Unless you're family or an "honorary arden" anything found in Ardenland will be of no consequence to you. But since you've entered the city limits, you will be subjected to meangingless tales of two girls, boring monologues of a housewife, and the occasional pictoral montage of family fun. Thank you in advance for site seeing. We're so glad you came!

The youngest resident of Ardenland, Tori, is 4 months old now. Her stunning blue eyes captivate anyone near her. She's not rolling over yet, but working on that trick. She talks, cries, and sleeps loudly. Matt calls her Volume. When she wakes up too early crying, Matt tells me to turn the Volume down. I think it's a defense mechanism. As the 2nd child, she may not be heard if she's not breaking the sound barrier. I think she's the more easy going of the two, but then again she is only 4 months.

The 3rd person born in Ardenland, Sophia, is almost 2 years old. She repeats anything you say - to the best of her ability-most recently, stinky, nasty, armpit, (those go together :). She can "count" to 10 in Spanish -- well she repeats after me! When we forget to pray at meals, she says "pay" and reaches for our hands. She also uses "pay" to stall when going to bed.....do WE REALLY pray without ceasing??, cuz this almost 2 year old doesn't seem to cease! Her latest trick is singing. Somehow she knows how to make anything a microphone. Nothing is intelligible to us, but she does it wholeheartedly. She loves drums (boom boom), guitars ("tars"), flutes (woowoo), pianos....

WOW! Ardenland sure was boring until August 2006 & January 2008! When it was a small town of 2, not much was going on :) Good thing we got two more townspeople.

Thanks for passing through