Around (or maybe even on) Thanksgiving, our good friends the Helis's sponsored a carriage ride around their neighborhood with these beautiful horses and invited their friends to hop on and go caroling.
Here are all the kids all set to go.
Jeffrey holding the song book. (He wouldn't let that thing go! Or get off after we were done either.)
Afterwards the Helis's had some hot apple cider and homemade doughnuts for everyone, they were DELICIOUS!
Jeffrey and Megan thoroughly enjoyed their porch swing outside before it was finally time to go.
Thanks again Helis family!
Here is just a random photo of me reading The Hunger Games and not feeling well. Thank goodness we not only have a Doctor Daddy, but a Doctor Ben too!
Apparently there's a reason my linen closet is always messy and unorganized.
Jeffrey's favorite thing to do these days is take self portraits of himself with the camera. These are just a very select FEW of the probably hundreds I've deleted, but he's too cute not to have them shared on here.
Last month Mommy got a new hair color and Jeffrey couldn't resist getting into the shot. :) I'll share a photo with that cutie any day!
We've been slowly weaning Megan off her naps lately because she tends to not fall asleep until 11:30pm on days she takes one, but every once in a while she just has to catch up still.
In March we got a much anticipated visit from Grandma Osborne! Here she is watching videos with the kids on the computer.
Here's our little Cindy Brady all dressed and ready to go to church with the sticker book she got from Grandma.
She's got the lisp and everything, seirously cute!
With Grandma here, Mommy and Daddy got to go out to dinner for their 7th Anniversary Date.
Grandma stayed with us at the house for a few days and then we all headed off to an indoor waterpark/hotel called The Great Wolf Lodge for a 3 day 2 night stay. It was sure nice having an extra set of eyes to watch these kids in such a large crowded area and we had so much fun!
Jeffrey was always the hardest to tear away from the water, these little guppies were in heaven!
These Lilly Pads were Ben's favorite, he really was quite good at them!
As if swimming all day long wasn't excercise enough, we decided we needed to run all around the hotel to play their Magic Quest game. The kids had a blast....when their wands worked... :) It was nice to have something to do while we recovered from our over-soggy skin and chlorine contaminated eyes!
Jeffrey admiring his loot of coins from the arcade.
On the last night of our stay the kids took turns recording their part in a fun video we made for Great Grandma and Grandad's 50th anniversary in their super cool cabin room.
When we finally got back home the kids weren't used to just "hanging out" anymore and decided that they wanted to make a video of their own. Of course batman and spider man were involved and Mommy and Daddy got to play "Two Face" and "The Joker." This picture was taken during the final bows and credits....we may have to post the actual video/movie in a future post.
Spring was really beautiful here, the whole week that we had it before it turned into what felt like summer! It's finally starting to cool off again and feel like a normal spring, but all of the blooming is done and it's just green now.
Of course during spring we have Easter! Here are a few shots of our fairly uneventful Easter.
We finally discovered how useful the blow dryers were this year, Ben spent more time blow drying than he did actual dying of the Easter eggs, and of course Jeffrey couldn't miss out on the fun either, but he got his fair share of dying in first.
Mommy's been dieting again so she didn't want very much candy in the house so a special request was made of the Easter Bunny to forgo a lot of the candy and replace it with things like the ever popular "sticky hands" and "champagne poppers." I think the kids enjoyed them as much as the candy this year. Of course they still got some jelly beans and a reese's peanutbutter egg each. And never one to forget a tradation, the Easter bunny remembered Daddy's infamous chocolate bunny.
And of course we can't forget how fun it is to eat the eggs after we find them. :)
