Monday, June 15, 2009

Strawberry Pickin'




We went strawberry picking last Sunday. The kids loved it. They definitely picked more than they ate but they didn't want to stop. The berries were gorgeous! We made strawberry shortcake, jam, and did a lot of snacking!

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Visit with Family at the Coast


Playing baseball with daddy!

Playing with G'ma Dot's dog Chipper.
Making beaded bracelets with Aunt Kathie.

Sarah with Andrew's dog Dakota.

Yummy S'mores!


Cousin Molly with Sarah and Caleb. She was so wonderful with them and they really loved playing with her!

Sarah, Caleb, Andrew and Molly hangin' at the beach.



More fun pix at the beach.

David's Aunt Kathie and Uncle Dan were here from Alaska. We headed over to the coast and spent the day with them along with Aunt Vicki from Illinois! It was great to see everyone! The kids loved playing and a "camping" day. Some unfortunate camper trouble also meant that Dan and Kathie spent 2 nights here with us and we got to have a nice visit!

New Sandbox


Daddy and Papa made the kids a sandbox for their birthday. They love it! It's super messy but well worth it!

Birthday



Enjoying very messy cupcakes left over from the birthday party. Super messy but super fun!



I decorate the kids' bedroom doors every year and the first two pix are them on bday coming through the doors. The third pic is them in their playroom full of balloons. They loved it!

Picture from the party with their friends making kaleidoscopes.



First time with bubblegum!

Blowing out the candles!

In their Little Einsteins, we are 3, birthday t's.

The "cake."

Monday, April 13, 2009

Wildlife Safari

The kids and I went to Wildlife Safari back in March. It was a great day that started out with a bang. Sarah got sick about half way there. We had to stop and it took every last wipe that I had to clean her up. What a trooper though. I asked her if she wanted to go home and she said no that she wanted to go to the animal park. She was fine the rest of the day thank goodness. Luckily I had some of Caleb's jeans in the car but we stopped to pick her up a new shirt!

The animals were more active than I have ever seen. The bears were playing in the water, the hippo was rolling around and jumping out of the water, and a giraffe walked really close to the car. The kids loved it. The only thing we missed was the elephants. They were too busy with commercial ventures. The park does a lot of money making gimicks now like the "elephant car wash." For $20 you can have the elephants dump large buckets of water on your car with you in it. Then you still have to drive down the dirt road to the safari exit. HMMM......

Milking the poor fake cow. This cow had been through a lot and wasn't in very good shape!
In the petting zoo they had a few of the typical animals but they were all miniature. Pretty fun!

Caleb climbing in with the miniature donkey.We rode the little train. Kinda quick and silly (don't see anything) but the kids of course loved it. Here are the men, on the look out! Caleb with Zachary and Camden...our friends who met us there.


Petting the giant tortoise. He just walked around while kids mobbed him. The kids were pretty excited.

Gotta love the cheesy photo op!

Me with my super-cute, little munchkins on the train. What a crazy busy day. But very fun!

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Easter Fun


The kids checking out their baskets this morning. The Easter Bunny brought them great new books and some very fun puzzles.

Yes...we're still 2...barely! This is at the community egg hunt. It was a little disappointing but the kids had fun. We went to Decker nursery after to pick up some flowers and found out they had a hunt about to start. It looked great. The kids got to hold a little bunny and pet a baby lamb. A much better choice for next year!





Decorating and showing off the eggs they did this year. We let them dip the eggs themselves this year. Caleb had multi colored fingertips that he was pretty excited about. Sarah, of course, had not a drop on her.


Hugging the bunny! They love him this year!

Monday, April 6, 2009

Easter Bunny

The kids went to see the Easter Bunny this weekend. The minute Sarah was out of the stroller, she ran to hug him. Caleb just kept saying Easter Bunny over and over. After we left, Sarah said I forgot to tell him something. We went back and she said, "I forgot to tell you I love you!" The photographer kept telling Caleb to smile and this was as good as it got. In the other pix, he's squinting and wrinkling up his face. He's totally got the cheesy camera smile down!