My good friend Stephanie was awesome and took pictures of the girls for me. She is an amazing photographer, I love them. Thanks Steph! You are so talented.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Temple
When I was 20 years old I have the opportunity to go live in Russia to teach English to little children. My time there was something that has changed the way I see things. I am so grateful for my time with the Russian people. I was so blessed to be able to get to know them. They will always have a place in my heart.
When I heard there was a temple being built in Ukraine it brought tears to my eyes because that meant they would have a temple close by and make it much more accessible. The people there would sacrifice so much to be able to make it to the Sweden Temple, which was the closest temple at the time. Some would be lucky to even make it once in their life. There was an elderly sister in our branch that had been saving her whole life to visit the temple. She had a jar at home collecting her ruebles. All this made me realize how blessed we are to have temples on the earth and even more grateful for temples that were close by. I am so happy for the many people that will be BLESSED by this temple.
Kyiv Ukraine Temple Cultural Celebration
Sunday, February 27, 2011
The Throne
CONQUERED!
After some tears, a whole lot of Resolve Carpet Cleaner, many loads of laundry, books galore and a bit of chocolate, Miss Abby is now a Big Girl! She loves to model her new princess panties from Grandma.
Way to go Abby!
It's a beautiful day.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
2 Months
Baby Kate is now 2 months old. The time has just flown by these past few months. She is growing up fast. We just love our little Katelyn. She is starting to smile lots and we are even getting a few laughs from her. Abby gets her to laugh quite a bit if she isn't mauling her. Little Kate has a really sweet temperament. We can't get enough of those cute cubby cheeks. She gets lots of big wet kisses at our house.
All clean after her bath
When she smiles we run for the camera.
She is not a huge fun of 'tummy time'.
Helper
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Global Warming
This friends, is global warming.
Shocking isn't it?
We thought it would be a mild winter this year in Northern Virginia. We are known to not get much snow here, and not many people are believing that anymore. Because we have not had much snow in the past (excluding 2010), people don't bother to get snow tires or chains. But added to that, many just plain don't know how to drive. All of this equals a complete disaster when it comes to snowflakes and people go nuts.
The place you really don't want to be during a snowstorm is on the road in DC. Cars 'slip slidin' away' and people stuck in traffic. This year, it took people 5-8 hours to drive less than ten miles. People were in gridlock, not even moving. Some decided to just ditch their cars, whether is was because they ran out of gas, got stuck, or just became fed up with the drive. Random cars were parked all over the in the road. It was a nightmare for a lot of people.
I do feel bad for those that were stuck in the nasty mess on the roads. But despite all the traffic every year, it sure is beautiful...
and can be really fun to play in...
(I have to do this someday.)
Abby had a wonderful time playing in the snow this year. She didn't want to come inside. She made two snowmen, and one of them was a baby one for Katelyn. She loved hanging around all the other kids in the neighborhood who were out of school because of it. She had a good time.
Abby and our neighbor, Marie.
One pretty sunset on the side of our complex
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