For my kids, the park will never get old. They could stay there on the swings and slides all day if we let them. I love the park because it's FREE and it wears them out. ;-)
Brayden is resting in the shade before running back to the playground.
Brayden, Zac and Noah love playing in the sand.
For Easter this year, we went to Church and had an Easter Egg Hunt at my Dad's house. Some of my Aunts, Uncles and Cousins came over to join in on the fun too.
Brayden did such a good job putting the eggs into his stuffed Dinosaur basket.
We couldn't pass up taking this picture.
All the kids enjoyed Darie putting plastic eggs all over her face.
On our walk today at the park we saw a huge Soft Shell Turtle. We have one of our own in a fish tank at home. The one we saw at the park is at least 3 times bigger.
This is our turtle, named Turtle. Original, I know.
On St. Patrick's Day, during the day, we went to Chuck E Cheese's with my best friend Teresa and her kids and Carrie and Noah. We all had a great time, especially the kids. Unfortunately Teresa and her kids are going home to Colorado on Wednesday. We have been so fortunate to see them as much as we have while they have been here. I have gotten used to seeing Teresa so much during these last 3 weeks, that it is going to be hard for me to see her go. She and I have known each other since elementary school but became really close in high school. She has four kids named Michael, Allysun, Mitchell and William that she is a wonderful mother to.
Me and Teresa (after 4 kids, she is still a twig)
Brayden and Noah (twins again)
Zachary is climbing through the sky tubes.
Teresa and Mitchell are playing Air Hockey while William is lounging in his stroller.
We had to pose with Chuck
That is Brayden's funny face he always does. Noah finds it very interesting.
Our two dogs somehow got out of our backyard without us knowing last week. We think they were only out for about 10 minutes before they both came running back. Rosco, the boy, ran right past Ben and straight into to backyard. Fawn, the girl, on the other hand was not so quick to run past Ben because she was not putting her weight on her right back leg. At a closer look, Ben saw that both of her back legs were bleeding. Zac was so sweet, he was very concerned about her and was sad to see that she was hurt.
We rushed her to the Emergency Pet Clinic that is just at the end of our street. After some stitches and a $738.00 dollar bill later, she was pretty groggy but doing better. The vet was not able to tell us if her injuries were caused by an animal attack or if she was hit by something.
The entire time that Fawn was gone, Rosco was in a panic and would not stop barking. When we put them to bed that night we had to seperate them by putting a gate between them so Rosco wouldn't lick her wounds. When I checked on them before I went to bed Rosco was just sitting there watching Fawn sleep. It was so cute to see the concern on his face.
A week later, she is walking a lot better. Every so often she will lift her leg up to keep her weight off of it.
Ben set up the boys new swing today. Zachary was the first to break it in while Brayden was taking a nap. He loves it, now he never has to go the park again. Ha ha, yeah right!
Ben rescued a Humming bird that was trapped in our garage. He brought it in the house to show Zachary, who was very surprised to see a bird that is so small.
Don't worry, the Humming bird was not harmed. Ben let it go in the backyard and it flew straight to one of our trees.
Zac was so happy to see a real live marching band.
Carrie, Zac and Ben cheering on the parade.
From left to right... Me, Brayden(in the stroller), Dan with Noah on his shoulders, Carrie, Sharla, my dad, and Sandy and Zac are sitting on the ground. Ben is taking the picture.
There's Dan walking in the parade.
Zac loves to dance, especially with a live band playing.
My extremely generous cousins Charlene and Mark called me yesterday and invited me to go with them and some of their friends to a Keith Urban concert. It was awesome! I have never been to his concert before and he was just amazing. I also got to see my other cousin Elisa, which was great. I haven't seen her since before she had her new beautiful baby girl Niamh (pronounced Neeve) in January.
Carrie Underwood was the opening act. I was so excited because I love her music. It was really two great concerts all in one night. For one of the songs Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood performed together, that was a real treat. We had a pretty late night but it was definitely worth it!
Me and my cousin Elisa.
The far couple is Charlene and Mark.
Me and my cousin Charlene.
It's hard to see but that is Carrie Underwood performing.
Keith Urban performing.
Charlene and her sister-in-law Carolina.
Noah fell asleep with his bottle in his mouth, too cute!
Brayden is knocked out too.
Zac had fun playing in the sand.
Both the boys woke up in time to go on the swings.
Zac and Brayden took a ride together too.
Brayden got mommy's red hair.
