This is a pic of the WELLSVILLE GANG (we've grown a little). Mandy, Annie, & Amber (w/Alex, Sam, & Maya)...all back together for a great afternoon of running after the kids. Eek! Quite a bit of mileage separates us now but it is great how things seem just as they always have been when we are together!
Sam is about the craziest sleeper we know. She can never manage to keep under the covers and it's a miracle if her head is even in the same vicinity as her pillow. She is so wild and her snore sounds like an elephant with a head cold! We just can't stop taking pictures of the funny positions we find her in!
I always kind of despised sewing when I was younger. My mom was the 4-H sewing leader and so I was FORCED to learn the basics. I hated how accurately you had to sew things to get them to turn out right. I sewed a few arm and leg holes shut and unpicked about every seam at least twice. But these days I am LOVING being able to sew! I've sewn a couple dresses for the girls and I am learning how to quilt. It is so rewarding! I'm so ADDICTED TO COLOR and I just love all of the fun fabrics available. I just can't seem to control my impulse to buy fabric in every pattern and color. It is so much fun! I am currently in a little quilting group and we are sewing together a mystery quilt project. We get a few instructions each month as to what to sew. These are my blocks I completed for the 1st month. I can't wait to see how it turns out!
Alex very much enjoying her Graham Crackers! 
Alex: our human disposal. She thoroughly enjoys mealtime. She eats twice as much as Sam! It is amazing what that kid can down! She'll eat her own food and beg for yours by flailing her arms like a chicken trying to fly and grunting at us. It is quite a site! (The first picture was taken when we first started feeding Alex rice cereal in November).
Happy Valentine's Everyone! We love you all and wish you a happy heart day! We had these taken yesterday to surprise Jared. I love heart tights!
It snowed like mad today and we live on this little dirt road that never gets plowed and drifts terribly! Being that I am the tax widow these days and there is no way Jared would make it home in our little civic without me towing him...I'm in charge of trying to dig us out somewhat. So I've learned a new skill...plowing with our 1965 Ferguson tractor. Jared's dad gave it to us last Christmas and it is a handy piece of machinery, but it has a few quirks that take some getting used to! I am far, far, far from being skilled at it, but it is kind of fun to learn something new and be self-sufficient!
Alex is standing by herself a lot lately...she hasn't taken any steps by herself yet, but she loves to pull herself up to things, let go, and just stand there. She is climbing stairs too...now we just need to get her to learn how to come down!
Getting her 1st tooth! She is about 10 months old. She loves to give us big open mouth, slobbery kisses on the cheek, but now you have to be careful of this sharp little buddy!
These are Sam's 'shifty eyes'...Jared taught her this. She rolls her eyes side to side with them 1/2 closed. She does it whenever she gets embarrassed, meets someone new, is doing something naughty (this one happens alot) or simply on command because we think it is funny.
This was my favorite photo of the day. Alex loves to be nuzzled under her chin...she giggles and giggles. She is at such a fun age!
