Seriously folks, we have been super busy around this joint! There are still lots of ribbons and bows to play with and you know how a girl likes her bling!! Anyhoo, here are some photos of our Festivus. Air your grievances later. Serenity now!!!

Our 1st gift that we opened Christmas Eve. Marigny is doing most of the opening....
Artist Lucy!! Don't tell my sister but I heard that if you get these special crayons wet you can use them as face paints.....I know, what were our parents thinking?! Don't worry, we will be sure to create some Kodak moments of that!

Artist Marigny!

And here is Christmas morning. To quote Lula Mae, "Oh, wow!".

Busy, busy, busy, open, open, open....

Play, play, play......

Family Photo Christmas 2007

After all that we needed some cuddle time with Uncle Jonathan.....

And a little R and R with Papa Bear.......

Then we got all dressed up and played yahtzee with Nana and Grandad.

Uncle Dan and the Bookends (Lucy left, Marigny right)
Grandma Jan and some Christmas-Crashing Bookends!! Ann left, Gregor right
We went out for lunch at the Walker the day after Christmas. There were lots of neat pictures to look at by Frida Kahlo. All that museum air made us thirsty!

Grandma, Marigny, Lucy and Nana

We went up North for New Years and there were presents wrapped with ribbons and bows waiting for us there! Auntie Lisa picked out these adorable cowgirl shirts, yee-haa! Lucy

Maringy

Thanks for making Festivus 2007 so much fun!! Wishing you all a happy, healthy and peaceful 2008!!!!

Love, Maringy and Lucy

Sigh, when is Santa going to get here? We have been waiting and waiting.....

(Lucy)

And how do we know who the real Santa is? There are a lot of impostors out there!
(Marigny)

Is that Santa?

Gooodness! We think that Santa looks a tad grumpy, we don't want him to come to our house!

Personally, I think that was the handsomest Santa in the history of Santas!!

Whatchou talkin' 'bout Willis?!

We know that jolly 'ole Santa couldn't forget about us!

We've been real good this year......
(Lucy)

Honest!
(Marigny)

We'll just keep waiting and waiting............

We had our first fieldtrip on Thursday to the Warner Lee & Rose Nature Center. (we can't make the underline go away, grrrrrrr....) That is our teacher, Margie. First she showed us how to make some animal tracks in the snow.....

Next we learned about bones.....(Lucy)

We weren't the only cute little ladies at the Nature Center. Our good friend Johanna, was with us too! There we are, feeling a fox fur and looking at a fox skull...(Marigny)

We discovered a new kind of turtle, the Soft Shelled Turtle. Did you know they can breath through their skin and stay underwater for up to 5 hours?! What, you didn't know I was a genius?!!..... (Lucy)

And there was a larger than life model of a Pitcher Plant. Yes, I am a genius too.... (Marigny)

All that learning made us hungry so we had a Ladybug Club Picnic with our Moms. Thanks for a great day Sarah and Johanna! Love, The Bookends

HAT BLOGGING!

I am up to here with hat blogging. Do I seem happy about wearing all the hats?!

-Maringy

Do I look happy here? Nope.

Here? Nope.

And what about here? Nope.

I am just going to stick my noggin in this toy so they can't put any more hats on me.....sigh......

Oh-me-oh-my!!! Marigny stood up on her own for the first time last Saturday and then this happened today.....

Here are the little ladies sharing a smooch.....

Here is Yaya-Marigny practicing to stand and walk but it looks an awful lot like baby-yoga.

THIS JUST IN.....
Looks like Grandma is cancer free!! Thanks to all of you out there who have kept her in your thoughts through all of this! Damn the cancer and damn the Cowboys!

It' been a crazy couple of months. Things have calmed down around our house and we are waiting for snow! (Lucy left, Marigny right)


Last week was Thanksgiving. We would like to thank Auntie Kristy for sharing her pumpkin cheesecake with us. Can you think of a better way to practice our fork-skills? (Lucy)


Maringy


One of our favorite things to eat is apples.....(Marigny left, Lucy right)


And we LOVE to crawl around naked.....peek!


There is a lot to see from our living room window..... (Lucy left, Marigny right)


One day we when we looked out the window there was Grandad! So we asked him in for coffee and toast.... (Lucy left, Marigny right)


Since we couldn't be with our Grandma and Papa Bear for Thanksgiving we had an early celebration with all those crazy Umhoefers!! Great Grandpa Art and Great Grandma Dot made it all the way up North from the Falls.....


Grandpa Art read lots of books with us.... (Marigny left, Lucy in lap)


To bulk up for winter we are learning to forage in the yard.....(Marigny)


And drive in our cars to the co-op for some real food.....(Marigny left, Lucy right)


Alas, poor Lucy had a car accident and had to be consoled by Papa Bear.....we will post that video as soon as we get a chance....


This is our Dad's attempt at humor....a "basket-ball".....you know, he can really cramp my style sometimes.....(Marigny)


Mom's college-pal, Becky, and her son, Owen, visited all the way from Arizona....


Owen and Marigny sittin' in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g......


We want to give a shout-out to Mary Jane for sending us these sweaters....about a year ago....yup, they still fit!! Thanks for keeping us warm! (Lucy left, Marigny, right)


And finally, we are giggling with joy over the arrival of our new twin amigos, Maghnus and Gavin!!!


Welcome to twindom little buddies!!!! (Gavin front, Maghnus back)

We got together with our "Girl Posse" yesterday. All of our Moms and Dads looked like fools waving their hands in the air, jumping up and down and making oogity-boogity sounds just to get us all to look at the camera.

Left to Right:
Maringy, Lucy, Ashley, Meadow, Lauren, Jaydin and Adison

Mom and dad finally gave us our birthday presents from Uncle Jonathan. We had been waiting and waiting!







We learned that Chileans have small heads!



Then we "hung out" in our hammocks!







Here's the a video of the present opening. We are not good at opening presents yet, so it is a pretty long video.





Thanks Uncle Jonathan!!!!! We love you!!!!

Lucy and Marigny walking around the house tonight. Enjoy!

Check out http://shutterwi.blogspot.com/ to see some pics of Nick and his chainsaw skills!

Brrrrr! We are up North again to have an early Thanksgiving with Grandma and Papa Bear. There is some snow on the ground and a fire in the furnace. It was still warm enough a couple of weeks ago to play outside without jackets. Marigny found some fluff......

And Lucy found a leaf....

Maringy pushing Lucy in one of their new walkers......