Spring time!

I LOVE spring!  We spend everyday outside playing in the sun!  Every night my kids are filthy and sweaty and tired...
This is what we have done this week.  I bought a new lens (50mm 1.8) and was playing around with the aperture, it was SO fun! Love it already!

Summer toes!  My new fav picture! 

 Porter saw an airplane. 

 Did not focus right AT ALL, but loved my kids faces!  So I edited it anyway! 

 Caleb and Hannah are laughing at Caleb's shirt being off.  I told Caleb that he needed to turn his shirt around because he was wearing an angry birds shirt... not very cute for a picture, so he just took it off. Porter then wanted to take off his, which led to this...

 There was such yummy light and I was yelling at my kids to "get over here"!  Notice Caleb's shirt...I know. I am one of those moms who let their kids pick out there own clothes at the store!

We painted our swing set and Caleb jumped at the chance to put it back together!  What a manly man, he loved that drill! Love him. 

Feeling so blessed

“There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.”
- Elizabeth Lawrence

Treasuring these small moments....
  

32 pound pile of sweetness!

What a passionate little thing she is.  Love her!  Last night, I took Caleb to scouts and left Kurtis with the other two kids.  When we got home, Kurtis told me that she prayed for me to not have any more frustrating days.  I don't know what I would do without her.  

 

Our tree has bloomed!! I have taken like 1,000 pictures of it!! I was taking pictures of it and noticed a huge bee!  He was so fast, but I managed to snap a few of him!

A scary dream

Last week for spring break me and a few good friends of mine took our kids(without the dads) to Wisconsin Dells (known for there hotels with indoor water parks).  I did not take Porter with us, because I was afraid I would be following him around the water park the whole time. The night before we left I had a horrible dream that we crashed and were all killed!!! How scary is that?!!! I was a little shaken by it that the next morning, so I decided to take some pictures with me and the kids, just in case.  Thankfully nothing like that happened, we all returned home safe.  Here are the pictures we took.  The kids were so excited to go!!

I bought Porter a big sucker, out of guilt!!

Easter

I did a mini shoot a week ago and kept up my backdrops to snap some of our kiddos! Kurtis hopped in some of them, which I love!  I took these fast because we were on our way to church, but still think they turned out great! We had a great Easter, full of tons of candy and lots of friends! We really missed our family, but enjoyed the holiday. 

 

Finding something to do

Hannah loves doing any kind of craft and I am always on the hunt for something for her to "create"!  Pinterest has helped my search, and many other things! 

Its called finger knitting, and you can find the directions here!

It is very addictive, even Caleb likes it!  It keeps their little fingers nice and busy and quiet!  

  

I made "love" bracelets for Hannah and I out of jersey knit, they are so cute!!!  (two finger knit)

Porter is getting so big and is becoming quit a little 2 year old!  He is constantly trying to make us laugh!  Love him!!

rat bones?!

Yes, RAT bones!!! Caleb got to dissect owl pellets at school last week!  The teacher let them take there "treasures" home.  Gotta love it.  Hannah was totally grossed out by the "fur" that the bones were all wrapped inside of, and can't say that I was any better!  Caleb had so much fun, to say the least!