washington adventures with eric, rachel, addelyn and payne: April 2012

Saturday, April 28, 2012

fun with friends

just a couple of outings with friends...

Katie, Payne, Addelyn and Hannah on a wagon ride

Eric was the "driver"

Har-ber Village fun...a few of us moms and kiddos from MOPS headed over to Har-ber Village Tuesday to be "extras" in a TV segment spotlighting our cute town called "Today in America" - who know? you may see us on TV? :) it was a beautiful day and we had a great time just walking around visiting with each other! Addelyn didn't understand why we kept having to walk around and look at the same things over and over again! :)

looking down at Grand Lake

Hannah and Addelyn - posing

Katie and Payne trying to swing on the bar :) not a good idea with the water!

Stacy and Hannah

Hannah, Hudson and Addelyn

Tammy and Illya watching the water turn

Payne heading down to look at the water

and here is Katie-she was being filmed talking about Har-ber Village while we walked behind her!

what a fun morning!

Friday, April 27, 2012

college girl's weekend

This past weekend, I headed to Hot Springs to meet up with my pledge class from college. It was our first time to have a girl's weekend...besides the many wedding and baby showers we have all gotten together for! What a SUPER FUN weekend full of eating, staying up too late, catching up with each other, talking about our kiddos and husbands and memories from college. The weekend went super fast but it was wonderful and I got back energized and ready to start another week! My precious hubby kept the kiddos (for the first time) and they all had a great time! yah!!!!! Here are some pictures from my girl's weekend!

breakfast

heading to lunch and a little bit of shopping-Kathryn and Brooke

LeAnn, Camille and me

most of us girls at Pink Avenue Boutique - the owner is a precious girl we went to college with-and the store is AMAZING!!!!

hanging out on the dock on a BEAUTIFUL day!

we set the timer :)

our view

Camille and Caryn

Kristin and Kathryn

Holly and Brooke

me and LeAnn

Devin, Posey and Amanda

just enjoying the company

our FABULOUS lake house-thank you Kristin!!!!!

Oakley--so cute!!!

Kristen and sweet Logan

more eating!!!

precious Kristin-he is 9 months pregnant and due in 3 weeks...she started having some constant contractions so we started timing them! thank goodness they stopped after a few hours--we were READY!! :) it definitely made our night more exciting!!!

one last shot!!! Can't wait until next year girls!!!!!!

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

this and that

nothing too exciting going on around here lately-just hanging out and trying to get lots of outdoor time before it gets too hot!

this is the face of a RASCAL!!! Payne wanted to wear his big sis' elbow and knee pads

I LOVE her sense of fashion :)

this little boy loves to vacuum, sweep and help me clean...whenever he sees the cleaning stuff out-he grabs a rag and starts cleaning the floor

hopefully it will still be fun in a few years :)

Yesterday after naptime, Adde asked to get in Payne's bed for a "special treat" - so they played for a bit and had a good time together

here is a picture from a year ago....when they used to play in Payne's bed daily - they've grown so much!

1 year ago-gracious how things have changed!

just lounging around

I LOVE how both kiddos close their eyes when they are giving me a big ole' smile!!

and here she is our sweet Adde when she is grouchy-it doesn't happen too often but when it does...WATCH OUT WORLD!!! :)

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

pictures at the garden

Right after church on Easter Sunday, we went to a local garden to try and get a family Easter picture...here are some from the photo shoots

our little family

*note Payne's "bow tie" - when we picked him up in the nursery-they had found a hair bow and stuck it on him for pictures...it did look pretty funny and he liked it! so we just kept it on! :)

Buddy and Juju

Payne just wanted to get down and run around

Addelyn loves posing these day (and looking at herself in the mirror) I wanted to try and get a picture of the kiddos but Payne kept getting pre-occupied with sticks and flowers and bugs and dirt...the picture progression cracked me up-I couldn't leave any out! I think the best part is Addelyn still smiling and saying "cheese" in all of them