New Year's with the Perrys

Working on my backlog of photos . . .

New Years was actually more a "4th Christmas Gift Exchange" with Steve's family in Sacramento. Although we did stay up until midnight playing cards. (Poohead is the best game ever. And Steve ended up being the reigning Poohead of the night.)

Sophie had a blast with the tricycle from Grandma and Grandpa Perry. . .

which was quickly commandeered by her little sister. I'm beginning to see what having twin girls would be like -- having to buy two of everything to keep the peace. Hopefully they'll just learn to share.

After that, Sophie did all the documentation for the couple days we were there. I think her technique is improving.

Kimi without eyes.


Floating head Kimi.


Grandpa with Mom's arm in the foreground.


Dad's leg next to an Ivy torso.


Ivy's ascent to Sophie's knees.


Nice head shot of Dad with Grandma in the back. Such clarity!


Probably her best yet: Portrait of a Little Sister

Lashes a Plenty

I have lots of stuff to post, but I'm posting about Ivy's eyelashes instead.

They're getting ridiculously long.

Family Pics 2009

We got these photos taken in November, but I couldn't post them until after Christmas. We had Jana Beck do them (Jana Laurene Photography). She lives in Utah and goes to BYU, but she's from the Bay Area, so we snagged her on one of her trips home. She's wonderful and worked with the girls really well. :)

Thanks Jana - we love them!

This is the family shot we decided to blow up for the living room:

I also like this one a lot because you could see Ivy's whole outfit, but Sophie's being a frowny-face for some reason.

I liked this one, too.

You have to have at least one candid on, right?

I love this one of Steve and his girls :)

And this one. . .

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this one.

Jana did a great photoshop job "fixing" Sophie's impetigo spots on her chin. You can barely tell there was anything there.

Love this one, too.

I wish we'd have gotten more of just the girls together, but they weren't cooperating very well. (Hm. Imagine that.)

I love the ones she got of Ivy, though. They make me turn to mush on the inside.

I couldn't just leave it at that one . . .

(My only complaint would be my hair. I hadn't had a cut in 6 months and waited an extra month or so just so I could have a fresh cut before the pics were taken. Things fell through, and it didn't end up happening, thus my hair looks like straw. I could go on about other things, but I'll spare you my self-criticism. The end.)

December Part 2

Here's where the fun began . . .

5. Opening presents at home.

Stockings were pretty simple this year.

Since Ivy was so enthralled with the "big cats" at the zoo during Thanksgiving, we got her a set of postcards from the gift shop. She loves them. (Both girls do.) I think I'm going to put them in a little photo album.

6. The first stop on our Christmas trek: Great-Grandma & Grandpa Henderson's house.

And the first time either of them have seen snow (that Sophie remembers at least.) They stood by the window forever looking at it. And there were only a few scuffs of snow on the ground.

After we opened gifts, Sophie ran her new baby stroller (with her pink glittery purse hanging from the handle) all over the house. Yes, the floors are red. Red vinyl stuff. It rocks. The previous owners of the house had a. . . um. . . unique sense of style. We loved the red floors when we were kids, so my grandparents kept it the way it was -- at least in the basement.

Oh why do I not do her hair before we take pics? She doesn't look homeless all the time. Maybe 72% of the time.

Such a cute little mommy. I think this was the favorite gift from Christmas.

7. Second stop: Grandma and Grandpa Phillips' house.

I'm glad she found other uses for the stroller -- like entertaining Ivy.

We found this little couch at Downeast Home and couldn't resist getting a shot of them in it.

8. The cousins bonded.

Unlike the girls, I don't think Carter's used to having company in the bathtub. Grandma's tub was plenty big, though.

9. Steve got creative for a few minutes, too. I didn't see this picture until we got home.

10. Sophie and Grandpa fed the horses. One of Sophie's favorite parts from the trip was riding in the tractor with Grandpa when he fed the horses. She still talks about it.

She looked so cute all bundled up, too. She could barely walk with all that on.

This is my favorite picture from the batch . . . and perhaps from all of our Christmas pictures.

Hopefully I'll post more when I get a few from my dad. I'm surprised we had all these. Maybe we're getting better at documenting our own stuff. :)

We had a wonderful Christmas with everyone! Thanks Mom & Dad for hosting the whole circus!

December Part 1

1. Ivy got her first tooth on Nov 30th. A big, giant hippo tooth on the top. Today she got her fourth. Now she's got two on top and two on the bottom.

2. We made our first fort in the living room.

Ivy dug it.

Sophie found a new nap spot for a couple of days.

3. I was crafty for a couple of hours (shocking, I know), and found a way to use the scrapbook paper I have piled up. (I don't scrapbook. I just like patterns. Psst. . . thanks Kathryn for making me realize that.)

Tutorial HERE.

4. Santa came to our ward activity.

Sophie didn't want to stand in line to see him, but her two favorite boys in the ward were there, so she did anyway.

I love pictures of Asher and Sophie. He eats the meat, she eats the bun -- they're soulmates.

Ivy didn't like Santa. (She doesn't like anyone, so it wasn't a big surprise.)

I mean she really didn't like Santa. Sophie was embarrassed I think.

At this point Ivy almost slid out from under Santa's arm. She was seriously stressed out.

To be continued. . .

Oh, and Happy New Year!