Last days at Disneyland

For Payton's birthday, before we knew we would be going away to school, we bought a season pass to Disneyland. We we able to go over 10 times (which more than paid for the pass) & Payton loved going. After Katie was born Donald & Payton went down by themselves & had a fun day. The cool thing about their trip was that they were approached by a market research person & asked them if they would like to fill out a survey & of course Donald said yes. It turns out that they asked him if he would record their day at Disneyland & turn the digital video camera back in for $50. So I didn't get as many pictures as I would have liked to see but Payton was able to take a lot of the video (not sure if that is what they were intending or not) & also got a toy out of it.

Payton loves this picture because she LOVES Toy Story right now.
And Payton is becoming a really good photographer as well.

When Katie was 5 weeks old she got to go to Disneyland. Normally I would not have taken her but California has this new water show called "The Wonderful World of Color" & since our passes were about to be blocked out for the summer figured we would go.
Here are some videos of the show. It was really good but it probably would have been better if we were able to watch it from the front. So here is the show from the back. :)




This is the one where you can really see some of the images. Especially John Smith from Pocahontas


This last one is of the end. It was cool because it added the fire element... and who doesn't love a little music from the Pirates of the Caribbean!!

Katie slept thru almost the whole thing. She woke up because some kid had a flashing toy & I didn't move down her shade soon enough. Oh well.
I promise Katie didn't cry the whole time. We were waiting in line for the submarine (Payton wanted to go on a ride together as a family) but Katie had other plans. She wanted to eat so I fed her while they went on the sub.

And just to prove it here she is after getting back to the car. See nice & happy & warm.

Katie's Blessing

Katie was blessed May 30th... I have to admit that I had to go to my sister-in-laws blog to figure out the date, thanks Jamie for posting about it so I could remember the date! :)
Katie wore the same dress as Payton. Grandma Church made her this blanket which arrived just in time to use it! Jane it is beautiful! (And sorry these pictures took so long to make it on here!)
I made Katie a little keepsake bracelet with her birthstone, Emerald.
Payton loves her little sister & she couldn't believe that she wore the same dress herself.

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I just had to include this one. I get this face a lot from her & it cracks me up!
We ended up getting dressed up again later that day for the picture. I think it's so cute that both girls have a similar expression, yeah your parents are crazy, get over it!
The one below is a typical dad shot, oh let me just watch her while she cries! I know he does it on purpose so that I will take her away & take care of her. He thinks he's so sneaky.

Katie seems to love to sleep on her bobby, it's just hard to get her down without waking her up. But when I did she was able to sleep for a long time.
But by far she loves it when someone will hold her.
And maybe even sleep with her.

We are still here...

We are still here, but here is now Ithaca NY. I will do my best to update my blog in order. Sorry for the lack of posts lately but over the next week you will probably have your fill of us. :)

-Jenn

Friend & Cousin

Isn't it nice when you are born with a cousin that is so close in age. Payton is so excited that Katie has a friend! On the right is Sydney who is 15 days younger than Katie.

After reading one of the comments I realized that I neglected to tell you who's child this is. This is Sydney, Ryan & Casey's sister... who are all children of Melissa & Tyler. So the grandchild count for my parents: from Jennifer - 2 girls, Melissa - 3 (2 boys 1 girl) & JD - 1.5 due in September (1 girl & a whole boy that is 1/2 done). ;)

Guess who's sleeping thru the night!?!?!

SHE IS! I AM!

Katie has been waking up 1 time at night to eat & then goes right back to bed. Katie will also let me sleep in if I can. That all depends on when Payton wakes up.

I haven't been taking very many pictures (by now I already had 100's of pictures of Payton... ) & haven't been posting but I thought that I would share these. Sorry they are more of her sleeping but that is all that she does right now.

Last day of Preschool

Payton love Loves LOVES preschool. Above are her 2 teachers, Mrs McCoy (above) & Miss Nikki (below). Payton talks about them all of the time & has learned so much from them.

She has also made some good friends.

And she loves her classroom. I think that I was more sad for her than she was. Is it that kids are resilient or is it that they are clueless of change?

Either way I am so glad that we chose to have her go here.

Bath Time

Please over look everything in the background. I know my kitchen is dirty in these pics but I have time to blog now & these are the pictures I have.

Payton loves to help & even though Katie is crying in some of these pictures she actually does enjoy her bath.

Payton's favorite part about helping is cleaning under her neck. Also she helps by washing her back while I hold her up.

I just wish that my sink was bigger, she growing out of it pretty quickly.