Pictures for Grandma Rohde

I love to swing HIGH!!!

My silly cheesy smile


This is one of my mama's new favroite pictures of me :)

I'm a busy girl, I LOVE watching everyone from the top of the slide!

Still watching...

More cheesy smiles!

I get very excited when it comes to sliding!

I am a great climber, too!

I'd rather smile at people instead of the camera.... it makes my mama crazy!

When I'm at home I like to slide down my slide on my "beddy" but at the park I go down on my "boooooooty"

I love you Grandma, and I miss you too!

Tonight while we were in the car I said to my mama "Rohde... pray" and we prayed for you.

Gotta go! See you soon Grandma!

This is the story of the transformation of a $2.50 Target tea-towel. I love the Target dollar spot. It lures me in every time with its strategic placement right at the front of the store. I find all kinds of great things for school, stuff to satisfy the crafty nature in me and for Naomi. A month or so ago I was perusing the bins when I spotted a pack of tea-towels embroidered with a heart smack dab in the middle. The wheels in my head began to turn as to how I could use these sweet little towels to create an addition to my sweet little daughter's wardrobe. Upon further inspection, I decided that the towel was just the right size to make her a skirt.

At first I just stitched the sides up, created a waistband and called it good. But a quick trip to JoAnn's (another weakness of mine) gave me another idea. I stumbled across some cute V-Day fabric that was on sale for $2.50 a yard. How could I resist? So I chopped the bottom off the original skirt, shortened the waist and made a ruffle for the bottom. Plus, I had more than enough material left over to make a headband.

Now, I don't even like Valentine's Day. If you know me well, you know I don't even like pink for that matter. But when it comes to stuff like this, and the sweetest baby ever... I just can't resist!

WO 1.31.10

Last Friday, my school had its annual Sled-a-Thon. We had a blast! There were sleds everywhere and the snow was flyin'!

WO 1.24.10

Okay, okay... I know I'm a few days late - again. But I got sick, and getting up a post has been put on the back burner.

Two weekends ago we got to spend some time with some dear friends of ours, Jon and Kristin. In just six short weeks they will be welcoming their sweet baby into the world. At their twenty week ultrasound they were told some difficult news about little Baby LeVan's health, but we have faith that the Lord has already healed this precious baby. I can't wait to meet this little red-headed miracle, that will hopefully make an appearence on St. Patrick's Day.

The forecast for the weekend was forty! I was so excited because it would be cold, but not too cold. Well Saturday came and the thermometor said forty, but it most certainly felt like 20. Poor Kristin is not a lover of the cold, but she toughed it out and we got some cute pictures!

Jon and Kristin, thanks for all the laughs, food and braving the frigid weather. We love you guys!

WO 1.17.10

Last Monday morning (after my baby let me sleep until 9:15!) a peek through my front window revealed that everything outdoors had been covered with a beautiful, sparkling, spikey coating of frost. I could not wait to grab my camera and get outside. I poured Naomi a bowl of Cheerios, threw on my boots and coat and I was on my way. Everything looked amazing, like it had been frozen in time. After ten minutes, my fingers were numb and I had a little girl banging on the back door with one of her Little People, but I had a camera full of pictures! Enjoy!

WO 1.11.10

This girl loves her bananas! She's B-A-N-A-N-A-S for bananas. Within the past few weeks she's abandoned her need to have her "nanas" cut up and now she is able to eat them like the little monkey that she is.

** And YES, her eyes really are that blue... lucky little lady!

52 weeks of Photos

It has been nearly four months since I last updated my blog. No excuses, I just haven't felt like doing it. Instead I've been spending time with the sweetest baby on the planet, cleaning my living room 296 times a day and reading Go, Dog Go! every 37 minutes.

I know that a lot of people have decided to blog 365 pictures and while I'd like to do that, I have to be honest with myself and know that it's never gonna happen. I just can't commit to doing it every day. However, 52 weeks of pictures? I think I can handle that. And does it really matter that I'm already a week behind? Most certainly not.

Here is the collage for the week of 1.4.10.

I went to bed Thursday night full of anticipation. The weatherman was predicting a snowstorm. There are few words that are sweeter to a tired teacher's ears. And the cherry on top? The possibility of a three day weekend. Well, my prayers were answered and I got to spend Friday with Jason and Naomi. We decided to bundle up our baby girl and take her for a ride on the sled. She loved it, as long as the sled was moving. We weren't outside for more than 25 minutes, but it was so much fun to watch Naomi laugh and try to keep herself upright in her snowsuit.