Mostly April

 

 

We went to the Madison Kids expo March 16th this year. Here are the kids coloring and getting doctor hats.

 

Wesley was amazing at the pick up beans game. He was way faster than the other kid next to him until I pulled out the camera and distracted him. (Kairi in brown, Kate, Wesley)

 

 

The kids even got to sit in a real race car!

And they played games. (Kairi and Wesley)

 

Here are some Lego's I got from my dad's collection this year.

 

We died Easter Eggs with Uncle Allen (Allen and Kairi)

Notice she has a pink cast on in this picture. She broke her leg March 26th by jumping off the couch right when I started to make dinner. The doctor saw her the next day but she wasn't crying or anything and we thought it was a sprain. Two days later, she still would not walk on it, so I took her to the ER to get an x-ray. Her pink cast come on Friday March 29th. Two days before Easter.

 

Aunt Michelle is helping Kate put stickers in her eggs.

Cheese! I love pink!



 

 Kairi's next doctor appointment was on April 9th. She ended up needing to get her cast redone since the heel of her foot was slipping up into the back of the cast. She got purple this time! We have done a lot of coloring lately...

 

Here is a cool sitting spot close to Uncle Allen's office at Epic.

(Kate, mom, Kairi, Wesley)

 

His office is in a barn so you see a lot of cows and animals on the walls.(Kate and Wesley)

 

You can also find Charlottes Web. The web says "Some Pig." Kate is hugging the pig.

 

At Kairi's next doctors appointment, again a week later, she needed to get her cast redone again. You guessed it her foot was slipping again. I was told it's common in toddlers since their muscles aren't as developed to hold a cast in place. That and they are squirmy. She couldn't really make up her mind for the cast color so the nurse made it pink and purple. That was on April 16th.

 

April 25th was Chris and Amanda's five year wedding anniversary! To celebrate I took the kids to "Take your kids to work day." Later we went out to eat dinner after the kids had been put in bed.  Here is Wesley and dad fishing. Kate is hiding behind them.

 

They made some frog crafts.

 

And got to color. Kate was nice enough to help Wesley color all of his picture. And she loves these sunglasses she won while fishing. They go everywhere with her now. She even wears them in the house.

 

Here is a picture I took of the picture they took for us at Epic. I think it turned out well.

Mom, Kairi, Wesley, Kate, Dad

 

This week I had no idea what to do and Chris told me to take the kids bowling. I don't think he expected me to do it, but I did. We were the only ones there on a Tuesday morning and enjoyed bowling and a snack.

 

Kate and Wesley lining up the ball.

 

Kairi during her turn.

 

When it was not their turn, the kids could sit and color. We have a ton of pictures exactly like this one that Kairi took of Wesley coloring when it was not their turn.

 

As you can see we are pretty good bowlers! Actually I think it is a little sad that even with the one strike I got, I only won by six points. Oh well.

 

 

 

Here the kids say Happy Easter!

 

 

I wanted to get a movie of Kairi walking around on her cast before it came off. Yes it came off this past Friday May 3rd. She's in a boot for two weeks now and will be done with it all. However, if you notice Wesley took a spill at the end of the movie. Poor kid. He got a little scrapped up, but he's fine.

 

Look up what a funicular is because this is a lego version of one.

Uncle Allen and Aunt Michelle's House

Uncle Allen and Aunt Michelle moved into their new house! I had to beat them by putting up pictures first since they have no internet until Wednesday.  Here it is everyone!

The frog under the front stairs a very popular attraction.

 



Here is a movie of Michelle and Allen's house. Part One

 

Here is another part of the house.

 

 

There is a stone frog under the front step that was a favorite hangout.

 

 

 

Trains and birthdays and wedding

Well everyone it was time we put up a blog update. How about that?! Actually it takes me forever to get around to bloging because blogger just gets me frustrated every time. This time I had all the images downloaded, but not uploaded and the thing froze up and I had to start all over again. Fancy that. Anyway here are some pictures and some fast words about them. Please don't look for spelling mistakes. :)

Michelle had a birthday shout hooray! She got to celebrate over at our place where Allen had hid her ice cream cake from her.

