haircuts and random stuff

The kids both got their haircuts a few weeks back. Jamie was getting shaggy (or filthy, as he calls it) and Abby's was just way too hard to comb with all the snarls.





Here is a photo of the cherry blossoms we had on our tree a few weeks ago. They quickly came and then went. I'm hoping with all those blossoms that we get a lot of cherries too, but we'll have to wait and see how many the birds claim for themselves!

While Lulu was over, I let her try and color with the kids:

but her favorite part was dumping out all the colors ...

One day I remembered how we used to play "fishing" when we were kids and so I tried to duplicate this for my kids. I must admit that having an open staircase made it much easier (like at Grandma and Grandpa's!). So anyways, I took this fishing pole that was one of their bath toys and tied two clothes pins to it. I pulled out the couch (and cleaned!), put some toys back there and then took turns with the kids either fishing or loading up the pole. They both had a great time, but they weren't very good at "no peeking". Jamie wanted to tell you exactly what you should attach to his pole and I tried to tell him "you never know what you're gonna get!".

Abby as you can see, was our resident diver:

Happy Mother's Day

So for Mother's Day, Chad and the kids took me out to one of my favorite restaurants Chevy's in Tacoma. It was very yummy! Afterwards, they took me shopping at the Tacoma Mall and I picked out a few clothes for myself for this summer. It was a great day, I loved it!

visiting the lake with dad

As part of my Mother's Day "weekend", Chad took the kids out to the lake for a day while I went to Seattle with Bridget for a baby shower and some shopping, and then back home for some scrapbooking. What more could a mom ask for (well, more about that in the next post)? Chad took some great pictures and it was such a beautiful day.

They enjoyed a paddle-boat ride:
This is how Jamie managed to peddle:


Jamie also learned how to fish:


And Abby wanted to try too:

But mostly she wanted to have tea parties in the playhouse (like always):

go fly a kite

Jamie got a cheap spiderman kite from Walmart and really wanted to try and fly it, so Chad took the kids to a park and let them have a try. Here are some pictures that he got:

trip to the park

These were taken last month, by I got some really cute pictures of the kids, so I just had to share them.


Here Jamie is learning how to pump:

random pics

Book reading:

Angry eyes:

Dollie:

Pigtails:

Easter - part 2

We had dinner at Chad's parents house. Sadly, Abby was sick and had a fever but we gave her some Motrin and she felt well enough to do the egg hunt. I'm so glad that it stopped raining and finally cleared up by the evening and I had a chance to hide all the eggs for the kids after dinner before it got dark.

Jamie and Abby both loved the egghunt but I made the mistake of telling Jamie that is was like a race and he went full force into egg hunting and wanted to know who was winning! Abby liked to point out the eggs to me first before grabbing them, but that was a mistake because then Amalia or Kate would run up and grab it before she had a chance!

All in all, it was a nice day and so was the two-tone mocha cheesecake that I made (sounds like a post for my food blog).