Winter Gratitude

Perused my phone's pictures tonight (It's my first night not scrolling through Facebook. I'm taking a break.) I have a little over a month's worth of photos - since the beginning of December through today. Suddenly I am overwhelmed with Gratitude. It feels great. Time to get my gratitude groove back on.

Reading Harry Potter to these precious faces.

My zoo girl - we had to improvise that day with some warm clothing - my long wool socks to keep her feet warm and my hat. I loved the effect.

Silly Dog. (Or is it silly owners??... )

"This is fun!" I love it when Marisol says that. It usually doesn't have to be something big - just... something! We made it, we took a picture, and then we demolished it. Most of it went in the garbage a few weeks later as we hardly ate any of it. My sweet tooth boy didn't even like any of the candy!

I have the best sister! Everyone loves it when she visits.

I came out of the shower one day and found this on our bed. Awww.

You can't really tell in this picture but it was snowing as they walked and ate their ice-cream. :-)

Marisol's holiday outfit at dance class. If you look closely you can see Santa is holding Martinis in his hands on Marisol's (my) socks! We didn't notice right away. I still love the outfit - it's so cute!

Before and After. I wanted to donate it, but round 2 (3??) with Lice made me decide to cut it instead. Mike did a good job!

Awesome new kicks from Aunt Laura!

What I found one night after I read Marisol to sleep. Mike didn't even know that Gerry had crawled up with him and curled up to sleep!

Christmas with Grandma and Grandpa was so nice!

Yoshi's Christmas dress - her expression says it all!

Harry Potter math - we did this after reading the first 4 books. We are now on book 6! We are going to finish the whole series in a couple of months - insanity!

Reading to Aslan at our library. So fun!

Snow! And I'm so grateful that Yoshi is making a complete recovery from her surgery.

A fun project with some of our best friends - made for a great Saturday!