Vacation to the Outer Banks

Hello

We just got back last night from a trip to the Outer Banks of NC.  We had a great time with Mike's parent's, sister Betsy, nephew Stephen and his roommate from college.  It was a very relaxing vacation-good thing since we came home to a house full of dust from getting our hardwood floors refinished and I came home with some sort of stomach flu!!  The kids had a blast and we were happy to be able to go.  Here are a few pics from the trip...

The airplane pictures are from the plane ride we took up and down the coast.  It was awesome.  I have some other pictures to post but they're still on my camera-I'll get them on soon!  Enjoy!

Fun Times

We had a great weekend, hope you all did also.  Saturday we took the kids, along with some friends, to the Bellefonte Children's fair.  It's a nice little fair with kids games, animals, face painting, etc. just for the kiddo's.  Alexis held a ball python at the urging of her Uncle Fred and I was about to get sick just watching-I HATE snakes, with a passion.  

 The first picture is to brighten your day.  We went to Lake Raystown with friends on Sunday.  The kids had a blast.  This is the picture of Matt in all his glory.  Everytime I see this picture it just makes me crack up laughing.  What a card he is!  Hope you enjoy the pictures.

Oh how I love these kids...

Slacker

Hi all

I've really been slacking with this blog...sorry!  We've been so busy and I just haven't taken any pictures.  Good news is that we're going to the beach next weekend so I'll take my camera (of course) and I'll update while I'm there.  We're really excited about going.  We're going with Mike's mom and dad and the kids can't wait.  Alexis has 4 days of school left and then she's off to kindergarten in the fall!  We've already been camping twice, driving to Hershey on Monday to tour chocolate world while we're down there for a dr appt and then it's off to the beach.  I have one new picture to show.  It's of my new car!  I've been eyeing these cars up for a very long time and while there was no REAL reason I needed a new car, at 117,000 miles and 6 years of ownership I was starting to get the itch.  It was one of those moments that when I pulled out of the lot in my new car I asked myself why I just did that:)  Anyway, we all love it and it'll be around a long time!  

Hopefully this finds you all well.  I'll post more in the coming weeks, I promise :)

Megan

Easter

Happy Easter-a few days late!  These are a few pictures from our church Easter egg hunt and the kids all dressed up for church.  They loved it.  Alexis liked visiting the Easter bunny but Matthew had to keep his distance and not get too close.  We had everyone to our house for dinner on Sunday including my new nephew, Connor, who was celebrating his 1st Easter!  We had a great time.  The weather held up enough that the kids could have an egg hunt outside and be able to play a while out there.

I hope to be posting more pictures as the summer activities start up.  We go on Monday to sign Alexis up for kindergarten!!  Time is just flying by us...

Newest member of family

Hi all-

My sister, Katie (Natalie), had her baby this morning.  Connor Thomas was born at 10:54 am weighing 7lbs 7oz and was 22 inches long.  We went to the hospital last night at 11:30pm and waited patiently all night for him to come.  It has been a VERY long time since I've pulled an all nighter (with a psychology test at 8:30 this morning to boot) but it was so worth it!  Fred, Kate and Connor are doing great!

Trip to Crayola factory

We took a road trip to the Crayola factory this past week.  Our friends, Joe and Stephanie and their girls went along with us.  The kids had a great time and got lots of new crayons, markers, etc.  The adults were delighted to find out how the crayons are made and to our relief they're still made her in the good ole' USA (Pennsylvania even).

Mike and Alexis making beautiful things with the melted crayon wax.

Family portrait with Mr Crayon Matt goofin' around.

Aj and Matt playing with their new modeling clay!

50th anniversary weekend

Here are a few pictures from this weekend from Mike's parents 50th anniversary party.  All of Mike's sisters and brothers were in with all the kids.  Some from Arizona, some from Tennessee and some from Colorado.  It was a great time even though Alexis was sick the whole time(she still managed to give a great smile for any pictures taken). I don't have one of the special couple but when I get it I'll upload it for you all to see.  The kids really enjoyed having all their aunts, uncles and cousins here to play with.

This is Matthew's first suit.  He loved it so much he wanted to wear it on Sunday to breakfast!

The kids were attached to Uncle John and Jack all weekend.  They loved having all the family to play with.  The other picture is Matthew's dessert-pretty nice for a child's dessert!