outdoor projects

Since we moved to my parents house and the weather has turned nice we have spent a lot of time working in the backyard. Jon loves to spend ALL saturday in the yard. Here are a few things that we have been working on.

Jon built a new slide for the jungle gym and I painted it.
Jon built the girls a sandbox. They love being able to go out back and have their own sandbox.
We planted a garden this year. We planted beans, carrots, peas, tomatoes, lettuce, squash, basil, and some other things that I can not remember. So far we have kept the ground hog out and things are growing!!!!!!
The girls love to help dad when he is working in the yard.
Mya helping Jon get the soil ready in the garden

trip to PA

We went on a little family trip to Pa. We met Casey, Aubrey and Jack. The kids loved to go swimming at the hotel. We spent the first day going through the Amish country and going to a farm. The second day we stopped by Hershey and then headed home.

Brooke was hard at work at Hershey making us all chocolate
Brooke and Mya love their cousin Jack. Poor Jack gets mauled by the girls. The kids were watching cartoons all snuggled in bed waiting for the Dad's to get back from playing golf.
Mya at Hershey pretending to make chocolate
At the farm the kids got to milk a cow, feed a baby cow a bottle and catch chickens. The farm was by far the kids favorite. Thanks Aubrey for finding the farm!!!!!!!!

easter

This year for Easter we decided to give the kids their baskets on saturday. They loved getting their new jammies from Grandma. Mya was especially excited for her new box of bandaids
The kids loved dying eggs

On sunday we had a Easter egg hunt that eggs filled with things about the events leading up to the resurrection. The kids were excited to see what was in each egg. It made Easter Sunday more special for the girls.

baby number 3

We just found out that our third baby will be................................ a GIRL. We are really excited about this. Jon will be very out numbered, but hey what else is new. We are now in the process of deciding on names. We will keep you updated and let you know what we decide to name our little princess.

football player turned princess for a night

Mya has never really been into dress up. Brooke is the princess and mya would rather play tackle football with dad. the other night she got all dolled up to go to the "store". She had to go show dad how cute she looked before she headed upstairs to the store.

christmas

We flew to utah/idaho for christmas this year. It was our year to be with Jon's family. All that Brooke wanted for Christmas was makeup. this is my happy little girl after she got her make up and had dad do her make up christmas morning.

Jon doing mya's make up on christmas morning.

The night before the kids acted out the nativity. It was cute to see them all dressed up and so excited to play mary and joseph.

brooke getting baby jesus all bundled up

GPA

the day after thanksgiving my grandpa passed away. It was sudden and very unexpected. He had recently moved out to Utah with my parents and was living in assisted living. My girls called him GPA. Before gpa moved we would go over to his house a few times a week to visit and check in on him. He would always light up to see my two little monsters running down the hall asking him for cookies. Gpa always had a cookie jar full of oreos and my kids knew where to go to get a cookie. I have thousands of fond memories of my grandpa and am sorry that he is gone, but glad that he is back with my grandma. we love you gpa.