Ringling Brothers Circus 2012

  Scenes from the Greatest Show on Earth!

I just learned how to make collages for my blog so I thought I would share some our of pictures from our trip to the Circus in July!  Thanks to Mee Mee it has become a tradition, to take the kids to the Circus when it comes to town each July. She has been buying them tickets to the Circus each year since Kaitlyn was about 2 years old but this year was the first year both of the kids were really old enough to appreciate the show.

Here are a few pictures of activities and sights we saw at the Circus! My favorite pictures are of Kaitlyn trying on the Circus costumes and Collin picking out his own souvenir. Enjoy!

Our little Chef

Thanks to Girl Scouts Kaitlyn has been able to experience several field trips this year. Her latest field trip was to the Young Chef Academy in Sugarland, http://www.youngchefsacademy.com/

I volunteered to drive and I ended up with the 3 amigos in my car, Kaitlyn, Reagan, and Isabela.

The girls each got to make their own cheesy breadstick and fruit smoothies! The highlight was watching the girls when the lady sprinkled flour on their table so that they could knead their dough and roll it out. She told them not to play in the flour...how long do you think that lasted? Before she could even get to them with their dough half of them had their flour all over them!

They girls had a great time and really enjoyed their breadsticks and smoothies and appreciated them that much more since they did it theirselves.

3 amigos-Reagan, Kaitlyn, Isabela

Practicing measuring flour

Kaitlyn's turn to add flour to the bowl

Note her face as she pours it in

Rolling the dough for her breadstick

Cutting berries for the smoothie, look how serious she is!

Our little chef

The graduates

Silly

Sillier

Silliest!

The Barrys picking Berries!

We took the kids to pick berries last weekend at Froberg Farms in Alvin.

Kaitlyn and Collin enjoyed it. Collin especially...the whole time we were picking he kept saying "My berries, my berries". Collin could hardly wait to eat them...in fact he tried to sneak a few in his mouth before I could stop him, but luckily I caught him just in time because the berries were rather dirty and really needed to be washed first.

Here are a few pictures of our berry picking adventure!

Kaitlyn and Collin in the patch

Little man and his bucket of berries



Mommy and Collin picking berries



Kaitlyn picking berries



Daddy helping Collin-he did not want help with his bucket



Buckets full of berries



Our little berries!

Whose says you can't ride and Armadillo?

Is this thing moving?

Easter 2012

It's that time again...Time for me to finally update the blog!

We had a great Easter weekend. I took the kids to visit the Easter Bunny at the Mall in Lake Jackson on Good Friday. Saturday we had Kaitlyn's first game and then a BBQ and Easter Egg hunt at church. Sunday we went to church and spent time together at home.

So here are some of my favorite moments from Easter of 2012!



Collin wearing his Easter Hat for the KRK Easter Hat Parade



Easter Egg Hunt at St. Andrews

Collin decided he was done hunting eggs and would rather play

Kaitlyn sprinting to the playground where the eggs were hidden

Collin made a seat for himself in the kitchen to enjoy his milk
by turning the stool upside down
and adding a few dish rags for padding

Kaitlyn planting a kiss on Collin Easter morning



Our sweet little man



"All done" he proclaims, even though Mommy
 was not all done taking pictures

Our angel girl

And last but not least...my attempt to get one good picture of them together at church. It looks more like outakes from a photo shoot!

Take 1

Take 2

Take 3-This is as good as it gets!

And then, our attempt to get a family picture went kindof the same...so here's 3 out of 4 happy faces