Colorado

 We recently went to Colorado to visit my brother and his fam

and to celebrate the adoption of their 2 year old little boy.

It was a LONG 2 years, but so worth it.

Here's their sweet family!

DiDi and her girls

Hannah and Addyson

This was the first time all the grandkids have been together!

Damon, Hannah, Cade, and Ad

 The girls

The boys

On Pearl Street in Boulder

Me, Emily, Cade, and Katie

Cute kiddos!

Damon and Hannah kissin'

Ad LOVED Cade and Cade loved her!

Hopefully this is a glimpse of how she'll be with her

own little brother soon!

Playing with Didi and Grandad

"all fall down!"

swimming in the hotel pool

 Ad helping D get unstuck!

Ad pushing the kiddos in the wagon

girls night, out to dinner!

Katie, Amanda, and Mom

Me and Em!

We had so much spending time with the family 

and letting the kids play! If only we all lived closer!

Dancing Queen

Little Miss Addyson started dance classes in

January and had her first recital last week.

Watch out world, this girl sure knows how

to tear up the dance floor!

HAH!

(she's in the front row on the left)

Cutest 3 year olds ever?!!

I think YES!
Oh, and the little boy is the teachers grandson
and is not in her class so it totally threw her off!

Finkle Finkle

Little Star by Addyson

The fact that she can't pronounce half of her words

has been stressing me out lately, but then I realized

she's only 3 and I need to enjoy and appreciate her cute

words now while she still sounds like a little girl!

Happy Easter

We started out our Easter weekend on Saturday

with a visit to the petting zoo

Addyson loved the goats and sheep

Then it was egg hunt time!

Miss Grumpy was not satisfied with her loot!

But a trip to see the Easter Bunny helped!

On Sunday Ad searched for her easter basket

and was very pleased with what she found!

Especially her new purple goggles!

Then we took some Easter pics before heading

off to church!

cute girl!

I even attempted to curl her hair!

After church we headed to a friends house

for dinner and another egg hunt.

Here's Ad on the run!

She found one!

Ada and Addyson!

Addyson and Penny!

We had a wonderful Easter and hope you did too!

We are headed to...

Here's a video of Brandon walking the red carpet

to open his envelope!

That's right we are going to University of Florida

in Gainesville!

Brandon will be doing his preliminary year here in Las

Vegas and then we will be moving NEXT June to Florida,

We couldn't be happier!

Here's our fam, including the protruding baby boy.

We wore blue for good luck and it worked!

Brandon and his friends

We are so excited and relieved to finally

know where we are going.

We are so happy that we will be going to

the east coast.

And Addyson is SO excited to live near Mickey Mouse!

(and I am too! we are definitely getting season passes!)

Over the River...

and to the beach

to DiDi and Grandads we went!

Here is Ad on our long trek across the country,

pulling her carry-on like a trooper!

We made it!

Ad didn't understand why we couldn't go

swimming, but she quickly figured it out

when she felt the water!

We had LOTS of fun doing things like...

making brownies with DiDi

and licking the spoon,

(yes that is brownie in her eye brow!)

climbing the lifeguard stand, AKA

Ad's "pirate ship,"

playing with the dogs,

soaking up the sun,

and burying our feet in the sand!

We also took a ferry ride!

Waiting for the ferry,

on the ferry with DiDi and Grandad

Me and my girl!

resting on Grandad, it was nap time

Ad and Grandad hanging out while DiDi

and I did some shopping!

Addyson's BFF for the week was Jake "puppy"

who is now HUGE and LOVES Addyson!

We went to the aquarium,

and saw lots of alligators!

Ad and I in the shark mouth,

with the giant frog,

and checking out the turtles on the log.

Our last day playing at the beach!

It wouldn't have been a trip the the beach

without a project, so my Mom and I made a

new cushion cover and pillow cover for her chair!

The house is SLOWLY coming together,

hopefully our next trip will involve some

before and after pics of the new house!

Goodbye beach, we miss you already!

I'm already thinking a postpartum trip will be in order!

*note* In no way was this blog post sponsored by GAP,

but it was windy at the beach and I only brought

Addyson one jacket!