Easter

The hunt is on......
Standing by the Awesome Easter Bunny!

Look what I found!Can you see Isabelle?
Hint: She is in the purple jacket.
There were over 600 eggs to find out in the woods.

Isabelle is 4!

Happy 4th Birthday Isbelle!!!
You are a most beautiful Princess!

All the beautiful princesses and prince that came to celebrate!

Craft Table
Each guest got a large puzzle piece to color and then we put the pieces togther.

Ding-Dong

Surprise Speacial Guest!!!!!
Who could it be??

It was Belle!!!

And she had a special task for all the party guests. She gave them clues in order to find her missing slipper! Of course, an adult had to read the clues to them, but they had a blast finding them. The last clue brought them to the table, where a princess cake awaited!

To end the party on a nice calm note...

.... we played the movie Tangled. Turns out the adults lasted longer.

My appologies!

Where have I / we been??

Well to answer that question simply... Here!

I suppose I needed a long break from the computer and blogging and photography, and in all honesty... everything normal.

But today I seem to be motivated ... so here is the attempt to catch up, starting with Isabelle's birthday through today's mini shoot of the kiddos.

I do thank you for your patience!

I promise

Wow, and oops!!

I know that it has been forever since an update and I am sorry. Life, work and having fun has gotten in the way!

I promise to update this weekend, right after some landscaping and playing in the yard.

Hope all is well with everyone in blogger land!

The Countdown Continues!!

4 days till Isabelle's birthday party AND 8 till she is actually 4 years old!!!!!!

Zoo Trip!

A trip to the Pt. Defiance zoo over Spring Break was mandatory, and YAY for the weather cooporating! It was beautiful, blue skies, a slight breeze warm. Once home though, and I heard the temp for the day, I was surprised at the high being only 54... seemed way warmer! Guess that is warmth from being in the 30's and 40's lately. ;)

Though the day was not on our side at all, supposed to be at the zoo by 10... we didn't arrive till 11:30. Major tired mommy, and lazy morning kiddos, needing to feed the car and traffic made us quite late. hehehe, but at the same time, our friends that we were meeting up with were super late too, same lazy kid morning and traffic. Despite the lateness we both were happy to meet up and strangely neither of us were affected by being super late. This may be the fact that life with more then one kiddo is full of lateness and learning to be flexible. Of course we kept texting and calling stating new late factors. It became quite funny!!

Life is so grand!

Pics are in no certain order, (blogger was being a bit of a pain while loading), but there was a TON of fun and William LOVE, LOVED his first trip to the zoo!

Nolan and William enjoying the animals and being pushed during their first trip to the zoo!

William getting a chance to walk around a mural of fish. He loved pointing at the all and saying 'oooh'

Isabelle and Paige playing in the touch aquarium. They did such a good job and really loved being able to touch some of animals!

Then they got to color some sea animal pictures. Isabelle made hers for William. She is such a sweet big sister! She even hung it up on teh fridge for him when we got home!

The girls pretended to be snails!

Isabelle found a seahorse, along with Nemo and some other coral fish. Those pics didn't come out so great.

She also found the ONLY mud puddle in the grassy area that we ate lunch near.

Paige and Isabelle loved the Artic Foxes. They both wanted to bring one home.

Cute Girls at the zoo!

They both wanted to try and squeeze into the stroller. Somehow they succeeded. Bruka and I took turns pushing that stroller.

William (top) and Isabelle (bottom) watching the elephants!

Shark Bite!!!

William trying to get into the shark's mouth.

Smiles

I do believe that the kids know what to do when they see a camera... they are far from shy when it comes out! I love it! Sometimes its smiles, sometimes its silly faces, any way you look at it, they show off when the lens cap comes off! This summer is going to fill my camera card. ;)

My Loves!

BFF's

These two are joined at the hip!!! He calls her his girl friend. The have cuddled in bean bag chairs and watched a movie together, they play everything together at school, they are sad if the other does not make it to school, they have even shared a kiss or two. Im thinking Jaiden could be Isabelle's first boy friend.

Happiness!

I saw on a family blog the question :

What makes your spirit happy?

Right now, these bring the biggest smiles to my face and soul!

**Exploration

**Crisp morning air with the sound of the choo-choo train and birds singing

**Signs of Spring : little tulip leafs sprouting!

Good Friends

A herd of Elk traveling through the front yard with the kids watching them and them watching the kids.

Building with Lincoln Logs

Eatting Pizza

Sheer happiness of smiles and giggles!

Helping hands of a big sister!

Love

Now I pose the question on to you??

What make your spirit happy?

One Year Portraits

Work in progress~~~

William loves being outside! The only stiplation is... do not put him down, he must be carried. I personally can't wait for the day to come that I can put him down and he will be happy. So far, the 2 portrait sessions I have done with him, he is full of tears.

The cat on this one helped a bit...

Here is the best shot from this session... no smile though, and no tears.

He was so hesitant, wouldnt stand, wouldnt sit,
just stayed in that position and cried till daddy picked him up.

I will try again next weekend, weather permitting.