Kids Having Fun!

We splurged a little and got Alyssa a Tinkerbell costume for Halloween this year. I know it is a little early but she has fun dressing up and flying. She came up to me the other day and told me she wanted to fly like Tinkerbell. Her expression was so serious and she just can't seem to understand why I won't let her fly for real. So both kids climb up the couch and jump off pretending that they are flying. Alyssa flaps her arms as she does it.


Alyssa is always counting now. When we go shopping she counts as loud as possible, you should see the looks we get from other shoppers. We are working on the written numbers so I printed out shamrocks with numbers on them and we stuck them to the wall. When Nathan woke up from his nap he pulled them down and crumpled them so we had to put them up higher. He got to play with numbers 16 and 17 though.



The kids love to march around the house so we made band hats and watched them march around and around the pool table. My how easily they can be amused.




They also like playing pirates on the couch, they jump around and chase each other, it is so cute.






When Grandma and Pi came down to visit they made sugar cookies. I have two little bakers but unfortunately I can't seem to bake much of anything very well.





Nathan is constantly asking us to set up the bowling pins so he can throw the ball at them. At least he is setting them up on his own half the time now.

Easter Egg Hunt

Today we went to an Easter Egg Hunt with one of our playgroups. We played on the slides and had lunch, actually I spent most of my time trying to keep track of my little ones, but we had a great time. Then it was finally time for them to take their baskets and collect eggs. Alyssa spent all morning carrying around her basket and talking about hunting eggs. They were so busy opening each egg as they picked them up I didn't think they would get much in their baskets but they made out all right. When we were leaving Alyssa said to me "We had so much fun at the park today."

Got Sand?

I learned something from our camping neighbors that might be of interest to anyone going to the beach this summer. Baby powder takes the sand off of your skin. You know how kids get sand everywhere, just pour baby powder on them and it wipes the sand off like magic.

Our First Camping Trip

Spring Break Wahoo! We decided to go camping for a couple of nights at Carpinteria State Beach. We have been wanting to get back there since last summer. The camp spots are only a few feet from the beach so when we walked up a little hill this is what we saw.

Here are some pictures from the beach. I know there are a lot of them but I couldn't decide which pictures to leave out so I put most of them in.




















Can you think of a better place to wake up?



Pictures from our camp spot going to the beach.







This is our camp neighbor Abby. Alyssa and Abby had so much fun together in the freezing water. They shadowed each other running around jumping the waves, going out too deep into the ocean, throwing rocks and running to their Daddies.