Cousins, Cousins, Cousins Galore

In June, all the gals rolled into town for a couple of weeks. 1 Nanny, 3 Aunts, 5 Grand-daughters, and 2 Buns in the Oven converged and conquered. We did hair, shopped, painted at the pottery studio, enjoyed the children's museum, went to the movies, ate out, adopted at Build-a-Bear, visited family, and of course, had an occasional melt down. Loved it loved it loved it!

Paisley is now Megan's arch nemisis. They fought over Nanny constantly.


Watching movies with their new Build-A-Bear animals.

Lilly was scared to sit in the oval office.

Playing the drums in the music room

Slave Labor

Treehouse Children's Museum

Plating Barbies at Nana's

Travel Buddies

Crafting

Petting LuLu

Leslie, Patti, and Stacy came over to get their hair cut and colored one day. It was fun to have ALL my sisters together! By the end of the trip Rachel had done 5 highlights, 4 colors, and 3 haircuts! Thanks Rach!

Elefun

Merrill Memorial Memories 2009

The Merrills hitched up their camp trailers and headed out to meet nature in Island Park for Memorial. Cliff and Patti celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary while we were gone which was really great. They won the 'Cutest Camper Couple' Award.

Nate won the 'Sickliest Camper' Award. He had a sinus infection and finally decided to use Patti's neti pot. This is what came out!!! Yuck!

Launching Meg in the air.

Parker having a fit in the pool. I don't know why I laugh every time I see this picture. He cracks me up.

Zach and Jessica- They win the 'Cuddliest Camper Couple' Award. They just couldn't keep their hands off each other.

Tandi painting her birdhouse. Tandi and Piper share the 'Sassiest Camper' Award. Oh boy, they are a couple of independent chicks!

The girls playing pet shops.

Four wheelin'

I brought these super cute wooden birdhouses for the kiddos to paint.

This little girl wins the camper award for 'Most Explorative'. She would just walk off over the hill. We were all constantly keeping an eye out for her.

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Preschool Program

Lilly receiving her memory book from Miss Shari.
Singing a song. The boy (Jonah) is someone I heard a lot about this year. Can you say first crush?

Taking a bow.

PaPa's Birthday!

My dad's birthday was May 16th. The birthday boy grilled up some steaks and hung out with the girlies.
Cupcake faces.

Love you Dad!

A Little Something of Everything

We visited Preston this week and took a wagon ride to see Grandma Marian, the kitty cats, and the goats. Meg freaked when the goat started nibbling her sweater but Lil couldn't get enough of them. The cats were the same way, Meg didn't mind looking, but didn't want to touch. Walking away from them, Lilly asked me to get her a "little itty bitty kitty". "Wouldn't that be fun mom?!"

Did I mention we got the girls some baby chicks to play with over Easter?

Yeah, well, they were fun for like a minute and then they started pooping, and dying, and needless to say, we are not chicken people. Lil loved them and Meg loved poking their eyes. The surviving chicks were donated to our neighbor that raises chickens. Good riddance!

Last Saturday we got a box full of fun Easter goodies for the girls. I got it out of the mailbox and let them open it outside. Thank you Aunt Debbie and Emily for thinking of them! Meg loves the mini cadbury eggs with the hard shell and Lilly is still 'saving' her humongous lollipop for later.

This last picture is of Lilly's craft project last week. It was rainy and windy one day so we bought some toll paint and a birdhouse. She was pretty proud of it too.

Lovin' the Easter.

The girls at the Cottonwood Cove Egg Hunt. They were lucky enough to egg hunt all weekend. Meg seemed to figured it out when she realized what was IN the eggs. Lilly now thinks furry bunny ears are the coolest accessory EVER, Megan has been carrying her basket in the crook of her arm for days now and Nate has gained 4 pounds this week- ha! What a wonderful week!

E. Bunny hid eggs downstairs for the girls to find.- Lil' loved that.
Emptying out the candy, stickers, and money was fun too.

A certain Mr. E. Bunny visited the house with Barbie, My Little Pony, and a crap load of crap for the girls. Lilly loves her new Nintendo DS from Nana and Papa. Can you say spoiled?

"How 'bout like this Mom?"

No pics of Meg in her dress due to an inconvienient naptime.