christmas bubbles

so there's lots of fun things i should post about christmas, and i probably will, after i get home from arizona, but in the meantime, this is my favorite video from christmas morning, afton dancing with packing bubbles. i hope it makes you smile too :)
ps, sorry it's sideways, i'll fix it when i get home and can edit :)

the girls in the last week or two

rayna being silly (she also likes to pop the bink out and watch it fly, generally with a giggle)

afton posing by the christmas tree, angelic :)rayna and the infamous peanut butter sandwich (and her new favorite hat, mine, actually)
afton loves playing dominoes while rayna's napping, she called this one "planets"
i thought the title was marvelous, though i did help her make the circles

another patented rayna-cheesy grin

and last, but certainly not least, afton's playing violin on her arm :) & i LOVE it

a few odds and ends

the christmas tree in all it's splendour, or at least with most of the ornaments still on for a few minutes at least, well til the girls come back in the room :)...

and why i don't ever get my nails done (part 1--after wednesday night yw where i had them done "professionally"):

(ps, that's a snowman and a christmas tree, respectively)

and 24 hours later, seriously folks, that's how long these didn't last (part 2):

the news you've all been waiting for!

updated the pics, these are the better/bigger ones, hopefully everyone can see better now :)

feet

face

profile

(top view, head to feet) any questions?

lol with afton

1) last week after church:

i like red hair. when i get bigger, i gonna pull out all my hair and put on red hair instead. then when i bigger and bigger, i gonna have blue hair.

2) while playing on her car:

(honk) that car made a bad choice (honk) ---and i seriously DON'T know where that one came from

3) after finishing dinner and ice cream for dessert:

i need more ice cream (mom: no, that's enough for today) but mom, i need some energy, i need ice cream so i can have energy.

(that was funnier in person than it seems to be when i wrote it, but oh well, still makes me smile, that's my girl after all :)

too much what???

this is my hand. on my first finger i have a blister, can you see it? yeah... i'm still not sure whether this is funny, sad, or some weird combination... but it's from crocheting. i've been making little baby blankets, and things, nothing too important or that has to be finished immediately, but i was in the mood, so i've been crocheting every spare minute, and by the end of saturday, i couldn't really bend my thumb anymore, and i had this little blister. what a weird-o!!!