What Color?

In our family, we never know what color our babies eyes will be.  Our family (of our extended family) is the only one in which we don't know.  Jared has blue eyes and I have brown eyes.  Eli has brown eyes and Riley has blue eyes.  Jared is convinced that Morgan will have blue eyes and I think she will have brown.  We will just have to wait and see.

Update September 7: So this past week, we noticed a sploch of brown around her iris.  They will be brown!

Experimental Photography

I have been, experimenting with natural light indoors.  Since El Paso is SO sunny, it makes it difficult to take pictures on the cloudy days and so I have been trying new methods.  I have been opening the windows and using the bright sun to illumnate the pictures.

The things I do to get a great picture. I am glad Eli is so willing to help.

Izzy

To say that Riley is a little obsessed with Jake and the Neverland Pirates is an understatement.  She watches the show just about every day. For Christmas, she got a set of the characters along with a boat. When both grandma's came, it was pretty much the only toy she played with and she made them talk.
For a while, when asked her name, Riley would respond that she was Izzy. Now she says she is Jake's mom. (An improvement from him being her boyfriend).
This character here is Izzy and as you can seen it is loved. She has been glued together at the waste, lost a foot, and her eyebrows (in which Riley made me redraw on with a sharpie), and she apparently has warts on her hand.

Party Time!

One of the things that I love about El Paso is that the party is not just for the little boy. It is for the whole family and they feed the whole family. This party was for a boy named Leo. They had a blow up swimming pool, a bounce house, and a pinata.

Good Morning!

This is what I woke up to one morning and had to laugh.  The other pictures are of the kids taking over my bed, trying to get me out of it.  Good luck kids!  Afterwards, they climbed on the chair with Daddy and pretended to be asleep.  Eventually, we will all wake up and get ready for church!

Fairy Godmother

My young women came to babysit, clean and help me out.  I appreciated them so much and before they left, we (both Riley and me) did their hair, lent them dresses and jewelry for a dance that they had that night.  Riley kept asking if we could go, I told her no, but we could be their fairy godmother.

Serenity Came Again!

Serenity came to play again because her mom had a baby and while her grandma was working, we were happy to take her in.  So happy, that when she left on Friday, Riley cried for almost an hour.  They played all day, including dress-ups, princesses, music jamming and doctor.