NY trip...

Sorry it's taking a while to post about our spring break trip. When I vacation with my family, I leave the majority of the picture taking to my Dad and siblings with much nicer cameras. But, I haven't taken a jump drive to my parents' house yet to get all of the photos, so here are a meager few from our camera that will suffice for now :)
We arrived Saturday, March 14. We got to my sister's home in CT in time for bed and spent Sunday at church and relaxing in the backyard. Monday we got up early and drove the 6 hours to Palmyra. After arriving, we went to the Smith Farm, the Sacred Grove, and the Hill Cumorah. Tuesday we went to the Grandin Printing Office, the Whitmer farm, and Niagara Falls.

The Sacred Grove (Palmyra, NY) There's no snow and no leaves--it felt a little bare compared to what we are used to seeing in pictures! But it was still beautiful and has such a nice peaceful feeling about it.






The Smith Farm in the background (Palmyra, NY)


Carrie holding Megan and Chloe in their matching pj's (at the hotel in Palmyra)


Megan at Niagara Falls (brr! It was chilly but very cool to see in the winter with the river partially frozen and a big frozen "wave" under the falls from the spray spalshing up and freezing and then snow falling on it.)


Dan and I with Ontario (I think Ontario) in the background.


Some pics from the grandkids' "retaurant" lunch (our attempt to get them to be more patient and polite) at my sister Jamie's house on Friday (March 20). This is in New Canaan, CT.

Almost Friday...

I'm so excited for this weekend! And apparently Megan is too because she's decided that telling herself all about her excitement is more fun than napping (I can hear her jabbering away on the monitor).
We're having a family from the ward/neighborhood over for dinner tomorrow and then Saturday we are flying out with my whole family to NYC for a week!!! And another perk is that since my dad has a gazillion frequent flier miles, we don't have to pay for checked bags. Even better.
Anyway. Here's some random things from the past few weeks.

Megan loves to dance and her skills are soon going to surpass mine. Our new favorite is her sumo wrestler impression but we have yet to catch it on camera.

She is also honing her self-feeding skills. As you can see, she likes to use as many senses as possible while she eats (sight,taste, touch, smell, she even tries to "hear" her food by squishing it in her ears). We take it as a sign of her great intelligence :)


And she's even learning to "share"...gee, thanks


Here's some climbing action. And as much as I'm happy to see her learn new things, how many times in one day can I say the words "Megan, we play on the FLOOR!" before I go crazy?

We went (with my brothers and Hailey and Zach) to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (minus the rodeo b/c we're cheap) and saw lots of animals and fun crafts and boots and chaps and cowboy hats.
Megan just seemed amazed at the actual size of cows and she did lots of pointing. I really liked the animal nursery with all the teeny, just-born sheep, goats, cows, chicks, piglets, etc. We watched the milking demo and saw both some boring animal races and some more exciting piggy races.

What a happy cowgirl...(she was a little exhausted by the end of the day)


And, last but not least, we had lunch with Dan at work today. His last day in this office (and in the new hire training program) is tomorrow! He starts his first "real" assignment when we get back from New York. We're pretty sure he'll be back downtown again and hopefully can set up a carpool with a neighbor. He's excited for the new challenge.




Have a great weekend! We'll be sure to post pics from our New York adventures when we get back.

A New First

Now that we've cleared the major hurdles of crawling, walking, etc., it feels like there aren't many "firsts" anymore.
But here is one from Tuesday--prepare to be amazed!

Can you tell from this angle? Not quite?


What about now?!? It's a pony tail!!! (ok, really it's a pony tuft...and when there's only like 8 strands of hair in it, you have to go around about 10 times before a rubberband will stay in and Megan wouldn't sit still for that so this only lasted about a minute, but here it is) YAY!