T-Ball, Tike-A-Thon, Zoo...

Ethan batting at his first game



Ethan running to home




Bethany and her class after the Trik-a-Thon




Tyler being the STOP sign durring the Trik-a-Thon




Tyler and his class getting ready to do laps




Samantha enjoying a cookie




Bethany and Daddy at the zoo




Tyler and the monkeys!




Tyler and his best buddy Hayden at the zoo




Mommy and the girls at the end of the zoo trip!

Another milestone!

Well she is hitting them quickly! Miss. Samantha has reached her yet another milestone...she is sitting now!!!!
Here are a few pictures

Science Spectrum

Well I did it, I survived our first big school field trip!!! I must say, traveling 60+ miles each way on a school bus is not my idea of fun! Seeing all those kids jumping around and not one wearing a seat belt (when most of them should still be in car seats!!!) for those of you that don't know, I am a STICKLER for car seats!!!
Anyway, we had a lot of fun...we got to see the dinosaur exhibit, (Ethan's favorite) we got to see and touch and play with all kinds of neet things, we got to see how things worked and sound moves and bubbles...it was a fun day. Here are some pictures of what we did.

Samanthas new trick

Talking to my mom on the phone yesterday morning, we were talking about Samantha and how little she is compared to my niece and blah blah blah, not sitting up yet, but trying blah blah blah. I was telling her that Sam loves tummy time and she will lay in her quilt my mom made and just play with her toys for a long time, very contently. All of a sudden she got one knee underneath her, mom said she would be crawling with in the week. I said, no way! it will take her another few weeks to even get the other one there, then she has to get up on ALL 4's....well this is what I caught her doing! (please excuse the nakedness, we are trying to clear up a diaper rash by letting her go naked a few times a day!)

TAG--from Kristi

OK, never done this before but here it goes...
7 random things about me you may not know

1) I love to drink hot tea in the mornings, I can not start my day without! It is an "addiction" I required from my dad who spend a summer in Russia and brought the tradition back to us.

2) I was a nanny for Tadd's cousin in New Orleans while I was in College, that is how we met.

3) I am so totally afraid of wasps...there was one in my house yesterday and by the time I got my neighbor over, it was gone...it was terrible, all I did all day was look for it, well it finally came out of hiding and flew to the back door and Tadd killed it!!!! They chase me all the time, if I see one outside, I will drop what I am doing and run inside...it is quite pathetic.

4) I am so very allergic to cats and rabbits. we are talking about full blown asthma attack!! My Mother-In-Law had a cat in the house years ago and when she moves furniture around or vacuums, I can not be there.

5) I love scrapbooking and making hair bows for my girls, but lately I can not seem to find the time to do either!

6) I dont like cheese!! Weird I know! when I was little I would not even eat pizza, I will now, and I like mac n cheese, but that is as far as it goes.

7) About 2 years ago I got tired of all the foolishness on TV, I hated the stupid commercials more than anything, and usually past 10am there was nothing good on for the kids, so we turned off the cable and it has been wonderful. We just signed up for that NetFlix and so far we love it. we can buy the kids DVD's and know what they are watching!!!!

well I guess that wraps up my Tag Blog...Since I only know a few people on here, I will tag the same ones Kristi did, Deborah & Kyra

EASTER!

We spent Saturday with Meme, Memar, Aunt Tisha and cousin Lauren Kate, and Char and Stormie. We ate lunch, hunted eggs and at candy! Here are some pictures from our fun day!


Ethan & Samantha


Everyone waiting for the hunt!


With Easter baskets ready!


Tyler hunting those eggs


Bethany has a basket FULL!


Samantha with her bunny ears on!


Everyone enjoying boiled, colored eggs on Easter morning!


getting ready to leave for church

Spring Break!

Spring Break...with Tadd working shift work, we never really know if we are going to get to enjoy the holidays as a family and get to go out of town. Well this year Spring Break fell on his 5 days off, so we packed up and headed north (well north-west). We went to visit my sister and brother-in-law in Farmington NM. We had a great time! We got there late Saturday night/Sunday morning. Sunday we sat around the house all morning, then took the kids to this really cool park, then went skating (even Samantha got in on that action! she fell asleep while I was pushing her around!) Monday we woke up to snow on the ground!! we went to walk around the mall and kill time, we saw that the Easter Bunny was there, so we had the kids picture taken. It started snowing again!! We are talking big-huge-fluffy-floating-flakes! it was the prettiest snow I have seen! Then we went to this indoor aquatic center and let the kids swim for about 3 hours!!! They had a blast. When we got home, the kids took a bath in Lulu's new BIG tub, now that is fun! We really enjoyed visiting with Lulu and Uncle Andrew...cannot wait to do it again!
Here are a bunch of pictures of our trip~



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