A little bit of everything . . .

This was the picture I took just before dropping the camera on Hailey's knee which messed up the ability for the lens to retract and ultimately took our camera out of commission for a little over a month. Luckily it's a Canon and they fixed it for free, we just had to pay to ship it to them and they sent it back on their buck. What a relief. The camera is only as old as Noah.






Hailey loves learning to read and write! We can see how empowered she feels being able to communicate through writing; she's always writing on any scrap of paper she can get her hands on. On this particular day, the paper was part of her dress-up:

"Girl Power!"

(Hopefully she bcomes a better speller than her parents. I'm afraid we haven't done her any favors in that deeparrtmint.)

Back in January, loose tooth number five was about ready to come out and Brandon talked Hailey into helping it along . . .

She started to chicken out after everything was tied on, so Brandon, while offering words of comfort, slammed the door unexpectedly. It worked!


Noah, what can I say. He's a big baby. And we love him!






Last year I read on my cousins blog about how some leprechauns came to their house the night before St. Patrick's Day and played little green tricks on them. And wouldn't you know it, this year they came to our house! They got out all our green toys, dyed our vanilla yogurt green, our milk green, and even our toilet water green! This is what the kids discovered walking into the playroom in the morning:




Over spring break we went down to Utah to visit family. We had so much fun playing with our Hendershot cousins again!

You might notice a little bruise on Mitchel's forehead. Yeah, Tanner (do to some encouragement from the girls) took a bat to Mitch's face. Good thing it was plastic. (Sorry Mitch!)

While in Utah, we also had lots of fun with Grandma Marti, Grandpa Dennis, aunts and uncles! On this day we revisited the dinosaur museum.

One of my favorite family pictures!

Hailey kept asking when we were going to get to her favorite, woolly mammoths.

Grandma is a very patient lego spaceship creator.

And what do these two have in common?

Noah seemed to enjoy getting to know his extended family. Over all, he was a pretty good traveler. Here, he is getting to know his Great-Aunt Darla.

And to top it all off, we had doughnut night while we were there! My mom knows how to make one mean doughnut. Mmm, mm!

Brita, Dan, and Mom . . . I love 'em!

Easter egg dying! I love a holiday tradition that can be considered and art project!

This is about as close to the action that Noah got . . . maybe you can turn you hands blue next year buddy!

Clearly, a good time was had by all!