 Two other girls had a birthday shortly after Michelle did. Kate and Kairi are now two! They loved all of their presents. Thanks everyone.

 

Kairi is in purple.

One nice Saturday we thought about going to the outdoor free skating rink but called Allen and Michelle first and low and behold they were already there so we joined them. Here is dad and Wesley. The kids skated with street shoes. 

Here you can find Uncle Allen with Kairi and Aunt Michelle helping Kate.

 



A fun picture with tongues and legos.

 My little sister Amy got married! Here is the reception once we got the decorations put up. I am pleased to say that it was faster to clean it all up then to put up. Hooray! It did turn out rather nice though.

 

And here is the single picture I took to commermerate my sad tale about losing all my videos off my new camera. Apparently this camera puts movie files in a separate folder so when I copied over the "stuff" from it I really only got the pictures and no movies and then I just had to decide to clear the camera before realizing that fact. Yippe. Anyway if we had the movies you would have seen some really good goofy girls singing to Hillary Duff, and yes they were really singing it.

Uncle Allen and Aunt Michelle got this little rental car. I thought it was small enough to deserve a photo. It could seat four and hey you could shift between automatic and manual. How about that?!

Oh yah Amy got married at the Oakland Temple in CA. Here is Amy and Dan Fowler coming out of the temple.

 And then they kissed. Gross!

 

 Had to put this one in here. :)

 

Here is Dan with his mom. I thought it was precious.

 



Um. Here are some people from Dan's side of the family. Let's see we have his dad, step-mom, Amy, Dan, and his mom. I hope I got that right. Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

Here is the same picture again but with the added bonus of a picture of the photographer who took many pictures of the happy day than I did.

Dan's side of the family

 



Parents

Amy looking over her shoulder. Yup.

My grandma Richardson, amy, dan, and my mom.

Fancy food at the wedding including cake pops and chocolate strawberries.

 

cake pops close up.

The bridesmaids. Here you can find Brittany (Ducky) Sable, Megan, and Ann.

Did I spell Megan right?

 

Here is the ring holder and the flower girl. I think they were Dan's nephew and niece?

The cake.

 

Here is Amy and my mom coming up the aisle for the ring exchange ceremony after the temple ceremony.

Here is an amazing airplane view picture Chris took from his flight to Washington the week before I flew out to CA for Amy's wedding.

 

Here is an amazing airplane picture that I got. Yah.

 

 Even better you guys all need to find a place where you can try out these new toilets! Really you wave your hand over the top and plastic covering the seat moves around the seat counter clockwise giving you a new clean surface to sit on. Pretty cool right?

 

We went to Madison's model train and railroad show again this year. We had to with out train fans. Here is Kate learning how to drive a train.



And here is Kate again with boots and a helmet. Actually I am surprise the floor around her looks so clean.

Here is what the twins did while waiting for Daddy to help move up Allen and Michelles things into their apartment.

A train!

 

For the girls birthday we went to a children's museum in...Rockford I think. Everyone, well mostly everyone, tried out some pully chairs.

And we did some tractor farming.

And chicken hugging. (Kairi, Kate)

Okay this one was really funny. I got the girls to sit down on opposite sides of each other doing this thing where you use a mirror to help guide you moving a "pen" around a metal sheet with a red picture on it. The object is to not go off the lines or it will beep at you. Anyway, the girls didn't know that and Kate thought she was seeing through the divider at what Kairi was doing instead of seeing her hand reflected back at her. Kairi started to figure it out and wanted to climb over.

Wesley and Dad at the water spot.

Dad holding Kairi and Kate to the right riding on a train! Wow. And Michelle and Allen are in the background.

 



Let's deliver some pizza!

A ticket for mom to ride the train from Mr. Wesley conductor.

This is where Kate put her birthday stickers. :)

Oh and here is a potato. How did he get in here?

Here is another good train, Percy!

 

At the model train show there is one place you can ride a smallish train. We got off a few shots before the camera died. Notice anyone missing?

Here is one attempt to find Kate.

Oh wait. Here she is!

 

Hope you all like the blog post. bye.