AJ plays with a spoon

AJ finds joy in the little things. I call this 'AJ and the spoon'.

Easter at our house

The Easter Bunny hopped his way to our house again this year. Bringing along a bit of chocolate and cheer. This year we had some friends over to share Easter with.

We started with a nice Easter breakfast and some playing. Then got to go search for Easter eggs.

Here Samuel and Katie Jo are enjoying some fine reading. They have since read my entire Farside and Calvin and Hobbes collection.

Some good old fashion holiday play cooking was going on.

Here Emmy has found the family basket. It was a jumbo one for everyone.

Emmy got a bunny purse. What more could a little girl want? Besides easter eggs full of goldfish crackers that is.

That bunny never stood a chance.

Our friends are getting ready to hunt for eggs.

Emmy got a purse for Easter. It was hand made by Aunt Jenny. Emmy is using it to hold all her eggs this year.

Out hunting for eggs.

Phillip gets an egg.

There were eggs hiding everywhere


Even the bushes at edge hide a bounty.


Their Dad helps in the hunt.


Maija is searching for her eggs too.

AJ had fun too. Here is is sporting another Aunt Jenny original.


Here everyone has spread out their catch. What a bounty today.

Easter blossoms.

Solid Foods for AJ

We have been trying to figure out what AJ can eat. Here is one of our tries. One thing we have found is that he just likes to eat. It doesn't really matter what it is food, paper, shoes, ...

I just love the funny face here.

AJ has the best smiles.

It is hard to tell from the picture, but he attacked the cup.

Yum...

What can I say, we love to see his smiles.

Snowtime fun with Emmy

I walked into my office one day to find a sled sitting in the middle of the room. After a while one of my co-workers came by to explain. The sled had been given to him by another co-worker when he had small children. He was asked to pass it on when his children out grew it, giving it to someone else who needed it. So After having been passed around many times, Emmy gets a nice wooden sled.

We had enough snow in November to take Emmy around the house with the sled.

Daddy is making a snow angel.

We had some monster icicles.

AJ Pictures

When we did Emmy's two year old pictures we also got some more pictures of AJ.

Holding Daddy's finger

He has such long hair.

One baby is peaking out

The middle car is Daddy's and was made by Grandpa Hanks. The others are gifts from one of our friends in the area.

Big sister loves her AJ.

When you are this little taking pictures is tiring work.

Emmy's two year photos!

Here are some more past due pictures. These are some of Emmy's two year photos. We think they are pretty fun.

Hard at play

This set of pictures with her name are some of our favorites.

Painting Pumpkins

We usually aim to carve the pumpkins for Halloween, but with the new baby coming we already had our hands full. So this last year we used a marker.

Emmy was our main pumpkin artist.

Here she is examining the 'Emily' pumpkin
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All done with her work.

It really was a beautiful fall day.

Fall colors everywhere.