Pictures

As some of you might know about 4 months ago I lost the digital copies of all the pictures of my children from Nate's birth until about January of this year. Right now we are waiting to see if the (very expensive) professionals can recover them for us. In the meantime I've been taking lots more pictures & videos of the kiddos so we have something. We've also been looking in every nook & crany collecting any pictures we can find (digging through "sent" email folders for any pictures we've emailed out at any point) - if they aren't able to get us our pictures back more of you may be hearing from us asking for any pictures you may have of our kids. In the meantime here are some of our more recent life experiences in pictures.

We took the kids to Sears for Easter Pictures - here are some of our favorites:
We took a trip to the zoo - Kassie's first - she had a great time - we all did! Mount Rainer even made a nice showing.

Our St. Patrick's Day Green - This was in the week when Nate was sick - hence the green PJs.

Kassie update. She's going to crawl any day now - we are all excited for her to be mobile. She's also getting good at grabbing everything - recently she grabbed Abbie's dinner plate from the table in an attempt to get Abbie's un-eaten hot dog bun, all she got was a swipe of ketchup on her head.

Abbie update - Not much new, still a diva in the making. She loves to be the center of attention, pull out a camera & not only will she smile but pose as well. She working hard at learning her letters & sight words at school - she'll be a kindergartner before we know it!
Nate update - I've written more about Nate lately than the girls, but a funny thing to share a little bit ago Dan took Nate & Abbie to swimming lessons. Long story short, Nate didn't have any PJs to come home in, but Abbie had 2 sets. Good thing Nate isn't above wearing pink- he looks pretty good in it too.
Then when Nate was sick I pulled out some jello molds my mom sent to make something special for him - we made mini jello molds with 3 different kinds of jello (so it looked layered, although you can't tell in the picture). When he dished it up he put whipped cream around the bottom & at the top, added cupcake sprinkles and called it "Grandma's Famous Jello Recipe" (I'm guessing because grandma sent the molds she got credit for the creation). I called my mom to fill her in, not only on what happened but to give her a copy of her now "Famous Jello Recipe" - we both got a kick out of it. Nate's rendition of Grandma's Famous Jello Recipe
We've been working on getting both kids to ride their bikes with no training wheels. Nate is free wheelin' on 2 wheels now. Abbie's almost there - video to come soon (I hope)! Never a dull moment around here - how blessed we truly are!

Today I am grateful for the sun - we had a couple of good weather days in a row. I forget how much I like the sun & fresh air - the doors have been opened as we have been "drinking in" the good weather. After all this is Western Washington who knows how long it will last!

PS - The last 3 weeks have been long - Nate was sick for one whole week, the day he was well enough to go to school - Abbie got whatever bug Nate brought home (thankfully Dan, Kassie & I all escaped it) & missed 3 out of 4 days of preschool that week. This last week has been spring break so come tomorrow I'll be happy to have 2 healthy kids who are going back to school!