Brooke and her man

Peek

a

BOO!

This way Ruebs

C'mon, it's not that scary!


Chillin'

family

Geneva took this pic. Not bad for a 3 yr old huh? :0)

MWAH!

Brooke LOVED this idea.

"Mom, this is more my idea-I'll ride my car while you chase me down and try to take a picture"


Dinner @ Cracker Barrel with Ed and Lori and fam

Justin and Derek

Abigail and Nana

Aunt Lori and Geneva

Derek, Ed, and their invisible friend. (You guys are big dorks)

Opa and Riley


Oh my, check out those bedheads!


Playing dress up

Geneva, Blackie and Susannah (everyone is named Susannah around here...)

Big girl hair cut!!!



CHEESER!

Big girl piggytails for Brookie. As long as her hair stays curly, I'm not ever cutting her hair!

painting, pierced ears, and a sick baby

Paintin

SOOOO proud!
Geneva got her ears pierced and wanted to show Uncle Bobby some pictures on the computer. So here are her ears in all their shiny flowery prettiness.
She screamed when they pierced them, in case you were wondering. Thankfully they did both ears at the same time. Otherwise, she'd only have 1 earring in, for sure.

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It's been a brutal week. My strength as a momma has been tested. The girls have had a verrry bad cold for about 2 weeks now, and Brookie ended up with an ear infection and a nasty cough. Bronchitis, anyone? Her fever lasted a few days, and she is a bit happier these days, but you get the idea on these pics, it was not the best weekend in Huisman history.

Still able to eat a bit. I don't think anything would completely get rid of this little one's appetite. She eats more than Geneva these days.

My monkeys eating their bananas.

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Brookie on a brighter day last week, showing off her dance moves.

All ready for bed.


The close up that didn't work.

When there was snow...

Here's our first official Huisman family snowman. (ok, we've made snowmen before, but this was our best one ever.) Doesn't quite compare to Leroy, of course, but we were proud none the less. Geneva named him Susannah. Great name for a snow dude, I'd say. He was rather friendly and he even waved in the wind. Then it became spring in January, and he bit the dust. We'll build another one when it snows again. I think Derek and I had more fun than the girls to be quite honest.

Awww, isn't he cute?

Christmas with fam and friends

MERRY late Christmas!
Jesus was born!!! I'm OH so glad about that.
We spent lots of time with our families this year. Much better than the regular quick visits here and there. We were at Derek's Dad and Rita's for 4 days at the weekend of the 15th,
Highlight: Getting snowed in on the snowy blowy Sunday, so we canceled both our work days and stayed til Monday.

We were at my parents place for 6 days! (Not Derek though, he had to go home to work Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, poor guy.) high
Highlight: the Mulder/Deal Christmas Competition Extravaganva. (pingpong, crochinols, (sp?) shoelbuck (sp?) (shuffleboard type deal), euchre, even sudoku. Rob was the grand champ, even though he lost to Mr. Deal (Dave's father in law) in ping pong. Favourite quote during pingo pong: "That was Asian!" I'd like to announce that I came in 5th place. :0)

Anyway, I wish I could say I took some real nice Christmassy pictures. It's always so busy, and I don't like being behind a camera the whole time. Would rather be spending time with people in person! So here are some of the shots I did get.

Abigail and Riley

Abigail and Geneva ready for the snowstorm. (it lasted about 3 minutes before they came back inside.)

Geneva took this one of her 'tousin' Travis

OOOOOH, a Dora bowl!

Geneva with her Opa.


Can't decide if we're really having fun out here or not...

My fam. (Nice jammies Rob.)

Brookie's favourite present! A touch and feel, movable doggie book.

Ok, NOT a good picture of me. This is us watching the amazing curling video Bri made of us to highlight the annual Mulder and friends curling. Dave curled with a broken wrist, and Derek curled with a torn quad. They both did rather well, and no further injuries, so that's good.


I even got to see my friends from high school, Debbie and Mariah! I got to meet baby Luke for the first time too, that was very exciting. SO nice to see you girls! We'll have to try to meet up again next year, k?