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"Tu-Tu" Cute!

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Good Morning Sleepy Head

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There are no words I can use to describe

 how lucky we are to have this beautiful little girl...

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Lola & Apple

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I was not home Saturday night; I asked Jake to take a picture of Lola for our countdown...

THIS is what I got!

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Christmas Socks

"Because they're Christmassy" -Lola

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She's so {RAD!}

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Right after we got done combing out her 'dreadlocks'

(hair still a bit frazzled!!)

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Doesn't {EVERYONE} prance around the house in a ball gown??



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My Lil' Cowgirl

{Yee-Haw!}

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Thirteen!?!?

(I told her only 13 more days until Christmas, and this is the reaction I got!)

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...Happy Blizzard 2010!!!!

{According to kstp.com} By the numbers: Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport picked up 17.1" of snow. {2010} (the year Annabelle and Lincoln were born!) That's the 5th biggest official snow total on record, and it's also the most snow in a storm since the Halloween Blizzard of 1991.  (the year James was born!) We were only 3-tenths of an inch away from tying the number 4 spot: January 21-22, 1982. (the year i was born!)

How we spent BLIZZARD 2010 :

• Jake and Lola went down to Rochester this weekend to help Jake's brother Ryan with his snowplow business.  They were STRANDED in Roch.
• I worked ALL weekend at the View, and was STRANDED in uptown.
• Auntie Abby and Lola kept themselves busy while the boys cleared snow by doing HOLIDAY Arts & Crafts
• I kept myself busy (&warm), while off the clock, by drinking lots of RED WINE
• Jake came to pick me up from work FINALLY on sunday and got STUCK on unplowed side streets (a half hour trip turned into 2 hours!!)
• We all made it home sunday night.  So WONDERFUL to be {HOME sweet HOME!!}

Abby and Lola's Snowman
(since the snow was to 'crunchy' they made this!)

I finally got my Holiday Wreath!

My Backyard!!

AFTER the boys got busy!!  

...just one more

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Quit growing, my child.

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(self portrait)

Me and the Babes



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                                                            The tree stands {alone}

(...Lola would not cooperate for pictures)

Leo

One of our most {FAVORITE} people in the world* came to visit tonight for dinner...
                                                                            LEO!!!

He is the sweetest boy, and we love to have him over to play

*(Leo AND his mommy Ambir)

I {KNOW} its hard to believe, but this is the best picture I got of the TWO of them!!

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Would NOT put the ice-cream-cone down...

One More Ornament...

I just had to share with you the newest addition to our tree.  A friend of mine, (Doug) was asking all about our Christmas tree, and loved the fact that Lola decorated most of it...{and picked the color scheme!} The next day he asked me, "Do you think you will put one more ornament on your tree?"  I told him that we were done decorating, and then he gave me the cutest thing to give to Lola:

OF COURSE we made room for this adorable little thing...  Meet: Layla (guess who picked the name?!?!)

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Ready for bed...

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Monkey Toes

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Good Morning!

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...and again she picks her wardrobe

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Lola dresses herself...