Thursday, April 30, 2009

Pictures of April Fun!

This month has been crazy busy but so much fun! So instead of like 6 different post I am going to lump them into one big picture post!!

The girls were invited to two separate Hannah Montana birthday parties.  They were able to dress up and have sparkly hair and dance all over the place! Here are some pics from those parties!

Getting ready to leave for the next party
Musical Chairs
Horse Race
Aubrey and her good friend Cadence looking cool!
Musical Parade
Mexican Hat Dance
LIMBO!!
The temperature finally warmed up this past week and on Monday was up to 90 degrees so our Mom's Club took all the kids to the Syracuse Zoo and Chuck E Cheese.  Aubrey & Rebekah had a great time and even touched an elephant!!!




 The kids could see themselves dancing on all the big screens
AND THEN... that same week we took the kiddos to our little Zoo in Watertown.  Not as many animals but they still had fun. It turns out a big sand box is all you need!
Alright thats it! It was a great month and the May calendar is filling up...

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Spring is Here!!

The long Northern New York winter seems to be over. (not 100% sure yet!) As I write this its already in the high 60s - AMAZING! The best part is the kids have been able to get out finally! We found this paved walking trail right near our house that follows the Black River and is my new favorite exercise spot. Its 6 miles and beautiful. I can't wait until its actually green and the flowers start to bloom. The best part is it totally wears out the kids!




Earth Day was this past week and Fort Drum was putting on a little celebration for the kids.  They learned about recycling and planting trees, and even got to take home their own potted plants, a douglas fir, and a crab apple tree.  You should have seen me holding all that plus stickers, pencils, posters, my purse, and trying to hold their hands.  The smarter people had wagons with them!
The girls holding their plants that they planted - and their blooming now!
The girls even met Smokey the Bear.  Later they had someone from the forest service at a booth and they had a bunch of animal pelts, including a big brown bear.  Aubrey was a little unraveled since she had just seen Smokey so we had to go back and make sure Smokey was alive and well!
Bekah learning about different kinds of trees and what the wood grain look like.  Below is the ET tree.  2 trees grew together into one to form a ET face in the grain.


Face painting was their favorite part of the day.  They wouldn't let me touch their faces all day so they wouldn't mess up their beautiful paintings!  See their trees in between them?