Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Easter 2013

We had a busy Easter with family visiting, Easter parties at school and Mops and hosting Easter dinner at our house. Here are some photos from the different activities.
 
My moms group, Mops, held an Easter egg hunt at the home of one of our members. Cameron and Olivia had a great time running around gathering eggs.


Baskets full of eggs, good job!
Easter party in Cameron's classroom which included snacks, creating bunny masks, songs and another egg hunt.



So cute wearing their masks!
Ready for Easter service at church (boots were ok but the hat stayed in the car, lol!)
Family photo before Easter service
Olivia in her Easter dress
After the Easter bunny came. Mickey is hoping there is a basket for him. Sorry Mickey!
Chocolate!

Coloring eggs with Daddy (while I prepared for our Easter guests, my family)
The table set up for our guests

April events

Olivia loves to drive the truck & Cameron loves to load the truck up with different items for his road trip :)
Olivia loves to play with her baby dolls & one day she came out of her room wearing this, too cute!
Cameron still loves garbage trucks, trash & recycling. He loves to put pieces of trash in his truck & drive it around. He is a stickler when it comes to recycling & will pull things out of the trash if they should be recycled. He also loves to make forts & houses from the cardboard boxes Charles brings from his office. Our garage is often filled with them, lol!

His truck loaded with trash


Charles & I attended the re-wedding of some friends of ours, Kimberly & Jared.

On our friends boat (Chris & Melisha Dolan) in Crystal River. It was our first time taking Mickey & he had a blast. He is definitely a water dog.
All the kids at the Dolan's house in Crystal River

Charles skeet shooting (for the first time) at a fundraiser for the Boy Scouts.
They had some neat planes on display at the fundraiser

At the first birthday for Meryl, our neighbors daughter. They had a petting zoo bring out some animals & Cam & Olivia loved holding the bunnies & guinea pigs.

Olivia wearing a new dress made by Grandma Ollie. She even has a matching dress for her doll

They sure love Mickey!

Cameron thoroughly enjoying the mud made by the sprinkler

Playing dress up in mommy's shoes & jewelry
Sorry Cameron, had to post it

I took Olivia to her first ballet and she absolutely LOVED it! She sat through the 2 hour production & asked where the ballerinas were during the intermission & cried when it was over. It was all she talked about for at least a week.
The picture I took of us at the ballet

Olivia is fearless, even more so than Cameron. I walked in on her trying to climb the ladder that was in our bathroom (we had a new chandelier hung over the bathtub.)



Monday, April 15, 2013

Charles' Family Comes for a Visit


At the end of March Charles' mom, Ollie, and two brothers, Robert (and his fiancee Sue) and Lee (from South Africa) came for a visit. This was Lee's first visit in five years and my first time meeting him. They stayed for a week and got to enjoy some fun activities like mountain biking, horseback riding, short motorcycle trip to GA and lots of cooking! :)


Robert, Lee, Ollie & Charles
Celebrating Lee's birthday
Late 70th birthday celebration for Ollie
                                                                On the trail ride
                                              Olivia with Robert & Sue's dog. She loved him!
                                                 Olivia & Grandma Ollie on the bike trails
                                                             Charles helping Olivia
                                                            Robert reading to Olivia
                                                         Nice picture of the brothers :)
                                               Sue, Charles, Ollie & Robert on the bike trails
                               Cameron & Olivia helping Grandma Ollie plant some flowers.