Ania's 2 year old pics, and family pictures

Eeeewwwwwwww!!!

Conversation with Alina

Me: Did you see the baby sheep?
Alina: Those aren't baby sheep, Mommy, those are sweeties.

Hi Aunt Rhoda

Mom taped a video greeting from the girls for Aunt Rhoda while she was here. I don't think the fact that she bribed them with fudgecicles diminishes the sentiment in any way.

A Contrast at Disney

Vittoria's reaction to Tigger


versus Katie's and Mary's

Vittoria the Singer

Vittoria likes to sing. Here are some of her favorites that she sang while driving to and from Katie's recent soccer tournament.

Conversations with Mary

Vittoria, water does not speak English. Water speaks water language - sign language.

Halloween and new skirts

Alina wanted to be a necklace for Halloween. She said she would also wear a crown and be a princess. I failed miserably at the necklace portion (I even forgot to get one for her to wear with her costume!) Here she is at home, where we practiced putting on the costumes a few weeks ago. She was brave enough to wear the crown when we were at home.

Here is Ania the first time I put on her costume. She hated it!

She grew to like it after a few minutes.

Alina wanted some "dancing skirts", so Grandma was awesome enough to make some for both of the girls. They love them!

Here they are with their skirts on and some masks they made at Miss Jen's house.

We made a gingerbread Halloween house. That was fun. Ania liked the black frosting.

Alina also liked it, but gets much less messy while eating.

Here is Alina helping Grandma finish Ania's last skirt. They each have 3 beautiful dancing skirts now! Alina wears them every day. I had a parent teacher conference with her preschool last week, and when I told Alina I saw her teacher, the first thing she asked was "But did you tell her I got a new skirt??"

Here Alina is helping Tata rake the yard.

Here we are getting ready to go trick or treating! Alina chose a different dress for the actual Halloween event. She was not brave enough to wear the crown OR the shoes, but at least we talked her into wearing the dress. She did try to tell us right before we went trick or treating that she didn't want to be a princess anymore, she wanted to be Alina.

There was a parade in Little Ryan's neighborhood, so here we are getting ready for the parade.

Trick or treating. Ania loved that.

She got tired, though, so I got to carry her quite a bit. :)

Conversation with Alina

Mommy, when the wind blows me over, the cricket's going to put me in his mouth.

Conversations with Vittoria

Strawberries hurt my feelings.

Swearing In and Other Mumbo

Here we are before the swearing in ceremony.  I had the skirt at top made here.  Most people did.

I thought it would be fun to be local and wear a little hat thing.

The first lady was the guest speaker.  You'll notice that she has the same type of hat that I do.  I think this means that I know how to be sophisticated in any country, in any circumstnace.  You should not be surprised.

This is my house.  The window on the right is the window for my living room.  the window on the left is the window for the guest room, right now a closet.  My room is in the back of the house.  The building on the left is my outdoor kitchen.  I use it as a garage.  I don't cook with wood or coal like they do but a gas stove.  That thing on my porch is a goat.  Taking a little nap.

The village chief gave me a chicken.  I was tres excited.  It wasn't until  I got home that the chicken isn't the interesting part of the picture but all the people in the background that is funny.  They are curious.

Pregnant goat.  They make me laugh.

Sunset 1.  I should have taken photography lessons with Molli and Mom.

The same sunset.  I couldn't decide which I liked better.

And the sunset again but I tried to get the beautiful moon at the same time.  How's that for a lighting predicament?

This is an awesome tree at the res.  The birds have these round nests.  They are bright yellow.  I'm not sure if you can see it well enough, but those things hanging are nests and they fly in upside down.

The res.  Where the birds are.  That thing at the bottom right?  That's me!! :)  I don't stop to take photos.  I just click and ride.  Does the res remind you of Pueblo?  Yeah, me, too...

This is my front yard.  Sometimes cows come and say hello.

It's green here. 

Well, That's enough for now. Post lots!!

At the Zoo

Ania's Room

Ania's room is finished..... I think she likes it. She took me into her room to show it to me.....

Fishing the Big Horn

Dad won a few nights at a cabin and took me, Josh and Jay fishing on the Big Horn River in Montana.

This is the kind of boat we used to drift down the river.

We all caught quite a few fish.




Jay and I caught two at once.

Jay caught two at once by himself.

This is where we stayed.

Thanks, Dad!