Month: December 2011

  • Christmas on the Farm

    This was our first Christmas in Iowa, and even though it wasn’t a white one this time, it was a warm and love-filled Christmas. We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas day on the farm (and some of it in Gowrie at Ruth’s house as well) and it was wonderful.  Elayna had so much fun this […]

  • Christmas Eve cookies, and my favorite captures to date…

    Elayna and Gram Jackie enjoyed making cookies together on Christmas Eve. They put on their beautiful homemade aprons (Jackie sews the prettiest things!) and set out to decorate these tree cookies with M & Ms (Elayna may have had to eat some of the broken ones along the way). These were some of the first […]

  • A Minnie Mouse Birthday

    Elayna had a fun birthday party! Next year we will likely try to incorporate a larger group of kiddos, but she is still at the age when a get together with family and close friends makes sense. Thankfully, good friends of ours (The Gustafsons) offered to let us use their beautiful home for the party. […]

  • She wanted to go ice skating…

    She’s been talking about this for a while now… and ever since she spotted the outdoor skating rink downtown, she has really been asking to try it. Repeatedly. She told Santa she wanted “To go skate” when he asked what she wanted for Christmas, and she even “practiced” by gliding around as if she were […]