Monday, December 29, 2008

A Holiday Message

(This message designed on Nelson's new toy: "Comic Life" software for the Mac. You should click on the image to make it larger.)

From Christmas

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Twas the Night Before Christmas

And Grace wanted to make sure Santa and the reindeer were well-nourished on their nocturnal journeys.  (The carrots are for the reindeer.)

From Dec 2008
"We made these cookies.  Take these."

Monday, December 15, 2008

Santa Redux

From Dec 2008


Santa made a surprise visit to the Seminary Family Housing commons this evening - to Grace's delight.

Monday, December 08, 2008

HO HO HO!

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An excited girl and an uncertain boy.

Saturday, November 29, 2008

The Happy Girl

From Nov 2008


Here is Grace's school picture this year.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

The Happy Little Boy

Here are the professional photographs of Holden we had taken at Wee Care...

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From Nov 2008

Monday, November 24, 2008

American History Test

How is your knowledge of American History? Take the test and find out. I scored 97% and Aimee scored 22%!!

Update: Okay, I lied. Aimee scored 82%.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Mushrooms

Another Grace original...
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Monday, November 10, 2008

Holden's words

Holden has lots to say now.  These are a few of his favorite words that he really works on:

hello -- goodbye -- train -- pizza -- car (he asks to watch the movie, Cars, by saying Cars) -- doggie -- toy -- bus -- go -- vroom -- choo choo -- Grace (he joins right in whenever we're calling for Grace to come: Grrrrraaaaaace!) -- juice -- cheese.  Evidently, he likes food and vehicles.

Sunday, November 02, 2008

Hiking

From Nov 2008

Grace at the beginning of our hike yesterday

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Grace, 10 minutes into our hike - where did that other tooth go?

Halloween pictures

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Saturday, November 01, 2008

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Pumpkin Carving Party

Scenes from before and during the Luther Seminary Pumpkin Carving Party:

From October 2008
Panda on a Big Wheel.

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Princess Belle and her little faerie friend.

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A Panda supplementing it's bamboo-intensive diet.

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A Mama Bear and her Cub.

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Darth Vader (unmasked), Princess Belle, and a Witch.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Saturday, October 18, 2008

A Walk in the Woods to the Park

Today we took a post-nap walk with friends through the woods to a park.
From October 2008
Falls colors.

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On the climbing wall.

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A happy boy!

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Grace on a tree.

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Grace and Holden atop the tree.

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Tovah bouncing the ball off the back of Holden's head.  Holden laughed every time she hit him with the ball.

Friday, October 17, 2008

Apple PIcking

Since there was no school the last couple days, Grace got to have fun.  

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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Fall Is In The Air

From October 2008


From October 2008

Shopping for Winter Clothes

Last year at this time we were partially settled into our temporary 1-bedroom apartment, waiting for our final apartment to become available. We weren't as well-prepared for winter as we could have been.  We were distracted with other conundrums, such as what to do with three pods full of possessions that we couldn't unpack.  

This year, we can prepare for winter earlier and better. We took the kids to the Used Children's clothes store and completely outfitted them for winter. They weren't enthusiastic about the clothes shopping - Holden objects outright to trying on multiple outfits - but they did like the ball pit.

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Sunday, October 12, 2008

Pictures from Aimee's trip to LA

LA's Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels

more LA Cathedral

The smaller inset doors in the big black stone doors, picturing
images of various apparitions of the Virgin.

LA cont'd

Me in the mouth of the great fish in the children's garden.

Ethiopian in LA

My new friends Yemi (from Ethiopia), and Javier and Daniel (from San Francisco, soon to be from NY, NY) at an Ethiopian restaurant in Little Ethiopia.

Me with more new friends, Ruth (from Seattle) and Tricia (from Vancouver, BC).