Thursday, April 16, 2015

Easter, musuems, parks, cute baby

 Everybody loves to sit on Daddy! haha

 Easter Egg coloring; they had a blast
 Andrew ate all the eggs we colored in one day. He likes cracking them so much

 I was making more eggs to color later but unfortunately forgot them on the stove while we were at the pool. Apparently eggs explode! Oops.
 Andrew was so excited for Easter. He had been watching people open eggs on you tube for weeks, haha. He had a great time finding all the eggs. Evie go the hang of it by the end too.





Beach day. Brandon still had some time off so we have been going to the beach and pool a lot.


Andrew is getting to be an awesome swimmer. He puts his head under and can hold his breathe forever swimming to the sides.

 He also loves doing bellyflops!
 Layla is 1 month old now. She is getting so big so fast.
 Science museum day. Daddy had to go back to work so we headed to our favorite museum. The kids were really good.

 We went to a fun nature preserve with our friends. We saw an alligator so the kids thought that was awesome.

 Evie is constantly asking to "Hold the bebe". She loves to have Layla on her lap. We sat by the pool for a while like this; Layla was loving it too.
 Still try to do some preschool time while the baby is asleep in the mornings for the kids.


 Evie was having so much fun sitting by Layla. I couldn't pick one favorite picture so I just put them all. They are so cute!



 Layla is getting so big holding her head up


 I took the kids to the park and beach all by myself so that was a little crazy but the kids had fun and were really good. Evie doesn't like touching the water but loves digging in the sand so that was good, they even ate lunch on the bench all by themselves.




 Went to a fun park that is shaped like a castle. The kids had so much fun rolling their balls down the ramps. I got to just sit with Layla while they played. They are getting much better at playing together nicely. Still can't get rid of Evie's Paci but I don't think there is any hope of that until she is ready. She is so stubborn and crazy these days. She has thrown some monumental tantrums so I think the change with the baby is getting to her a bit. So that has been the biggest challenge is dealing with her crazy moods but she has been getting more reasonable lately so hopefully she keep up with that.
 We spent 2 hours at this park with a fun splash pad. Andrew loves going in them but Evie won't touch the water.

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Pennsylvania, Grandma visit

Layla's first airplane ride! She came with us to Pennsylvania to look at houses. She slept the whole way there and the whole time we were looking at houses that first day. She was a great travel buddy. My mom was able to stay with Andrew and Evie for 4 days while we went and looked at houses. They got so spoiled! We looked at a bunch of houses and townhomes. We found some good houses but they were just too far away and the closer ones were way too old. There was not much for sale in our price range there; it is an expensive place to live! So we settled on an awesome townhouse with a little backyard right in the neighborhood with other resident doctors so it will be great! It has huge walk in closets, nice bathrooms, 2 car garage and a huge living space downstairs. It will be perfect for us. It was cold and snowy while we were there so we got a taste of winter. Brandon about froze to death, haha, it is going to be a big change when we move. Hershey is a very beautiful area though. It is old and has lots of cool old buildings and houses. It also has a lot of things to do. Andrew will love the amusement park and roller coasters. They have a chocolate world that is pretty amazing too. It will be fun to try small town living for a while. We went to the ward on Sunday and there are lots of women in my same situation and lots of kids everywhere. Hopefully we can make some great friends there. I am excited and a little nervous to start our next adventure there. We went to dinner at one of the resident's houses on Sunday and got to talk with them about living there. His wife said the first year is just brutal so we are in for a tough rest of the year once we start. I am a little scared but I will just have to make really good friends with the ladies there and toughen up a little. Brandon has had lot of time off lately and will have a few more weeks off before we move so it has been really nice to get to spend lot of time together. We are going to try to do Disneyworld before we leave Florida and the kids don't get to see daddy anymore for a year. 


 Took everybody to the beach. All our kids got to have baby beach pictures. Layla did not like getting put in the ocean though, haha, but she did like the breeze and the sunshine.





 We celebrated Grandma's birthday a little early. The kids love blowing out candles. They get so excited for birthdays!



 Layla loves her bouncer. She is getting much more alert and loves to sit and look around.

Made a race car ramp the kids had fun with 


 Going to church

Evie likes Monkey Joes now. She can do a lot of it by herself now.

 Enjoying the beautiful weather at the park