We Love Family #1!

Jacob's family (Mom, Dad, Katherine, Jamison) came to visit us about a week and a half ago, and it was a blast! We felt like we were on vacation right along with them. Here are pictures of the all the adventures we went on. (I wasn't able to post all the pictures and videos I wanted, so I will do a second post in a few days.)

We of course went to Gulf World! The shows were great, and the animals are always fun to look at. Here are a few pictures of us being eaten alive....awwwww!

We had a nice home cooked meal on our balcony at the condo...way up on the 12th floor. If you look in the corner of the picture, you can even see the ocean...beautiful!

We also did a lot of swimming in the pools and the ocean.

Addi fell asleep just like this...what's more comforting than a warm pool and grandma?

We went horse back riding! Everyone enjoyed the horses. Especially Addi and Katherine. This was probably one of the highlights of the trip.

Katherine riding Honey

Addi and Daddy on Apache

Addi is so excited that she found another horse. "Neigh, Neigh over there" :)

Grandpa and Katherine on Apache

Addi riding Dakota

Jamison on Zippy

Addi loved riding Dakota, here are just a few videos.

This is a view from the condo

What's better than a kiss in the ocean with the one you love? Love you babe :)

Beautiful wildlife at the Bay

St. Andrew's state park.

Frisbee in the ocean

Reach babe!

Nice catch Jamison!

Beautiful sunset

Another day at St. Andrew's state park. Right by the rocks behind us are tons of beautiful fish that you can snorkel next too....it is awesome!

We had a great time! Thanks for coming everyone! We love you! Good luck on your mission Jamison, you will do great!

And the Winner is...

Our ward Elder's Quorum had a pinewood derby, and it was so much fun! The only rule was that you couldn't power your car using fire. This gave way to many, many, many different types of cars including: Propellers, mini motors, remote controls, weighted cars and Jacob's car which was a mousetrap car.
He named his car JAK because as many of you know, it is his nickname. Also, it stands for Jacob, Addi, Keli (clever eh?)

Here's the line-up. The third one from the left was the overall winner.

Jacob got 3rd place and won "The Sweetest Ride" trophy. Way to go babe :)

This is a picture of my new haircut for those of you who asked for a picture...let me know what you think.

Keeping Busy

Addi loves flowers, and she always has a handful when we get done with our walks around the pond. Most the time they get squished in her hands, but sometimes they make it to the kitchen counter. These flowers were lucky enough to make it to the counter.

After passing these pretty little flowers many times as I walked back and forth through the house, a little light bulb when on in my head and I thought...

Since our dear sweet Cheerio knocked my last flowers off our railing to reclaim her perch, why don't I just plant wild flowers in my planters this time instead of buying them.

So...

That same morning, Addi and I headed to the pond with a spoon and our Easter bucket to collect some wild flowers.

Then Addi helped me plant them and water them, and this is the end result.

It has been about a week or so and they are still doing great, thanks to Addi for always reminding me to water them.

Well, onto another fun project... A while ago I was trying to figure out how I was going to make a temple for the primary bulletin board. After a lot of searching for clip art and failing at a few sketches of the Orlando temple, I decided to just make one myself out of paper. I had no idea how I was going to do it or if it would even work out, but after sitting down for about an hour and a half I did it! It isn't stunning or amazingly detailed, but it got the job done.

Now onto project #3: Addi's dreser. Addi's dresser has been one of those constant projects with drawers that are always falling off the track no matter what we try. I was just about to give up on it when I saw my cousin's blog about redoing her daughter's dresser, and it gave me the umph to try one last time. So I got the necessary materials to fix the drawers and to paint it white, and set off to do it. One of the drawers is crooked, but I'm just going to ignore it, so please feel free to ignore it too :) Oh, and it needs a second coat of paint, but that will happen soon enough (it isn't easy spray painting a dresser on your patio that is only about 3 feet by 7 feet)

These next pictures aren't really a project, just fun pictures of Addi and I in our fort :)

One last snippit...The picture of Cheerio above is at about 3:00 in the afternoon. It was so dark because of the huge thunderstorm. It was poring rain, but there she was, our faithful little duck. We were stuck inside because of a tornado warning, thank goodness that passed :)

This was the playground after the storm, one big puddle...Addi was so sad she couldn't 'wing' (swing).

All about Addi

Addi had her 15 month appointment the other day and here are the details:

She weighs 24 pounds which is 75th percentile

She is 31 inches tall which is 50th percentile

Her head circumference is in the 95th percentile

She also gained two teeth on the top which equals a total of 4 teeth...

To Sum it all up: She is growing strong and healthy! :)

Our camera was running out of batteries, so we had to tape the song in three videos. The quality isn't very good, but you can still see Addi doing the actions to popcorn popping.

Easter!

On Saturday we had a barbecue with friends as well as an Easter egg hunt with all of our kids. We had a blast to say the least. It was so fun for us and Addi to socialize with friends. She absolutely loved the Easter egg hunt and kept asking for more, more!

This is kind of a funny picture of Addi, but it proves I was there :)

Addi is signing "Where are they?"

We got Addi a little Easter basket and a new little Easter dress with a homemade bow from mommy :)

This is the best picture I could get of Addi before church in her new dress.

Opening her basket.

Our fancy Easter feast...haystacks

And last, but not least...dying eggs :)