Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Gummy Smiles :)

Alyssa recently started this new "gummy" smile... I LOVE it! I hate her getting teeth now as for some reason I just love gummy smiles :)





Here you can tell she is cooing and being silly :)

Mike's 40th Birthday

David's brother Mike celebrated his 40th Birthday with a big surprise party planned by his wife, Brenda. She rented a lakehouse at Cedar Creek Lake and we all had a great time celebrating Mike and his birthday!


Alyssa happy her Daddy was finally there. We tricked Mike by thinking he and David where going to a Jeep rally when in fact, the rest of us were at the lakehouse ready to surprise them!

The kids playing "Duck Duck Goose" on the deck...


The grownups hanging out...(notice the birthday boy is gone...most of the guys went


Andrew & Dave fishing...


Wiped out


This is the Jeep AFTER most of the mud came off!

Happy Birthday Mike!

Easter Eggs and First Easter for Alyssa!

Easter Sunday we woke up to see that the Easter Bunny came to visit Andrew. We noticed that morning that the Easter Bunny had taken a few bites of the carrot we left out for him the night before...(to which Andrew exclaimed, "that's disgusting!"...silly boy!)

Of course, the Easter bunny left some eggs around "Big Tiger"






Ms. Lori (Jina's mom) helped Andrew locate some of the "sneakier" eggs...


We decided to try and take a few pics following Easter morning service...Alyssa had pretty much already obliterated her Easter dress with slobber by then...





Pretty girl's first Easter!!! Such a sweet princess :)


I LOVE this laugh!


Auntie Jina Bug Came to Visit!

Jina Bug came to visit for the Easter Holiday weekend and to meet Baby Alyssa....



We spent some time that evening decorating our Easter Egg Sugar Cookies...




Andrew insisted he had to sample each of the cookies...

The aftermath...

Easter Decorations

The Wednesday before Easter, Andrew and I did a few minutes of "crafts" to get decorated for the Easter Holiday...


Reading stories...

I snapped this pic of David reading to Alyssa the other night...they both look pretty into the book about "Cleo the Cow" :)

The Sillies...again!

It's so sweet to watch these two kiddos together! They sure do love each other :)

Andrew LOVES to hold his sister!



They bring sooo much laughter into our household! :)