alrighty, earthlings, i have to get these pictures out of my unposted folder before the summer solstace. you will not even believe the effort it required to get all these pictures on here. i have no idea why blogger made it so very difficult to upload them...comb the HTML code, perhaps the location of jimmy hoffa's body or the real story of the roanoke colony are of in there somewhere and big brother didn't want it published. either way, here's our family having boring pictorial fun in the snow of last weekend.
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right when it started in our front yard. normally i would not post such an abomination of a photo of me, but the bug just looks so elven that i couldn't resist
before daddy got home we mainly watched from indoors (look how fast his left hand was banging on the glass. baby blur!)
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both cats take turns demonstrating key dodgeball fundamentals in avoiding judah's grasp: scout dodges
danger dips
scout ducks (i find that pulling even her ear away is just insulting!)
"can you believe what's happening out there!?!?" (not even noticing that a cat has walked right into his lair!) 
soooooo cute with his pal danger (too bad his eyes were half closed)
"....hey, ma, when can we go out and play?" 
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because i love a good before and after: last year's snowfall at our house: 26 weeks pregnant...
11 months later: same spot, same jacket, different jeans, and an 8.5 month old judah has since been reflected over my U-axis. there is no explanation for my stupid face here. 
and, looks like we are not a fan after all. we attempted to drag him around on a cookie sheet clipped to a dog leash but that failed miserably (rope and laundry basket next time, duh! thanks HHH) 
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we went over to the dukes' place on saturday to play with uncle jake and aunt jackie and judah's cousins who are staying there while the grandukes are in the bahamas (hey, jealousy).
shiver my cuteness in the alaskan outback.
we built a colossal snowman: here judah stands in for the snowman's third...er, ball, making him about 6 feet tall (daddy is hiding behind)
we built a colossal snowman: here judah stands in for the snowman's third...er, ball, making him about 6 feet tall (daddy is hiding behind).
and then on the tippy top with daddy and uncle jake there for support
and then on the tippy top with daddy and uncle jake there for support.
after sophie's insistence that we "knock him down!" we made a tiny stunt-snowman that she was allowed to raze. here she is on her adorable approach vector of destruction
chest compressions won't bring him back now, sweetie.
after sophie's insistence that we "knock him down!" we made a tiny stunt-snowman that she was allowed to raze. here she is on her adorable approach vector of destruction 
chest compressions won't bring him back now, sweetie..
jake tried to pelt a huge snowball at the snowman and accidentally grazed sophie. here she is exacting revenge
jake tried to pelt a huge snowball at the snowman and accidentally grazed sophie. here she is exacting revenge.
our eclectically attired snowfriend (darts are his mouth and 3D avatar specs are his shades). as was often the case during their childhood, jesse's a lover, jake's a fighter.
our eclectically attired snowfriend (darts are his mouth and 3D avatar specs are his shades). as was often the case during their childhood, jesse's a lover, jake's a fighter.
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