Family

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Vicki and Johnny came to visit us for Easter. We had a great time with them. Unfortunately we think the kids picked up a virus when we went to the Easter Egg hunt at Church because the next week, almost all the kids ended up getting sick.

This picture is taken right before the older kids were about to leave for their combination Easter egg hunt and Laser tag. I had to borrow my friends' yard for this, so Vicki and I stayed back with the younger kids and had their Egg hunt in the house. Somehow I accidently deleted those pics?

Playing laser tag.

The kids after their easter egg hunt.

Right to left: Camden, Christian, Christopher, Alaina, Jonathon, Stephen, Ashley, Ethan and Finn

Camden picked some flowers for me. This was extra special to me because he actually felt well enough to pick them. Before that he had, had strep throat for about three weeks straight.

These are for you!

This pic is taken after Church on Easter Sunday, Aren't they cute?

Ashley and Gabrianna

Sisters :)

These pictures are out of order. I love the way this blogger loads...

We had to try the mentos experiment when Vicki's kids were over. They each had fun deciding just how many mentos the would put in the tube.

On Sunday, we had planned a trip to the Science center but decided to get pizza and go to the park instead.

Jonathon, Ethan, Stephen and Ashley playing in the creek at the park.

Pizza, Pizza and MORE pizza!

Dominos wasn't kidding when they said they changed their pizza!

Boy was it good :)

We had a really great time with you guys, Glad you made the trip down to see us. Hope you'll do it again soon!

Sunday, April 18, 2010

A visit with Grandpa and Grandma

Uncle Mark buried Ashley and Sarah in the sand. The rest of the time was spent...

testing the waters

Jumping waves

working on a sand castle and

digging the moat.

Friday at Lakes Park

Saturday and Shark tooth hunting

Here is a picture from the beach where we were looking for Shark teeth. Isn't it beautiful?

Ethan playing in the sand

Hunting for Sharks teeth

Scooping up shells (and teeth)

Finn playing in the shells/sand

Gabby's first time in the sand!

Pointing at the Dolphins we saw

A dolphin jumping :)

Sunday @ Downtown Disney

We spent Sunday at Downtown Disney.

We couldn't visit Downtown Disney without visiting the toy store.

Ashley was very surprised that they had a My little pony station there.

Finn bulding a Mr. Potato head.

Christian with his built Mr. Potato head.

A traditional picture.

How Gabby spent most of her day.

After visiting downtown Disney we headed over to Old town. When I was younger my parents took me there to buy $ .25 Pepsi. So naturally we HAD to get one while we were there. They are now $ .49 .

Magical Monday at Disney

This year Disney offered the "Give a day, Get a day" Program. This program allowed our family to donate labor (which ended up only being an hour and a half) to earn a Disney ticket. Ethan was the only one who did not fit into the category of donating labor or being under three. We had to pay for his ticket at the gate. It had been six years (almost) since we had been to Disney. We had tons of fun but were exhausted by about eight pm. Here are a few pictures from our stay at Disney.

Cinderella's Castle

We bought some balloons they had for sale. By the end of the day the string broke on the blue one and it went sailing up in the air. The purple one came home with us and stayed up for quite a while (until I popped it)

During our stay at Disney I was worried about the kids getting lost in the crowds so I pulled up each of their sleeves and wrote our cell phone number on their arms. Thankfully no one needed to use this emergency feature but it was nice to have.