Trash Day

Emma and I went to a River Clean Up project today.  She was pretty excited about picking up garbage.

 The best part was getting to use these trash pickers.  She has pretty good fine motor skills!  No candy wrapper or cigarette butt was getting by her.

We came home and rewarded Quinn with some swinging since she didnt get to go.  I'm flying........

Oh love the sun and a breeze.

First time she has kept pigtails in.  Adios.

I said, look my way Quinn and she said "cheeeeese".  Must have learned that from Emma.

Going down the slide.

Buster enjoying a nice cup of tea.

 

Princess Party

Happy Birthday Lola.  Emma's first birthday party was a Princess Party. Lots of dress up and tiara decorating.  Also a face painter.  And Emma was pretty excited about the chocolate covered marshmellows with sprinkles.

Lola is telling Emma to look at the camera.  Never got a good one of both of them.

 In front of the castle cake.  This mom was pretty creative with the decorating too.  Ribbons tied to a string for the table decorations.

Someone else likes chocolate covered marshmellows.

Emma getting her face painted.  A princess mask (dont ask me).

Finished product with the tiara she decorated!

 

 

Happy Birthday Lola.

Grandpa Kenny and Grandma Sandy visited.  Not good about taking pictures, but here is one of Grandpa and Emma at the Botanical Garden.

Lots of beautiful orchids, but not so much of smiles.

A couple weeks ago we saw a 3D movie about bugs at the Natural History Museum.  We left about halfway through the 22 minute movie.  Too scary when the preying mantis bit the head off of her mate.

Answering phones and checking emails at REI.

Road Trip (or Plane Trip)

Waiting patiently at the San Diego airport for our flight to Denver.

On our first plane. She yelled 'blastoff" when the plane took off.

We awoke to 3-4 inches of new snow and it was dumping while we were sledding.   Fun!!

Trying to catch snowflakes.

Weeeeee.  We went sledding when it was 3 degrees out too, but for some reason I didnt get any pictures :)

Cousin Elizabeth took Emma to the Y where she works for a dip in the kiddie pool.

If we were outside she was in the snowbank picking up snow. 

Emma watching Aunt Deb practice the french horn.  She was very entertained by it.

Cousin Carter is here!

 

Emma was super excited to see snow when we stopped to eat on the way from Minneapolis to Duluth.  She must have yelled snow 50X before she fell asleep on the 2 hour drive.  And it was about 7 degrees here when we stopped!

 

Uncle Dean entertaining Emma & Carter with storytime.

 

Another story night with Uncle Dean.

Testing out Uncle Deans warm hat.  Grandma Sandy made her the nice cozy sweater she is wearing.

This is how we entertained ourselves in the Denver airport on our layover.  A lot of trips on the people mover. 

 

What greeted us when we landed in MN.

What greeted us when we landed in SD for home!

Art

It takes some concentration to play games on the Ipad.

We went to the Childrens museum with Grandma this week.  Played a lot and did a little art.  Emma is making a pizza out of clay.  Quinn is mostly trying to eat it.

Budding artist.

We pulled the tape off when we got home.   Looks pretty good.  I forgot to take the "after" picture.

Lunch at IKEA, mmm lingonberry drink.  She did like it she is just making a funny face.  Look for bunkbed pictures soon!

 

For the Birds

Guess who got some new binoculars for Christmas?

It was a little chilly this morning when we took Buster around the block for some birdwatching.

 

Brave.  Thankfully she didnt fall off the top when she crawled up there too.

 Higher, higher....higher!

Stamping.