Friday, April 17, 2009

A little bit of Easter!

I didn't make it home with very many pictures, but we had a wonderful and relaxing visit to The Falls! The kids dyed eggs with Chapman (pics on Alli's camera!) and made easter crafts. The girls got their hair braided by Aunt. We ate several DELICIOUS meals and hung out on the patio. Sunday was filled with easter baskets from the easter bunny, church and easter lunch, and an egg hunt! Fun-filled days!!



Claire's new baby that drinks a bottle, burps, then goes to sleep! She also laughs and cries! Claire has been taking such good care of (you guessed it!) Baby Claire!


Jack and his Bakugons! I couldn't tell you what these are if you paid me a million dollars, but he could talk your ear off!!


Maddie in her cute new hat and slippers!


Ready for church



I just love these next pictures!



The table set for yummy dinner Saturday night!


The girls who set it!


The chef!

Jack's Award!

Jack got an award at school for trustworthiness! Love that sweet boy!



Jack and his little buddy Luke were so excited and happy to be up there together! And that's our sweet next door neighbor, Brooke, next to Luke.


Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Claire's room and photo shoot!

I put it off until after Christmas, but I finally got sweet Claire into a big girl bed! It took me forever to find bedding I liked and get everything just so! But she's been enjoying her new room for a while now, and I've been meaning to take a few pictures! I had also promised Claire we could take some pictures in to show her teacher, so this morning we headed up to do that! After we took a few shots of her room, we ended up having a little photo shoot! I was trying to practice with some of the settings on my camera since there was quite a bit of natural light. And for some reason, Claire was in a somewhat agreeable mood and did a bit of modeling for me! My photography skills are still quite lacking, but we got a few cute ones. Please excuse Claire's around the house, leaving town, so don't want to dirty up cute stuff outfit:)





showing off her night light










She even let me take her hair out of the ponytail (Claire's hairstyle of choice!) for the photo shoot! Sorry, she's not praying in these!






She kept wanting to see the pictures and after she saw herself looking down like this, it was all she wanted to do!!




Let's play a little dress up!

looking down again! she only wanted to take pictures in the chair by the bed!







pretending to sleep! you can kind of see her cute little teacup of paci's on the night stand (don't judge me - we'll deal with it when she's 3!!)


Special thanks to my sweet sister for helping me do this room and for painting cute things for me!! She painted the flowers above the dress up clothes and cute "rejoice" canvas! Couldn't have done it without her!

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Luau!

We had a luau at the kids' school tonight. Everything looked so cute - darling decorations that my few pictures don't do justice! Lots of fun things to do!

A few pictures to remember the night!




photo by Jack!


photo op - what's wrong with this picture??


that's better!


another cute couple


bean bag toss


waiting outside the gym after refusing to go in - too dark and music too loud!!


waiting in line for hula hoop toss


mom, please stop taking our picture!


seriously!


And for a trip down memory lane - last year this event was 50's. Look how much everyone's grown in a year! Stop please! :(