Kelli's shower

For those of you who dont know our family, Andy's brother, Pete, is getting married next month. He and Kelli, his fiance, had a bridal shower this weekend. Here's a few pictures of it----although it's mostly just pictures of a very happy Kelli! :)

Kelli & Pete

Kelli, Valerie, Heather (Pete's cousins)

Kelli & Nat (Pete's sister)

Weekend at Grandma's

We went up to Nappanee this weekend for Easter, but we went a couple days early to just spend time with Andy's family. We had beautiful weather so the boys got to spend a lot of time outside. These are in no particular order (as usual), however my blogging abilities have increased because I figured out how to turn my sideways photos right side up! So no more turning your head to see my pictures! Yea!

Donna has some daffodils that are just beautiful in front of their house.

I plopped Adam down in front of them to get some of these shots (Alex too!).

I kept trying to get Alex to smile for this pictures, so I told him to say "cheese".

Well, everytime he said it, this is what his face looked like!

This is a really cool old pedal tractor that the Rummels have.

Alex hasn't quite figured out the pedals yet, but he loves it when Daddy pushes him!

Across the road at Great Grandma's, Pete is cleaning her pond.

As you will see, Alex is helping.
Althought at times, Pete was getting a little frustrated with him because he was putting more things back into the pond than he was taking out with the net!

Grandma and Adam watching the boys work.

Nat's making sure he doesn't fall in. :)

Mom came on Friday and helped me get some yard work done. Alex was all too willing to help after nap time. He's using my sprayer to "spray" all the weeds. Last week, he also "sprayed" the house... every flower bed... the grass... Puddy's porch... lawn chairs...... pretty much everything he could! Adam just enjoyed sitting on the blanket and watching cars and trucks go by. (They are still working on making SR 25 into four lanes, and so we have a lot of dump trucks and other large equipment drive by regularly.) Needless to say, we all had a good time getting out in the sun and fresh air!

Swing Swing

Here's a few pictures of us out in the warm weather this past week. It felt so good to get out in the sand and play! As usual, Alex got right to work mixing sand and various findings into his bucket. Adam got to enjoy the new texture (and taste!) of leaves and sand. I can't wait for the grass to grow so he can get fist fulls of it!

After we got home from our weekend of travel to the grandparents, we came home to warmer weather! We couldn't wait to get outside and enjoy it. We even took Alex's table and had our snack outside. To my suprise, Alex wanted to wear his hat, which he never wanted to do before! Maybe it was because Adam was wearing his hat too. Adam didn't seem to mind wearing it one bit! Adam also seems to have gotten over his fear of Puddy. He used to cry and shake a bit when we'd bring the dog inside. But now, he laughs and smiles even when he sees him out the window! Adam is sitting up so much better these days. Today, I left Adam in a room playing (sitting up) and I told Alex to watch him while I put away some clothes. When I came back, Alex was standing with his legs apart right behind Adam, hands on the ready. If Adam was going to fall, Alex was doing his best to make sure he stopped it! What a good big brother! :)

Weekend at Rummel's

After our visit at the Jackson's, we couldn't resist traveling the half hour to see the Rummel's too! Alex got to go see the cows milked and help Andy take the dogs for walks. These pictures are of Adam and Grandma getting to spend some time together!