Mother of three

Friday, April 16, 2010

Spring Break take 2

We went to the grass maze one day it is one of Caleb's favorite places to go.....notice the windy conditions and the t-shirts.....

Two days later.....that is right after t-shirts and the park, we woke up to this.....crazy at the end of March...

This morning was very windy and cold, so we stayed outside long enough to get a few pictures and they were wet and cold so we went inside.

We decided to stay home for Spring Break, much to my disliking, I had all these ideas from going on a 5 state trip, to going to see my family in Florida. But here we are, at home, but we did have fun. The events are in no particular order.....We went to the zoo - thanks to our passes, it was a free day (minus the cost of gifts at the end) and it was fun. There were quite a few people there (not as bad as half price day with Rick and Kristi in July), but we managed to find some cool places to look at animals. The tiger was actually out and walking around (this is a first for us all year). Funny enough, the stroller was used mainly by Caleb....go figure....

My camera was out of battery, so I have very few pictures to share....had to take the battery out and put it back in to get one picture. It made me enjoy the day with the kids instead of with my camera - I think I won :)

Cute, eh?

Lunchtime, we brought a simple lunch and ate in the kids area. The table next to us brought a huge lunch and I was really hoping they would ask us to join them because their food looked WAY better. We had to settle with our PB&J sandwiches....

Not the greatest picture, I know, but it is cute nonetheless...the only shot I could get in the time I had (remember, between pictures, I had to pull the battery out and put it back in in order to get a picture - the kids weren't in on waiting for the camera).

We had fun as a family and that is what mattered, right?

The Girls' new room

Here are the pictures....finally. The girls room is complete. This view is inside the room looking at the closet.

Here we are standing by the closet looking at the door that goes out to the rest of the house.

Standing at the door looking into the room...

And finally, my favorite wall, the wall you see when you walk into the room. The polka dots turned out great. I actually painted the profile picture hanging up, aren't you impressed? The girls love their new room and I had SOO much fun putting it together...

Chloe helped out with the painting...this picture should have been at the beginning, but I did it wrong....

A big change, don't you think?

Caleb's room, coming up....

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

While the boys are away, the girls will play

Okay, so while the boys were away, the girls got to play. Friday night we went to Chick-fil-a for dinner (had 2 coupons only had to pay $3 for all three of us to eat), then we went to Berryliscious for yogurt :) Before we went to eat, we went to the park and I couldn't resist taking some adorable pictures of my girls....enjoy :)

This is their favorite ramp to ride down...today however, Keira got going a little too fast and I was too busy taking pictures...she bit it at the end, but no tears were shed, I think she kindof liked the speed.

love this picture!!!

Keira's "silly" face

Saturday morning we spent the morning eating pancakes and hanging out. We went outside and went to the park again this time Chloe rode her bike and she didn't want to come home, we rode in the parking lot for what seemed like forever. Then we came home and did the sidewalk chalk thing....some more cute pictures :)

Keira jumping and very cute too.

Here she is counting the number of jumps....

again...just so cute, wish I would have had a video recorder, she was just so stinkin cute :)

Chloe playing hopscotch

It was a bunch of fun hanging out with the girls....also very nice when Dad and Caleb came home too.

Camping with dad...

Caleb and Josh went on their first camping trip on Friday. They had a bunch of fun and were apparently too busy to take pictures.... :) I am so glad that they were able to go and spend some quality time together. Thanks in a large part to Jeremy and Cindy letting them borrow the tent and air mattress to help with the comfort factor.

Swinging and notice on the side where there is a walking stick. Caleb loves to get walking sticks when we go camping, so Josh bought him this stick either to have every time we go camping so they don't have to look for one, or to make him feel better because another boy broke the stick that they had found.

New patio set

We got a new patio set for Christmas from Josh's parents and today was the first day we were able to use it.

Enjoying mac and cheese along with fresh fruit and veggies....we love eating outside!

Many more great meals outdoors...can't wait!

Caleb's first field trip

I was fortunate enough to go with Caleb on his first field trip. We went on the bus - in the back, you know, the bumpiest seat....but we had a bunch of fun.

Here we are on the bus waiting to get going....

Here is Caleb with his field trip buddy Jacob...sweet boy, it was nice that there were so many parents going because we only had two kids to keep our eyes on...

They had this climbing thing that the kids were climbing and completely making me nervous, but I snapped a shot of Caleb before telling him to get down.

After the park and picnic lunch, we went to see Beauty and the Beast the musical...it was good, many differences between the movie and the play, but good nonetheless. This is Caleb's class minus Caleb, he didn't want to get anywhere near the actors....