under construction . . .

I'm playing with some settings so please excuse the "mess" while my blog is under construction!

testing picture size

all by myself!

Jonah convinced Tia to swim in the little dinosaur swim ring today - she was really proud of herself!

It cracks me up the way the other 3 seem to stalk Tia sometimes!
fyi: the kids had begged me to let them swim in their clothes. . .just in case you were wondering . . . .

jampoline!

Here are a few photos of our little jumping girl. Tia looooooooves to jump on the trampoline - and all around the house for that matter! Yesterday the word "frog" was mentioned and she started hopping everywhere saying "frog, frog, frog . . . " Pretty exciting for a little girl who started walking less than 10 months ago :)

If anyone has advice about the colors in my photos - please share :( I am so frustrated and iphoto only seems to make the colors worse . . . so these are SOOC - I know I need to learn photoshop but it does seem like my Canon Rebel Xti is not giving me good color! any suggestions?

I hope you dance!

Tia dances every time she hears music - it is so cute to see her little hand start coming up and her little head start moving - then she slowly turns around twirling. Belle & I were out in the front garden yesterday and we started singing and Tia started to dance. I hope she always loves to dance - it brings us such joy to watch her get caught up in the music and the moment (she really likes those shoes!)

Merry Christmas!

What a wonderful Christmas! Tia enjoyed all the excitement and was happy with her gifts although I'm pretty sure she would have been happy with a large supply of "Tandy" (candy!)LOL!. I had planned for Tia and Bella to wear sleeveless white eyelet dresses for the Christmas Eve service at church however it was a chilly 65 so I threw Isabella's dress from when she was 2 on Tia and I loved the way she looked in it! (Though I did not get a single great photo - maybe later!) Here the girls are scattering the magic reindeer dust on the lawn to help guide Santa's sleigh!
First the stockings! Then the gifts! A new bike, kinda fun but a water bottle, now that is very cool :)
My prayer is that all my blogger friends have a blessed Christmas season and a very Happy New Year!.

Little Swimmer!

We just returned from a 14 day New Zealand Cruise. Tia swam in the pool on the ship almost every day and she is getting to be such a good little swimmer! She would jump right in and Daddy would let her head go under before he held her - she loved it!