Easter part 2

Gabe's Easter basket - Note to self for next year: Don't put the toy on top, or Gabe won't look at anything else.
Easter Egg hunt in the morning
So excited that he found an egg!
Easter egg hunt #3


At home blowing bubbles with his Thomas bubble blower

Easter part 1

As per my father's request, here are a couple of pictures of Linus since his haircut. He looks like he lost 10 pounds!

We went to an Easter egg hunt at a large church this morning. Gabe enjoyed the bounce houses until time for the candy. Several of our friends were there as well.


We got in on the LAST pony ride of the day and Gabe loved it! Anyone want to buy him a pony for his next birthday? JUST KIDDING!

This week

So, none of these are fabulous pictures, but it's about time for an update. A couple of weeks ago, we planted a garden. We planted some peas, carrots, peppers, lettuce, and strawberries. We're keeping our fingers crossed! Some sprouts are starting to come up!

We went to the zoo yesterday and had a great time. They have a jeep there that all the kids love to climb on and the back half of the jeep is inside the cheetah's cage. We were lucky enough that a couple of cheetahs decided to jump into the back of the truck yesterday. It was awesome!
Wish I could have gotten a better picture, but they only stayed for about 30 seconds and it took me about that long to whip out my phone and get it ready. =)

My little water bug wanted to spend lots of time in this part of the children's zoo. And I spent a little time in there myself! It got up into the 90's yesterday.


Making some easter sugar cookies (and sampling some dough.


Swimming in his new pool (that I bought on clearance last summer). =)

a nice day

Gabe's 3 year old picture with the elephant
Flying a kite at the Rockwall harbor this evening




Feeding the ducks


Custard at Culvers

more various (Christmas and zoo)

Here is one of the aprons that I made for my nieces Delaney and Irah. It is fancy nancy material (which they love). I put the vinyl on the material so it could be used as an art apron and be easily wiped off.

And here is Delaney modeling the apron after opening it.
Here is Ross after receiving his new bike for Christmas
And Irah also with her bike.
Don't look at these too closely. They are awfully blurry. First time using the camera on my phone...yeah, I'll blame it on that.
Gabe at the zoo. He was VERY excited about feeding the giraffe.
Look at that tongue coming out!
Peek a boo!
On Safari. =)

a variety from the last month or so

These'll be some random pictures followed by another post with random pictures. Life has been kind of random lately, plus I've put this off for far too long and I have lots of pictures. PLUS, I FINALLY figured out how to get the pictures off my phone. The first picture below is a recent pic Nathan took of Gabe and the cat. Gabe does love Linus, but he has lately been talking a lot about getting a dog. =) Not a great pic, but cute, nonetheless.
Here is Gabe's "new" train table and new poster that he got for Christmas. His room is really shaping up.
Playing with some of his Christmas presents.
Lots of game time since Christmas (Candy Land, chutes and ladders, hi ho cherrio, and this cars game)
Rolling the dice...
Last weekend, we went to a free trial of "soccer tots". Here Gabe is using his foot to "pick up" cones that were on their side.

This was part of a little obstacle course that the kids did.
Mostly he just wanted to roll around in the soccer balls.
We had a little get together on Sunday with some friends and I made some desserts using some of the fun stuff I got for Christmas, such as a cupcake cookie cutter. =)
And I also got a cakeball cook book, so I made some cupcake cakeballs to match. It was fun!
We did get a little snow on Sunday. You can get a glimpse of it in this picture.