Ice Cream Break

Ice cream break time!!  

Best part of warm weather, I hear.

Grandma and the Girls

Grandma with Brigid, Kiara, and Gianna

Grandma and Papa, along with Uncle Adam, came up to visit us over the weekend.

May South Dakota Trip Part 3

 The new clubhouse.

 Bella provided the music,

 while Papa and Gianna danced.

 Mother's Day

Can you believe it snowed on Mother's Day?

 Enough with the snow, Mother Nature.

 A different view of Bear Butte.

Another beautiful view!

May South Dakota Trip Part 2 - Zoey's Baptism

The main and most important reason we were down in South Dakota was for the baptism of our niece.  We were asked to be her Godparents.  We couldn't be more happy and blessed.  What an honor!!

 Waiting for the baptism to begin.

Uncle Loman got to be the altar server.  Lucky guy! 

 The happy family and us lucky Godparents.

 Beautiful Zoey and her beautiful soul!

 I kinda wish they would have let us take her home for a bit.  Just until she needed a bath.  I love the smell of a newly baptized baby!

 My brother John and his wife, Maria, and their beautiful daughters, Lia and Zoey... 

and Fr. Hathaway.

 Aunt Mauri and Jenna

 Cormac asking Father a hundred questions - well, at least twenty, I think.

 Bella and Gianna

Hard to believe they are only 9 days apart in age.

 After the baptism we went back to Mom and Dad's and had an ice cream and cake party.

 Poor Zoey missed her own party.  She needed her beauty sleep and her mom and dad needed to catch up on their sleep.

May South Dakota Trip Part 1

I drove all the kids and myself down to my parents' house in South Dakota for the first week of May.  We had a great drive down and made a lot of memories.

Poor Kiara wasn't thrilled.

First fit - check.

The boys have some amazing uncles.  They got the go-kart working.

It was runs on one Blase power.  Sometimes.

Brigid was our gate monitor.  She tried to keep the door shut, but Kiara kept wanting to through the door.  Silly sister!

The new flag pole at the Mark Park.

Go Blase GO!

Watch out!  I'm not sure what is scarier - Grandpa driving or Tory driving.

Kiara ran after them all the way to volleyball court.  She cried the whole time.

Way to work together!!

The twins didn't sleep well while we were there.  It wasn't unusual for me to be up until 2, 3, 4 AM before both of them would sleep at the same time.  Long.week.

The girls did wake up happy most mornings.  They really, really enjoyed eating cereal from little bowls with Grandma.

Gianna got to open her birthday presents from Grandma and Grandpa when we got there.  She got three new Disney princess games.  We had a lot of fun playing with Jenna and Bella.

Jenna decided it was more exciting to play with the game pieces instead of actually playing the game.

Spin Bella!! Get a good number!

Bella was looking for her princess's friend token.

Go Gianna!!!  YEAH!

Oh so much fun!

And the winner was - Gianna!!

We had a few animal visitors.  This cat belongs to Bella and Jenna, but came to visit a couple of times.

Brigid loved this toy.  She played a lot with it. I think the best part was the the play phone, but the music was a close second!

We were able to play at the park a couple of days.

Hummm...that looks safe.  ha ha ha

Crazy kids!