Cover Girls!

We are lucky enough to have
a dear friend who is a Photo Editor
at a major weekly newspaper. A few
weeks ago, she had the awesome idea of putting
our baby girls on the COVER...
and
here we are on our way to the photo shoot
with the help of their proud auntie Myfanwi!!!
(without her, we wouldn't have made it!!!)



the shoot:


winding down after the shoot:







(sophie in blue and pescha in pink)

hanging with cousin Annahid, Grandma and Grandpa!

Happy Birthday Brunch for Jodi Lee!

Big Girls

First steps!!!

Pescha the toddler!

We are pleased to announce...

the arrival of our newest family member...

meet Sunny
aka. Cal2
a life size Cal surrogate
xoxoxo, thank you Kate!
as you can tell, it's love!

Daddy does not approve of this.

These feet are made for Walking!!

at Pescha and Sophie's ONE year appointment,
we found out the following:
they are 30" tall
they weigh 21lbs
and their heads are 46cm

amazing!!!

and as we were waiting for the dreaded shots,
Pescha took her first steps in the play area!!!
YEAH!!!!



and these lovely little shoes are from
auntie Myfanwi, who was visiting us last week!!!!



xoxoxo

Happy Birthday Grandma Cilla!!!

We love you!!!!!!!!!
xoxoxoxo
s+n+p+s

We're Back! What a week!!!

We had a lot of firsts (and seconds):

First Plane Trip!
Second Plane Trip!

First Obscenely Long Wait to Check Bags at the Airport!





First 1-1/2 Hour On-The-Plane Delay!
First through Seventh Hours in Transit!

(here we are on the ground - hour two, babies asleep, what a crime!)

First, Second & Third Nights in a Hotel Room!


First Birthday!



First Birthday Cake!



First shared birthday celebration,
but not the last - great uncle Phil Leffel turned 90!


First Family Reunion!


(poor pescha was so sad and not feeling well at all)


First Cajun Boil!

First Cousins (well, mine, not theirs!)


Four Generations: (vivian)Shelton,
(priscilla)Miller, (nikki) Kimboko
& (pescha and Sophie)Samiljan :)


Great-Grandma Vivian and Pescha


First Corn-on-the-Cob!

Hugs from a second cousin once removed!








First Meeting with Great Grandma Vivian Miller!

(pescha with daddy, great grandma vivian in the middle and sophie with mommy)

and Great (Great) Aunts, Great (Great) Uncles 1st and 2nd Cousins!

WOW!

almost too much to talk about it all...
here are some pictures...


first fight over a book, well, no,
just checking to see if you're reading or not!

first cell phone! first book!

and much to my delight, they can sleep in a brightly lit room!!!!!!



someone say "snack", visiting auntie chel's hotel room in Portland...

for all the pictures:

Portland Trip/1st Birthday/Shelton Family Reunion 2008!