So... it's been well over a year since I ventured into the land of xanga.  I promise nothing.  Except this post.  Being a mom of two is time consuming.  BUT... living in the city has its perks... like wireless internet... and therefore I feel like updating.  It really wasn't so fun on the old dial-up connection.  Although I'm just realizing that we've lived in the city and have had wireless for... oh let's see... about 6 months now.  So I can't really blame the not-updating on that either.  Do I have to defend my lack of updating?  I think not.  Life will go on.  I promise.

Mainly, I wanted to send my mom pictures of my girls, and it's easier to put them on here.  Well, at least more  beneficial since thousands of people can gawk at them instead of just my mom.  And dad.  And sister.

I wish you could see my little girls right now.  Katriel is dressed in hot pink Adidas pants, with a horrific looking t-shirt that says "Playa Del Carmen, Mexico."  It has a scary looking monkey that has a little flap over its mouth.  You can flip the mouth up to reveal a scary mouth of teeth.  The t-shirt is paint stained and very faded.  So now you're thinking, "Wow!  Those people must be rich and go to all-inclusive resorts in Mexico and bring t-shirts back for their little girl.  How sweet!"  Wrong.  We inherited the t-shirt in a bag of hand-me downers from a family at church.  On the other hand, Moriah is dressed in an adorable pink and brown polka-dotted corduroy dress that she wore to church this morning.  Yes, they are different.  But we love them both as much as any parents could.

Anyway, back to the pictures.

This is a "before" shot at Justin and Jess's wedding:

And this would be the "after" shot:

This is our ever-smiling Moriah Beth.  She's four months old already.  Hard to believe.

The rest of these pictures are from our trip to Oregon a week ago.  It is such beautiful country out there.  And the bonus was spending time with Matt & Becky & co.  Wait, they were the reason we ventured to the beautiful country.

And this would be our little monkey showing off the fruits of her labors yesterday.  She managed to topple off the toilet (on which she was standing) and whack her head on the cabinet corner.  I pretty much freaked out when I saw the blood streaming down her face, but I remained relatively calm.  Took her to the doctor and he glued it shut.  Just like that.  Glued it shut.  Amazing technology they have these days.

and..... she's TALKING!!!!  ok, so not complete sentences or anything, but hey, she's repeating words we say!!!  her two favorite words are "da-da" and "bye-bye."  i'm not sure she actually associates da-da with her daddy, but she repeats it when we say it.  when we ask her to say bye-bye, sometimes she waves and sometimes she'll actually say bye-bye with her mouth.  it's so exciting, and yet i'm sitting here saying, "where has my baby gone?!!!"

the picture below was taken on Mother's Day