Whiskey the Cairn Terrier

From October 2009

From October 2009

Grace Art

From May 2009

From May 2009

What happens...

... approximately every other minute in our apartment.

From May 2009

Memorial Day Pictures

From May 2009

From May 2009

From May 2009

From May 2009

Memorial Day Fun

We're all still alive! Just haven't been posting in awhile due to our busy schedules. Here's a video from yesterday's memorial day festivities, which was also the day after Luther Seminary graduation.

Grace Art - Penguin

From March 2009

Easter Egg Hunt

The Seminary held an Easter Egg hunt for the kids today. Grace was in gymnastics, but Holden got to hunt for eggs. There was a slight problem when a squirrel stole an egg off the grass and ate the surprise inside - he returned with his squirrel friends, all looking for eggs. The adults sent some volunteers to guard the eggs from the raiding squirrel army.

From March 2009

From March 2009

From March 2009

Spring

It's feeling a lot like Spring!

From March 2009

From March 2009

Pictures from 7th Birthday

From March 2009

Pin the button on the pajamas.

From March 2009

Escape!!

From March 2009

Art project.

From March 2009

Greetings from the birthday elephant.  (No, this IS NOT Grace's new stuffed elephant - it is the stuffed elephant that mysteriously appeared in the Commons room one day last fall, and now lives there.)

From March 2009

Holden keeping a close watch over the cake.

From March 2009

Dancing to Abba.

From March 2009

Holden opening his present.

From March 2009

Grace opening one of her many presents.

From March 2009

Adult friends of Grace!

Grace's 7th Birthday

Here are some selected moments from Grace's 7th birthday party - a Pajama party. The children had a very good time. (Except for Holden for the first 20 minutes or so - he thought we were taking him to daycare since the party was in the same room that Wee Care uses for the kids... he was one mad little boy until he realized it was a party.)

Acting Class Performance

Here's a video of Grace's acting class final performance. The children created the entire story out of their group imagination, and the instructor narrated their story while they acted it out.

Mad Scientist Grace

More Grace at Mall of America

Happy Grace

At the Mall of America.

Holden's Birthday

Some scenes and a quick video of Holden's 2nd Birthday celebration in Alexandria:

From January 2009

From January 2009

Inauguration

We went to Old Town Alexandria to watch the inauguration on a large outdoor screen.  Some woman behind us kept screaming "That's my cousin!"  (We decided not to join the two million people on the Mall.  We couldn't bring bags or strollers or much of anything on the Mall.)  These are photos from Old Town.

From January 2009

From January 2009

From January 2009

Aimee, Grace, Holden, Lisa and Isabel in the cold air, on the cold bricks, watching the big screen.

From January 2009

The gathering crowd.

From January 2009

Holden was unimpressed.

From January 2009

I think this guy in the brown coat was a secret service agent.