April 2013

Photos from my phone from April:

Derek and Jenna snuggling on the couch during General Conference. 

Ha Ha Ha 

Grandma with Alyssa and Anne.  They both want her to hold them all the time.  Their feet are not allowed to hit the floor. 

Enjoying Goldfish

Jenna's school picture

Alyssa loves riding her bike

Climbing on the fallen log at Umstead.  Jenna, Kevin, Jared, Derek, and Alyssa

Jenna pushing Alyssa

Derek, Alyssa, and Jared at one of our many lunch-time picnics during the kids' track-out.

"Jenna, look at me." :)

Jared

Kevin refused to let me take his picture, so Derek asked him to look at something on his phone, and I took a picture.  I'm like a ninja.  Ha ha ha.

Alyssa playing at the park

Jared at the park

March 2013

Here are some photos from my phone taken in March. 

Jared turned 6 at the end of March. Not surprisingly, he choose to have a light saber cake. He loves all things Start Wars and Lego's.

She was refusing to look at the camera, so I had to sneak in a shot.

Reading to bear. :)

Jenna on crazy hair day.  For some reason I don't have any pictures of the boys. 

Getting so big

This is a common problem in our house.  We have to fold the chair and put it against the wall to keep her away from the computer. 

For market day, Jenna made "pet rocks" to sell.  It was her idea. She did all the painting herself.  I helped her glue on the eyes because we used a hot glue gun, but she marked them all so I would know where to put them.

Jenna was recognized for having a good character trait at her school.  I think she got it for integrity.  

Learning to color

Light saber cake.  

Jenna is my monkey.  :)  She loves to climb trees.  Jared does too, but Jenna goes really high.  She is above the roof line of our screened porch in this photo.  Kevin totally freaks out about this.

Happy 6th Birthday, Jared!

I don't like throwing birthday parties.  So instead of a party, we told Jared that he could invite a friend, and we would go hang out somewhere fun.  We went to a great little park not too far from our house.  The kids had a great time.  

Hudson and Jared.  Hudson moved away shortly after this was taken.

This "spider web" was really cool.  The kids loved playing on it.

Kevin on the carousel

Jared on the carousel

Jenna on the carousel (a little blurry, sorry)

Easter Eggs.  One broke when I boiled them.

Happy Easter!

February 2013

I think I have figured out how to move pictures from my phone onto Blogger, so maybe I'll post more often. First there's going to be several "photo dump posts" to cover from February of this year until now, by month. I'm not going to go back, and fill in the last year and a half. At least not now.

First photo I took with my smartphone:

Kevin, Jenna, Alyssa, Jared

Alyssa and Jared

Jenna and Alyssa

Jared LOVES all things Star Wars

Jenna and Derek had a Daddy/Daughter Dance for Valentine's Day.  She's ready to go. 

Derek and Jenna ready to go to their dance

Those are blow guns.  She loves them. 

Her pacifier and tag blanket.  The loves of her life. :)

So. Dang. Cute.

Love that face

Jared attended a friend's birthday party.  There was face painting involved.  So cool. 

Alyssa LOVES balls.

One of my favorite Alyssa faces. :)

Fondu night.  Kevin hates it when I take his picture, so I have to sneak one from time to time.  You know, for posterities sake. 

Jared, Jenna, and Alyssa.  Cute kids!

At the end of February, Jenna and Kevin had their first ever piano recital.  This is Jenna receiving her certificate from her teacher, Patricia.  

Here Kevin is receiving his certificate after the recital.  Kevin and Jenna both did awesome.