J's favorite place

Is HEB! She asks to go there about 3-4 times a day. Here she is on our
latest trip sporting her sunglasses on which she received numerous
compliments.

Jingle January

Today on the way back from the park, L asked J what she wanted for dinner and she said, "I could eat some spaghetti." And L laughed and repeated what she said and she replied, "I could." Very nonchalantly the whole time. Too Funny! Speaking of, J's class sang Jingle Bells at the Christmas Program and she is just now singing it all the time around the house, especially when she has the little silk boquet she carried in Aunt E's wedding. See here, password is "silly":
Julia Sings Jingle Bells from Jess K on Vimeo.

Obama day

Happy inauguration day everyone!

More Holiday Photos

As promised, here are more photos from the holidays. Some are redundant, but enjoy! Also, just some recent things: J loves to point out our shadows on the wall when we are changing her. I started making a rabbit shadow and then showed her how, so now she makes one too! So cute. She can also count to 10 with very little prompting and knows the ABC song, although, some of the letters in her version sound a little off. She is really enjoying Kindermusik and sang "Bom bom" by repeating the teacher in front of class today. She loves to dance to any music! If you are eating something she wants, she says, "I want a bite of that!" At least she doesn't beat around the bush!

Tea anyone???

Today, J and I went to a little tea room in Temple with Hillary, Mom, and two of her friends and their moms. It was good catching up time and I had fun snapping their goofy and cute pictures. They have got to be some of the most photographed girls in the world!

A few holiday photos

Here are a few holiday photos taken around Christmas. The first 2 are of J eating her first ice cream cone and throughly enjoying it! :) The next couple are from her holiday program at her preschool. Then comes our Christmas time spent at my parent's house in Belton with G.G. visiting from Lubbock! Enjoy! I have more to come, it's just taking me some time to wade through them all.

Family Time

Today we had the pleasure of visiting with Anna, Paul and Elizabeth! Anna is Luke's cousin. She lives in Chicago with her husband Paul and daughter Elizabeth, born about 2 months after Julia. We had a great lunch prepared by Babcia Marilla of goulash, potatoes, salads, rice, homemade bread, and apple cake for dessert. It was all soooo good. Then we watched as J and Elizabeth played with blocks, dolls, piano, and lots of books. We also "Skyped" with relatives in Poland to extend the family reunion. Then they had a great time chasing each other back and forth from one end of the house to the other. They *did* finally take a little time to sit in the big chair together and even held hands. After this, J really wanted to hold Elizabeth's hand all the time! It was an eventful afternoon to say the least. Here are the pictures from the afternoon:

Happy New Year!

As 2008 is but a fond memory, I am thankful that we had the opportunity to live in Poland and spend time with family there. I am also thankful for a safe return back to Texas and for the wonderful Mexican food there. :-) We are also glad we got to spend two wonderful holidays with my dad's family including 2 of my uncles and their families. So much good food! I am also thankful for our good friends, especially our roommates at the moment, as I feel so blessed to have gotten to know them better through this serendipitous opportunity. I also am looking forward to 2009, friend's babies being born (NOT MINE!), weddings, girls trips, family trips, international trips, January parties in East Texas, photographing more families' life moments, watching (and potty training) J as she grows up so quickly. So long 2008, it's been great! Bring it on, 2009. I'm as ready as I'm going to be!

Fourth in Fourth

So I was tagged 4th in 4th which means you go to the place on your computer where you store all your pictures and open the 4th folder then open the 4th picture. Post the picture and give an explanation of what it is. Then tag 4 people.
(Don't edit or crop the picture! We want reality here!)

Here is a picture of J throwing up gang signs/peace signs behind her sippy cup just the other day as we were visiting my parents in Belton for Christmas.

(I couldn't use my computer because we had to send it to apple to be fixed again, the display/video card is out. :(  )

And now I tag:

Lindsay
Brent
Kaycie
Lisa