Monday, April 11, 2011

Spring Break with the Girls (and kids!)

This past week my mom, my younger sister Shaina and her 2 kids, and my baby sister Melody came for a super fun visit!  This was the first time we could all hang out, just girls, at my house!  We couldn’t really go a ton of places with 4 kids under 3, but we managed to eat out a lot, make treats, do a couple crafts, visit with Grandma Great, eat a ton of ice cream, and take a trip out to Purina Farms.  Be warned, there’s an OVERLOAD of pictures in this post!

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Aunt Mel Mel is the best aunt!  She played and played with her little nephews (and baby niece!)

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One thing you can count on if you hang out with the Brown family, is going out for ice cream!  We did twice!  My boys were in heaven!
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Jesse got a punching bag for his birthday, so we had to all try it out of course!
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Steve and Dan loved it!

Sisters!  We managed to make a few crafts (mostly bows for Rose).  These are some of the headbands we made for ourselves.
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Ice cream again!  Look at Dan’s tongue!
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Dan’s new thing is putting EVERYTHING in his hair!  So why not ice cream too?!  I’m pretty sure it was on top of the peanut butter from lunch!
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Baby Rose with crazy Dan!  He kept trying to attack her!
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Bath time with cousins…of course!  We had to get all the ice cream and peanut butter off some how!
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Mel and Rose…so pretty!
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The boys did a lot of this!  We were lucky to have some great weather!
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You know I had to do a baby Rose photo shoot!  She’s just so darn cute!
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See what I mean?!
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On the day with THE BEST SPRING WEATHER, we went to Purina Farms.  Shaina, Jay and Mel loved the huge horse.
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Dan liked the pigs and kept trying to climb in with them!

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Mel is seriously the BEST!  How cute is this?!  Poor Mel broke her wrist the week before she came Sad smile

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Aunt Mel Mel with the nephews…they were way more interested in the pool we were sitting in front of!
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All the cousins with me, Mel and grandma waiting for the dog show to start.
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How sweet is this picture?!  The dog show is fun…the kids loved it!
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Dan wanted to get in the pool with the dogs!

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Our super cute and super sweet Steve!
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Playing at the barn in the corn boxes.
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And again…all the boys!
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During April, Purina has a special Easter thing with baby animals and workers dressed up like weird bunnies…it’s cute, and the kids loved petting the baby animals!
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It’s the perfect size for little people!
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Petting the bunny
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Steve and Jay looking at the sheep.
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Everyone looking at the cats.
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Peek-a-boo!
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Even the Easter Bunny was there!  Steve was the only one brave enough to take a picture with him!
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Of course a week together wouldn’t be complete without torturing the kids for cousin pictures!
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We managed to get one decent one! Jay 23 months, Steve 3 1/2, Dan 16 months, Rose 2 months.  SO CUTE! 
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More torture, this time with Grandma!  (I don’t know if you can see it, but Jay got a nasty bruise on his head riding our little fire truck bike down my stairs!  We’ve never seen a bump grow so big so fast!  Luckily kids heal quickly! Poor kid!)
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Just the girls!
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The whole gang.  Since it’s then end of tax season, we didn’t see much of Jesse Sad smile

Thanks for coming guys!  It was a great week!  We miss everyone already!

1 comments:

Danielle Schaap said...

Cute pics!! Looks like you guys had a blast!