The Mall playground

One of our favorite places to go when we're getting restless is the mall playground. I love the nature theme of it, and the girls have a lot of room to run around. Too bad every one else likes to go there too. :) Free indoor play places are in high demand over here during the winter! Which, by the way, is lasting forever! We are extremely ready for Spring to come and the snow to melt. I've been told that things should get warmer and the snow should stop by May, although it has snowed in June before. Here's hoping that it doesn't happen this year!

Our Body Machine Girl!

We have a book and tape called, "My body machine." It talks about eating healthy and keeping our body strong. Claire took this to heart, and has been eating lettuce ever since. I chopped some Romaine lettuce for a salad and she snuck the end of the bunch from the counter while I wasn't looking. She carried it over to her dinner plate and went to town on it. Yes, she really was tearing in to it. The funny thing was that she didn't even touch her salad with the yummy cucumbers and tomatoes and dressing on it. Well, I didn't complain. :) I'll let her eat my leftover lettuce any time!

How much is that doggie in the window...

Swiper...what can I say about this dog. I alternate just about every minute between loving him and regretting having ever laid eyes on him. This is a picture I took of him one of the many times I had decided to sell him. I had to have a picture to post of him, right? Well, shortly after I took it, I changed my mind. This picture was taken minutes after he peed on my nice new couch for the first time. Sigh. I'm hoping that things will get easier with him once the weather gets nicer and we can take him outside to burn some of that energy off! :) Despite our woes with potty training him, we're going to keep him. For now that is...

Busted!!

We gave the girls grapefruit one morning for breakfast and Bryce split his with me. I wasn't in the kitchen at the time, so he put it on the counter and told the girls to save it for me. As you can see, they didn't care for that suggestion. Claire went to her room, pulled out her little yellow chair, and they both climbed up and dug in...literally! Naughty, but very very cute.

Flower Child

 

Claire did her hair herself. Like the flowers? I've started trying to make my own flower clips, and as you can see, Claire likes to wear them...all at once!

Lunchtime pictures

So I find that I take the most pictures of my girls while they are eating. It's probably because that's the only time that they sit still for me. :) Don't mind the food on the table and their faces!

It's me!

So, I figured out how to use the self timer on my camera now. It's a good thing, because I was starting to get worried that my kids weren't going to know what I used to look like when I get older. Anyway, here are the pictures. I wanted you to see Claire's new bangs too. I feel a sense of pride everytime I see them. I did that! Well, enjoy the pictures. It's kind of a 'death by pink' day over here. :)

Funny Man Bryce

So...you're probably wondering what on earth is going on here. :) We got our new camera!! And of course, as soon as the girls were in bed I had to bust out the camera and try to figure out the cool tricks it can do. I discovered a really fun setting where if you hold down the button, it'll take multiple pictures back to back. Bryce was sitting next to me in bed, so he was the perfect person to test it out on. I turned over to him and started shooting, and he really got into the photo shoot! He just pulled these faces out of no-where. :D I don't think many of you have seen this side of Bryce before. Well, let me tell you, he's just full of it! One of the many reasons I love him...his photographic face. He's a natural on camera. ;)

We're still alive!!

Hello everyone! Yes, it has been forever since I've posted. I'm sorry, but my camera is all funky. Despite Bryce having fixed it (yet again), this time I can't upload the pictures I take onto the computer. I'm hoping Bryce'll come home from work long enough to take a look at it and help me out some time this week. :) And no, I'm not exagerating about how much he's gone. Last night he came home at 4:30 am and slept for one hour before having to get up and go back to the hospital. Other than a very busy husband, things are going well for us. Claire has started her new ballet class---so cute! I also got brave (or judging by my previous experience with bangs you could say "foolhardy") and cut Claire some bangs. I think it turned out very well. Hopefully you can see them yourselves some time soon. Hope all of you are doing well also!

Christmas in Las Vegas!

Yes, we're still alive. Sorry it's taken me a while to get back up and running. Here's our Christmas vacation in a nutshell:
We had a lot of fun in Las Vegas for Christmas this year. We went over to Bryce's Grandparent's house for the big Christmas Eve celebration. We had delicious prime rib for dinner and then the Trumans rounded up all of the cousins and dressed them up in authentic clothing from the nativity story while Uncle Tom read the nativity story. :) It was very cute. We then played chimes and at first couldn't figure out why all of the chimes were so terribly out of tune with the songs we were playing. Turns out, we were singing the songs completely in the wrong key! :D We then played a game Grandma Cynthia had set up, memory. She put a lot of work into preparing it and it was a lot of fun. The next morning all of the family showed up at the Leavitt's house in their Christmas pajamas from Grandma Cynthia and Grandpa Duke, and we opened more presents. We topped off our vacation by eating at Cafe Rio several times. Yummy! All in all, this was a wonderful Christmas. Hope you all had a great Christmas as well!