Happy Birthday Grandma Jan!

We love when you come to visit.  We love the cute cards you send us. We love having fun stickers to play with! We love seeing you on the Skype chat! We miss you and hope to see you again soon!

Love, your two favorite girls

...and their mom and dad too!

Last year I was much more organized and created a virtual card here. 

So I hope you'll enjoy it again and know how much we love and miss you!

Can't you please go back?

M is on a weird kick right now.  If she has to ask me twice for ANYthing, she's frantic and screaming and upset.  Can I tell you how fun that is?

Luckily sometimes it's funny too...

This morning... I'm looking at the computer and click away from a screen.

M starts tugging on my arm and frantically yells, "Mama, can't you please go back to Jesus?????"

oh, can't we all? :)

My Olivia

This is my daughter.

Seriously, it could have been written about her and not an imaginary pig.  She could also be Fancy Nancy but she doesn't have that book yet, so we'll save that for another post.  

In fact, we were watching the cartoon the other morning and she turned to me and said, "that's how when I was a pig".  Yeah, it doesn't make sense, but it's so true and so cute!

So, read it and imagine my daughter.  It's a true likeness!

genes

I marvel that I marvel that my kids are like my husband and I.  I mean, really, where do we THINK they came from???? I love my older girl's big wide brown Tobler eyes and I love my little girl's crinkly blue Holman ones.  I love the things that make them who they are, even when the traits we give them are not our favorite!

When M started biting her nails, I cringed, knowing she'd picked that up from me.  The other day I mentioned that to my Mom and she mentioned that she'd felt the same way when I started biting mine, but that it was from my Dad.  I had no idea he bit his nails!

Yesterday, on a long, windy road, we unfortunately discovered that M gets carsick like her daddy! Poor girl!  Luckily, she was wearing two shirts and so we survived, but it was so not fun! :(  And poor LG was demoted to the back back all by herself so M could sit farther up front and not get sick again! 

Happily, after no more sick episodes, we had a fun day trip!

Happy Easter from the girls!

ps-I Looooooove the dress, Mae!

And yes, the boy is here!

Tour de Little Rock!

They are here! Grandma and Grandpa are here from Minnesota for Easter weekend! We had a fun day downtown showing them the sights of our new town. M and LG were so excited to see their grandparents, waited all day and are still thrilled to have so much attention!

We went to the Peabody to watch the ducks.  They live in a fountain in the lobby and every morning ride the elevator down and march in on a red carpet.  M loved it!

Grandma Jan and her girls!

We toured the Old State House where the original capital of the state was.  They had a display of first ladies' dresses.  M of course loved that!

We went to the Clinton Library. M is the Secretary of Agriculture in this picture, I believe.

We took them to Pinnacle Mountain State Park to see the Arkansas River.

We hope they enjoyed the sights...we wore them out! :)

Today we had our family's annual easter egg hunt...stay tuned!