I haven't shaved my legs in 2 months

but I think i will today.
maybe.
jeremy bought me some beautiful pink, red and white carnations last week,
aren't they pretty?!

and while we were sitting around the table at lunch on saturday
he and the kids started making up silly poems
here are a few of my favorites





























FROM JEREMY:

FROM SWEDE:

FROM INGRID:

and last but not least, FROM SOFIA:

I  hope you are surrounded by lovely people today :)
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Happy Valentines Day!

December Birthday Party

What to do, oh what to do, if you're turning 5 years old and your birthday is in December? Well, the birthday boy was 100% sure that Santa would show up at his party...and, he was right!

He was only a little apprehensive to sit on his lap

 Sofia was in awe that she was even in the same room as the big man, himself.

 And, she wasn't scared to sit on his lap

 This is Ingrid's natural smile (sarcasm)

Cousin Max's turn

 Sweden

Cousin Sadie, she loves pandas almost as much as Ingrid loves giraffes

 I'm pretty sure the rest of the kids thought they were way too old to sit on Santa's lap, but they were good sports :)

 I didn't even get any pics of the rest of the party..darn.  Jeremy's sister Mendy really know how to throw 'em!  We had so much fun hanging out with family and eating lots of food and decorating cookies, eating cake, basically stuffing ourselves as much as possible.  Hope you have lots of fun with your family this December!
xo-Danielle

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Now, i must go eat myself into a food coma ;)

xo-Danielle

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good bye october

Hope your October was amazing! I can't believe it's already November! 

we had a fun halloween this year Sofia was a lion

Ingrid has been a giraffe 2 years in a row.  she's a bit obsessed with giraffes

Swede was scary as all get out as a crazy cat lady.  I didn't mean to make her look SO crazy but, it is halloween, so we went with it ;)

all excited for trick or treating....or possibly getting really drowsy in Sofia's case

every year our neighboring town has a Pumpkin Walk.  The citizens all make up different elaborate scenes all made with pumpkins,  here we have, of course, ANGRY BIRDS

RICHARD SCARY

MISS SPIDER and her friends...i haven't actually read it, but my niece informed me it's a great book

here are my little girlies with my niece Meg

BAMBI, FLOWER, THUMPER aren't they adorable?!

Ingrid used to have an infatuation with GILLIGAN'S ISLAND so, we loved this one!

CALVIN AND HOBBES

WINNIE THE POOH

A ZOO and, yeah my kids are obsessed with most every zoo animal so, this was probably their fave

TANGLED

A CHRISTMAS STORY had 3 different scenes..the leg lamp was made of some sort of squash, haha- and the hair poking up on top of his head was the stem of the pumpkin

hope your october was as super awesome as ours was ;)  do you have any fun october traditions?? xo-Danielle