Happy Birthday Jenna!

Happy birthday to my favorite niece! She is a big 5 year old now. We headed down to Fresno to celebrate the big day with her and had a "fairy" good time!

Daddy getting into the fairy spirit!

Riding on the train:

Cutie Kenzie:
At the Alice Tea Party Place:

Cute Cousins!

The party!

They love each other, most of the time :)

At the park

Last weekend we went to Fresno to celebrate Easter early with Scott's family. We spend an afternoon at the park. It was beautiful weather and the kids had a great time! I am really starting to have fun with Scott's camera. I think I got some really great photos of the kids!

Madison Rae

Mackenzie Ella

Maddie and Jenna
Sliding Climbing

Crawling

Swinging

Jenna Kate

Ryan James

So fun

4 cousins swinging

So happy

Fairytale Town

My sister-in-law had a meeting in Sacramento this week and I offered to watch Jenna for the day so she and Madison could have a playdate. They don't get to see each other that often and it is usually during,j a large family event, so I thought a little one on one time together would be good for them. Let's just say a normal meeting includes: tears, yelling, pushing and arguing...just normal 3 and 4 year old behavior, but they always have loads of fun.

So we met Kelly and got little Miss Jenna situated in the car and we headed to fairytale town. The girls were PERFECT!!! I can't even tell you how they acted. They took turns, watched out for each other, held hands, posed for pictures together, listened and played like never before!! I was so proud of both of them. When it was time to go, they both went willingly, played in the car the whole way home, then watched a little TV to "rest" (yah right), then we went out to play in the little pool, followed by a marathon bath and finally we went to meet back with Kelly for dinner.

I know the girls had a wonderful time when they both passed out in the car...actually Jenna passed out in the car on the way to dinner.

These girls are going to be best friends for life!!

Chicks, Ponies, Cousins, Parties and Such

We have had a really busy last few weeks. We were able to celebrate Mother's Day with both of our moms this year and I got to see my grandma too! We had a great time seeing both sets of grandparents lately.

In my classroom, he hatched chicks, so naturally I had to bring Madison in to see them. She loved them and wanted to hold all of them!
We also went to down Town Tuesday Nights where my little chick just had to ride the ponies! She rode on "Sir Wen" and had a blast!

On to other news....Scott and I are now the proud Godparents to our adorable nephew Ryan. We were able to join his baptism celebration/party last weekend.

On to cousins...here a couple of photos of Madison and her cousins being goofy!

Finally just a random picture of my little chick...she looks sooooooo grown up! We curled her hair and I can't get over how old she looks!

Early Easter...

Just a few photos from an "early" Easter with Madison's Fresno Family!

photo shoot with the cousins

We drove to Modesto today to visit with Scott's sister Kelly and our neice Jenna and nephew Ryan. We planned to get their photos done for Scott and Kelly's Dad's birthday, it is not until April, but hey we are planning ahead. He went OU (university of Oklahoma) so I found these cute little cheerleader costumes on e-bay and couldn't resist.

After an hour in the studio, sweat, tears (not really~)and laughter, we finally got a couple of really precious photos.

Shaver Lake...

This weekend we went to Shaver Lake. Scott's grandparents have a cabin there! We went up Friday and stayed through Sunday afternoon. On Saturday my sister in law, Kelly, and niece, Jenna, came up to stay one night. We had lots of fun even though we had to battle the carpenter ants! YUCK! But we went to the lake, made 'smores, rented a paddle boat, went for walks and had tons of fun!