Wednesday, May 06, 2009

The blessing of Andrea Briell Patomo

On May 3rd, 2009 we presented our baby girl to Heavenly Father. She was very calm and slept most of sacrament meeting. We are grateful to those who came to support us on such a special day.
















Happy 30th birthday Antti! We love you

We had a fun get together with all of our close friends and family for Antti's 30th birthday. My good friend made this cake because Antti is from Finland where berries are very common. We wanted to give him a little bit of his homeland at his party.
I am so happy that I have been able to spend these past 6 years with such an amazing man. He is truly the heart of our family. We love you Isi.







Park time!









Friday, January 09, 2009

Christmas Day

We had a great Christmas. Girls slept in until 7 am and Nana and Papa came to watch them open gifts. We have done this for 2 years in a row. We have enjoyed having them be a part of our Christmas morning. When Eila opened her new blanket she was SO EXCITED. She cuddled right up. It was nice to have Hannu with us also because we don't get to see him much.





Santa came for Christmas Eve!

This was so fun! Santa walked all the way from the North Pole to visit us. Eila happened to be sitting in the window when he walked up... She said and I quote: "Santa's walking down the sidewalk... Santa's coming up our driveway.... HEY SANTA'S COMING TO OUR HOUSE!!" It was very fun. She really enjoyed it. Liana not so much but she did watch.



Visiting Joulupukki

Of course Liana hated sitting on Santa's lap but Eila was starstruck. She was so excited to tell what she wanted. Eila had forgot to mention she wanted a new blanket because we had lost her original so since the line was so long to go back around we just decided to have her whisper it to him across the mall and he would hear it... Worked well :)









Craft day!

I saw these very inexpensive wooden toys that I thought the girls would love. They both picked out thier own. Liana picked a train and Eila picked a boat. It was a lot of fun to see them so happy.




















I know, I know.... Halloween is over

I just wanted to show you how cute our girls were!! Liana was a unicorn and Eila was a horse.





It will grow back..... I hope!

In October of last year we took the girls to get a shorter haircut because it was just becoming to much to deal with the screaming and crying over tangles. We took off at least 6 inches on Eila and 3 on Liana. It was a lot of hair and I was sad!!! It has been 4 months and I am not seeing to much regrowth yet but I hope for the future :)