Sunday, April 26, 2009

Welcome Courtney!

The girls and I went to NC Friday to go see our new niece/cousin! Mary-Carmen and Tyson did a great job! She is cute and healthy! Here are some of the pictures I took. I forgot to get a family picture on my camera, but they have one on theirs that I might copy and put on here later when she gets home! MC is recovering well from her c-section and happy.
Tyson after the section watching Courtney in the nursery
They reunite!

So precious!

Courtney Mae

Ana-Christine (self proclaimed favorite aunt! :) hehehe) I am sure she will be!


Waiting... This is the same hospital that the boys were in and Ana knew the security guard and he let us put the baby by the door and when it opened the girls got to look in and see the baby! They were very happy!

Miriam read the whole book while she waited for us to see the baby!


Saturday alert and beautiful in Grandma's hands!

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Cherry Blossoms

So the Friday before Conference, we went to Washington DC for the Cherry Blossom festival. We got a great parking spot, which we later found out really means, you will get a ticket soon!!!! Ouch! It is a good thing Carlos decided to go back to the car after an hour because we would have gotten towed!!
We walked around hoping it wouldn't rain, which it didn't! :) It was a lot of fun, very pretty and the girls did pretty well. It was a quick trip!
On our way home after being stuck in a bit of regular traffic, we stopped by Potomac Mills to eat somewhere and found a fun diner. We enjoyed all getting what we wanted, Miraim: Spaghetti as usual; Me: omelet; Carlos: country fried steak!; Elaine: pancakes as usual; and Laurie: a little of everyone's plus her own side of corn! Yum! :)

Walking by the Washington monument on our way to the blossoms.




Listening to a high school band at the WWII monument. Boy did that bring back memories!! It was windy and they liked getting wet from the fountain.



Laurie wouldn't stand still. We were looking for Daddy at this point,walking toward the Jefferson monument.


SO many trees all around the water of the Jefferson


beautiful








Miriam's turn to take a picture














Elaine's turn to take a picture










in a tree (I couldn't get her to look at me, only daddy!)










in the tree






In the tree, look at all those holes! The next day she got another hole on bottom!!!

group picture on our way back to the car. Miraim making a funny face!

eating at the diner.


Daddy 'picking' music (Elaine's idea and picture skills)

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

video

There are unfortunately no video's or pictures of the storm! Sorry!

Camping and Easter!

Laurie's new apron. (thanks Easter bunny, brock brock aka. Nana!)
sugar high

diggin in




waiting for the hunt in the small HOT tent!






not happy



not happy either






ooh look what I got!










I am actually ashamed at how little pictures I took! If you want to read about our camping trip you can go to Ana's blog. We had to drive a little further than we wanted, but it was worth it! Carlos wanted to bring every piece of camping equipment we have! He didn't like me telling him he couldn't bring it! The girls did well and were really excited. We were really tired on the way home due to the HUGE (and awesome, but a little scary in a tent) storm we had. We had a lot of fun, and hope to do it again for two nights! nice windy, and a bit cold. the water was quite cold...but not PNW cold!!!! Carlos got in first, then Elaine, then Logan and Abinadi! They were all soaked and cold. Logan and Elaine in their clothes, the men in their suits. They planned on it!




cooper doesn't like the sand!


Laurie wanted to eat it...and she did...a lot!



so pretty


campsite before the storm! :)

Easter went well. We had our hunt at camp on Sat and Sunday we just relaxed and ate yummy food and candy and went to chorale! We got some pictures of the girls in their dresses on a disposable camera Carlos had so I don't have much on the digital. Maybe we will get a disk so we can put them on here.

Friday, April 03, 2009

10K pictures

Here is a link to the website to look at pictures of me at the race. You can also do a search for other people you might know. My number is #39743 if the link doesn't work. Enjoy!

http://www.brightroom.com/view_user_event.asp?EVENTID=48019&BIB=39743&LNSEARCH=1&PWD=