Fishing at Lost Lake

Walking down the trail to go fishing.


Sweet fishing spot.


Getting worms on...


Yup. Worm on.


Blurry pic of the one that got away...

Hanging out at the lake.

Sweet Sisters...

...here are the items they picked out at the toy store with Grandpa Jack's Christmas money (Vivian's is a bow and arrow so they can play Narnia and Sabine's is a "potholder" loom).



Just a sweet shot. Sometimes it seems they spend a good deal of the day bickering about things...it's nice to remember that they can be so very lovey, too!

We've been keeping busy at home and out, will post more about our active life soon! :)

Sisters

These photos aren't great because I wanted to kind of sneak and take them...didn't want to interrupt what Sabine and Vivian were doing...just being sweet. They were actually drinking the Emergen-C (I had prepared for me...) in one cup with two straws, on the front porch...it was really cute. I love that even though they are 3.5 years apart, they have these moments of closeness and sharing.

Reading, dressup, sister snuggles

Sabine had us write down words for her to read, once she read them we had to draw a picture of them...sometimes harder than you might think! The girls are still loving dressing up. We had a nice morning together, our first cloudy day (after about 3 weeks of sunshine!) so it was a good day for snuggling under a blanket on the couch.

 
 
 
 

It's been a while...

And as you can see, we've been busy!




This was a photo technique Sabine called "Falling Sky" -- Bret and I called it "Paint all Over" -- but the results were interesting. Afterwards, we found a cool site: jacksonpollock.org where you can make "splatter" paintings on your desktop. Sabine spent a fair bit time there, too.


This is an old one (Sabine still has both her front teeth!), I think it was from Vivian's birthday.

Random photos from this fall and winter

For sharing Bret with the team for 12+ weeks, Sabine and Vivian got flowers at the Swimming and Diving team banquet (so did Carolyn). Sabine and Vivian also picked out their "special outfits" to look pretty at the dinner.


Chirstmas tree "hunting" photos. We got our permits from the Forest Service and went out with the Klomparens clan. We found a tree that had been cut, but left on the ground (so yeah, it's a little Charlie Brown-ish, but just right for us!).



Sabine getting ready for her second ice skating performance as a Snowflake in The Grinch on ice...pretty darn cute. And can you believe I put all those curls in her hair? It holds a curl about as well as mine does (or doesn't). Thank God for hairspray!