Mother's Day Picnic

Mother's Day Out!

One of my Mother's Day wishes was to --- Get out and do something... anything really! So we met up with Rory's mom (AKA Grandma Bear) and my parents (AKA Nanny and Poppy) in Gig Harbor. They have a nice new out door shopping center (for lack of a better name). We had fun walking around and we ate at one of my favorite places Panera Bread.

We had a lovely time. Unfortunately I didn't get any shots of Nanny and Poppy. We really should have taken a picture of all the moms together. Next time!

Tether Ball King

The past two years we have held a tournament called Elementary Games as a youth group fundraiser. The whole church splits up into teams and plays each other in four square, tether ball and wall ball. Then there is a church wide dodge ball game. Along with this being a fundraiser... this is also a chance for Rory to play one of his favorite sports... Tether ball.

I am not kidding when I say this. Rory REALLY likes to play Tether ball. This is actually the third, maybe fourth time he has set up a Tether ball tournament. He is still the reigning Tether ball King... but as you can see it was a very close game. Check out these videos, they are pretty entertaining. Listen for what Cecily tells her daddy while he is playing.

Firsts

First Family of Four Picnic (This was my Mother's Day Present!)

First Steps-- Watch out World! She;s pulling herself up to standing, and she's pretty fearless!

First Rainbow (You have to look closely!)

First French Braids

First Time in an Exersaucer

First Time in a High Chair

Stickers!

Thank you Aunt Kathleen for the stickers!

Bottoms Up #2

Bottoms Up

Here is a picture of Rosey Posie at 7 months.

April Slide Show

Easter

Well, I can't believe how quickly Easter came and went! We definitely enjoyed the Lenten Season, and Holy Week. I did not give up anything for Lent, but we did rediscover Henry Nouwen and enjoyed reading some of his works.

Rory's parents- came over for Palm Sunday. We enjoyed the service with them, and then they came over to our place for a nice dinner. Rory's mom got to go visit his sister and her family for Easter.

We enjoyed a Maundy Thursday service at another local church and then went to my parents church and had a Seder Dinner on Good Friday. Cecily really liked looking for Elijah... "Elijah? Where are you?... He's not here!"

On Easter day we went to our church and then came over to my parent's house and ate a simple but very yummy Ham dinner followed by a nap for one and all. It was a very very very relaxing holiday.Here we are in our Easter finest!