Sunday, April 22, 2007

Um... Happy 2 weeks after Easter!

This was just too cute to pass up a picture!

Easter egg hunt in our backyard


Spencer and his mother load of Easter Eggs.

Carly just liked to play with the plastic eggs.



This picture is to prove that Carly is starting to get more hair.

And her crawling is below.

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Carly is a crawling girl.....

I have been trying to post the video to the blog this morning and i can't figure out why it isn't working. Just click on the links for the video.

Carly has been crawling for the last couple of weeks. She's slow but getting quicker each day.


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-568183762930626670&hl=en

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1308256540352524617&hl=en

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

New Happenings in Albuquerque

This picture is for you Seth...
Here is our new minivan. We are so glad that we have it! The Mareks made minivans
look cool, so we had to join the cool crowd!

Another picture of our awesome minivan!

Carly giving us one of her famous scowls...

For April Fools, we ate Spaghetti with crazy utensils, and stuff.


Carly is always checking out what her crazy brother is doing.


Happy 1st Birthday Carly!!!

Carly only wanted to play with her cake, she didn't want anything to do with eating it.


We think that Spencer opened more of her presents than Carly did. What a helpful brother!


Carly's famous surprised face. She laughs everytime she does this face. She thinks

she's so funny! We sure love her!


Sunday, April 01, 2007

Our Sedona, Arizona Trip

So, we got back yesterday from our "family vacation". Kyle had a PA Conference, and the rest of us just went a long for the ride. It was a fun trip. Here are some pictures:
They had some really nice swimming pools. This is Carly sunbathing.

Spencer went swimming, whether it was cold or not... we'd ask him if he was cold, he'd shiver, say yes, and then say he wanted to swim some more.


Cute Carly even went swimming (on the warmer day)


Proof that I even went swimming...


We took a day and went down to Phoenix. We went to the Mesa Temple Easter Pageant while we were there. It was REALLY neat! This is Spencer waiting for the pageant to start.

Quick story: The characters come out before the pageant and walk around the crowds. Spencer saw this Roman Soldier and wanted to get his picture taken with him. Spencer was kind of timid and nervous, so Kyle went with him to ask for a picture. This is the picture he got... Then a while later, the man who plays Jesus came out (he looked like Jesus too!) Spencer got really excited and said that he wanted to go talk to Jesus. Well, he was quite a ways away still, so I asked Spencer what he would tell Jesus. He said, "that I love Him, and that I want him to come to my new house". Well, Jesus got a little closer, so we told him to go ahead and go talk to him. Spencer immediately ran up the aisle and talked to Jesus. I got a little teary, it was so neat! When Spencer came back I asked him what he told Jesus. "That I am 4 years old and that I'm big!" Anyway, it was kind of a cool moment for a mom to see him SO excited to talk to Jesus and that there was no hesitation at all to run up to him. It was a really neat experience. And the pageant was way awesome too! Spencer was enthralled by it all!


Spencer at the fountains by the temple

After the pageant, we snapped a few more pictures.

Waiting for the pageant.

While in Phoenix, we went to a Chicago Cubs vs Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game. (Spring training) It was pretty fun.

The game


Us at the game


Mesa Arizona temple



Kyle and Carly in front of the temple. More pictures are below...

Sedona, Arizona : Some scenery

Here are some pictures of Sedona

Spencer at Slide Rock State Park. It was really cold when we went, but in the summer, it is supposedly like a water slide and people go swimming in it. It looked like it would be fun.

Pretty mountains and cute kids.



This is the hotel we stayed at. It was the Hilton Resort and Spa. It was really nice, but

maybe the next time we go, we can afford to take advantage of the spa part...

The kids at Slide Rock State park again.