This was the Colorado Ice Festival and they hadn't quite gotten everything carved by the time we got there, however they did have an ice throne and of course my girls are princesses and must sit on it. :)

On the way home from Katie's wedding Lauren sang us a beautiful song. What a cutie. And then she fell asleep...even better :) The only words I can make out were, "I do wonderful clapping. Yes I do, yes I do clapping...".

Oh I love these girls.

At the luncheon for Katie (Chris' sister) and her new hubby Ben. Chris and Edie are so cute. Too bad Edie tossed her cookies about 10 min. after this photo. She was sick the rest of the vacation. Ugh.

This is in front of the Rexburg temple. There was such a problem of ice and snow up the hill

that Katie and her parents, who left 45 min. before we did got there at the same time as we did. We should have sent them in our Subaru....Thank you AWD!

While visiting Idaho for Christmas we also visited Great Grandma Evans. Great Grandpa had already left for work or he would have been in the pic as well.

Gearing up for Christmas.

The Forney Museum = pure awesomeness for kids who love, cars, trains, planes and bikes. http://www.forneymuseum.org/ Who is driving this jeep? Too bad the pumpkins are there. It sort of ruins the effect that they could actually be driving the car :) Thank goodness our cousins, Timmy and Wesley were here to share in this pure awesomeness.

This is Amelia's favorite car because it was Amelia Earhart's car, the Gold Bug Kissel. Go Amelia!

Edie's take on parenting. She did this all by herself.

Halloween, obviously. They were so cute! It probably goes without saying, however Lauren was Snow White and Amelia was a black widow spider.

In October we had some great snow. I love these pictures of the kids. They had a great time.

Lauren's 3rd birthday.

And Edie's 1st birthday sans friends....we didn't invite anyone is that bad? It's our third child and she's only one.....that's my excuse.

Edie hit her head pretty hard and the blood drained through her eye socket so she had a shiner for 1 straight week. It looked pretty bad. But this pic of her is pretty funny. She was eating yogurt.

It has been a long time since last posting so I'm going to play catch up chronologically. Here's the girls on their first day of school.

This is outside of the cabin at Bear Lake. Sad to say that this is about the only picture we took at Bear Lake. Our camera was hiding in the diaper bag and we were too busy to get it out. That's my excuse.

This picture is of Edie and her cousin Georgia who is 3 weeks older than her. Edie was eating her food and dropping most of it. Georgia was eating what was dropped. It was super funny. Georgia is good at Eating. Edie is not. Georgia is about 23 lbs. Edie is 16 lbs.

Here's an excerpt from the Archibald Family Reunion that began at my parents house and then ended at Bear Lake. We celebrated Kent's birthday on Sunday and got to use the pink panther mold for the cake. Thanks to the brilliant video archives my father made we have proof that the mold was acquired at or before 1981. Thanks to my mom's ability to save even the most 'seemingly' unimportant things we still had the joy of using the pan. And lastly thanks to Kent for being willing to have a pink panther cake despite his dedication to Superman.

Happy Birthday to the Big C! He wanted German Chocolate Cake and boy was it yummy! Love that frosting so much. Why isn't it used in more things other than this cake. Why doesn't somone invent cookies with it?

I realize that this is two weeks ago and actually it looks so different from then and now. I wouldn't believe it though if I wasn't taking pictures. The cucumbers are definately on the slow growth plan. If we're lucky we may be able to do our pickles in September at this rate :).

Edie and her food...a very cute combination. I love how she looks a little terrified while eating the avocado and then purely happy when eating the rice cereal.

Here we are at Chatauqua Park. Wesley was sitting on Amelia's lap, but it looks a lot worse than that. I have no idea what they are doing. I love Lauren and Timmy's poses.

Here's the fam all together at the ranger station...minus Tommy. If I had photoshop I'd put you in.

Along the estes park river walk.

More elk along the road, but this one above is in Estes Park.

I thought this looked really pretty, but it is of even more elk. This one is within Rocky Mountain National Park.