It’s our anniversary!  We’ve been married 9 years and together 12… best years of my life!  Love you, Mike Pond!

Anna Kate loves to shove grapes in her cheeks, just like squirrels do with acorns.  She also likes to lick her peanut better and jelly off the bread and then eat the bread of her PB&J sandwiches, eat the bun first then the weenie/patty of hot dogs/hamburgers/corndogs, the cheese first then the bread of her pizza, and the icing first then the cupcake/cookie.  And we still love her.  A lot.

We had the sweetest burial for Mike’s grandmother and remember her fondly.

I told Mike I got a picture of Noelle kissing Jesus’ hands, and she overheard me and said, “I wasn’t kissing them, Mom, I was praying.”  Her heart is so beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MXmlKd9Xb8

So, Anna Kate found this Japanese toy on youtube.  I don’t know how, but she did (we let her surf videos, supervised, of course).  Anyway, she always goes back to this one in her favorites.  She even repeats the Japanese that they say in it!  So I emailed my Japanese friend, Tomomi, to see if she could find it for us and then we would pay her for it and the shipping.  She looked into it and this little toy cash register is $134 + $50 shipping!!!  I thanked her for looking into it and told Anna Kate she could just keep enjoying this toy via youtube!  Just thought this little shopping quest was interesting!

Tonight we got a surprise skype call from Curt!  He was smiling as big as always when we screamed, “CURT!” when we first saw him smack dab in front of our screen!  He looked up to something… like he got us!  So cool!!! 

Happy 46th birthday, Curtis Mitchell!  We love you!

Discovering sugar!

Rose was taking her cake eating job very seriously.  By the end of it, she was pounding on it with both hands!

So sweet!

So fun having lots of little girls around here… we’ll be adding a new girl cousin to the mix in March… Mike’s brother Stephen and his wife Susana are about to introduce baby Noemi to the world, and we can’t wait!