just a couple random pictures :)

these make me smile.

my girls love onions. fresh onions, cooked onions, green, yellow, purple or white onions, so here we have

'onion rings'.

(ps, those are small green onions that they were eating off their fingers like other kids eat olives)

jammy time is always a favorite too. naturally rana is super-cooperative :)

smile and have a great day!

bike ride

jan 21

afton was cracking me up the other day riding her new bike... she'd watch me the entire way down the sidewalk rather than look where she's going :) but she didn't crash so i guess we're okay :) (it wasn't as bad in this video as the first few times, here she actually glances forwards a couple times)

and here is paul's favorite picture.

16th december

we went to the arboretum last month with our best friends... aren't we cute? i want [this picture] bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger!

--AFTON

christmas dresses

for everyone who missed the christmas dresses (and ps, rayna's hair is in pigtails, it's not really that straight :)

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