memorial day weekend

here are some photos from our first trip to the cobin of 2009. lots of family joined us for the weekend up north and we also celebrated cindy's birthday. the people who live next door have a horse and let garrett get on it. i'm not going to bother to post the pictures because he wanted nothing to do with sitting on mama's lap on the horse. it was not his thing, but he has perfected the answer to "what does a horse say?"

best buds

helping mama
33!?!?!?

the family

we all scream for sherbert!

go-go-chicago

we took garrett to chicago to see uncle brett last weekend. the trip was long overdue (right unc-b?) and we all had a blast hanging out in the big city. we walked downtown from brett's place, checked out navy pier, hit the lincoln park zoo, and of course had a ton of laughs.

cool dudesnavy pier navy pier

relaxing
raaaaaaar

giraffe
marissa's fancy shoes

see you later uncle brett!

purple or green?

spring fun

we have been busy as usual lately - spending a lot of time playing outside and going to the parks now that the weather is so nice. garrett got a wagon from grama and grampa for christmas and he has been enjoying rides in it, and of course walks and runs in the stroller with his moms. he has been saying quite a few words lately, which has been so much fun to experience with him. last weekend we went to grama and grampa's house and got to check out the new garage. grampa had a few special things for garrett in there. check it out!

10 for 10s!!

so funnytoo cool relaxing in the backyard
mama put together my wagon!
decisions decisions
get my stanking socks off

new boots grampa put together my very own work bench in his new garage, including power tools!
playing in da garage
want to go for a bike ride?

easter

we spent easter day at great grama donna's house with the family. g-grams planned a really sweet easter egg hunt in her yard, which garrett loved.

"you missed an egg"

marshmallow drop & decorating eggs

Garrett got to go to the 30th annual marshmallow drop with his aunt and uncle yesterday while his moms were at work. apparently it was quite the busy event, but uncle jared managed to help garrett get one of the hundreds of marshmallows that were dropped by a helicopter.

And last night we colored eggs so that the Easter Bunny will have something to hide on Sunday.