Tulip festival....picture overload!

ok so I love to take pictures of everything and over the past week I have taken 390 pictures. I edited that down to 238 for facebook and here are some of my favorites from that group. There are a ton, I know but we have had so much fun.

Above: Claire stores her bink on her head during her nap.

The girls and I set up the tent in our living room to give it a test run before Peter's first scout camp out.

Then they put on matching dresses and ran around screaming for a few hours.

BLACKMAIL.

The girls did my make up and painted each other with my lipstick.

We went to La Conner for the weekend to see the tulips. On Friday Peter and the girls "played cards" Claire was apparently playing strip poker (and losing).

Violet won when she got what she refers to as "7 Kings"

I win!!

Claire was very excited about bedtime.

The campground was on the Swinomish Indian reservation. And we were right on the water. This weekend was the first sunny weekend we have had in a long time and it was GORGEOUS! I got to sneak down to the beach and take a few pictures. It was so warm and peaceful.

Crystal Clear water.

Violet is already to go!

We went to Rozengaarde Tulips. They have a beautiful display garden to show all the types of tulips you can buy from them, and then they have two massive fields you can walk through, one of yellow daffodils and one of red tulips.

The display garden.

Trying to get a family picture is tough when you have 2 uncooperative children.

Maybe someday.

V in the Daffodils.

us in the daffodils
V in the Daffodil fields. Isn't it amazing how many there are?

Claire walking through the tall grass.

I love this picture. Claire just sat down in the tulip field for a juice break.

two beautiful girls in the tulip fields. I am so impressed, they didn't pick a single flower. We had so much fun.

we got back to our car and there was a whole line of antique cars! they were all so cool. I love old cars. here is a wheel off one of my favorites.

Peter channeling Ralph Macchio

Dyeing easter eggs!

Claire dumped out the blue dye, so there was only one precious blue egg :)

The girls had so much fun this weekend. We love going on these weekend camp outs.

The Campground had an easter egg hunt for the kids.

When we got back to the cabin we had another little easter egg hunt with the eggs the kids had dyed the night before.

I think I am going to google this street and see if I can find out the story behind it's name. Ha ha!

We got Violet's school pictures back this week. Ha ha ha! This is Violet's face that she makes when she doesn't want to do something but she wants your pity so maybe you will give her a cookie or something. Such a sweet little face that has such devious intentions :)

Well there you have it 31 of my favorite pictures out of the nearly 400 we took this week. There are some great ones on my facebook page, if you'd like to see them.

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend and were able to spend some time remembering our Savior Jesus Christ and his Life and resurrection. We are all so blessed because of his life. Have a wonderful day!

conference weekend etc...

I put these in the reverse order. So here we are, 3 cute girls.

Violet loves this new camera that we bought, it allows you to flip the screen around so the person you are taking the picture of can see themselves...she makes a lot of faces like this.

Claire just wants to eat her snack in peace.

We moved our dining table to the kitchen and made our dining corner a place for all the kids stuff. We got them a little table at Toys r us and now they have a place to park their trikes.

Katie came to visit and on Tuesday we took the kids to Lattins. I love going to Lattins, it's free, it's close by the kids love it, I plan to go there once a week this summer, just to get the kids out of the house (of course we will stop by grandma's house on the way back too!)

Katie was here for Conference weekend. The girls played a matching game for a while. It is really fun to have the kids play together, now that Kya is more mobile they can actually play with each other more. I am really excited for this summer when everyone comes up to visit, the kids will have so much fun!

Caught Violet jumping. I just thought this was a cool picture.

Claire sitting in the toy box, pretending to feed Kya something with a spoon. So sweet.

Ready for conference!

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend and were able to listen to some conference. I am looking forward to next months ensign so I can read the talks I missed.

Check out the new button

I added a new button to our family blog and I hope you all will take a minute to check out the link. The button is for my friends son, Austin. Austin is waiting for a kidney transplant. We had hoped that his Mom (who is a match) would be able to be Austin's donor but follow up tests have concluded that it isn't possible for her to be the donor. Austin's uncle is currently being tested to see if he will be able to be the donor.

So check out Austin's blog and read his story. If you are able to give anything to help with the costs, there is a link that allows you to donate. If you aren't able to give, please give prayers in behalf of this family. They are such wonderful people. I can't imagine what Cortney and Ben have been feeling while watching their son deal with this illness.

We will be having a garage sale here in Washington ( I am hoping for mid June) so if you have things to donate to the garage sale please let me know. All the proceeds will go to Austin's medical costs.

God Bless! Have a wonderful day!

pics of the girls on Rosado blog

http://lafamiliarosado.blogspot.com/2011/03/st-pattys-day.html

Here is a link to Rachel's blog. She put some cute pictures up of the girls at Lattins.

The girls

I got a new camera! I love it. I'm very excited about it, I know nothing about it. It's a cannon and is one step up from a regular point and shoot camera and that's all I know. The girls are both asleep at the same time right now so I thought I would share some new pictures that I took with my new camera. We've also been doing some fun things this past week or 2. This picture is of the Cougar at NW trek. My camera has 35x zoom. It's so fun.

Peter brought home a ballet outfit for Violet last week and she is in LOVE! She walks around like a little ballerina and wants to wear it everyday when she gets home from school. Her toe walking suits her when she is wearing her ballet outfit.

The girls and I took Aunt Diana to NW Trek on Saturday. It was raining and we didn't have umbrellas so we rented some. Violet insisted that she needed to hold one all by herself. It was a big as she was.

Claire had originally wanted to walk, I didn't pack the stroller, then we got there and she wanted to ride, so I rented a stroller, then she would only ride if Violet sat in the stroller and she could sit on her lap. Claire is going to make me gray.

Violet had picture day this week at school. I hope she smiled for the camera. She decided she wanted some lipstick. Thank goodness this was the day before picture day because that is long wear lipstick and it takes forever to get off!

Katie and Kya are visiting! The girls love Kya so much. Today Claire was helping me upload these pictures onto the computer and she pointed to Kya and said "Kya!....Let's go!" Then she went and got her shoes and coat.

Claire loves to give Kya kisses, they are so sweet. I can't wait to have all the cousins together this summer, the kids all love each other so much.

Kya playing with all the kids at Rachel's house.

Claire has no fear at all. I try to convince her that the toddler slides at the park are more fun than the 10 foot high ones but she insists that the big ones are much cooler. Again, Claire is going to make me gray.

The girls fought bedtime last night for about 4 hours and I was so frustrated and tired. But when I went to check in on them before going to bed they were snuggled up in Claire's bed. It just melted my heart. They are so precious.