Where to start?

We're back in blogland (only 3 months since my last post).  I don't know if I have a good excuse.  We've just had other stuff going on.  Two busy little kids, another one on the way, etc.  But now I'm back and ready to start posting again.  I was going to go back and catch up on everything that's been happening since last October when we went to Disneyland, but that may take a while.  We went to Disneyland, we went to Utah for Andy's grandpa's funeral and Thanksgiving, we went to Utah again for the week before Christmas, and I went to Utah again for a few days last month for a baby shower (I love living closer to family now.  It's so much easier to make a quick (or not so quick) trips to Utah).  So in case I never get around to going into details of the past few months, here are a few pictures:

Christmas Eve with the girls in their new jammies:


The only picture I managed to get of Rachel in her Christmas dress.

Rachel loves the Curious George book she got for Christmas

And Eden loves her Lion King movie.  She'd been begging for that for months.

Rachel loved to stand on ALL the boxes.   They were as much fun as the presents.

Eden got a new doll and I made some princess dresses to go with it.

Rachel has changed so much since our last post.  About a week after she learned how to walk, she learned how to run, and I don't think she has stopped since.  Her favorite thing to say is "GO, GO, GO".  I have a hard time getting a good picture of this girl because she is moving all the time.  She's so different from Eden when Eden was this age (only partly because Eden wasn't even walking yet).  Talking is something she is only mildly interested in, but she loves to climb and explore and I sometimes feel like I spend all day just chasing her around the house.  She totally wears me out, but I can't complain because she is so darling.  I just can't resist this face!

Climbing...

And climbing some more....

This is a typical Saturday morning in our house:  The girls on their pillows with their cereal, watching the Sprout channel while mommy catches a couple more minutes of sleep on the couch.  This is the only time of day when Rachel is awake and holding still (and it never lasts very long).