I am the world's worst blogger...

Riding in the taxi's. The kids LOVED them and of course not being in car seats!

Noah's silly faces, at least it wasn't his cranky one!

Pretty girl G!

They are so silly.

Having a great time dancing on the table at Senor Frog's. My kids love to shake it!

We had a great trip. My Mom came with us and it was great to spend so much time with her. We swam, shopped, ate lots of Mexican food, and just hung out. Noah is already wanting to go back!

I haven't blogged in so long that I forgot how to do it! I'm going to try to get started again. Josh and I read this last night in our Bible Study and I really wanted to share it.

We specialize in "I am right" rallies. We write books about what the other does wrong. We major in finding gossip and become experts in unveiling weaknesses. We split into little huddles and then, God forbid, we split again...

Are our differences that divisive? Are our opinions that obtrusive? Are our walls that wide? Is it that impossible to find a common cause?

"May they all be one," Jesus prayed.

One. Not on in groups of two thousand. But one in One. One church. One faith. One Lord. Not Baptist, not Methodist, not Adventist. Just Christian. No denominations. No hierarchies. No traditions. Just Christ.

Too idealistic? Impossible to achieve? I don't think so. Harder things have been done, you know. For example, once upon a tree, a Creator gave his life for his creation. Maybe all we need are a few hearts who are willing to follow suit.

Max Lucado

Amen! I loved how this applied to the Church and our personal lives on so many levels. I pray for a heart that seeks to unify and not divide.

Circus and Easter

At the circus with cousins Taylor and Dina

Elephant riding

Swinging on Easter Sunday with Taylor

In their easter outfits...ready to break out of them!

Noah in his bunny glasses from Nana and Grandpa Mike

Silly Face

Last thursday we went to a circus in Cashmere with my cousin Shaney and her two girls Taylor and Dina. It ended up being a ton of fun for him. They ate cotton candy, saw lots of animals, and got to watch guys on motorcycles (Noah's new favorite thing!) The highlight for him was riding the elephant. A few months ago Noah, My Mom, Gracie, and I took Noah to the Rainforest Cafe and it scared him to death! When it started thundering and the elephants screamed he started shaking crying. For weeks he was saying, "elephants all gone!" So, we've been trying to show him nice elephants since and he must have conquered his fear as he rode one! We were very proud of him.

This Easter was a lot of fun for us. My Mom and Mike came over Saturday night and we had fun chatting and hanging out. Sunday morning Noah had a great time with his basket from the Easter bunny and looking for chocolate eggs. We went to church (where we have never seen such a big turn out!) and then had my cousins over for a great dinner that Mom and Mike made. We had a fun day with family and a great time celebrating that Jesus conquered the grave!

Pre-School Concert and Picture attempt!

Finally a good picture of the two of them. It was at a pizza place and they only stayed like that for two seconds...details!

Noah paying attention...finally!

Noah's friend Mia dancing, she is too cute!

Noah and his friend Derek dancing

This took us forever and it's not that good!

Not so good...

We realized that most of the pictures of the two kids together are in their pajamas. So, we got them dressed in their Easter clothes and made an attempt. As you can see it didn't go very well. We did our best, but Noah kept saying, "All done!" and trying to shove Gracie off of him and Jack kept getting up to go after the Pirate's Booty that Josh was bribing him with, which in turn, would make Noah realize that he wanted some "booty" (his words!) too.  We gave it up!

Later Noah had a fundraiser for his pre-school. They held a children's concert and we were really excited to see how many people showed up. The kids had a great time dancing and singing together. Noah, of course, can't sit still and was keeping Josh busy chasing him around the gym. They looked cute though in their school shirts! The best picture that we got from the day was after the concert when we went out for pizza, who would have thought!

Suncadia Weekend with the McDaniel's

Noah and Molly snuggling at Midnight...someone wouldn't go back to sleep!

Maddie, Noah, and their Daddies playing ring around the rosie.

Just hanging out.

Eating bunnies.

Big hugs!

Waiting for their Dad's to come down the slide, they were too little to go!

Our good family friends, the Gervais', have a beautiful house in Cle Elum at Suncadia. So, Josh, Noah, Gracie, and I met Molly, Korey, and Maddie there for the weekend. The adults had a great time chatting and the kids had so much fun running around and playing with toys together. Before we left Korey and Josh took the kids swimming and they had a ton of fun playing in the water. Molly and I grew up together so its really fun for us that our kids get to do that as well. We wish that they lived closer so that we could get together more often. Thanks for a fun weekend guys and all of the great girly hand-me-downs (I was scoping out the clothes she was wearing this weekend for future use!)

Gracie's Baby Shower

Josh opening gifts at his first shower!

All of the Kids playing in their favorite toy for the evening, a box!

Noah and Jaden playing with the balloons

Josh and all of the ladies from work

Noah giving Jaden a kiss, her Mom, Angie, and I have decided that they are meant to be!

Gracie is not happy in her first dress wearing experience

Our friend Angie, a teacher at Josh's school, would not let us talk her out of doing a baby shower for Grace. She decided to do it at her house, which was great. The other Mom's brought their kids (most of whom Noah knows) and they all had a great time playing while we ate, visited, and opened presents. Because this was with all of Josh's work ladies we insisted that he be at the shower. It was his first experience so I thought that he should open some gifts. You could tell that he was new because he was going very quickly and kept forgetting to pass everything around. Gracie received so many nice gifts and it was really fun to hang out with everyone. Thanks Angie, Rhonda, and everyone else for all of your hard work and the great gifts!

New Pictures

These are just a few pictures we've taken of the kids!

Noah pumping!

Noah holding Gracie, he says, "all done!" pretty quickly!

Grace in the big boy chair.

Noah and Josh shoveling snow. Noah loves it, Josh hates it.

In the bath

Josh's Great Idea

Last week Josh was doing the dinner dishes while I was feeding Gracie and Noah was wanting his attention. So, he decided to give him a bowl of flour and a wooden spoon to keep him occupied. I came in and asked what Noah was doing (he was eating and throwing it) and Josh said, "Well, you usually don't like it when he gets wet so I gave him flour instead of a bowl of water." I laughed so hard that I was crying, this all made perfect sense to him that Noah should do one of these activities right after his bath and in his clean pajamas! I told him that redirecting was a great idea, but maybe to something cleaner next time. To his credit, the flour brushed off and we just ran the vacuum, the mess could have been a lot worse. I have a feeling this will be an issue again in my near future!