pictures

In no particular order, I give you...pictures. In vast quantities.



Ruth eating a spoon


Juliet hides from the paparazzi


Elise demonstrates how simple and delicious grilled pesto, mozarella and tomato sandwiches really are

Abigail begged me to "takie pikshur pretty hair!"

Starting off with good nutritional habits

Rosalind cuddling the nieces

Putting the fam to work shucking 100 ears of corn

The farmer's market (or "monster market" as Abigail calls it. I don't know why)

Juliet's rakishly tilted hat

Rosalind attacking a pecan roll. Run for your lives, pecan rolls!

Elise pinned to the mat by an 8-lb opponent

Mary Beth just being cute (with various sprawled bodies in the background)

Abigail with her favorite pals: Papa and the Cheez-Its

Ruthie

Neil and Dad survey their manly setup of canning apparatuses (apparati?)

My sweetie

Elise checking out the damage to her hands after she tried to climb up a brick wall

Mary Beth shows off her BYU chef skills at frosting brownies

Elise suggests tomatoes as an alternative to collagen injections in one's lips

Abigail the architect (glory be, this kept us entertained for almost two hours this morning!)

Oh, what a lovely family I have. They sure are a fun bunch (although there are no pictures of Mom on this because I didn't get them from her camera, so email some to me!)

On that note, last night I had a nightmare that I was having stomach pain and I went to the doctor and he said "Oh, you probably had twins. The second one just didn't come out yet." The reason why this counts as a nightmare is because I spent a goodly portion of time around 1 am crying when I realized that Juliet wanted to eat...again (for some reason she decided that every three hours wasn't enough and she preferred to eat every hour from 7 pm until 1 am). The little rascal was, well, lots of fun tonight. Let's just say that poor Neil didn't make it to work very early today, since he took pity on his wife who had slept 4 hours out of the last 40 and walked the floor with a very wide awake baby.

and speaking of babies, one of the women in our ward threw a "pregnant girls party" in July. Here's a picture of us in order of due dates (going from July 21 on the right hand side and end of December on the left hand side). the party was a really fun idea--i think there were 17 women in our ward due to deliver before the end of december! crazy!! (the four of us on the right have all now had our babies)