Shopping with my girls

My sweet little girls were the proud owners of a few American Girl gift cards they received for Christmas. However, they are no longer owners of these gift cards since they spent it all in one shopping trip. We headed to American Girl in Boston shortly after Christmas since they couldn't wait to get their new treasures at the store. It was my mom's first trip there so she was a little in shock that such a thing existed. It was packed with girls and their dollies and tons of people everywhere. The girls made their choices quickly. However, we had to wait a long time in line.

Then they insisted on caring their loot through the mall.

Jo couldn't keep up with us but she didn't need or want any help from us.

 We stopped to pose for pictures for my mom.

 How about if we could see your faces?

 Never mind.

It all made it home even though we lost Emma's bag in Lego store and Jo gave up on caring her box and let uncle Vitte to help her. They are now the proud owners of a Biddy baby wagon and tons of new outfits for their babies.

Life is never dull with those two.

Our Grandma

We think we have the coolest grandma ever!!!!

Goodbye Grandma

I am writing this blog entry a few days late but I wanted to post a few more pictures from last weekend. It was a little bit crazy in our household. On Sunday night we said goodbye to grandma who stayed with us for the entire month of November. It went by so fast I cannot believe she is gone already. We had a great time together and I cannot thank her enough for all her help. We did some cooking and baking to fill my freezer so I will not have too cook for a whole month after we come back from Ethiopia. I still have to add a few things and then I will take a picture of my full freezer. Grandma also enjoyed our busy kids and I am sure she has many stories to share. Since we got to celebrate Sam's birthday with grandma in November we took Nate out a week early to the Rainforest Cafe to celebrate his birthday with grandma before she left.
Our birthday boy. Looks good? It was very good.
Here is grandma and Fil enjoying rack of ribs (I am not rib kind of girl).

Grandma

We have grandma here. What a joy for the kids and for me as I am always in the need of an extra sets of hands.

Everybody in our family loves to read. We have bookshelves in every room and in the hallway (we may have some books in boxes as well). We read a lot for our school and here are the kids with grandma reading again just a few minutes after we finished school. Don't they look cozy?
Emma enjoying Nessies droppings.

Do any of you know what grandma and the kids are up to?
They are grinding poppy seeds.
In Europe we use poppy seeds in cooking a lot. Poppy seeds are much cheaper over there so each time someone comes visit us I ask for poppy seeds.
We all enjoyed pasta with poppy seeds and sugar for lunch.