It has been fairly rainy and windy lately, which has made us lazy about getting out of the house, but we decided it was time (the kids and I decided anyway) to get out and go to the library for story time! They had fun reading and listening to stories…. and running around like silly…

I can’t tell you how much Elayna learns and grows when Jake’s family from Iowa come and stay in town for a stretch. It’s so much fun because they are with us from morning until bedtime for most of the days they are in town, and sometimes someone (or two) stay here. E soaks it…

Elayna really hasn’t wanted to sit and do a photo shoot, but since I am learning my new camera, I follow her around and snap some shots. Today I was singing to her while I was doing it and it seemed to work. She was much more willing to look at me when I was…

Just a couple of shots from our day. E was loving her new Carebears book (and I am secretly hoping it’s a gateway to all things Carebear – since I loved it as a kid). She was chatting while “reading” this book to herself and wanted no help from me. “Layna do it!” is becoming…

Don’t judge, but we just finally took our tree down this weekend! Haha! We love having the tree up, and found plenty of excuses to put off packing it away. Finally, we took a few last shots of it in the background and said goodbye for the season.