Sporting some bling

Yes, you are correct Uncle Greg- there is bling in our house. But only Maggie is lucky enough to sport it. Yesterday Mom got brave and took Maggie to get her ears pierced. We surprised Dad when he showed someone the blog at work and saw that Maggie's ears were pierced! (No worries, he knew we were going to do it at some point- he just didn't know when.) 

Guess Who?

Whose ear is this? Do you know?  

Potporrouri

Maggie got this dress from Gma Moffat for her birthday, it's the cutest dress on her!! We paired it with her new shoes from Target, she was one stylin' little girl in the church nursery this last week! Umm, no. We don't know what Sam is doing here either.
Who needs toys? This is the new game at this Moffat house. They love to plop and roll all over various soft things on the floor. This game is best when you also have a tea set mixed in the middle somewhere. But you win the 'most talented' award for the day if you can fall with a tea set spoon in your mouth and NOT gag yourself. The award most often goes to Sam.
I just wanted to post a pic for Gma Viertell of the kiddos on their 'cars'. As you can see Maggie is going full steam ahead into the coffee table.
 

Family Photo Time!

I'm not too sure why they had mom hold both kids....doesn't she do that enough as it is? :-)
We hope you enjoy our first 'official' family portrait! 

Random Thursday

The kids love their piano that Grandma and Grandpa Viertell got them for their birthday. You can play with it from any side- that works well for them! Uncle Ry and Aunt Michelle got them a tunnel (okay, technically it's Sam's...) - they LOVE IT. Sam was talking while the pic was taken- that's why the odd face.
Cute girl having tunnel time.
This is Maggie's new after dinner trick. We aren't too sure if we should be excited about it or not...!
 

We made it!

Thanks Ruth for your Birthday wishes via the blog world. We had a great 1st Bithday and enjoyed our cake....a lot. I thnk Sam actually still has some in his eye and ear.
Grandma Viertell came to spend the BirthDay with the kiddos and many a book were read.
We had a great weekend visiting and are excited to watch as the kids (we aren't 'babies' anymore, right?) are beginning to take their first steps. Watch out Mama! You're gonna be busy!!! 

Maggie

Ohh, the goofy new faces of Margaret Moffat, how they make us laugh. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do!


 

We just think these are cute...!

 

A little volcano homework

Eric will be taking 90 freshmen to various places at Mt. St. Helen's in October and thought that maybe he should actually go there before he takes the students. So last weekend Grandma and Grandpa Moffat (and Great Aunt Sue) watched the kids for the day so that Eric and I could visit the volcano. Behind Eric is Spirit Lake, it's about halfway covered in floating logs- trees that were killed by the blast in 1980. A quarter turn to the left presented a view of the crater of Mt. St. Helens. It was a beautiful day!
Can you see the railroad tie steps? There are over 450 of them. This was taken from about 2/3 of the way up. It's a rough climb at 4,000 elevation- but the view was worth it!
Eric took a little crawl through 2 trees that had fallen and then were covered by the lava flow. This was taken at the large end of the crawl.
 

Hop on Pop

When Leah needs a break (surprise, surprise!) Eric takes the kids out back. They enjoyed crawling back and forth over the top of pops.