Jan in a nutshell

Mia and Liv are really starting to play together very well.  They love waking up and seeing each other (most of the time) and it's the kind of sisterly love that melts a mama's heart!

 Brunch with the Lauralton Ladies....and Luke and Gabe

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Liv LOVES meatballs

Liv talking more

Mia "the helper" making cookies

The jumping twins

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Christmas 2011

More pics and wording to come....playing around with the new iMac right now......

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Jones Family Tree farm

Food, beer, saws and a beautiful Sunday afternoon.....sounds good to me!

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The photo session from H - E - double hockey stick

the photographer was a half hour late, Liv was super tired and cranky and Mia got 2 timeouts.....but the picks came out pretty good considering!

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Thanksgiving at the Schmedlins

Couldn't have asked for better weather!

 Turkey Wars!

 A little secrete between Liv and Charlie....

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Thanksgiving with the Tonon

We hired a photographer for the day after thanksgiving to take Christmas pics of all the cousins together.  My fingers are crossed that we'll get a couple of good ones!  The kids were all ready to go at 10am,  but with the crews on the streets picking up tree limbs from the freak Oct storm, the photographer was about a half hour late and my kids began to melt down.  Here are some pics in happier times at around 10am.....

 After a nap for the girls and a break for Mommy we headed back to the Tonon house for ravioli making.  Mia had a ball making and then eating the traditional ravioli.  Liv was still semi-cranky so I hung with her most of the night.  I think she is teething and maybe getting a little sick, so she's not 100% right now.  I take her for her 18 month check up on Monday, so we'll see what the doctor has to say then....

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Cable and Internet as of 4:30pm yesterday!

Yale vs. Brown 2011

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POWER...no cable/internet, but POWER

A Halloween to rememeber

My last 2 weeks in a nut shell....I had the flu, then I got pink eye, a historic storm that force us to cancel my 30th birthday brunch, our lights have been out for 5 days and counting, and Halloween was cancelled!  These are 2 weeks we're going to for sure remember! 

oh well...Happy Halloween

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Mia's preschool Halloween Party!

Mia and her preschool friends put on an amazing Halloween concert for the parents.  Mia did sooo great and was the star of the show.  She knew all the words and the dance moves.

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Click here to see a Video of snack time

And after the concert and some trick or treating around the gym they had snack time.  Here's Mia (in the middle) with her besties Louissa (Clifford on left) and Lizzie (lion on right).  Mia was up in the air about what she wanted to be....actually at one point she just wanted to be "Mia."  After seeing the Dora Halloween special where Dora dressed as a Bee, Mia decided she wanted to be a "Dora Bee."  So we whipped out her costume from last year and there you have it.

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Liv helping Mommy with the laundry

Videos!

Classic Liv playing the "where did it go?" game

Mia holding Lila at her Baptism Reception

You can't beat lollipops....or as some say lollicakes...

Click here to check out some more fun videos.  There are some random pics mixed in there and they are pics Mia has taken.  There were a lot I deleted, but some cute ones I had to keep for memories sake....like the pic she took of the dvd player and her feet.  This was actually taken on her way to her first day of preschool.  She took like 900 pics of the dvd player and her feet in the 20 minute ride to school.

in a nutshell

As you can tell by my previous post I've been a little preoccupied with work lately.  I also pass out early when I sit down at night and then proceed to not sleep well and wake up around 5-5:30am.......because Jeter barks like mad at our paper delivery guy.  I'm not complaining, just making excuses as to why I can't find the time to keep up with my posts.  So enough about me and onto my precious little baby girls.  I keep trying to get a good pic of the both of them and I just seems IMPOSSIBLE!  I just want that 1 pic to keep in a frame forever.....so I'll keep on trying.  Here's the past couple of months in a nutshell

Speaking of nutshells.  This is a pic of the morning before Mia's 1st day of school.  Greg and I knew we couldn't give Mia peanuts for snack because someone in her class has a peanut allergy, but no one mentioned we couldn't give her almonds.  We got "talked to" after her 1st class and they said we can't bring any kind of nut.....don't you think they should have just specified this in the flyer they sent about not bringing peanuts into class?

 Random Morning moment...

 A loving hug...

 ...turned into sibling assault

 Lila's Christening.  My camera battery bit the dust, but I managed to snap a few pics of the day.  I took videos that I will download hopefully tomorrow.

 Mia rode with Lila from the church to the reception...

 ....and Paulie wanted to ride with Liv!

 Karabin Farms....one of our favorite things to do in the fall

 Our little Hercules was determined to pick up the pumpkins

 what;s better than this?

 

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The Modern Family

So this morning at breakfast Mia was playing with her breakfast and made a family out of star fruit.  With all different sized star fruit she made a daddy, mommy, Mia, baby Liv, and a Jeter…..she then added a raspberry to the Mommy star fruit and said…..oh and here’s Mommy’s computer.  I think she’s trying to tell me something……