Prince Thomas

Thomas is a favorite at our house. Kenna absolutely adores him as do I. I love when he comes over they entertain each other and I get tons of stuff done.She has announced to everyone that Thomas is her Prince. When Thomas comes over he does refer to her as Princess Kenna and he is Price Spider man Thomas (or some other boy super hero). We have been at my mom's house for the past week and Kenna has been pretending that Thomas was here with her. She has so missed him It is so cute. While here in Idaho Kenna has been Cinderella and Whitney has been Princess Aurora. So naturally Cinderella's Prince's name is Thomas. We were at Wal-Mart and Whitney saw this picture of Cinderella and announced Kenna it is you! Kenna's response was and Thomas. If you ask either of the girls who Cinderella (or Kenna) is going to marry it is Thomas. That would be just fine with me.

SINK ME! The 3 people who can tell me what this phrase is from will get a a surprise from me. Leave your address and guess in my comments. The picture is of my sister and is to help you guess.

Tiff or Bryn?

As promised here is a photo of Tiff when she was a baby. I was 7 when she was born so I remember quit well how she looked and acted. I have caught myself calling Bryn Tiff a few times. I put this picture of Tiff on the piano at my moms house. Everyone who saw it wanted to know when we got this picture of Bryn taken. My dad thought it was Bryn and made the comment of how much she looks like Tiffany. The resemblance he said was amazing. Which just proved out point to those who weren't sure that Bryn looks just like Tiffany. So it will be no surprise to us if in 18 years she looks like this.

On the Move

Bryn has been crawling for 3 months now, and pulling herself up to the couch and other stationary objects throughout the house for a few months as well. I have been okay with this type of movement, not a ton of damage can be done. However, we have just reached a new type of movement... climbing onto those stationary objects. This past week I came out of the kitchen to find my child half way up the stairs and clearly proud of herself. While folding laundry on the couch I looked over to see her standing on top of a chair. With this new mobility also come the awareness that cupboard doors can be opened and the contents within removed. Oodles of fun I tell you. Kenna will say "She's on the MOVE" if she sees Bryn heading for something she shouldn't. We have been hearing this phrase a lot these days.

Easter Morning

In their Easter baskets they each got a blanket and a small stuffed bunny, Kenna got a Barbie, Bryn got a few binki's. Candy of course for Kenna, Bryn we put puffs in her eggs. In the family basket came the movie Enchanted and a game Hi-Ho- Cherry-O (only because I am sick of playing Candy Land and Memory). Bryn was so excited when she found a binki in her basket and was in awe when I opened an egg for her. Bryn also has a new trick, it is going from sitting to standing with out having to grab onto anything and pull up! We hosted dinner at our house. Dan made an amazing ham as did Stephanie then everyone else brought the extras. All of the adults were able to sit at the dining room table. We brought up our extra one for the kids. Kenna was in Heaven it couldn't have been any better for her Thomas, Kyle and Spencer all at her house! After dinner the kids played and played while the adults were able to talk and enjoy each others company. We have the greatest friends we would be lost out here with out them!

Easter Celebrations

On Saturday we took the kids to an Easter egg hunt with friends at a local park. It was freezing cold but Kenna didn't mind she was running all over the place and oops slipped and fell into a big pile of mud right before the hunt was to start. She was a little upset.

Other than that she had a ton of fun finding eggs and putting them in her basket.

Later that evening we dyed easter eggs and set out our baskets for the Easter Bunny.

Brad had a good time hiding candy all over our living room and making this M for Kenna out of M&Ms . Then I did the Baskets.

A visit from Grandma

My mom was able to come out for a few weeks this month and we had fun. She gave me a sewing lesson, I made two blankets for the girls (as seen in the Easter photos), a sun dress for Kenna, a Blanket for my friend Stephanie, and a hooded towel for Kenna. Kenna of course slept smack dab next to her every night and brought every book we had to her for it to be read. We went out Lancaster hit the outlet mall, snickered at the Amish (just kidding we just stared like idiots who had never seen a horse and buggy or a beards that long). These are some other things that we did:

This book is her favorite. We had checked it out from the Library it was read so many time I think my mom has it memorized. It comes highly recommended.

Grandma took her to her favorite place Build a Bear Workshop. Here they built two Elephants (one for her one for Whitney) and a dinosaur for Ryan. After this we all went to lunch and then to the movie Horton Hears a Who. This was my favorite book when I was little my dad still has the first page and a half memorized. She is still talking about this days later.

Longwood Gardens was another stop for us. It was fun they had the Orchid festival going on, so Orchids everywhere. We took at least 100 pictures just of flowers. Kenna went on a scavenger hunt she got a stamp at various stations through out the indoor gardens. Another highlight was that the indoor children's garden was open. It is such a neat place. She walked all over and made herself exhausted. As we were leaving she said "this has been a beautiful day". She was right it was.

We had a good time and the 2 weeks really flew by. We are excited to be able to do to their house in a few days (thank you Dad).