Alaska Thanksgiving Adventure: Day 1

Two of the lovely ladies in our entourage!

Pioneer Peak

The sun at 1:00 PM. Totally wow.

A great view of the mountains

A very tired but resolute Orin, flying in from the NC, helps entertain Matti on the final leg of our journey

RE:

Serious reading requires a comfortable chair. Cute! Love and hugs

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Isabella's First Birthday!

We pledge there will be lots of pictures of this cake. This cake is quite possibly the greatest thing Dana has ever created (at least in the kitchen).

The Birthday Girl in her pretty birthday outfit

Cake

Cake

Ella's smash cake

More cake

Cookies, with special thanks to Ali for helping us accomplish the impossible

Did we mention there was cake?

Born three weeks apart, Isabella and Taylor with some very proud mommies

Pals Matti and Penelope entertain themselves in the sun room

Hmm, what do we have here?

Ohhh that's some nummy smash cake!

Just a few of the family and friends that stopped by

Here I am! Miss me yet?

Just a little tidying up in the sun room. Don't bother me, I'm creating.

On her "official" birthday, Ella tests her vintage by tasting her fist

Lots of presents left to open in Round II!

Matti is so good to help her sister open presents. It's a real sacrifice.

Ella instantly took to the cuddly new bear

Daddy and the girls!

Halloween 2011!

CUTEST - DUCKY - EVER!!!

Ella grabs some treats at the neighbor's (yeah some of these are out of sequence - long story)


Matti helps Daddy carve pumpkins - ewwww!

I hereby claim this jack-o-lantern in the name of the Isabellan Empire - now go get your own!

Bedtime, but not before helping put out the jack-o-lanterns!

Ellie Bean, what did we tell you about dipping into the candy we're handing OUT?

Matti's unicorn and Ella's duck, the closest we could get to a shot of the two of them together

Hittin' the bricks with the neighbor girls - six legs just made Matti that much faster

Hey guys, wait for me!

Our little ticked off gnome