night at the movies

the girls watched rodolph the red nosed reindeer for the first time last night.  i can't believe they actually sat through the whole movie.

happy turkey day!

to celebrate we made turkey and banana pancakes. 

case closed

remember the lost car keys post from last april?  well, while cleaning out kinzie's closet.  guess what i stumbled upon... stuck inside a pair of boots, that were in a box, that was in the back of the closet, under another box.

zoo lights

this was taken while watching the monkeys, before the lights came on.

among other things

we call her...baby girl

and kinz kinz
and punk-a-poo
and sissy
and squawky chicken
and occasionally "the stinky one"

isn't it funny the things we call our children?

old pic from summer time. it brightens my day. dust got into my lens and i might as well throw the thing away. with christmas approaching, i doubt i'll indulge in a new lens. so i haven't been been taking any pictures as of late. which is why you haven't seen many postings  :(

through the view finder

here's a bit of creative fun to make up for my lack of postings lately.

happy birthday dad!

no swine flu in this house

we just got our h1n1 vaccination. never really worried about the flu before, but with all the hipe around this virus i thought we should get the vaccination. this vaccine is so new, i still can't help but think somewhere down the road they're going to find something wrong with it... too late to worry about that now though. the girls will have to go back for a booster shot in a month. (just found out about that today.) hopefully we can get into another clinic in a month.

sid got the nose mist.

then and now

sid wore the costume my mom made for me ages ago. can you guess who's who?

no tricks, just treats

thundering waters

5 years and

2 kids, 1825 sunsets... and counting.

believe it or not, i have no digital photos from our wedding. so here's random pics from the past 5 years.

making boo-tiful memories

I'm not sending out halloween cards. (i'm lucky if i get christmas cards out!) but here's some e-cards to enjoy!

it's never too early

not the first time on the pot, just the first time i was able to get a picture. Now I know our parents had all of us potty trained at 16-24 months. but i am no super mom. this little muchkin is still in diapers at 16mos, but she did point to her diaper while doing a twosie. so i took the hint and placed her on the potty. oh and yes, she did go!

good thing i didn't squish this little spider

she has so many costumes in her dress up bin, i think we could have a new pic every day up to halloween!

broom stick ride

b-day with grandpa gafkjen

thought i accidentally deleted these... glad i found em!

just in case...

i get lazy and don't carve pumkins this year, i made these (out of felt of couse).

the happiest little girl

sid's been wanting the snow white dvd since before disney announced it was coming out of the vault. i put it on her christmas list, but last night (after the hundredth time of listening to her say) "mom, we going to buy the snow white "DBD" and watch it?" i decided to jump the gun and let her get it early. so the fam piled in the car and off to walmart we went. she held it through the store and the whole way home with a grin from ear to ear.
below are pics of our family movie night.

don't you hate it when. . .

when you wake up and are surrounded by beautiful princesses, with perfect hair, perfect teeth, and they are singing and frolicking with the forest animals? and there's no coffee!? i really hate that.

trying to spruce up my look, so i chopped off my hair. it's cute, but turns out i need more than a haircut to do that...

R.I.P judy... or was this liza?

the 3yr old of the house