Fancy Nancy

Today was Dress as Your Favorite Character From a Book Day.
When I asked Josiah what character she would like to dress as ..... Fancy Nancy was the emphatic answer!
(Erandale aka Belle, Josiah aka Fancy Nancy, Kaia aka F.N., Carrie aka Jasmine and of course Adalie aka Fancy Nancy)
Who could have guessed?????

Valentine's Day

Many years ago, after one too many Murphy's Law Valentine's Day disasters, Seth and I decided to boycott the holiday. But then we had two little girls! The first year that Seth gave each of them a flower, they went bonkers! And so Valentine's Day was recreated in the Waltner household.

This year, the girls and I woke up to this little surprise......

accompanied by this little surprise!!

And because we had gotten snow just the day before......

what better way to celebrate the LOVE holiday than a day on the slopes??

Here our girls are skiing the rails in the snow park (well ..... sort of..... )!

We girls are so thankful for a Daddy that spoils us rotten!! I love this family of 4!!

Adie Bear

Let me tell you something about our Adie Bear... the girl can make us laugh!! I don't mean giggle because she is so cute. I mean laugh so hard your milk comes out of your nose, you eyes tear up and your stomach hurts!! It's not what she says, or how she says it, or her impeccable timing, or her facial expressions, or the way she rolls her eyes, or her body language.... it is ALL of it! SHE IS FUNNY!

I can't even describe her shenanigans at dinner again tonight, but the girl had us all in stitches... literally!!

Snow Days

We have been getting snow almost every day and it has been alot of fun! Although most people dread the snow, we LOVE it! We purposely drive around the lake in 2 wheel drive so we can slip and slide on the low roads, we throw lots of snowballs, make lots of snow angels and even a few snow men! One of my favorite snow day memories was last year. Our family had gone on a walk to shake the cabin fever. Josiah and I lagged a bit on the return home and just laid in the snow side by side under one of the huge oak trees. We giggled and screamed every time a drop of melting snow fell from the branches. It is good to laugh with our girls.

An afternoon snowball fight.... look out Josiah .... I think they have us cornered!

Adalie helping to shovel the snow off the driveway. One thing you should know about Adalie... she loves to help, loves to clean, loves to put things away. She is an everything in its place kinda girl. Sometimes I think she likes the cleaning up better than the mess making. It sure does make our days together alot of fun because we can work side by side!

Although she doesn't get much of the spotlight lately, there is one more of our girls that LOVES the snow. When there is snow on the ground she is the first one up, ready to go outside and make a "Ducey-Angel". Isn't she pretty!! Happy 12th Birthday to our first girl!!

Password

You know it's been too long since you have posted when you can't remember your password!! So here goes on some catch up.......

Papa and Grammy came to celebrate Papa's Birthday with our family. He spent Friday in Josiah's classroom. He got to sit in the big Teacher's chair while all the Kinders sang Happy Birthday to him. Now his picture is in the class slide show titled "Josiah's Papa's Birthday". I won't mention that he got a bit teary when all the kids were singing to him (yep, that is were I get it from)! I also won't mention that both he and Grammy paid dearly for their visit by catching our colds. But I will say we sure do love when Papa and Grammy come to stay the night!!

Someone call the Fire Department!

Make a wish Papa! Happy Happy Birthday! Thank you for celebrating with us!!

Chinese New Year. I had no idea there were so many holidays to celebrate! Good thing Josiah is going to Kindergarten!

100 Days of School. That is right, we have successfully made it through our first 100 days of school. To celebrate, each of the children got to bring 100 things to school. So in typical Josiah fashion, she sat down to work and created 100 Thumb Prints, by Josiah. There is a caterpillar, a spider, a flower, a butterfly, a heart, and a bunny. One of the 1st Grade teachers said it was the best 100 things this year!!

Josiah has lost tooth #4! It is the first of her top teeth to go. Funniest thing is she has to be awfully careful not to laugh when she eats because she now has the perfect projectile blow hole!

New Years 2009

Just like our Christmas traditions, New Years has tradition of its own. We meet all the Stewart, Hurt, Campbell-Taylor clan up at Shaver Lake for long weekend of snow play. And this year the snow storms were perfectly timed. We had alot of fun skiing at Sierra Summit with all the Fam!

Adalie got to show off her stuff on a "big tow rope hill"

Grammy got her exercise walking the hill with Adalie. I think Adalie likes the actual tow rope better than she likes the hill because she will ride it until her arms are tired and then hit the big hills!

We just think Adalie is too cute even when she falls! Probably because she still has her skiing grin on from ear to ear! It reminds me of the first season we skied with Adalie between our legs at 17 months old and all the way down the hill she had on the biggest grin and would squeal her words for skiing, "wee-da-da!" Good memories. How much more fun it is to see that grin!!!

Mommy and Josiah on the chairlift on a blue bird day with Grammy.

Played games with friends at the cabin.

Took in some much appreciated Rest and Relaxation!

And, last but not least, Josiah lost her 2nd tooth! This time she did not cry but Adalie still shed a few tears!
How grateful we are also for this fun time with Family and friends.

Harley Girl

We took the girls for a ride up Baeshore Meadow. Got some wind in our hair, saw some good friends and had a great day. Josiah rode with Daddy "because he goes fast and off cliffs.." says Josiah. And Adalie rode with Mommy "because she goes slow and her snowmobile is not loud..." says Adalie.


Josiah loves to wear her "doo-rag" that Uncle Jon and Aunt Jen picked out for her in Costa Rica. And a friend told her she looks like a Harley Girl. Doesn't she??

But you better look out.... this chick has got her own tracks now!! ***

And she can even hike her sister!!

We are in TROUBLE!!!

**disclaimer - the green sled Josiah had so much fun on, was actually her buddy's sled and he was kind enough to let her have a couple of loops around the track... Thanx Turner!