Happy New Year to You!

Let's read a story together....

We went to the Larkly's house for New Year's Eve and Acarith had some clothes and hats to try on. They had great fun.

Ruthanne liked her fuzzy slippers and pink hat! Shoes.... these two year olds favorite thing.

Tirzah wanted to show how she could stand on one leg.

Icecream - mmmm!

They both got a hold of the camera. Here, Ruthanne took a picture of her friend and the next few pictures. We deleted about 30 of them.

Not too bad! Taken by Acarith. See... Mommy gets in the picture once in a while.

Serious Yahtzee players.

Oh.. and here is brother Nathan.

Putting on some shoes! That was the last of the guest photographer. Thank you Acarith and Ruthanne.

Playing with fun puzzles.

Nathan was good at using the fishing pole to catch the fish puzzle pieces.

More Christmas presents... thank you Grandpa and Grammie.

Fun with the farm!



Here is Nathan's the latest thing - He smiles and closes his eyes when we look at him. Very cute and heart melting!

House in a box

Let's sweep up these rocks. :)

It is a fun place to play

Doors... another of Nathan's favorites.

On our walk through our neighborhood we stopped by the pond and fed the ducks and geese

All dressed up for church - thanks for the suit Great Aunt Pat.

Special Times with Daddy

Special Moments! The children love to be around Daddy, which is helpful when Mommy is in the kitchen cooking. Although it is hard to stay there when these moments come. Here, Ruthanne asked Daddy to read a book. They are both enjoying it. Mommy enjoys it from afar!



"Is this what girls do?" Paul's expression in this picture is priceless. Ruthanne is doing Daddy's hair (usually it is Mommy's, but she was busy). Paul's not so sure about it! Cute!

Another cute expression caught by Daddy!

Fabulous Food! (and some bloopers)

"Is this how you eat proper?"

Christmas Day! Enjoying leftovers that still tasted yummy! Ruthanne was using both her knife and fork like Daddy and Mommy (notice the left hand like Daddy).

Utensils??? Who needs those? Fingers are great utensils for me!

One thing our children have down - Sondergaards eat lots of food! They have to keep up with Daddy.

Dressed for Breakfast? Well, we skipped that part this morning. Hence, the messy hair!

"Do you want to see me close-up?" This is Daddy's favorite! The children have soooo many cute expressions. How do you catch them all. Thankful for technology (sometimes).

Ruthanne wanted tea for breakfast. She thoroughly enjoyed it. Her teeth are a little purple from eating the blackberries on her pancakes.

What a face. I caught her saying "tea."

A new treat. She also had some tea the next day too!

Uh-oh! Notice her worried expression. She was "helping" Mommy in the kitchen on Saturday morning. We were making oatmeal blender pancakes. WELL.... she hit the button before I could get the lid on. Oops. Thankfully, Mommy was right there to stop it and Daddy had the camera ready to go. Ruthanne just stood there looking like she was in trouble (hard not to laugh)! What a mess! That's okay... she is learning how to cook. We still had pancakes.

Our pancakes still turned out. They are in heart shapes, because it is Paul & my 40th anniversary (well, 40 months that is). We have to keep up with Dad Sondergaard counting their 400 months anniversary. To the children, they are just thankful for someone to cook them. They ate 2-3 pancakes each! Uh oh! Look out Mommy! We are already making a double batch for just the four of us.