Mother's Day

I had a lovely Mother's Day weekend, starting on Friday at a Mother's Day Tea at Owen's school. They had the room nicely decorated and Owen even pulled my chair out for me to sit down. Then all the moms were served tea and cookies and then we were given a gift.

Owen made me this cute picture frame.

Owen has been learning how to button a shirt. Here he is buttoning his friend Harmony's shirt. Look at that concentration.

Micah and Owen gave me this cool bird house for Mother's Day. Owen loves to watch the birds in our garden and was very proud of his work on this.

We went into Reno yesterday and enjoyed some shopping and lunch.

Last night Owen and I had a date! I took him to see the movie How to Train Your Dragon in 3D. It was the best animated movie I've seen in a long time.

On Saturday we went to Orrin's 4th birthday party and watched a bunch of kids get crazy at the gym.

The babies also had fun!

Mikki, Maureen, Tessa, Brenda, Kelly, Adler, Gaby & Jimmy

Micah remembered his days as a gymnastics coach.

Beer & Cheese

Last week Adler and I took a trip to Milwaukee, Wisconsin for a National WIC Conference. She has become quite the traveler!

I presented at the conference on our Bring Your Baby to Work program. Adler even entertained the audience while I spoke!

My mom met us in Milwaukee to babysit while I was attending the conference. It was so nice to spend some time with her there and I know Adler enjoyed her Grandma!

Lake Michigan

I'm not much of a beer drinker, but while in Milwaukee we had to try some beer and cheese! For those of you that know my mom well, you'll find this picture hilarious! My mom.....the woman who never drinks:

What a great way to take a nap.

Adler Swings

Around Here

A few mornings ago this is what Micah and I woke up to......the kids took over our bed. Think they're related?

Adler is starting to think about crawling.

Owen made a nest for himself to nap in earlier this week. He found every blanket in his room and curled up with them. Looks cozy.

When we're eating dinner we always give Adler a clementine to play with. On this particular evening Owen gave ALL of the clementines to Adler to play with.

On a hike, enjoying some wonderful spring weather.

We bought this cool swing at Ikea and the kids love it! I took a video of Adler swinging in it that I'll have to post.

Adler's first bike ride. I think Owen was so excited to ride in the trailer with his little sister.

Just a swingin'

These pictures are from a hike a few weeks ago.

Can you find Micah and Owen???

Olympian in Training

Ugh.

We woke up to a couple inches of snow this morning. On April 22nd. And to make it worse, as I was driving the kids to school today Owen wanted to sing Christmas songs. Ugh. I am not happy about this. On days like this I wish we still lived in Texas.

Sun and Snow

We finally had some good weather last weekend, so we pretty much spent the entire weekend outside. On Saturday we enjoyed some spring skiing at Heavenly. This was Owen's first ride up the gondola. This kid is not scared of heights!

And this is Owen's first ride on a real ski lift. We've taken him skiing a few times this winter, but he's stayed on the bunny slope. He was really excited to get on the BIG lift this time.

He's really doing a great job skiing. He still needs to learn how to slow down, but I've been so impressed with how quickly he's picked it up. Thank goodness for the harness!

Look at him go!

After a couple of runs with Owen, Adler needed a break. She got tired just watching her big brother ski!

We went to Heavenly with a couple of other families and they were nice enough to watch the kids for a while so we could catch a few runs by ourselves. This was the first time in 2 years that I've been skiing....it was AWESOME.

While I was busy being pregnant and taking care of babies these past 2 years, I forgot how much I enjoyed this!

Tessa and Adler

Owen with his buddies Ryder and Orrin.

The Ladies: Kelly, Brenda, Maureen and Tessa.

The boys were ready to go swimming.

After our ski fun we stopped by to see some friends. Here are Adler and Max.

On Sunday we stayed down in Carson and enjoyed the warm weather....took a nice little hike.