A Mother's Ramblings

Sunday, April 21, 2013

In February it finally snowed. After waiting all winter the girls were so excited to play out in it. There wasn't much snow but it was just enough to make a mini snowman. Totally worth getting all bundled up for!

Sick Baby Girl

A couple of months ago Quinn had the flu and as she was taking a nap on the couch I took a few pictures. She looked so sweet so I had to share.

Cousins

They are so cute!

Crash

It has been awhile since I have written on here. I had a bit of a problem with my laptop when it crashed. I would have never thought I would be so upset by such a thing but I lost 6 months of pictures, including those I took for clients as well as our Christmas pictures. It took over a month to get my computer back and then we just got busy. So, I am now in blog catch up mode...so I apologize for many blog entries and pictures to come. Now, where is that external hard drive?

Monday, January 28, 2013

Happy Birthday, Jesus!

It gets harder and harder to try and get our extended families together for the holidays. So this year was a little different. We got together with Jared's family the weekend before Christmas and with my family the weekend after. So that left Christmas day for just the four of us. Jared and I have never had Christmas day to ourselves....ever. We have always been at one of our parents house or traveling on the day. So I was so excited and was looking forward to making a big meal and just relaxing with my family. It was so fun. We woke up and opened gifts, Jared read the Christmas story, had breakfast, and then the girls and I started in on making Jesus' birthday cake. That was too much fun! I then started on dinner...we had ham, broccoli rice casserole, mashed potatoes, rolls, marshmallow salad, and birthday cake. It was delicious and I felt very Susie homemaker! So thankful for Jesus and for his sacrifice. It was such a blessing to celebrate Him with my family. Happy Birthday, Jesus!

Our birthday party for Jesus was awesome. The girls picked out what type of cake. Claire was convinced that Jesus would love chocolate cake with chocolate icing and of course, sprinkles. And she would be right!!

(no matter how hard I tried to fix it the first two pics are out of order.uggg)

That's my girl!!

Happy Birthday Jesus! We're so glad it's Christmas...

Singing Happy Birthday!

Dance observation day

In December Claire had a dance observation day for her dance class. We were able to go into the classroom and watch them dance and take pictures. They had a Christmas party with gift exchange as well. I will warn you there will be a lot of pictures with this one. Also, I am not all that good taking photos indoors so they are not the best but still so cute because quite frankly, my daughter is a very cute little dancer. See for yourselves.