Soaking up some sun

Spring is finally here! It has been a typical Washington Spring, Snow, Hail, rain and occasionally some sunshine. We have been lucky to be able to get out and enjoy some of that sun lately. We went to the Procession of the species in Downtown Olympia a few weeks ago.

Claire slept through most of the procession and she made this face for the rest of it, so I guess she had fun :)

Violet loved the procession! When else do you get to color in the middle of the road and then watch a bunch of animals walk and dance by with a drum line?

My Dad put up a second swing for Claire at their house, Claire is new to swinging and promptly fell asleep.

Next we colored with sidewalk chalk in the backyard, it was a lot of fun. Claire mostly wanted to eat the chalk but she enjoyed crawling all over the pictures and looking at the colors.

Violet was swinging, drawing with sidewalk chalk, playing hopscotch and throwing balls for Trigger. The other day we were in our park and she called to all the dogs.....Betty! Trigger! Annie! Where are you?!
We love living by Yauger park. It is nice to be able to go and swing and run around and Baseball season has started so we will get to go watch games soon!

Claire has been sleeping in this swing, it has really solved our daytime nap problem. She falls asleep easily and Violet knows to leave her alone while she is swinging. (before she would nap in her crib and Violet would go wake her up to play)

While playing in our backyard today Violet decided Claire needed some stickers for decoration.

good thing I pulled them off because Claire got a little pink on her bald little head. That would have made for some interesting tan lines

Violet loves to play catch.

She also loves this echo Mic. I think every child just knows that you say Hellllooooooo into this thing.

This is one of my favorite Claire faces. Well, that is what we have been doing for the past few weeks. We are having lots of fun and miss our cousins, and are excited to see our 2 new girl cousins soon! Go Team Girls!!!!

Just a whole lot of fun.

We have been having so much fun lately. But with 2 little princesses running around the house, everyday is an adventure and very fun. For easter we had a little easter egg hunt and dyed some eggs, and had dinner with all the grandparents! it was a fun busy weekend.

Violet was our only egg hunter, so she made off with a haul, but she loved it so much. After she found each egg, she would go "ohh" and bring them one at a time to her Dad. So cute

Showing grandpa all her eggs!

Claire didn't go for any candy but she sure thought the eggs were fun to play with.

This is Violet's version of getting dressed. Take off your pjs and put on shoes....all ready for the day!

What little snugglers. so cute.

Claire in a box after a trip to Costco.

Violet and Peter modeling our new racquet ball stuff.

Claire watching the Squirrels.

New stroller! I can take it all through the park and on trails. I love it, I can't even tell that I'm pushing almost 60 pounds of children.

All ready to go!

This is one of those "oh kids...sigh" Moments Violet took floss with her on our last shopping trip and undid the whole box in the car.

Long time, not much new

Texas is good. We just got back froim DC where Grandpa Hall was inducted into the Inventers Hall of Fame. It was really neat to learn about all of the inventers and their inventions. the world would be totally different if it was not for them. It made me want to go invent something. . . maybe later.

We went the Air and Space Museum by the Dulles Airport in Virginia. Definately a highlight of the trip for us. They boys were SO excited to see all of the big airplanes and they even recognized a lot of them (thanks to the Airplane book the Flynn's sent us for Christmas). We spent a beautiful Easter weekend at Grandma in Virginia's house. Played outside quite a bit, and went to a neighborhood Easter Egg hunt. Sam caught on this year and he probablly got the most eggs out of anyone.

We went the the Museum of Natural Science. It was so neat! The boys loved it. Sam was a little nervous by the Ptranodon (not really). But it was great!

Wesley and Sam are "tough" (according to Sam). Wesley likes to flex his muscles.

Jonathan and I got to go to the induction ceremony. Like I said, it was very neat to learn about the inventers. If you are ever in DC, check the Hall of Fame out. We will next time we go.

Hope you all had a great Easter weekend.

-Emily and family

just a little bit of our lives.

Number one, this is Claire's face that says "how come there are no pictures of my cousins on the blog?" Violet is desperate for a new "Wesley" (thats what she calls pictures and videos of her cousins) We miss you!
This is Claire in the morning. She's not a morning baby.
Violets interest in potty training has gotten to the point where she will take her diaper off and play in the bathroom, but she isn't interested in actually using the potty.

Just a picture of me, I don't remember where we were going, but there I am.

Violet and Olivia "helped" Great grandma Shirley with her birthday Candles this St. Patricks day.

Claire has started to pull up on things, she can't always get down so she just starts to yell for someone to come save her. When she does this Violet runs up to me and says "Help! Claire is stuck!"

we frosted green cookies for St. Patty's Day, this is what happens when you give a six month old a cookie to frost. oh well she was happy.

Busted!!!

We have been enjoying our apartment complexes indoor pool. Violet and Claire love to go swimming. Well that is our life right now, we are having a pretty good time and we are settling into our new home nicely. Peter is enjoying his job and is already working on new projects, he is excited about his career options from here. I am having fun at home with the girls, now that they can sort of play together it is really fun to watch them interact and play.

What a Week

Well we made it through the moving process. After a week of unpacking and being mostly stuck indoors, V was ready for an afternoon out. Aunt Diana took her to Chuck E Cheese.

She had a blast!

Claire started to Crawl this week, she gets herself into all sorts of interesting places. She has also discovered that she likes animal crackers and she follow a crumb trail into this interesting place the other day.

V likes to toast cheers with us at dinner. She is such a funny kid.

Claire likes to eat everything, she had pizza with us the other night.

She is growing so fast, here she is sitting in V's booster seat.

And here is our new apartment. This is the living room from the kitchen.

and here is the kitchen. We ended up in a handicap accessible apartment so everything is bigger and the doors and hall are really wide. It's pretty nice.

This is our "backyard" I love it. We are on the bottom floor so we can just run out and play anytime we want.

Violet loves our new "yard"
She also loves that we can real quick walk down to Yauger park too.

I lost the beaters out of my Electric hand mixer so we made cookies in the food processor when we got back from our walk on Monday. It worked pretty well, and I've found some replacement beaters that I can buy.
Claire LOVED the cookies. It was a little difficult to get her to eat regular food after that.

We spend a lot of time in the tub, the girls love the tub. and they really like to take baths together.

Diana and I went to WWE's Smackdown last night. It was a lot of fun. I'm really tired today, but it was a fun time. I might even go again!

Just a quick update...Pictures to follow

Just a quick update.

We moved into our new apartment on Monday. We are still surrounded by boxes and bags of clothes and stuff we had forgotten we'd owned. Violet and Claire are doing well. They are sharing a room and are sleeping pretty well through the night, I have to say I'm impressed, they have exceeded my expectations. Claire is starting to crawl this week she loves to chase Violet down the hall. Well V stands still and V catches up to her. its been a fun busy week. We'll get pictures up soon!