Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Easter 2010

Dying eggs with the cousins.




Everyone out for the big Easter Egg Hunt on Sunday.

Evie got really into this, she was bound and determined to stuff as much candy as she could into her mouth at one time, and that required a lot of eggs.

Mel being such a good mom and helping Lennix eat his candy, its a hard job but somebody's got to do it. JK

Its a tradition in my home to hide the baskets too, so as we get older the hiding places get crazier and crazier, this is where Matt found his basket.

Searching for eggs

Andy was so proud of himself when he found his basket I just had to take a picture of him.


Sisters


I have no idea what Brooklyn was doing in this picture. I think it is one creative pose.

Andy has a gift, he can stick his belly out so far he looks pregnant and here is a picture with him and Mel to prove it, so i guess he is about 16 weeks. Sorry to tell everyone the good news this way, suprise!! Andy is expecting.

How many kids can we fit on a tire swing? More then I thought actually.



She is reflecting on her wonderful day full of candy, this is the face of true joy.

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Young's Dairy with Papa and Nana

We decided to take a picture of each of us making a funny face, they turned out pretty funny.
Brooklyn

Papa

Nana

Evie

Tabby

Andy

Maddie


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Evie loved the goats. She even tried to kiss them, which is not a shocker if you know Evie at all she loves to kiss everyone. She is definitly not a shy one.

This cow was extremely friendly. He loved being petted and scratched and would lick their hands, it was really cute to see the girls play with him.




We have been taking the girls here since Brooklyn was a baby. We have so many pictures of them with this cow through out the years, man time flies.

This is all Maddie wanted to do the whole time was play on the tractor. She waited in line to get on this thing 3 different times.

Evie was so happy to finally get her turn.


Thursday, April 8, 2010

Washington D.C Trip with the Talbots


The Natural History Museum









This is the ring that Andy is going to buy me one day. I wish.

This exhibit was Maddie's favorite part, she could have stayed and looked at all the pretty diamonds forever. Her favorite though of course was the yellow diamond.










These are some Bad A hunters. Look at the details of this picture, its crazy.



The Washington Monument
This picture was taken after our crazy adventure by the Washington Monument. While andy was taking a picture of me and the girls, our stroller got caught up in a wind tunnel and started swirling towards andy and hit him. It kept going after that and so I went after it and right before it hit some little kid I jumped on it to stop it, but did it stop, NO, I surfed on it while it carried me for a while then as I fell on my bum I finally caught it and stopped it. By this point we have an audience, because of course a ton of people had to be there to see me fall on my bum. We were laughing so hard we couldn't breathe. This whole trip was full of crazy unexpected adventures just like that one.




The Temple

It was like 8pm when we got to the temple. The kids were in their pajamas because we thought we would just go look at it, but then we had to take pictures then pictures led to going inside the visitors center, and then a nice sister missionary was kind enough to give the kids a little presentation about the savior, which ended the night perfectly.



The kids decided to make their own version of the Washington monument while we were having a picnic outside, doesn't it look just like it. We did have to break up a fight between brooklyn and lennix though about whether or not it should have a stick coming out the top of it.

American History Museum





You can't see it very well because of the glare but this is Abraham Lincoln's original hat and we were trying to make it look like Andy was wearing it. We are so cool.


Maddie took this picture, not bad huh.


The girls loved seeing the original shoes from The Wizard of Oz movie.


This is me and my best buddy Mel, I don't know what I would do without her.






We had the cool stroller I guess because that was where everyone wanted to be.

The White House


Maddie and Jensen catching some alone time.


The Metro
The Metro was the kids favorite part of this whole trip. They loved riding the "train"

The Holocaust Museum
There were a lot of people in Washington the week we went and the tickets went too fast for the holocaust museum, so we only got to go into the first part of it.

The Lincoln Memorial







The whole gang.