Welcome Baby Crew

The newest addition to our extended family, our new nephew/cousin...Crew William Taylor. So sweet!

The Blue and Gold

Our first ND Tailgate experience...the Blue and Gold game. The tailgating was fun and the game was good too, oh all except for the cold and rain.

Spring Break

We stayed and played in Iowa over spring break. We made a trip to the park and played with our bubble wands from Easter.
We were there about 30 minutes before it started pouring buckets of rain, by the time we gathered everything and loaded into the car we were sopping wet! Also, no trip is complete without a stop at the Children's museum. This time there was a cool aviation exhibit which the kids had fun exploring and testing their skills as a pilot.

Gotta Love the Midwest

Matt came home from our weekend in Iowa while we stayed back for our spring break. This is what greeted him when he arrived.
At first we thought that some of the teenage kids were playing a trick on us, but when Matt inquired of the neighbors they said that there had been some pretty strong winds that weekend that could have easily flipped our tramp over. Luckily, it looks like the wind just lifted it up and set it down in the same spot, only upside down, instead of crashing into someones house and causing some real damage. It kinda looks like it won't ever be the same, huh?

Happy Happy Birthday

We celebrated Matt's birthday while visiting Iowa and he had some yummy (at least he thinks so) crab legs, courtesy of Aunt Jen's recent trip to Alaska.

Easter

We got to spend Easter with Grandma and Grandpa and Aunt Jamie in Iowa. We did all the usual festivities like coloring easter eggs, hunting for them in the morning, finding baskets, and eating a yummy dinner. This year was a special treat and we got to listen to General Conference on Easter Sunday and were able to remember the real reason we celebrate...the resurrection of our Savior. I love it when Easter falls on Conference because it really becomes a time of reflection of all we are blessed with and a time to commit to be better in the coming months.

Superhero

Parker loves getting dressed up, and isn't afraid to mix superhero legends. Here he is at BatKnight.

Mr. Lego

While the girls went to American Girl the boys made a trip to the Lego store. They make it look so easy, but lets face it...not so much.

The Bean

It was FREEZING cold, but this was kinda cool.

Here's the Deal

OK, so I had all these big plans to update over the summer so when we got back for the fall and winter festivities I would be able to just post as we go. Well, that would have been a great plan, except for my computer crashed....completely losing the hard drive...including all my pictures! AARGGH, to say the least. We were able to recover most of them (after a lot of time and money), but needless to say I was a little disenchanted with my computer, we had a love hate relationship for a while. But it is true what they say, time heals all wounds, and I am back and ready to start updating, so even though these posts won't be of current life events, they happend, and I just can't bear to skip them and not record them. And two HUGE lessons learned from this little experience 1. Don't believe the commercials...macs really aren't superior to PC's and 2. BACK-UP BACK-UP BACK-UP, so much easier and costly to back up your stuff on an external hard drive than to try recover everything after it is gone.