Easter at the Beach House

The whole gang this year

Ellie, Karissa, Kayley, Collin & Kelsey

Addi in the back with her dad

cute cousins

7 months old and already he knows what to do...

Egg hunt

with a limp

Collin had to get the high ones

Playing on the rocks

Collin & Ellie

My family

Jase was happy the entire day - very nice

I tried to explain to Kels that if the stairs were wet then she would get wet...

Spring Break in Arizona

Kelsey had so much fun with her cousins!

K & Heather

Jason & Sarah, Heather & Kelsey

J & Heather

Visiting Sharon is a real vacation for me -usually it's "same thing, different place" but I really get a break with so many helper around...

Heather is a fantastic gymnast and was really excited to take Kelsey with her to open gym

The boys playing wii

playing in the pool

It was still a little cold but they still had fun

Geronimo!

Unfortunately before Kelsey got to go to open gym - or do much of anything - she had a freak ring-around-the-rosies accident. We took her to the urgent care since she still screamed if she put any weight on it. There was no break but she didn't walk on it for a week - luckily she's fairly light

Collin & Max did occasionally get away from the video games and made up fun games on the tramp

With Kelsey's gimp leg we tried to cheer her up a bit in other ways

Chad's clone 2? what do you think?

Out to the lake

With all the rain the dessert was in bloom I'll not bore you with all the pictures of flowers...

I tried to take a picture without our car but it reminded me of all of G'ma Helen's pictures of her with all their cars :) It was a bit of a scrunch - the 5 of us in the PT...

"This is the life!"

Kelsey tried not to let her injury interfere with her vacation

We really liked their pool

Jason's favorite thing to do is pull himself to furniture so he can suck on the legs - luckily he doesn't have teeth yet so he didn't leave a mark.

More games

Although we had fun it was a pretty rough week on everyone...

Kelsey busted her leg

Heather broke her nose at gymnastics

and Sharon pulled her back lifting Jason...

but it was great times!

and by the end Kelsey was finally starting t crawl around a bit :)

Wild Animal Park

It seems like everytime we have a new kid we have to have our picture taken on the rhino (immortalized in bronze because he fathered so many)

Here we are the last time we went to the Wild animal park - when Kelsey was about Jacon's age - it was so hot! Back in December I called into the radio and won tickets to the Wild Animal Park...
Collin and Kelsey had a great time though it was chilly and Kelsey still wasn't walking
Kelsey still wasn't walking - she resembled the flamingos...

Collin and his Okapi

I was looking at old pictures and saw that we took Collin everywhere when he was about Jason's age... now that we have 3 kids - we don't even lift the baby out of the stroller to see the animals :) but he had fun anyway.

Kelsey hatching some ostrich eggs

Gotta love lion camp

Moving into some birds' nest

Kelsey & Dad

A couple of the baby elephants - they don't look that little without the adult nearby

This one was even smaller - I took this picture through the telescope...

Getting a foot massage after the hike up to see the condors

Some big birds

the coolest carousel ever!

Comb Girls

Before picture day I told Collin not to let the "comb girls" get to him. I remember these girls from my own childhood. Picture day would be the only time I had my hair curled for school - with loads of hairspray. And as soon as it was time to get your picture taken here comes the comb girls messing up your hair... seems some things never change... they even part the hair in the middle still!