Nadia often asks me, "Mom, who are you going to marry?" I tell her I already married Dad. Then she says, "I'm going to marry Dad too." Yesterday she told me she was going to marry Grampa Digger. I asked her why and she said, "He's nice. He's my friend." She's going to wear her mermaid dress. I think she just wants to live there and ride her pony every day.

100% natural smile. Not fake at all.

Just hanging out, minding my own business...

The minute she thinks I'm not watching, Monkey Baby!!
"Ella, get down." Who, me????

Nadia twirling...



At a birthday party last weekend, Eve's friend Cali's mom said, "Eve, I think you're going to be a model when you grow up." Eve said, "No, I'm going to work at Coldstone so I can eat ice cream on every break."
Eve twirling. "Mom, make sure you get my sleeves." Got 'em.



Ta da!!
There is a door that opens on the other side. She prefers to do it Dukes of Hazard style.



Future plumber??

ATTENTION BLOG READERS: You may get a more enjoyable read from the current post if you turn your computer monitor on it's side before viewing. (Just kidding, Mom, don't try it.)


Valentine's Day dessert-chocolate pudding with whipped cream and chocolate curls. Seems harmless enough.....


Boy was I wrong!!


I have no idea why these are the wrong way but I'm not doing this over!!Another Nadia modeling pic.

Princess dress, innocent pose, don't let her fool you!!
Some family pics...

Nadia loves the serious pouty pose.


Gramma Pockets asked her to take some smiling pictures for her...


Eve has a homework sheet to do every weekend, lately it's been working on writing in cursive.



I asked her what pictures she wanted on the blog, she wanted her tattoo...

Her shirt...


and her nails.

Ella goes crazy on the zebra. If this thing had sound you could hear the squeals!


She's such a big girl she can eat cereal all by herself!

The girls love the cats, they're such good kitties!
She loves to do tricks on the floor.


New couch pillows.
Cleaning up the toys, big job!

Making valentines for Eve's class. Nadia made some for her friends.

It's 0 degrees right now. It feels like your skin is burning if you go outside though, ironic isn't it?? So we had to do inside things all day today.

So, although Deid thought I was crazy and spent a good deal of the afternoon laughing at me, the girls and I made a monster. I thought with my amateur sewing skills the fuzzy fabric and the fact that it's a monster would make for a forgiving project. What I didn't anticipate was trying to sew through thick fur. It snagged the needle, broke the thread and all around aggravated me, but it's finished. Nadia and I call her Henrietta and Eve calls her Sara. Deid and I sang a verse of the 80's classic, "Sara, Sara, storms are brewin' in your eyes...whoa oh oh." The kids weren't impressed. She's very tall and has socks for feet.



I figured out Ella liked to color after I tried to make a grocery list and every page of my notebook had pencil scribble on it.It's all fair game.

Snack break.
I decided to bring the outside in. If we couldn't play outside, at least we could make stuff out of the snow. Yes, that's the bathtub. I found the cleanest, most untouched by even a bird's claw snow I could. It looked pure white and I thought, ok, when Ella eats this it should be fine. Then it melted and the tub was full of dirt. Black with dirt. The moral of the story....Don't eat white snow.