Anna gets musical

Anna's on her feet.

Anna is one today!

Sisters

Big sister Ellie is helping little sister Anna look outside through our deck doors.

Christmas '09

It's an annual Christmas tradition for us to play Risk, and this year again, Jenny defeated the 3 guys.
This was Anna's first Christmas, and she was all decked out in red.
Ellie employed her active imagination to build a camel. The frame is a quilt rack, and the stick is the camel's head.


Anna's new skill is her "snort."

Ellie's New Hat

Today Ellie got the notion that our tea cozy would make a great hat--who could argue?

Rich and Randee Erickson were out for a Seminary Board meeting and joined us and Tim and Jenny and the kids for lunch. Ellie and Anna took to "Uncle Rich and Auntie Randee" right away.

Randee is showing Ellie pictures of her new grandson Jakob.

Ellie kept Randee busy playing games, and later got Rich to read her a book. Anna didn't want to miss what was going on.