Showing posts with label porter paisley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label porter paisley. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Anticipation

Because we are heading to Sunflower Farm in the morning, and because we are going with some of our very best friends, the Rices, I am absolutely giddy with excitement. Last October, we went with our cousins, Katie, Porter and Paisley. With this upcoming visit to the farm, I went back to look at that last trip and realized I'd never blogged the pictures, so here they are!


We started the day playing in an old airplane. Porter was excited to be the pilot!


Then it was off to visit the sheep and give them a bit of a corn snack.

How precious are these sweet cousins?!

Waiting for our turn for a horse back ride, Paisley, Elizabeth, and Emily talked to the horses.

Getting those horse back riding helmets on!

Emily got to go first this time. Look at this big girl riding a horse! She loved it!



Addie was up next. She got to ride the little pony, and got to hold onto the saddlehorn like a real cowgirl.



Elizabeth got to take her first ride with Mama. She was pretty excited!


Porter rode like a natural. A true cowboy on the back of this horse.


Paisley got to ride with Mama, too. What fun!


Emily tested out this rope swing....

...while Addie bonded with this little friend over the magic of Frozen shirts.

Zip Line Time!


Porter found the giant sandbox and made himself right at home with the trucks.


Right by the sandbox there is a little house we've never explored, and the girls had a blast climbing to the kid-sized loft above and watching their friends play below.




Tire swing!

This handsome guy did a little strutting for us.

A little corner of the farm we hadn't visited before...complete with cozy swing and cozy coupe.

And right around the corner from this corner, was this.... the largest collection of outside toys I've ever laid eyes on. Cars, bikes, scooters, roller skates...just about everything you can imagine. We hung out here until the 1:00 bell ringer came around, letting us know the farm would be closing.



While the kids entertained themselves, I got a couple pictures of some of the awesome folk art that can be found on the farm.


 On our way out to our cars, the kids found the pumpkin patch.

I was awed, as usual, by the amazing view of the mountains that comes with a visit to the farm.





Can't wait to go back!!!

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Holidays!

Seeing as I'm about half a year behind on the blog, I'm just going to lump all the holidays that have occurred in the last six months here in this post. I apologize (to those of you who read the blog in real time, and to myself, Chris, and the kids for future reading) for getting so incredibly behind. It's one of those projects that snowballs in its intimidation as time goes on. The more time that passes, the more pictures we take, and the more overwhelming "work on the blog" becomes. It moves to the bottom of the to-do list, because it just seems too daunting. But I'm not ready to give up entirely, so here we go...

The Fourth of July














Here come the Fire Trucks!




Halloween







We left the jack-o-lanterns and babysitter DeeDee behind to go trick-or-treat through the neighborhood.













Thanksgiving

With the Nicolls


















With the Hicks'















Christmas

Christmas Eve



Booger the cat





Elizabeth was spellbound watching Callie paint her toenails







Cookies and milk for Santa and carrots for the reindeer

Christmas Day





Midway through opening presents, Addie thought to go check out Santa's plate, and came running back with it to show us that only a few crumbs were left!





Addie and Emily each got to go to the toystore with me to pick out presents for each other. I took Addie first and she chose the pink unicorn for Emily, and then asked me to make sure that's what Emily got for her, too. When I took Emily shopping, she browsed around for a bit, but eventually landed on the pink unicorn for Addison.



Enjoying presents

And then, it came...our wonderful, beautiful, perfect Christmas Snow!





Christmas in Michigan

When we landed in Michigan, there was surprisingly very little (no) snow, but it was still plenty cold for our Colorado bones.
Chris and Elizabeth with the wedding tree


Sally Cat!


Joey!

Michigan Cousins...Johnny with Ezra, our three, Hannah, Heidi, Joey, and Annabelle



Emily really got into writing on this trip

Ask Emily what she wants to be when she grows up and she'll tell you, "A dentist like Uncle Eric." She loves this guy.

A big Christmas dinner

A beautiful sunrise over the lake

Chris caught this shimmering rainbow spot in the sky...

...and its reflection in the lake

Grandma CeeCee

Mr. Joe

Dance Party!

The. Best. Fort. Ever. Thanks Uncle Eric!



Ezra James


Stickers on PopPop's face!

Emily practiced and practiced writing her name

Addie took on the role of Teacher almost every day

Elizabeth enjoyed having a high chair eating-mate