Friday, April 25, 2014

Spring Break!

started with a trip to the zoo with the Hoffman cousins -
Macey, Avery, Connor, Selah, Lindsey, Ethan, Kylie, Michael, and Piers. :)

The elephant family

Connor would have stayed and looked at this monkey for another 30 minutes - he liked the elephants and the monkeys the best he said.

:)

Friday started with a trip to the Children's museum - with the Barton cousins.

we had lots of fun playing in the water!  Connor was cracking us up about having to walk around in his wet swimsuit!

I asked him what his favorite part was and he said golfing with Dad.
Saturday = Easter Egg Hunt with the Barton family... 3rd generation (we've got to come up with a nick-name for this group!)

lunch with Aunt Sandy and Uncle Paul - and a birdhouse from the Easter Bunny!
  Saturday also included a trip to the mall for Chick-fil-a and the train ride... but those pictures are on Bill's iPod... so I'll have to add them in later!

Easter morning - found his basket - and all the yummy treats inside!
 Sunday after church we visited Mum-Mum Ritter, but again... no pictures of that at the moment...

had lunch with Barton family and got a good family Easter picture (thanks Sanders!)

dinner with the Hoffman's

the weather was so nice - we had lots of fun playing in the backyard before and after dinner - Connor cried when it was time to leave.
Whew.  This trip wore me out! :)  I am glad we had time to visit and see everyone while we were out - next time it will be as a family of four!

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Good News!

Every morning is Easter Morning from now on...

Every morning is resurection day, the past is over and gone! 

Happy Easter Everyone!

Friday, April 18, 2014

Seven Months

not exactly my most flattering picture... but recorded none the less...taken about 2 weeks ago...

We are reaching the home stretch here... and things are still looking good ~ only a few more weeks to go!

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Eggs

practicing his egg hunting at our house

found one!

dying Eggs - this year he was a great helper!




on Saturday Bill and Connor went to a park for an egg hunt

excited to find the eggs... but they really weren't "hiding"...



Monday, April 7, 2014

spring has arrived!




Two thumbs up for playing "soccer" in the front yard ... without snow, winter coat, or boots!

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

some of Connor's best coloring - for his teacher Miss Ruthie's birthday!

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

update... it's kinda boring...

The reason we haven't posted since Feb?

It's boring here.

We go to work/school, come home, eat dinner, play, go to bed.

Not much picture worthy action happening around here.

But... to recap what we've actually taken pictures of so far in March:

fancy pancakes for dinner

Bill holding MOON ROCKS from a borrowed exhibit at work

me at 6 months (plus a week...)
 Now that we *might* be done with the snow and boring winter, we may have something to start posting about soon! I hope so, anyway... ;)

Thursday, February 20, 2014

More Snow!

what do you do on a snow day?

"Do Science" was on Connor's list of keep busy so mom doesn't go crazy when it's snowing.

Bill was more than happy to help out!  Baking soda and vinegar can be so much fun!
what else do you do when it snows?

How about chop down some trees?  That's our shed... the trees on the edge of our property took quite the beating during the second snow/ice of the month.  Tom came and helped and the limbs are now cleared from our shed and the yard.


Connor wasn't sure how to get off the porch - he couldn't see the steps!

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Look who's back!




We were surprised to see Uncle Tom at our Super Bowl party earlier this month!  Michelle had gone the day before to pick him up, and was super sneeky and didn't tell anyone!  We walked in to their apartment and were greeted by our favorite member of the National Guard! :)

Needless to say, the Super Bowl wasn't really our main focus of the night!

Glad you are back Tom!

Saturday, February 8, 2014

Snow Day

We had some snow this week.  Monday was a snow day home from school, so Bill and Connor spent some time playing!

lots of snow... a total of about 8.5 inches

busy building

Frosty II is complete!

reading with Rudolph and Smoky - tired out after all that playing outside

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Connor's first ski trip

I'm SOOOOOO excited!!!!

Helmet on and ready to go!

First few moments were a little touch and go!  He did great though!

The "magic carpet" up to the top of the bunny slope

He LOVED it!!!  "I do it myself Dad" was what we heard all night!

Very thankful for a husband who can ski... backward.  That made the night much easier! :)

Do you think they had fun?  I don't think those smiles could get any bigger!