Creston February Trip

We try to take a monthly trip to spend a weekend in at my Grandpa's ranch. The girls enjoy the animals, Grace loves to see her Great Grandpa, and Gunnar and I enjoy the down time. Well, Gunnar usually gets put to work, but his cell phone doesn't work, so it is a different kind of work that he normally does.

It was unusually cold the week we were up there. The girls looked really cute all bundled up. Although Elizabeth had a little trouble walking with so many layers on.

New Swing

On one of their recent daddy daughter days, Gunnar bought Elizabeth a new swing for the backyard. Grace already had one, but it was too much of a big kid swing for Elizabeth to use. Elizabeth LOVES her new swing, and Grace is great about helping push her.

The best part was Ellie's little voice saying "wheee, wheee, wheee" as she was swinging. SO CUTE!
After she got tired of pushing her, Grace moved on to her own swing and I pushed them both. They thought it was so fun to say hi to each other as their swings got closer to each other.

After swinging for quite a while, we went out to the front yard, as Gunnar hadn't mowed for a while so the weeds were getting kind of high. Grace likes to pretend that she is Ruth (from the Bible) gleaning in Boaz's field. The lighting was beautiful and with Elizabeth's blond curles and yellow dress she looked like a little beam of sunshine sent to us from heaven.

That would be a little sunshine beam who doesn't like to have dirt on her fingers.


Oh how I love spring time!

His Aunt Rocks!

I am not sure if it egotistical to buy your nephew a shirt touting what a wonderful Aunt he has. Well, my nephew David looks adorable in his shirt. He is such a cutie though, he could probably wear anything and look adorable. Grace loves her little cousin and had to take a turn. She really is good with babies. And lastly, with Maria, who is his Aunt, although she goes by Tia. He may need to change his shirt to "My Aunts Rock".

Bath time fun

The window where taking your picture while in the bath is so small, I thought I should take advantage to get some cute pictures of Elizabeth. She is in the stage where we are enjoying bubble hair sculpturing. Although she loves her bath time, as always she goes through a large range of facial expressions and hair styles.

I call that one "cheese face"

I call this one "unicorn head"

"Old lady perm" meets with "Amazed face"

"Faux hawk" meets "grumpy face"

And finally a little washcloth peek-a-boo.

With that, we wish you all, happy bathing!

Random days

Here are some recent, random, don't really go with anything pictures from our house lately.

Elizabeth has been loving bananas lately.
She also loves shoes or Ooo-sh as she calls them. She loves her shoes, Grace's shoes and even my shoes.
Gunnar and Grace finally finished the Bible story book they have been working through. It was long, but their faithfulness paid off and now they are onto the next book. I am so thankful for the wonderful, godly, caring daddy that Gunnar is to our girls. They (and I) are lucky to have him.
After some car sickness, we finally turned Elizabeth's car seat around to face forward. She seems to like it, and I like being able to see her in my rear view mirror. Especially when she is sleeping like a little angel.
Sister love: these two just love being together, no matter what they are doing. Even if it includes petting a stinky dog in their Pajamas. :)

Valentines Day

Gunnar and I aren't really into Valetines day. Probably becuase we both fall into the "it is a holiday made up by the card company" camp. Also, becuase if falls in the third week of February, we are usually partied out and towards the bottom part of the budget for the month from our anniversary and Grace's birthday. So we don't tend to do a lot. We did however have a church thing the night before, which was fun.
So Valentines day, I had a meeting with some girls from church so Gunnar and the girls had a daddy daughter date. I think they went shoe shopping. I took a few pictures of them before they left.

Oh and Grace had her toast in the shape of a heart. What says festive like that? Thankfully, when you are 5, the little things are big things.

Extreme Weather, San Diego style

A few weekends ago there was a severe weather advisory in San Diego and Valley Center was abuzz. They said it could snow as low as 1000 feet (our house is at 1500 ft) so this was quite exciting. As usual, the storm was completely underwhelming and although we got a little hail and rain at night, it blew over pretty quickly. Grace had heard the forecast and was really excited about the possibility of snow, so she enjoyed running around and picking up the hail that had collected in the wheelbarrow and running around examining the frost in the morning.


This last picture is there for two reasons:
1) I know Dick enjoys a good picture of our dogs.
2) I thought the ground would look a little whiter if the black dog was there for contrast. I think it achieved the goal rather nicely.