Frying P@n P@rk

Last Wednesday we didn't have S*ccer T*ts, so we decided to go to Frying P@n P@rk instead! We went with our friends Leah, Aaron and their mom, Julie because we all go to S*ccer T*ts together. This park is only about 20 minutes from our house and is the oldest working farm in the county. It depicts farm life from the late 1800's and early 1900's. It still amazes me this is in the middle of our county which is very suburban!! We started the day off with a tractor ride and saw a ground hog, some deer, the farm's crop fields and some horses. Then we explored the farm, had lunch and ended the day playing on the playground!! A good time was had by all!! :-)

Me and Emily on the tractor ride!

OMG, this is definitely one of the biggest pigs I've seen!! Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture of her piglets.

Leah and Brady checking out the bunnies

Brady, Aaron and Leah checking out the chickens

Emily taking a peek for herself.....she was very interested in everything!!

Leah, Aaron and Emily hanging out with the sheep

Leah getting a closer look at the sheep while Brady plays with the grass!! LOL

I think he's trying to check us out!!

Leah and Brady running to see what was at the back of the farm

we found a peacock....

a turkey....

make that 2 turkeys!!!

My Mother's Day Flowers!

The kids had these beautiful roses sent to me!! I think the did an excellent job!! Oh, and I got chocolates too!! :-)

Strawberry Picking!

We went strawberry picking on Mother's Day weekend and the following weekend (when Grandma and Pop Pop were in town)!! None of us had ever done this so it was a lot of fun for all of us!! And boy, were the strawberries GOOD!!! I'm pretty sure Brady's favorite part was eating the berries!

FOUND ONE!

Daddy and Emily getting down to business

Here's another one

Emily had fun squishing them!!

MMMM, washed and ready to eat!!

He still loved eating the berries the second weekend!

Pop Pop and Brady getting to work!

Caught red handed...AGAIN! LOL

Grandma was definitely in her element!!

Time to go home!

KISS!

Emily turns 1!!!

We had Emily's Birthday party this past Saturday (May 8th) at one of our local county parks. The kids got hot dogs, chips, ice cream, and rides on the carousel and train!! Emily was lucky enough to have 8 of her friends there to help celebrate!!! ( I am sad to say that I probably didn't take enough pictures and the pictures I took didn't come out great b/c my camera was not on the right setting....sigh. I guess I should be happy with what I did get and I know some friends took some pictures so hopefully they'll be sharing them with me!!).

the Birthday girl!!

It was a H*llo Kitty theme

Lunch time!!

time for the train ride!!

heading to the carousel

fun on the carousel

getting ready for cake

mmmm, good!

she's not so sure about this!!

not too messy, not too neat

the clean-up crew (thanks Margi!!)

time to open a few presents

Despite the look on her face, she had a really good time!!! Happy Birthday sweet pea, we love you!!!

Easter

Okay, so I know these are really late, but better late than never, right?? :-) Here's a look at how we spent our Easter!!

Brady coloring the eggs.

getting a little help

Here's what the Easter Bunny left this year...Brady got T*y St*ory stuff and Emily got H*llo Kitty stuff.

she was much more interested in this soccer ball egg than she was with her stuff!!

Pez!!

checking things out

just look how happy he is with his T*y St*ry movie!!

The finished eggs made for good breakfast Easter morning!!

Outside Fun

These pictures are from about a month ago or so when the weather was finally nice enough to be outside for awhile. We had a good time just hanging out on the deck playing on the climber and being silly!!

It's not very easy to get 3 people in a "self-portrait"!! LOL

Emily does this quite a bit with all sorts of things...not sure where she picked this up!!

TA-DA

ARRRRRRRRRGH (I think she's practicing for G@sp@rilla!!)

Brady looks SO grown up and handsome here...one of my favorite pictures of him!!!

SO serious!!

it's SO nice when the actually play together!!!