april showers bring may flowers...we hope.

It is finally starting to look like spring around here! (knock on wood) it has been so nice to finally see a little sunshine! Peter has switched to an earlier shift so he has been home by 4 every day and we have been able to spend a couple hours together as a family every day. We have gone to the pool a couple times this week and the girls are loving it! Claire is determined to climb out of the pool by herself and jump back in for whomever will catch her.

Violet is always just so excited to be at the pool She is a water baby at heart.

Claire in her robe walking to the pool.

of course sometimes we stay inside but usually we have to do something messy if we stay inside. The girls love to paint. my walls are covered in their creations.

our little artist. (she was all ready to go to the pool, we were just waiting for Peter to get home)

and sometimes the art just needs to go outside. Here is Peter and the girls making some sidewalk art at G & G Corier's

Violet wearing grandpa's logging hat and bossing everyone around.

Grandpa in his Logging hat. I wish this wasn't so blurry.

Claire enjoyed some time in grandpa's yard. She pushed the portable greenhouse around.

and dug up grandma's seeds! oops! we didn't realize there was anything in there. This is the girls favorite pot to dig up. I guess Grandma's getting a new packet of seeds for mothers day!

Have a great day and I hope you all get to enjoy some spring weather!

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.