birthdays

So here are pics from my birthday. Everyone was here so I had a wonderful time.

Aaron reading with Cousin Matt.


Stella reading with Aunt Millie and Cousin Will.

Stella had a little lamb

And his name is Aaron. Here he is wearing his girlfriend Lily's hat. Turnabout is fair play so he let her borrow some pj's. She put that plastic thing in her mouth on her own though. Hilarious.



Lily as baby fishmouth.

more birthdays

Well i spent my birthday literally surrounded by family. Everyone on the immediate Barnhart side of the family was in town save Sarah (who is in Salt Lake) and it was wonderful. Year 36 started out great so I have high hopes for the rest of 2009. Gpa snapped all the pictures so I'll post when I get them from him.

Anyway, today we went to a friends birthday party at this indoor play space with inflatables for the kids. They were EXHAUSTED when we left.




We gave her this balloon just to get her out to the car. Then she fell asleep holding it. It was adorable.

With thanks to Vane!

It finally got cold here last week. I'm talking like 25 degrees during the day - not that we can complain with the week the midwest and the northeast had but it was pretty cold. So we were finally able to break out the mittens Auntie Vanessa sent us a while ago. The babies even left them on!

boxes

Gma and Gpa got the babies a wagon for Christmas and while they enjoy it immensely


They seemed to like the box even more.

Sorry Sorry Sorry!

Christmas can really take it out of you. All the shopping and wrapping and driving - and doing that with two kids is just silly. It takes 2 hours to get 20 minutes of shopping done and then no one is happy. But it's over and we survived AND we had a great holiday. So here are the pictures.


Heading to North Carolina. I finally cut her bangs. They were driving me crazy!


Uh mom, can we open presents now?


Making faces at the cat, Taffi. Whenever Stella got upset, her Uncle Chris would ask her where the cat was. Then he'd pick her up and they'd go look for Taffi. The whole time Stella would just make meowing sounds. It was so sweet.


Getting a ride on his new fire truck from cousin Matt. Aaron was screaming and giggling at the same time. He was so excited!


And then absolutely exhausted well before nap time. He'd had too much fun that morning so his Aunt Millie plopped him in the beanbag chair. He looks comfy no?

Happy Holidays!