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Jucika Nyota Star

Jucika was born January 7th, 9:08am, 9lbs 12 3/4oz

Our first family photo

Jucika is 3 days old here and in the next few pictures.

Resting in her Father's Hands

Our Growing Family

It's hard to belive that Amaya & Kiara are already 2 years old!!

WOW!!

Kiara is getting really good at dressing herself, and often puts her shirt and pants on the correct way.

Amaya is incredibly active, climbing, dancing and running all around the house, usually chasing Kiara!

They both are into imaginative play, and their vocabulary is AMAZING!!

The cutest thing I think they are doing right now is - saying 'look at me', grabing your face with both hands, and saying 'don't touch'. I wonder who they hear that from? lol

We've had trouble with biting, and hitting already - but fortunately for the girls, they will learn these lessons very quickly - as they each get hourly reminders!

They aren't quite sure what to think of us having another baby. I think once they move into their new carseats, at the BACK of the van, see the baby's carseat set up, and the crib - it might become more real - but right now the baby's room is full of boxes we haven't unpacked. the basement is ALMOST done, we're painting and installing cork flooring in the office. Carpet quotes are in and hopefully by the new year, we'll have a comfy kid safe area for the girls to play!

Just 5 weeks to go!!

We haven't even looked at baby names yet!! YEESH!!

someone asked me '-so how are you preparing differently for this baby, than the girls?'

I relplied with 'we're not!' lol - it's amazing how busy we've been with this house. Perhaps this Christmas we'll slow down enough to 'prepare' ourselves for this baby!!

Enjoy your holiday season!!

Congrats to Darrell & Jess!!

Hooray for Darrell & Jess!!!
We can't wait to meet Mary & Martha!!
Jon & I are so thrilled for you guys!! I'm sure we'll have double pink of anything you may need!!
love you guys!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

The girls got these SWEET Teddy Bears from Grandma Great! THANKS!)

Opening their stockings this morning!

It was just Jon & I and the girls this Christmas morning. Amaya & I got sick Tuesday night and all day Wednesday. We postponed Christmas with the Tieszen's until tommorrow. but we had a lovely day recovering today. We opened our stockings... and napped the day away. Tonight Jon & I enjoyed a fire and hot chocolates as we wrapped gifts for tommorrow's Christmas celebreation. It really did feel like Christmas eve today... and I am excited for our Christmas tommorrow.. . even if it really is 1 day behind!! It's what you make of it - not what day it falls on!

Merry Christmas!

Lady Bug & Bumble Bee - Formal Portraits

OK - so I finally took some more 'formal' shots of the girls dressed up in their costumes. This may be repetative for some of you... but just shut-up and enjoy the cuteness!

Kiara - the Bumble Bee

Amaya - The Lady Bug

Could they be any more perfect??

Lady Bug & Bumble Bee

I tried really hard to get a picture of the girls together... but you'll have to imagine how cute they were together!

I love how cute they looked playing in these outfits all day!

We went to see Daddy at the office (no pictures though) and had a playdate with our coffee group. We went to the radio station to visit friends there... and had our first taste of halloween candy! It was a great day!!

Here are some of the kids from our coffee group!

Madison - Monkey

Amaya - Lady Bug

Morgan - Pumpkin

Kiara - Bumble Bee

Warm Day In October

We took a few family self-portraits on warm October day.
They turned out quite nicely!

The girls are WALKING!!!
Actually... almost running. It was amazing to me how
quickly the picked it up, once they took those first steps - it was less than 3 weeks between teetering between couch and chair to walking up and down the hallway, turning around and picking things up without holding on to anything. I am discovering the phrase 'keep you running' to hold so much truth! And with two it's twice as true!

It's quite a challenge to get them both into the van - but I figured out a system! I keep one in the umbrella stroller and either hold the hand of the other, or carry her. It looks a little funny - but it keeps them safe in the parking lot. I can't wait until our house is done and we have an attatched garage!

Well, I know I haven't posted much lately -

but some of you may know why!

Jon & I have had to take over construction of our house, as our builder... well... basically they ran

out of money. So I am now a general contractor, organizing the trades, money and timing of the work being done on the house. It's a full-time job! We'll keep you posted... but probably not as often as before! Keep checking though!

1 Year old!!

The girls celebrated being 1 year old with family and friends in Saskatoon. It was a cool day... but we had a lot of fun.... especially once we brought out the cake! Here they are... getting into their chairs... daddy does such a great job!

Waiting so patiently....

Happy Birthday to you.....
How silly were we... putting fire in front of our babies.... next time they turn one... fake candles!

Kiara was REALLY getting into things... let's review!

Kiara BEFORE.... Kiara.......

....AFTER!! I would have let her keep eating... but I was seriously scared what she would do with that huge cake!



Amaya finally got into it too... she was quite neat at the beginning...

Well we cleaned them up and started opening presents.

Checking out their new chairs! Thanks Auntie & Uncle!

I LOVE this picture!!


I won't bore you with every picture we took that day.

So... the girls have been standing on their own for a couple of months already... but every time I get the camera out their hands are glued to some surface or another.

So here they are... in all their cuteness!!

Kiara standing all by herself!!

Amaya just had to show off her skills too!

Well... that's it for now! We'll be partying in Yorkton this weekend... such lucky girls... two 1st birthday parties!