4/52

 

 

Mabel: She's constantly playing make believe. I found her reading to her stuffed animals before school.

Gus: You can find him on the floor playing with anything that goes.

3/52

 

 

Mabel: Loves helping me out in the kitchen.

Gus: Stole his sister's Elsa socks.

 

2/52

 

 

Mabel: Room with a view. 

Gus: Taking it easy.

1/52

 

 

Mabel: She yells "woo-wooo" or "oh yeah!" when she's riding around the skate park. It's like she's cheering herself on.

Gus: Strapping his helmet back on after a little break. 

week fifty two. the end.

 

 

The last set of portraits for 2014. We woke up to snow on the last day of the year and lots of it! The kids had so much fun playing in it and it made for some great pictures. Last year I started the project with snow pictures so it's only fitting that we're ending with them! They have both grown so much this year. I feel so blessed to say that both Mabel and Gus had a very happy and healthy 2014. I will definitely be doing another portrait project again starting right now. Happy New Year everyone!

 

 

 

 

week fifty one.

 

 

Mabel: her favorite part of the holidays and celebrations is making cookies. I use my grandmothers famous recipe and she loves hearing about how I used to make cookies with her. She's getting quite good at decorating them as well.

Gus: He got a super-hero costume for Christmas and I love how proud he looks when he has it on. I think he really thinks he has super powers.

 

week fifty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week I've been so busy with Christmas preparations and fun I didn't get a lot of individual pictures of the kids. I post a lot of our out-and-about pictures on Instagram. These pictures were so cute I had to share. We ended up using the last one for this years Christmas Card. 

Both kids are really into the holidays this year which makes it a million times more fun. They love telling random people at the grocery store, "Merry Christmas" or "It's almost Christmas!" We've been singing a lot of Christmas carols, drinking hot cocoa, watching Elf and finding Buddy Chachski, our newly adopted Elf on the Shelf, every morning. We visited Santa, decorated the tree, hung the stockings, and made the cookies. I think it's going to be our best Christmas yet.

Mabel: Every night at bedtime she says, "I wonder what Buddy Chachski will be up to in the morning?" And I say "I don't know, we'll see" Her response is always, "I bet he's gonna be up to no good!"

Gus: When we ask him what he wants for Christmas he rambles off a bunch of different things and it's always changing. He'll make his squinty-thinking face and his response goes something like this "Ummm, a fire engine, super hero things, and a dinosaur and a rescue machine and a monster truck...."