Little Helper

Loreli is a really good helper. Well, when I say helper I really mean that she is good at getting into whatever I am doing at the moment. Yesterday mornings activity involved making bread and of course she participated. 

Here she is so sweet and clean.

  

And here she is after somehow flour exploded everywhere which she couldn't resist sampling.

  

 When it's all done, she just kicks back and admires her work.

Oh and here is an update on the belly.

Have a fab day!

Birthday Fun

I recently passed the 26th anniversary of my birth.

 Katy had a good time using her new cake decorating tools.

A large box came via FedEx, and what was in that box?

 

Another box, but not just any box; a beautiful, handmade, hand carved, walnut box.

For those of you less familiar with westerns or great American hero's, this is Clint Eastwood from The Outlaw Josie Wales and was carved by hand by Jack.

The box alone was amazing but the great thing about boxes, is that they open up and usually contain other things.

Two 44. cap and ball revolvers.  Aren't they beautiful.  Cap and ball means that they don't shoot bullets but you load them like you would load a muzzleloader.  Very cool. 

It's never too early to start an interest in firearms.

Winter Fun

Winter has finally come to North Dakota.  I know it was foolish to hope that it would last like it has been, but a part of me really hoped it would.

We finally have clothes for the littlun' appropriate for the winter climate.  It makes it difficult to move for a stubby-apendaged, amature walker to be in really poofy clothes but she didn't mind.

The best part of playing in the snow, is the hot chocolate afterwards.  Loreli quite agrees.

It has a doodle!

IT'S A BOY!  Katy had an appointment today and to our surprise she was farther along than we had thought.  She is 20 weeks and 4 days and so they did the full ultrasound.  These things kind of creep me out but here you go. 

 

 Here is a profile shot

 

A foot

 The goods

feet and a hand

And the creepy clay-mation face

White Winter Wedding Wonderland World, Wiskers?

 For some reason this family can't seem to shake the winter weddings.  Sorry I guess.  Katy and I set a bad trend in motion.  It was a bit brisk and I did make myself sick trying to create ice figures for the reception but it all turned out quite splendid, the reception that is.  The ice things were a disaster. Not that they killed anyone they just didn't work, at all.  Sigh.

You can see that Loreli enjoyed the treats at least as she sucked all the white chocolate off of a pretzel.

 The colors were grey and turquoise-ish and everyone did really well getting ties and shirts to match, but then everyone kept their coats on so you can't really tell.

 Macyjo was getting chilled thus requiring some bear hugging.

 It was entertaining watching them trying to move around like this.  Did you ever see The Mighty Ducks when the coach ties the whole team together and tries to make them skate "as one"?  I think the hockey team would have won a race against these three.  Now if their goalie was wearing a wedding dress I wouldn't want to make any bets, but then if their goalie was wearing a wedding dress it would have been a different kind of movie all together.

and another one bites the dust, or snow.  Mandy, you're up.  You have a nine year lead on the next in line.  But NO WINTER WEDDING!

Photo Shoot!

While in the Valley for the wedding Mysha was swell enough to once again photograph Loreli as well as our family and the whole family.  There were some really good pictures but we only have the ones of this cute thing.

Who says you need hair to be super cute?