sandals.  In February.  With her Elsa dress and cape on.  On a big girl bike with training wheels!  So exciting.