What I've been up to...

i'm so sorry i haven't updated our blog for a while.  time is just getting away from me this month.  i am frantically trying to finish my christmas present projects BEFORE christmas.  i still have 8 things to start/finish.  yikes!!!!  so, i have been avoiding the computer in order to make myself work on projects during most of my free time.  we're doing well here, just keeping busy.  instead of writing out some smiles, i'm just going to post some pictures.  amanda, the sleeping pictures are just for you!  :)

liberty on the phone with her cousin daniel in michigan

yep, they fell asleep on the floor together 

we're wearing our pirate mustaches at jackson's 5th bday pirate party

liberty playing a game at jackson's bday party

liam driving liberty around (and so it begins....)

my little pirate

reaghan & leila

early christmas presents from great grandma & papa

yes, she fell asleep across the stools...

my sweet girlies

our flexible niece anna

liberty's rag quilt & matching doll quilt

pigtailed girls!  (and libbs actually kept them in all day!)

yes, she really did fall asleep in the chair like this!!

little michigan girl

10 Smile Wednesday

yesterday morning i woke up and knew it was tuesday and that i needed to blog.  i even wrote down my smiles on a piece of paper and downloaded my new pictures.  the next thing i knew, i was going to bed and realized i still hadn't posted my smiles.  oops!  so here i am on wednesday with my smiles and LOTS of pictures.

1.  thanksgiving.  we had a fun time hanging out at jonathan's sister sarah's house and eating yummy food.

2.  packages in the mail.  always a fun thing.  we received two packages from my mom this week with random goodies plus late bday gifts for leila from her and my sister. 

3.  a family day.  on jonathan's day off monday we spent the day together with just the 4 of us.  we took the girls to the park, had lunch, rented a movie and just chilled at home together.  it was a really nice day.

4.  beach time.  last week we took the girls to the beach.  liberty loves to play in the sand.  and she's still scared of the water.  we're hoping for another nice day soon to go again.

5.  the reason for the above smile is because i wanted to get a one year picture of leila.  we came out with two that we love.  what do you think?

6.  a scrap piece of fabric + a silly family = lots of laughter. 

7.  making more headway on christmas gifts.  i finished another knitted gift this week and got a great start on another.  i also cut all the squares for liberty's rag quilt and started sewing some of them (we choose the ladybug fabric b/c "ladybug" is what jonathan calls liberty).  i'm feeling like MAYBE i will be able to finish before christmas.  i still have quite a bit to do, though.  a rag quilt for leila, black apple dolls for the girls, and 5 more niece/nephew gifts.  hmm...

8.  31 weeks of pregnancy and counting...

9.  this picture of liberty.  she decided she wanted to pick out her own clothes and dress herself.  interesting combination, eh?  she was so proud of herself!

10.  braids.  the other day liberty actually let me put a couple braids in her hair.  she looked sooooooo adorable, too bad she only kept them in for about 15 minutes :(.

11.  and one more smile for good measure.  yesterday leila started saying "woof" when asked what a dog says.  it's the cutest thing!!

and a couple extra pics for good measure...i'm not sure why libbs looks so frightened in the 2nd picture, but i thought it was a funny face.