Goodbye to the Book of Faces... Hello 2014

Hello real life. Where have you been? Oh you have been here the whole time while I was looking at Facebook? Bummer... guess we have some catching up to do.

 Our new years celebrations included a lot of fun games with our Anderberg cousins and their friends (Thank you for inviting us a long, we had a blast!), then this morning we had lunch with our Calkins cousins and went to see the eagles at Lake Cour de laine. What a great way to start the new year!

Personality reveal

Aren't pictures interesting things? I especially love the photo booth. I think it's a great way to capture someone's personality in 45 seconds.  You say "Make a _______ face". There isn't enough time to plan something, you just do the first things that comes to your head. If this strip from our Mommy Daughters date isn't proof of that, I don't know what is....

living at a convent

Our Andrea is here for a month (again, she was here in October too, we are so spoiled). She stayed with a family friend last month. This month she is staying in a convent. I am trying really hard not to say that every time I tell someone that she is here, but for some juvenile reason, it's really funny to me. Really funny.

The awesome things about convents is that they have gardens. This one also has a beautiful waterfall that was constructed in memory of a Sister who passed away. We had a great time walking around the grounds, but it was so cold we didn't last long.  This is the best pic I got of the kids... apparently it wasn't  a 'smile at the camera' kind of day...