Week 37: fun with dad

These are all random pictures I have taken with our kids doing something with Ben. He's not in the picture with Emily but I want to have it on here to remember. He set up her camping chair and foot bath for her and then she asked daddy to rub her shoulders and of course he did.


I love this picture of Ben and Annie. She goes so high and wants him to do it over and over so of course he does.

This is one of my favorite pictures of Ben and deacon. He is always the best at getting him to sleep.


Another one of our kids favorite things to do with their dad is go fishing, even though they get bored pretty quick they still love it and hopefully have good memories of going when they get older.

Annie pretty much just sits there and plays with the bait.

They are all so lucky to have him as their daddy!

Week 36: Family Fun

I have been saving the pictures of our trip to Disneyland for this week but wish i would have done it sooner because I have already forgotten so much about our trip.

Here is Emily on our drive down, she had to sit in the back by herself and I think she got really bored.

First time seeing the castle

Without a doubt the best part of our trip was when the girls would see the characters, they were so excited, it was so fun to watch.

Ariel

Minnie Mouse

Goofy (for some reason Annie didn't want her picture with him)

Meeting Mickey for the 1st time

Mickey Mouse

Minnie at her house

Pluto

Deacon meeting Pluto( I love the look on Annie's face)

 Our first day there we spent doing most of the kid rides and things they could go on.  Emily was usually scared to go on all the kid rides because they are in buildings and she couldn't see what it was like or what would happen but Annie will do almost anything. I think overall their favorite place was Toontown because it was so bright and fun and they got to see where all their favorite characters lived.

Annie on Minnie's bed

Mickie's house

Minnie's house

in jail

Mickie's car

Wishing well in Toontown

Our second day there we went to the Princess lunch where we got to have a nice lunch and meet all the Princesses.  It was so fun to see their faces light up each time a different princess would come out.

Princess Aurora

Belle

Cinderella

Snow White (who was not very nice!)

Deacon was so good!

The second day we also went to A Bug's Land which was a lot of fun because the kids could ride everything in it and they were actually fun rides. Here are the kids about to go into the 4d movie in bug's land

I like these next pictures of our way to Disneyland on the second day...for some reason the girls had an attitude about something.

And they really didn't want me to talk to them...

Then they realized I was taking their picture...

So precious.

The end of the 2nd night we went to a parade and it was AWESOME! They had all the character come out on floats and dance and play music it was a lot of fun.

at the parade

Our last day there was kind of rough because we were pretty exhausted and the kids all started to get sick, especially Emily.

sick and cuddling in the stroller

last picture in Disneyland

Leaving Disneyland.

Overall it was such an amazing trip and we are so glad that we took the time to go. We already want to go back and are going to make a point of going fairly often so our kids have memories of going there.

Week 35: getting messy

I made fudgesicles a few days ago and the kids loved them, so I took this chance to take the pictures of them getting messy.

 

I love this picture because Annie is especially messy since she had rubbed mascara all over her face, most of it had rubbed of but at first it looked like she had a big black unibrow.

I love this picture too because it looks like they are all having a fun time together.

Crazy Emily

Deacon managed to get pretty messy just by playing with the stick

Butterflies are Dancing

Emily's Dance Recital

Emily had her dance recital tonight for her pre-ballet class. She is growing up so fast! I'm having trouble uploading the video but will try again another time. but here are some pictures of her before.

Week 34: Celebrating America

We had a day full of fun, being outside, playing in the water, jumping on the trampoline, BBQ, fireworks, and friends. The kids were all exhausted by the end of the day. We forgot to take very many pictures but here are the ones we got, the girls had a blast and Deacon only cried 1 time at the fireworks.

Deacon's seat for the fireworks.

Annie was much more daring with her sparkler than Emily.

                                                                    It was a great day.