Storytime of the Northern Belle

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

47th, 48th, 49th, 50th, 51st sunday

We have been home (in the midwest) for a while now, and without internet so I kept taking our sunday photos and decided to just incorporate them all in one BIG blog post. So, in this post are photos from the past 5 sundays.

We are blessed enough to be home for about 6 weeks. Our next BIG event we get to share with everyone at home is the mini's 1st birthday. We will be celebrating with over 30 relatives at the lake, so exciting! But until then we will enjoy our lake time, cousin time, g&g time and for me some downtime and mornings of sleeping in while others care for my early risers (phew!). Hopefully we will get to see everyone some more while we are in the midwest.

Let me make one apology...we were busy traveling on their 47th sunday "home" so the one photo from that day isn't the best...but enjoy!

47 sundays

(travel day)

48 sundays

back to the midwest and time for some pool days!

while miss aubrey puts water in the bowl,

mister truman chooses to put himself in the bowl

(yes, he actually got this on his head all on his own)

49 sundays

photo with great-grandpa severson

clearly the kids were playing shy!

miss aubrey cuddling with g-uncle lonny

she knows how to win over the guys of the family...

mister truman playing with g-uncle lonny

he had him giggling!!!

50 sundays

boat day at the lake!

mister truman slept the entire time

miss aubrey slept some, but couldn't miss out on the action of her cousins

TUBING time!

clearly mister truman didn't care about any of the action.

51 sundays

miss aubrey wants to make sure I don't forget to pack her when we leave the lake...

mister truman loves hide and seek with his cousins!

all the cousins with "the playground"

bonus summer photos

hey ladies, check out my "six pack"

flower child

drool much?

miss a's favorite game, with her own special twist on it...

yes, she always puts her head down once you start, odd girl!

every time...NO lie!

hiding under the table

"oh no, aubrey WHAT are you doing"

"...sister, you must stop, oh I just can't watch"

love this smile!

nice mohawk dude

I swear he does NOT have lipstick on...maybe a popsicle remnant?

as you can tell we are having a blast being back in the midwest...hopefully we continue to visit with ALL of you often.

tata for now.

annie

Sunday, June 12, 2011

46 sundays

Our reality is back, so appropriately mister Truman is wearing his most recent "daddy shirt" - seems these mini's ALWAYS have a shirt about their daddy in their closet. (and yes, it's a rare event to have one about mommy...typical.)

Enjoy the photos from the 46th sunday home. They are starting to really show more and more of their own personalities. Both love to move everywhere, opposite places most of the time and if they ever are at the same toy it's a battle of the wills as to who will get to play with it! I know it is only going to get better. I'll take every moment...notice I didn't say every minute because I am positive there will be minutes of the day I want to disappear! ha.

Enjoy the photos, I'll add more "new tricks" in the next sunday's post. Need to make this one short since we are about to return to the midwest...LOTS of packing to go do!

Silly Time

See everyone soon.

Saturday, June 11, 2011

RnR (and 45th sunday)

So much can happen in 15 days...and below are just some of the photos to capture our time together. We made sure to try some of the mini's "1st's" as the family of four together and some of those included:

1. touching grass

(hated it)

2. swinging

(only smiles from mister truman, miss aubrey was sober but didn't seem to hate it)

3. leaving the country

(they made the customs officer crack a smile, good work mini's!)

4. 1st father's day together

(the mini's bought mikey a circular saw to celebrate...so he could finish his "to-do" list)

...we had some unexpected "1st's" too:

1. miss aubrey puking on her daddy

(they had some precious father/daughter time with many whispered stories)

2. mister truman getting his first goose-egg