A day at the park

We met up at the park ate lunch and then had hours of playtime at Fun Forest Park. Kylie and Elise having fun on the swings!
Emme and Gordon running through the fort.
Ally loved the slides- especially when mommy would take her down the big slides.

Elise was such a good friend to Ally!
Chillin on the turtle!
Fun on the slides! Emme, Kylie, Gordon and Seth- and lots of screams and giggles!
Sorry Seth- thought this was a cute picture- was not quite sure what distracted him. Oh well. They had a great time playing all day!

Papas birthday...

Happy Birthday Papa! We were so glad we could celebrate with you! We love you!
Bubble blowing! All the cousins had a great time blowing bubbles with all the gadgets Gramma bought!

We are home

We are home from Virginia- we had a great time with friends and family! We drove up March 9th and this is Saturday March 10th we spent with some friends. All the kids at Sonic enjoying a movie and paying no attention to me.
Emme, Kylie, Rylan and Elias having a blast!
Ally playing Elias' drums.

The gang being silly!!
Fun on the trampoline!! They had such a great time!

Spring has sprung...mud has begun!

This is a tree in my front yard that is so pretty in the spring. Someone once called it a tulip tree? I am not sure- but it makes me smile! So pretty!! Well the girls have really enjoyed playing in our yard- we have a little creek that runs through our yard and the girls love to play in the "mud". Gotta love that Georgia red clay!!
Kylie was too quick coming in and changing- I wanted to get a picture of her pants, so here they are in the laundry room. The usually have mud all over them, and when it is on their hands and they touch there face or move their hair they get mud all over their face! They have "play clothes" they wear- most of the jeans they where have holes in them. Well today I could see Emmes pocket- she ripped the hole in the knee to one gigantic hole. We threw those out! It is a challenge at times to get that dirt out- so that is why they have clothes now they can thrash and I don't care!:)

Thought I would put the mud pictures and then some more of the pretty flowers to end my post! Enjoy!

DDR

What is DDR you ask- Dance Dance Revolution. The family we stayed with their daughters (11, 13, & 15) love this playstation game. So did one of my girls- Ally- the other two tried it but said it was too hard. Ally loved it- I tried it but must say it is kinda hard. For those of you that have tried this don't you think if the arrows on the screen were set up the same way they are on the dance pad it would be easier to follow. Having them in a straight line at the top is confusing. Oh well- I must be getting old. Because my brain and my feet were not matching up. It was fun though- especially watching Ally dance!

Time with Aunt Lesley

The girls were able to spend time with Aunt Lesley, Todd's sister. We have not seen her in three years. It was good to hang out with her. We also met her boyfriend Harry. That is him in the background with Todd. Sorry, I should have taken a picture of them together.

Snuggle time with Aunt Lesley!

Hair cuts!

Little Emme- so grown up getting her hair cut- just below her chin- looks so cute! Kylie getting a trim. The girls were so excited to get their hair cut by their Aunt Lesley.
Ally's first hair cut. She sure was moving a ton- don't know how Lesley was able to cut it- that is the difference between her and I - she is the professional- my straight line would not have been straight. Thank you Aunt Lesley for cutting their hair and mine!

Time with Gramma and PaPa

Here are the girls with Gramma and Papa. The girls had a great time staying the night with Gramma- she had lots of fun things planned for them to do. Ally was pals with Papa- which made his day.
Here are the girls with Gramma on the Carousel at the New York State museum. The girls had a fun time!

Ally's first time in the snow

Ally was not sure about the snow. The first day we got her all dressed and she spent maybe three minutes outside. Then a couple of days later she spent some more time out there. But was a little afraid to stand on it or touch it. We had to set her on it in this picture.

This is how she spent a lot of time- watching her sisters playing outside there was a trampoline right outside this window they would jump on and then jump off into the snow. The girls had such a blast.

Trip to New York

Well we were suppose to leave for New York on Valentines day- we get a call the day before from our friends saying that there was a big storm coming with a possible 24 inches to fall in the next 24 hours. So we called the air line to see about changing to that morning. We were able to for free- that is great and all except now I had about 50 minutes to get us dressed, finished packed up and out the door. What a zoo this house was and what a mess I left it. Oh, I also forgot to mention I had just thrown one last load of laundry in of important things- Ally's blanket. So that came wet with us. We made it on time and that night and next day 18 inches of snow fell. Here are the girls playing in the snow- it was so cold that day!! I don't think it even reached 15 degrees.
This is Kylie walking - well trying to walk in the snow. She loved to make little trails.
This is the view they see everyday- the picture does not do it justice- it was so beautiful. These are the Catskill Mountains.

Christmas Photos

The day we decorated the tree.
Our "Christmas feet" as Kylie once called them when she was two.
My pretty little ladies on Christmas Eve.

Disney Photos

Here is Ally - she was a little scared near the characters. So I had to hold her in order to get a picture of her with them.
"mater" he is our favorite!!
The Incredibles- again the look of fear on Ally's face!
Pluto with the cousins at our character breakfast.

A ride like the dumbo ride, but with dino's- Emme's favorite ride!!
The girls with Sleeping Beauty, along with Cinderella- Sleeping Beauty is Kylie's favorite.
The girls with Mickey. We had a wonderful time! Sorry it took me so long to post these- my computer was acting up and the last time I uploaded and had written under each one, our server went down. So I have not been on the computer in awhile.

we are home...

Well we have returned home from vacation. We had a great time at Thanksgiving with everyone here. Then the trip to Disney was fun, but need a couple of days to catch up on sleep!

Todd and I both got sick towards the end of the trip- not fun. He was sick Wednesday and then stayed at the resort and I ventured out to the park on Thursday- ended up getting sick Thursday night. Never thought I would be throwing up in multiple trash cans while exiting Epcot. Thanks to my brother Josh and sisters Sarah and Hannah for all thier help!