out takes from mother/daughter brunch 2012.

All I have to say is, HAHAHAHAHA!

 Katie!  Ha!

Clara looks devilish in the next one!

 Teri!

 Me!

 Jess!

 Eek!

Donna Kom!  What are you doing in these next two!  Hahahaha!

Gosh...terrible!

 Hahaha!

Mother/Daughter brunch 2012.

We enjoyed another holiday mother daughter brunch this year!  Kathy graciously hosted all of us crazy women and children, and we had a ball!  We had delicious food, coffee, and conversation!  It is always so much fun to get together!  And with all the babes, it just makes sense to go to some one's house instead of a restaurant.  So thanks again Kathy for letting us invade your home!

Here are a few pics of the day!

Here are all the small babes, Clara, Rowan, Amelia, Elliott, and Jayden.

 Mom and Em!

 Jess and baby Ellie!

 Donna and Kathy!

 Katie!

 The Waldon girls!

 Teri and Amelia!

 Kathy and Amelia!

 All us friends with our babes (sans Rowan, Ezra, and Knox!).

 There's Rowan!

 My child takes great pics!

 Rowan wasn't really in the mood for pics either!

 Cute one of Em, but once again. Clara didn't pull it together!

 Love this one of cheeks McGee smiling!

 The Claiborne girls (and Jayden!)!

 Clara loves a good piano!

 Mom at her finest!

 The Grandmas!

 Sarah and Jayden!

 The Tyler boys showed up at the end to pick up Jess and Elliott, and Ezra got to show off his recently lost tooth!  He looks way too grown up!

 The wonder baby Ellie!

 At the end of the date, Clara and Jayden had a ball pushing and pulling Amelia's car seat.  They were cracking up!

Thanks again girls for a fun holiday tradition!  Each year gets better and bigger than the last!

PS - Kathy, Clara and I left your basement a mess!  I'm so sorry!  Next time I'll try not to be such a heel!

Clara sings Christmas.

Here is Clara singing many of her favorite Christmas songs.  My dad took this video on Christmas Day, 2012.  Hilarious!

playing in the snow.

We have had snow since Christmas.  It hasn't been much, and it melts each day, but for the last two mornings we've woken up to white snow covering the ground.  Yesterday, Clara begged to go out in the snow.  But we never made it outside to play.  So today, we made sure to get out there.  I wanted to see how she'd react to it.

So we walked in the yard in our boots first.  Then I picked up a snowball and showed her.  She had to hold it next, and then she dropped it.  Then I ate a little bit of snow and offered her some to eat too.  She couldn't believe what it was like when i touched it to her lips.  She spit and made sounds like she was completely disgusted!  It was hilarious.  Then, Clara and I got Gwen on the leash and wandered up and down our street a few times.  She loved it!  And I loved how she talked to Gwen.

"Gook Gwennie!  No!"  (Look Gwennie, snow!).  And if we walked and Gwen walked in the street for a moment, Clara had to remind Gwen that we don't walk in the street!  And if Gwen tangled her leash around us, Clara would giggle and say, "Gwennie!".  And Clara loved when Gwen got a little crazy and tugged a little on the leash and pulled her along.  It was a pretty fun time!  Not to mention the amazing dose of vitamin D we all got!  It felt great!

Saying, "Cheethe!"

 The tail end of saying, "Cheethe" for the camera.