Photo Shoot

We had fun day on Thursday with Sophia out of school. We visited Auntie Edie and Dudley and then went to Lollilocks for little girl haircuts. The girls wanted to pose for pictures when we got home, so here you are....

Deliquent blogger

Apparently this blog is on the "one update per month" plan. Hey, you get what you pay for.

After Christmas we took a trip north to see our families in both Montana and South Dakota. We once again managed to grace the doctors in Deadwood with our presence. Stella was the perpetrator (again), and she is now the proud owner of a "regular patient" file at the Deadwood Clinic. Before heading home, we managed to spread the bug to: Sasha, Grandma Inger, Michael, Uncle Nic, Laurie, Grammy Cathie, Aunt Mary, Grandma Lil and Hannah. You're welcome. ;-)

Now we're home and re-settled into our regular schedules again. Sasha started potty training this weekend, and it is coming along verrrrry slowly...this kid definitely has her own plan. Soph potty trained a bit earlier in age and pretty quickly. It is interesting to see the personality differences continuing to appear.

Stella has been close to walking for about a month. She can take 3-4 steps on her own, but she doesn't know how to put the brakes on yet. She ends up diving into the couch or whoever is waiting to catch her. You can see in her eyes how badly she wants to be up and running around with her big sisters.

We are very excited to have a new niece!! Congrats to Missy, Cas and Jackson on Mila May's arrival. I can't wait to meet her soon!!!

Everything else is status quo...see ya in a month!

Stella's cute puppy slippers

The girls like to push Stella around in her new wagon

...and vice versa

Christmas...etc..2008

Here are our most recent pictures.

We hope everyone had a great Christmas!! We missed seeing our families, but we really enjoyed staying home and not having to white knuckle the roads through Wyoming, SoDak, and Montana with the three meatballs this year.

Thanksgiving 2008

Not much time to write....but here are a few sets of pictures from the past month.

We had a great time with the Aberle crew over Thanksgiving -- we're so lucky that everyone traveled to Denver this year!! Click here for pictures.

ALSO, since I didn't take many pictures of the girls over Halloween, here is Laurie's Kodak album. The girls and I took our first road trip without Daddy to SD at the end of October. Stella ended up getting croup while we were there, and she was soooo miserable on Halloween. I didn't even put her costume on...poor kid. Soph and Sash had a blast trick or treating with their cousins, and I was pleasantly surprised it didn't blizzard while we were there.

Sophia's Story

Not to be outdone by little sis, here is Sophia's Voice Thread.

Mornings with Sasha

Since Sasha and I get to spend our mornings together while Soph is at school and Stella is napping, we have a lot of time to try out new things....such as new computer programs! Here is a sampling of our latest venture.

I'll have another one soon, so Sophia can tell her OWN story. :-)

School Pics 2008

Sophia's school pictures are in from her ECE 4 class!