Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Happy Birthday Taten!! 4 years old.

Image Taten loves airplanes...so this year we had a airplane birthday party. The invitations were airline tickets. We played pin the pilot on the plane, searched for planes like air traffic controllers, had an airplane flying competition and hit an airplane pinata. The flight included dinner service of hamburgers and hot dogs
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Helping Dad wash the car.

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I had to capture this image of Dave washing his truck with the boys. Dave can be a bit of a perfectionist...family trait. So I am not sure that Dave had as much fun letting the boys help wash his truckImage as they had helping or I had watching. I say this because he still took the truck over to the car wash for a final rinse to make sure he washed off all the extra soap on the truck from the boys "helping". So cute. I love how our boys love to help Dad.



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Flight 93 Memorial

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When Dave's parents were here for a visit we took them to see the Flight 93 memorial. Right now there is just a temporary memorial with pictures and you can look over the crash sight. But this year on September 11 the Memorial is expected to be completed. Here you can see the pictures of the individuals who died on that flight and read their last words to their families. How would it feel to know you are going to die? Image We spent some time at this site. There was a feeling of reverence there.



Trip to Baltimore with Grandma and Papa.

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Dave's parents came for a visit. We met them in Baltimore and saw some of the sites. Including the aquarium, Fort McHenry, Camden Sports Museum and the Science MuseumImage. Here are a few pictures from our trip.



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Cont. Trip to Baltimore's Inner Harbor- Childrens Museum

Image A few pictures from the Children's Museum in Baltimore. The boys had so much fun exploring the many different exhibits. We took a "trip" back in time to Egypt, went on a train ride, made giant bubbles and tried surfingImage
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Happy Easter! Easter Hunt.

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Just a few pictures from this Years Easter Egg Hunt.Image



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Happy Birthday McKenna!

Image Happy Birthday to our little angel McKenna. She would have been 5 this year. We celebrate every year with ice cream cake and letting go of pink and white balloons. This year Dave sat down with Taten to look at McKenna's pictures in the scrapbook I made. It has been a couple of months now and Taten mentions baby kenna almost daily. Wanting to know where she is, how she died, whether is is grown up or still a baby, is she with Jesus... I try to answer all the questions the best I can. McKenna has been close to my thoughts nearly all the time with this pregnancy. We are expecting a little girl and I just want to call her McKenna even though I know McKenna is with our Heavenly Father. I believe though she watches over us.

Body Art by Sharpy.

Image Taten has been learning a lot at preschool, he especially enjoys art. One morning I found him hiding under the desk in the office creating this work of art with permanent marker. I exclaimed "Taten what are you doing!" His explanation was simple "Grant does it" (Grant is one of his preschool friends) Thank goodness for the internet....a whole website on how to remove permanent marker. With a bottle of hairspray, a little scrubbing and a bath. Taten's arms were clean.

Names-Cut it out already!!

Image I just wanted to post a couple pictures of the Names i did recently because I wanted everyone to see the cute new font you can buy through cutitoutalready.com Maura and Grace were made using the original font and hannah with the new font. Cut it out has also added a lot of fun new seasonal words and shapes.

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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Happy Surprise-Due in July

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Christmas 2010

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Merry Christmas! We had a really fun Christmas this year. Taten was so excited for Santa to come. He sat up Christmas morning saying that he hadn't heard the bells on Santa's sleigh so he didn't think he had come yet. Dave went out to see if Santa had indeed come...and to plug in the lights on the Christmas tree. Taten was so excited to learn that Santa had come. He was especially excited about the new jeep and couldn't figure out how Santa could fit it in his sleigh. Ryker was cute too but was only interested in eating the candy in his stocking.Image

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Thanksgiving Feast at Preschool

Image Just a few pictures from Taten's Thanksgiving feast at preschool. The kids did lots of crafts to get ready including making Indian costumes, t-pees and place mats.
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Farm Day at Taten's preschool

Image I just wanted to post a few pictures of Farm Day at Taten's preschool. The kids learned about all the animals on the farm and what goes on at a farm. Now Taten is always on the look out for a farm.
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