Birthday Sushi!

The salmon was by far the tastiest.  In the demitasse?  Sake.  

It's 2012. Are you ready?

With the new year, we update our "go bags".  This year we expanded our emergency supplies from 72 hours to about 1 month. Some of our supplies for the 1 month set:

50 # flour

50# rice

25# pinto beans

25 # salt

1 # yeast

10 # pancake mix

16 oz vanilla

4# trail mix

1 gal oil

Mmmmmmm..... emergency rations. 

Santa Came!

The girls wrote a note and left some treats:



In case you didn't notice, Erin likes to include belly button and nipples on her pictures. Also, Santa looks like he's been spending some time in Amish country:



And their efforts were rewarded!


It didn't take long to open up all the loot:



And the "big" present will be enjoyed for awhile yet!



Hope everyone had happy holidays and a wonderful end to 2011.

Why I rarely buy fancy toys....

They spent the last 20 minutes playing with 6 bricks and a few pieces of chalk.

Fashion Friday

Smocking just so right for Christmas!

Just some Robin cuteness

Translation:
She sings, she twirls, she tries to eat a coffee bean off the floor, she makes jokes, she follows directions and tries out some potty humor.

Enjoy your day!

I gotta say, today was a good day

We brought out the camera a bunch of times today, so thought it would be fun to give a few snapshots of our day today. 

Erin, 8:30 AM.  Dressed in a hand-smocked Nutcracker dress (thanks Grammie), with LOTS of Mardi Gras beads, playing air-drums along to her favorite holiday song, "Santa Baby".

Robin, 10:30 AM, after begging for stick-on-earrings, not quite sure about the whole thing.

Erin, Robin and Erin's classmates N and L, 2:15 PM playing "surfing" off of Brian and my bed.

Robin, 6:00 PM, finds something sharp and pointy on the stroller.  

Brian and Erin, 6:30 PM, making "Erin Soup" for dinner.  Good way to end the day.

Yup.