Anna and Sarah's portraits - December 2011

Anna enjoyed posing with these old-fashioned props.  She is growing up too quickly!

 

Sarah was more of a ham than any of our other babies at this age.  We got some very cute pictures.

March 2012

How cute is this?!

Mary wore sock curlers the night before we had family portraits taken.  She was very amused at the idea.

 Waffles and apples.

Spinach scrambled eggs on St. Patrick's Day.

I used Mary's birthday as an excuse to get to know some of the girls and their mothers from Mary's first-grade class.  We had a wonderful time having a fairy necklace treasure hunt.

Mary was so excited to have a party.

After Mary (and Sarah) and I went to the "Moms and Me" magic show event at school, Mary laughed her head off when she found these bunny ears at home.

We had fun at another field trip for joyschool (natural history museum).

Sarah loves to swing!

 Anna is growing up so quickly.

February 2012

Look who's standing!

 We did a lot of hanging out in February.

Mary and David went to "Dads and Doughnuts" at school.

 We went on a (small) family hike.

 And I love this makeshift skating rink (the turtle sandbox has many uses).

January 2012

January was a busy month for our family.  Grandpa Erickson passed away, and we had a funeral for him in the chapel near our house.  David gave a wonderful talk, and it was good to be with family.

The kids love the snow!

We went to the aviary with Tyson, Milo, and Faye.

Anna's loves joyschool, and Austin loves hosting joyschool so he can be part of the action.

Best buddies.

Sarah's hobby was crawling out of her pants.

Mary found it quite amusing.

We took a field trip for joyschool to the children's museum.

The kids enjoyed a trip to the air force museum.