Happy new years soon! enjoying a relaxed little nail painting/pj party with the girls while daddy is at work. doing C's nails first.

Juice!

Claira woke up and found my mug of hot chocolate from last night.

Tea party with friends.

The best dad ever lets his unborn child and wife wear his best dad ever shirt.

Pre made our Christmas cinnamon buns with a test batch for today. Just needs the cream cheese frosting next!

Added cheese to pretzle dough. Turned out great!

Eatting oatmeal on mama's lap. reading "get ready" from Jesus Storybook Bible. sweet slow mornings.

Natasha drew a turkey (then she said duck) with sun, moon, stars, needles, and silly eyes.

Elle drew Noah's ark with people peaking out the windows!

School time

Eating dinner, then some calm cuddle time before bed.

Found a candle holder my husband made out of a piece of wood, some left over dried moss from my sister's shower, and the wire birdsnest ring I made with my friend's kiddo's birthstones = free to me (since I used all scraps to make everything) birthday gift. Excited I'll have something to give since we couldn't afford to buy anything extra right now.

Hey this is the candleholder you mad a long time ago. I stuffed some dried moss in it and put the birdsnest ring I made deanne in it. Do you mind me giving the candle holder part to her too or is it sentimental? I figured you can always make more of them, but I can not, if you want to keep it.

Last minute wire wrapped birdnest ring for a friends birthday tonight. Turkey baster worked well for size

Using a turkey baster to measure a wire wrapped ring. Hope it works ok!

Just found this hand written verse from romans 15:13 in my new (but used) wallet I bought from ebay. Very fitting/comforting verse to have in your wallet. I think I'll keep it as a reminder.

She dressed herself up like a bride.

My princeses watching a show for a treat. Tashi is a bit scared of the giant.

Im the one with one eye shut winking. Elle is the other and also a balloon.

Daddy let elle draw inside a box we were finished with. Cute little charactures. Her art is getting more and more details. Even put the inside of our ear marks inside the ear circles.

Girls pretending its christmas time and made a tree out of cushions. Even wrapped presents for each of us with my gift bags and their toys.

Elle surprised me and set the table "fancy like the tea room" with little cup cake liners filled with our appetizer cereal and everything. :)

Mmm bowl full of deliciousness. Just one pomegranate. My shirt looks like I butchered something.

She figured out how to make a tee-pee like structure with three branches to stand on its own. didnt even tell her how just watched her figure it out.

Girls building a play house from the branches daddy cut down before we burn them in the fire place later.

Hawaiian grilled chicken, pomegranate salad, and mashed potatoes. only took me two hours. pfff! why can master chef jr. cook even more amazing food in 20 mins!!!

And in with the new! (well two owners before us, but so much nicer!)

Out with the old nasty torn couch.

Special notes from my husband

My husband is so sweet!

Thinking of you and the girls. Pulling weeds...

We worked hard getting the house tiddy. Time to relax and watch a show before bed. landlord comes early in the morning.

Big fat belly. The baby has almost reached my belly button now which will be the half way point!

Goodnight!

6 years ago today Daniel asked if I would spend thre rest of my life married to him. Gave me this rainbow clock ring. The rainbow representing God's promises. God sent me lots of rainbows reminding me He was in control as I fell in love with Daniel through our Bible study friendship. The clock represents all our time on this earth spent forever married. He told me he still wanted to do a formal proposal with a diamond ring, but this moment was more meaningful to me. I always hoped I would be proposed to out of the blue so I didnt expect it and didnt want a large audience, so this night was absolutly perfect.

Tashi's letters. both girls have gotten much better in just the few months we've been practicing.

Elle practicing letters. Love these dry erase boards from target dollar bins.

Looks like one of thoughs norman rockwell paintings with the guy looking in the miror painting himself or something.

Earlier today after balloons. Met a friend at the park to play.

This is the way we cut our hair. . .. Daniel tried my dad's flo-be robot hair cutter that you attach to the vaccum, but Daniel said it was too painful and stopped. So back to the old cutting with scissors. Looks crazy, but normally he's able to make it look ok in the end.

Beautiful morning chassing balloons. Claira esp. loved the "iggy" balloon.

Watching balloons

Taking this to see if blown up you can see it better. Gas balloons flying by.

Claira woke up from nap and looked longingly and the muffin I was eatting. I gave her the rest of mine and went back to checking my ebay listings right next to her. look over and shes ate the whole thing and fell back asleep! Full belly, happy sleepy baby.

Elle wanted to know why we take naps. So I found a you tube on the science of naps. Now her and daddy are watching a bunch of science you tubes. Natasha and Claira are playing together in the playroom.