Here, use my toes

We are eating dinner Saturday night while Paislee & Kailia are on the couch just chillin. Levi checks on them and just starts laughing. I, of course, HAVE to get the camera out to video tape this once in a lifetime moment. It was a mutual thing. They were both cool with the toe suckin fun! So funny!

My Dear Santa...Please Come Over Again

Bella is getting an early start on her letter to Santa. I guess she really really liked all the presents this year!

this is what happens when i am blogging

My girls get neglected when I am blogging and this is what happens

Best Dad Award

The Best Dad Award goes to Levi. I was going through the pictures on my camera and found the following pictures (Bella was the photographer, Levi the model). I was laughing so hard. What a good sport!




Here are just a few reasons why he wins this award:
1. He lets Bella "help" him in the garage
2. He has what seems to be never ending patience
3. He is so much fun
4. He is a sweetheart
5. His little girls have him wrapped around their finger
6. He lets Bella climb on him and beat him up (and pretends it doesn't hurt)

help!

My Grandma Sirrine has been asking me to help her scrapbook all of her accumulated pictures of her, my Grandpa's, all their children, their children's children, and their children's children's children pictures. (Plus old pictures of my great great grandparents) A little overwhelming.

At first I thought it was totally doable. But after spending two different sessions organizing photos into piles and piles and piles I think I'll have to take a different direction with this.

I love a scrapbook. I also love digital scrapbooking. But with the amount of pictures we are dealing with, I think we need to go a simpler route. My grandma absolutely loves the digital picture frame she got for Christmas and said she'd wished it went to music.

So, I got the idea of doing a digital scrapbook/slideshow on DVD with her and my Grandpa's favorite songs. I would have to scan in selected pictures which would take a while...and then sit down at the computer and type captions for the pictures as my grandma tells the names, dates, places, & stories. I think this would be more efficient with our time, capture & preserve these precious memories, and distribute to each family. I don't know how many DVDs this would take. There is still a huge box of SLIDES in her garage! I think we could get some nice labeled photo boxes for everything as well. She also has 7-8 scrapbook albums with pictures & letters that are falling apart. They should probably be de-acified as well. (Is there some sort of spray for this????)

This will be a huge undertaking, but I know it will mean the world to my Grandma and all of her posterity. Please! Anyone! Ideas? Tips? Solutions? Software recommendations?

When I am big...

Last night Bella, out of nowhere, had the funniest conversation. I had to write it down. I wish I could have recorded it.

Bella: When I am big like mom & dad I will be really big.
Mom: Oh really?
Bella: I'm gonna reach things and be really tall.
Mom: What else?
Bella: I will make some-pings, like cookies, and reach really tall.


I didn't realize how left out she felt because she couldn't reach high and make cookies all by herself.

More Bella-isms to brighten your day

A series of self portraits taken one morning...









Bella: "Dad, what does 'merry' mean? Like in 'Merry Christmas'."
Dad: "It means Happy."
Bella: "Oh."

Mom: "How many eggs do you want?"
Bella: "Umm..two and a half."


Bella: "Mom, I don't feel very good."
Mom: "What's wrong, Bella?"
Bella: "I don't know."
Mom: "Well, what do you feel like?"
Bella: "I feel like a jerk."
Mom: "A jerk?"
Bella: "Yeah. I feel like a jerk."