Giggles

By  now you have probably seen the YouTube video of the baby laughing hysterically at the ripped up paper. The girls watched it with me one night, and it has quickly become the most requested "movie" in the Salmon house... it's always good for a laugh or two!

(I think my favorite part of this entire thing is the way Lucy laughs hysterically, then abruptly stops to watch the video some more!)

Ant Jood Gets Married!

On Saturday, March 5, my favorite "single" aunt finally did it! Ant Jood and Gary were married in a beautiful ceremony, followed by a fun-filled reception. Everyone had a great time- especially our little "mini-bridesmaids!"

When your first date is at Culver's, Scoopie comes to your rehearsal dinner to help celebrate!

Scoopie was a huge hit with the younger crowd!

Maggie opens her "attendant" gift... Oooh! Jewelry!

Maggie and Emme

The Hains Girls:

Carol, Judy, and Kathy

Gary waits for Ant Jood

The "mini" attendants! (minus Milan)

The "mini" attendants... with Milan! (see the blur in the front?)

Maggie

Lucy and Davan

Lucy

The "girls" (minus Camden!)

Our Family

Gramma and Papa with the grandkids

What kind of wedding reception would it be without wax lips?

Daddy and Lucy

Cheers! Lucy toasts the bride and groom

Ant Jood and I

Cutting the cake

The "Groom's" cake

Bernie Brewer showed up!

Artwork

Maggie is slowly becoming quite the artist. When she is not singing, dancing, and walking around in high heels, she is busy drawing and "writing." She is actually quite good (if I do say so myself) and can write her name, Lucy (sometimes), mom and dad without help. She loves to draw hearts and rainbows (a true girl!) but mostly draws pictures of her friends and family. The most recent one was just too good not to share...

It's Dan, of course. Look at the hair on his legs! :)

Happy Valentine's Day!

Just for fun, I thought I'd pull some pictures from Valentine's Day past... Enjoy!

No matter how you celebrated today, we hope you had the chance to spend time with those most important to you and took the opportunity to tell someone you love them!

44 Googly Eyes, 1 Gluestick, and lots and lots of construction paper...

....put it all together and what do you get? 22 homemade monkey Valentine's Day cards, of course! Check out the finished product below. Maggie helped and we had LOTS of fun- but I'm a little worried that I set the bar a little high with years and years of Valentines ahead of us.....

Holy Snow, Batman!

Tuesday afternoon it began to snow. Tuesday night, it was still snowing. Wednesday morning was a snow day, and the snow finally stopped later Wednesday afternoon. By the time Dan headed out to start shoveling, the front yard read 26" of snow! Needless to say, we are home again today (Thursday) as the city still works on getting everyone dug out of their houses! It sure is pretty, though!

 Looking down the street after the plows have gone through. We live on a fairly busy street- they only went to the corner by our house and turned north. The plows didn't even attempt to head any further east. There were 3-4 cars stuck in the snow in the next 8 blocks, so the plows probably couldn't have gotten through if they tried! (see below)

  

 Our house.

 Snow at the end of the driveway.

 Maggie heads out to help Dan shovel!

Lucy was super angry when she looked out the front door to see daddy and Maggie were outside playing and she wasn't!

MISC pictures

Here is a just a modge-podge of misc pictures from Thanksgiving through today (February 3, really?) Enjoy!

 Like their "Rapunzel" hats?

 My little bakers- helping make Christmas cookies!

Well, maybe Lucy helped "taste" a bit more than "bake!"

 Busted!

 

 Lucy eats crayons. The blue ones.

Just hangin' out....

 

 Lucy!

 

 They like each other... They really do!

Did you hear the Packers are going to the Super Bowl?

(Maybe next year, Lucy....)