Thursday, May 17, 2012

Easter 2012


It was a dagger not having our usual Easter tradition with our family back on the East Coast. Usually we would go to church with Gigi on Sunday morning then go to Grandma Bath's house in Maryland for a big family Easter egg hunt with the Baths and Valdez clans. We tried to recreate the importance of the day with our friends on the West Coast. The Browns came into town to celebrate with us and we had our neighbors and friends from Hanford over for our first party in our new house. It turned into an all day block party and we had a blast. 



Ainsley and the girls were visited by the Easter bunny
It's Easter!
The cutest baby bunny around
The girls are going through a huge dress/night gown phase. It is a battle if they don't wear a dress everyday and a night gown every night. They also prefer if it has a princess or Minnie Mouse on it. They were thrilled that the Easter Bunny listened to their fashion preferences.

Base Chapel Easter Service
Our Easter Ham
Such a photogenic family
Easiest baby ever

Divas
Daddy has a little Diva in him
The Kiddos ready for their Easter Egg hunt
Ainsley on the move!
Go Brenner go!

Matt got Glitter/ Egg bombed
The kids on egg hunt

Wade the next victim that got glitter/egg bombed!
All day Corn Hole tournament
Lara getting egg bombed by Brenner

The ladies chilling
The grumpy 2 year olds
Ava was exhausted and had to take a midafternoon break

Great relaxing day with our friends. Looking forward to more parties at our new house

Monday, May 14, 2012

Sequoia National Park

Following our Hawaii trip, we decided to take a day trip with the Browns to Sequoia National Park. The views were breathtaking and despite Ellie having some potty accidents it was a great day.


 The mountains are just beautiful. The only drawback were the extremely windy roads and carsickness. I was able to hold my lunch in by driving for the day.
 picnic time

 They found their perfect walking sticks
 Ellie had an accident and somehow we forgot her spare change of clothes that day. Daddy fashioned pants out of his jacket for her

 She sure is brave!
 The new style of "pants" were not conducive to rock climbing. Ainsley sacrificed her pants for Ellie



Snow in April! The girls loved it 
 On our quest to see the biggest tree



 We love snow

 There it is- The sherman tree




Overall it was a great day and we were in awe of the size and beauty of the Redwoods.