IL Visit

The girls and I needed a change, so we went to Papa and Nonna's house. We had such a good time enjoying the sunshine, enjoying friends and family, relaxing and just plain having fun. Despite strep throat, an ear infection, and my washing my cell phone in the washing machine the vacation was just about perfect.

For the record, I'm too lazy to go through and organize the photos, so I'm just going to post them at random. Enjoy!








For the record, in this photo Carolyn is snuggling with a kitty that we got when I was a little girl. She is ancient!!!


Birthday Girl!!!!


New haircut for me!








A cousins pajama party!

Frogs!

One of my favorite things about the kids who live in this neighborhood is that they still do things that kids are SUPPOSED to do. They run around together and play tag and spend more time outside than indoors playing video games. They even catch frogs (which is quintessential childhood purity at it's finest). Tonight, the kids next door found three little frogs in a pond not far from here, and they brought them over to our yard to show us. Carolyn was fascinated. Abbie was more interested in Dandelions. (Actually, it's just that it was hard to photograph Abbie's frog interactions as 1) I was holding her AND the camera and 2) She kept trying to grab the froggies and squeeze.)

Tons and Tons of Tulips!

Ok, you know you've been waiting for it. It's Tulip Time in Washington!!!!!! These were taken over two days. Andy and I went on a date and ended up exploring some fields even though we hadn't planned on it. The next day we went as a family. We've gone four years in a row now, and visiting the fields and taking photos has become a way to measure and observe the growth and changes in our family.




And the name of this Tulip variety is....



A couple of Daffodils