Handcrafted Artisan: February 2009

Ema's dance class

This winter we have signed Ema up for a dance class, called Dancing with Grace. It is the highlight of each of her weeks, she looks so forward to it. She is doing it with two of her little girlfriends Lydia and Esther, whom we get to carpool with too....

Emalyne's Four Years Old!!!

So Ema wanted a cake with sprinkles on it and to go to Denny's for her birthday so that was what we had....boy were there a lot of sprinkles....
She is growing up too fast....

fun things

One day while treking around the back yard we followed animal tracks....
Mr Dan, one of Jeff's friends and co-workers, has priveledged us with several visits recently both to watch football, which I actually enjoyed....
Ema is into dressing up and always wanting me to take her picture as she dances around in her new creations.
We have some of the prettiest views out our back door of Mt Nittany, I really like it when there is snow on the ground....and no leaves because you can see the mountain...
Jael is growing so fast but also calming down some, she used to never sit to look at books or read with us and now she is doing that, it is fun to listen to her as she babbles and makes up stories about the pictures she sees.

fun things we have made

Ema made this soldier of herself at staff conference during her VBS. The girls love snowmen so here is our snowpeople family we created..and of course our latest food craze octodogs....
if you want to see some of the other fun things I or the girls have made I have started a new blog featuring just things we have made check it out
http://worksofthehands.blogspot.com/

feed the birds....

One thing the girls love around here is feeding the birds...so we made some homemade bird feeders taking some old ice cream cones we had, peanut butter (because we have soooo much) and bird seed and went to town...
I am not sure how much the birds actually ate because they were gone before we could watch but I am sure some animal out there enjoyed them....

snow snow snow

There has been no lack of snow for us this year... and no lack of cold temps either, here are some fun pics of the girls with their dad and then also playing in the snow with our neighbor and her daughter...enjoy....yes one thing they love to do is eat snow...ha ha ha thanksfully it is white...