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Butterfly Gardens

We took the kids to the Butterfly Gardens and they loved it. This year we actually got to walk in the outside part too. Every other time we've gone it was raining.










This was pretty cool. They had these water streams set up like the great lakes. It turned out to be a great day!

Easter

This year we spent Easter at my mom's house. Everyone was there except Phil. The girls had an egg hunt and we all had a great time.

1st birthday party!

The theme was cowboys/western. I made homemade cupcakes and frosting. This was so much fun. Emma helped too.

Birthday boy and daddy!

Our neice Anna

Nice Lynn

LJ was so happy

The girls patiently waiting for a cupcake

Cool! Can I touch?

He is such a monster

My little man turns 1!

What a day! LJ had been sick for a while and was really starting to feel better by the time his actual birthday came around. We played outside and Lynn pulled the kids around in the wagon. We went out for dinner that night and as we were eating we noticed this rash all over him. We called the doctor and had to make it to Grand Rapids in 45 minutes because the office closed at 7pm. We were in Big Rapids at this time. We got there with 5 minutes to spare. I won't say how fast we had to go to get there. It ended up being roseola. If it's not 1 thing it's another. By the time Saturday came, his party day, he was doing much better. No rash.

The bucket

This is just one of those pictures you have to share. Emma and LJ were both so sick in Feb. It was awful. Emma threw up in the early evening and said she thought she might get sick again and needed to sleep with her bucket. I think she slept with this bucket for about a week. Poor girl.

Our snowman

Emma and I finally got outside to build a snowman. It was the perfect kind of snow. We rolled and rolled and rolled the snow balls and ended up with the perfect sized snowman. We didn't really have anything for the eyes and mouth, so I thought it might be a good idea to make tiny little eyeballs out of snow and use food coloring to make them blue, and make the mouth red. Oh man.....it clearly didn't work. Now it just looks like he got into a fight. The red even dripped onto the body and the ground. Oh well, good story to tell I guess.

LJ's 1st haircut!

LJ's hair was just getting too long. It was growing over his ears, so it was definately time for a haircut.

I thought the sucker would help calm him down. Not so much. He hated it.

What a STUD!

Cocoa

In February we decided to fulfill Emma's wish of getting a puppy. Lynn and I headed out on our road trip for Missouri. I know, I know...I have no idea what we were thinking. We just fell in love with Cocoa online. We left on a Friday night at 11pm and got home on Saturday night/Sunday morning around 1am. We were so tired. I don't think either of us will ever do that again. But to see the look on Emma's face made it all worth it.

The big CUT

On New Year's Eve, Emma decided that she wanted her haircut. Thanks a lot Parent Trap :] We made her wait all day and think about it, but at the end of the day she still wanted it done. So we cut it. I braided the end and cut. I honestly couldn't believe what I had just done. I really turned out cute. What a heart-braker she's going to be!