Family Easter Pics

I am completely obsessed with taking family portraits right now.  I did a photo shoot for some family friends which was really fun.  (And I hope they like the results!) And when our family was all dressed up in our Easter best, we decided to head back to my favorite corridor of trees and take some pics.

B blowing a kiss

10-year-old cuteness

I chopped off Caroline's hair!

She likes it.

I hope I do, too.

THAT is a good looking man.

The whole fam

Cute girls running

Now walking

One of Andrew's favorite shots.

I love it, too.

Easter kids.

Me and my hottie.

Decided to break out this classic from my closet.

It's a vintage 1995.

Also, I THOUGHT I liked that bracelet.

Until I saw it in the pictures.

It looks like I'm wearing a hospital arm band!

So, just in case anyone else thought the same thing,

No.  No hospital admittance for me lately.

The silly one.

B's idea:  An Easter train

Beautiful almost-ready-to-turn-8 Whitney

Phineas and Ferb: LIVE

Sometime last fall, I got an e-mail from ticketmaster letting met know that a live Phineas and Ferb show was coming to town.  I immediately grabbed my credit card and bought tickets.  Woo hoo!  I told myself they would be part of the kids' Christmas gifts.  Then I forgot about them.  Oops.

So....I told myself the kids would get a REALLY great Valentine's Day surprise.  But, once again, when the holiday rolled around, I dropped the ball and mentioned nothing about the tickets.

Well, what was a mom to do?  Give the kids a sweet St. Patrick's Day gift?  Nah.  I decided we would just spring it on them during our weekly family council, five days before the show.  Much whooping and hollering followed the announcement.  But it wasn't nearly as fun as having something to look forward to for a good long time.  I wouldn't recommend it.

Finally, after months of anticipation for me (and a mere five days for the kids), we got to see the show!  And it pretty much rocked.

Anxiously awaiting the start of the show

Laughed at some of the hilarious souvenirs.

Way too cheap to actually purchase any of them.

Phineas and Ferb!

With Isabella and the Fireside Girls

Baljeet and Buford

With Candace

Dr. Doofenshmirtz

Agent P

Care Bear was dancing in the aisles.

The grand finale!

Curtain call

Three VERY satisfied customers.

The show was filled with classic Phineas and Ferb sarcastic humor.  There were lots of laugh out loud moments.  We LOVED it.  I wish it would have been a little longer and that they would have wrapped up the plot line a little better.  For other P&F fans, I HIGHLY recommend it. 

What March looks like

Out of the Mouths of Babes--March

 3/1--Caroline noticed something she had never seen before:

"Mom--there's Ramses on our wheels!"

Pretty good observation, huh?

I didn't realize Dodge owners were Tarheels fans.

3/27--We saw a yellow motorcycle as we were leaving the library.  Care Bear said, "Oh my gosh.  I could just look at that for the rest of my life."

 

Wanna-be Motorcycle Owner

3/28--When we saw a taxi driving around town today, C asked, "Why do they call it a taxi?  Maybe because they tax so much." And then she started laughing her head off at her own joke.

Wanna-be Stand Up Comedian

3/28--Whit called me into the office to show me: "Mom!  I can fold myself in half!"

Wanna-be Contortionist

3/29--We had a man working in the backyard to pull out some bushes.  Whit looked out the window and said, "He's got a pick-ax.  I wish I could use one of those!"

Wanna-be pick-axer

3/30--We saw a black Jeep in a parking lot and  Whitney said, "Bye-bye, black Jeep."  It got everyone making up lyrics to a new song:  Bye-bye, black Jeep.  Have you any fuel?  Yes, sir.  Yes, sir, three tanks full.

Random photos of the month:

Whit caught a ladybug

The rope swing has been upgraded.

The kids LOVE it.

After attending an open studio for our friend, Clark,

the kids were inspired to try their own abstract art.

The girls got a short little tennis lesson at a

summer camp event.  Go girls!

Looks like Mia and Caroline are ready for

jobs at Disney.  They've got the princess

poses down pat!

 After two LATE nights in a row,

Caroline couldn't even make it up the stairs to bed.

She crashed right here.