Easter Weekend/Festivities

Easter Weekend was filled with multiple egg hunts and a great Sunday brunch. Hope you all had a great weekend with friends and family. 

Eloise class egg hunt (took about 5 minutes for them to complete)

Parker's class egg hunt. They were assigned a number and had to search only for that numbered egg. This was great b/c the egg hunt lasted a lot longer! 

Good Friday at the Park with Cousins! This is their bunny impressions

Random pic of Eloise being a bunny though I think it is part Cat!

(Belle in the background licking her chops...bunnies are tasty!)

Easter morning - the hunt for their baskets is on. 

That silly bunny took them on a wild course with string starting at the top of the stairs down to 

the living room . . 

 outside through the clubhouse. . . 

even into the fridge . . .

through the dining room . . 

and finally to the dryer !!

Ta-Da

Bunny glasses from Dede

All the cousins after a successful egg hunt inside Dede's house. 

Ski Trip to Oregon - Spring Break

Another fun Spring Break in Oregon. We did a lot of skiing, some ice skating and relaxing. Trudy and Charlotte joined us for the fun. Parker did an amazing job this year. It was a blast being able to take him all over the mountain and watch him conquer skiing. Can't wait to go again next year. 

Ready to go!

Aunt Trudy and P

Ice Skate Break

Date night (parker took this photo :)!)

Can't believe we got them all to look at the camera...

At Hola in Sunriver

Rainy Day schedule - Pottery time

Blog catch up!

Well hello! It's been a while so I am doing a catch up on photos from the last few months. These are random photos from various events. It's been very busy for us all and we are having a blast! 

Fishing for Trout with Dad in Feb

First Princess party - Her favorite is Rapunzel or Tangled as she calls her

Tubes in and Adenoids out....Parker was a trooper and he is hearing MUCH better! 

(now just more selective hearing)

Steamers Soccer Season #3

Eloise being Eloise at soccer games

Tee-Ball has started--Go Cubs!

Again..Eloise being Eloise at Parker's games :)

Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo

It is sad to say this was my first time to the Fort Worth Rodeo. I tell myself I needed to spend my money elsewhere in college :). We had a great time with our friends The Boyles. Of course I decked them out in gear and bought my first pair of boots. 

Parker and his friend Michael

Yee-Haw

End the rodeo with ride on the swing. I was impressed I got all four kiddos. 

(ellie, michael, eloise and parker)

Parker's BroomBall Bash

Parker celebrated his 5th birthday with friendly game of broomball at the ice rink. It was so fun to watch them all chase after the ball. I am not sure they knew who was on which team but who cares! He is just so excited to FIVE years old. 

Happy New Year! Our trip to Puerto Rico

Over the New Years holiday we took the kids to Puerto Rico and LOVED it! Our trip started in Old San Juan touring the old town and staying at El Convento which we highly recommend. The old town was wonderful to walk and experience. Our favorite of the trip was flying kites at El Morro fort (pictured above).

We then rented a car and headed to the El Yunque Rainforest on our way to the second hotel El Conquistador. The rainforest was beautiful though we did not get to hike as much as we wanted to. Too much time trying to search for a battery in San Juan!!  The resort we stayed at was amazing too. Lots of things to do for the kids...private island, water park, swimming and of course a lot of eating!

The trip was two different experiences which worked great for the family. Below is a link to our  photos on Kodak. Again, I forgot the camera battery charger so we had to use our phones for the second half of the trip which means not great photo quality! Oh well, who wants to get sand on their camera anyway?

Enjoy and no comments on bathing suit photos :)

http://www.kodakgallery.com/gallery/sharing/shareRedirectSwitchBoard.jsp?token=544351609408%3A780864356

Eloise turns 2

We have a 2 year old in the house! Though Eloise had been showing signs of being TWO since the summer, she is now official on December 15th. We had a fun birthday party decorating cookies for the holidays complete with aprons (made by Bode!) and a Santa cake! 

Eloise loves her new baby!

Thanks Aunt Trudy for the baby 

(notice charlotte is using this moment to get time with the new toy!)

Birthday girl--her apron

Madison wishing she could get in on the cookie fun!

Sweet Molly, our neighbor, just dug into the icing..Way to go girl

Trying to be precise with the sprinkles

Lil Pastry Chef Charlotte...she was our gingerbread taste tester

Bryceman! Who later was a big help in blowing out the candles 

Happy Birthday sweet girl! We Love you