Charlie Warlie

Hmm...I'm not sure if I spelled that right. It's good she's too little to know or care. :) Rebekah loves her bear. I found these cute matching dresses and we had a little extra time before church so I had to snap a few cute pictures.

Apple pie

The kids made their first apple pie a couple of weeks ago. They all had fun using the nifty apple peeler. They all wanted to eat the long stringy peels. You should have heard them talking about it. It was better than candy! I used this super yummy no-roll kid friendly crust recipe. So they each got a ball of dough and just patted it down into the pan. The left over rolls we used cookie cutters to put on top of the pie (all but Isaiahs- he wanted his raw). :)

Bubbles!

The kids had so much fun running through the bubbles in our backyard. It was such a perfect day to be out and about outdoors!

A sunny afternoon painting

It was such a nice day and the kids have been begging to paint. I'm a little paranoid with the new house (especially since little man likes to paint everything BUT the paper he's supposed to). So I made some cheap easels and let them make a mess outside! :) (My rocks are all painted though, and the fence...which we were able to get that off...and the bark and my sons legs, arms, head, cheeks, Rebekah's hair, etc. )

They were so cute sitting side by side painting. Rebekah got a little annoyed though when Isaiah was done painting his paper and started to have a try at hers. Then when she refused he painted her hair. :)
Here's the masterpieces! Do you notice the head, legs, hands???

I finally tried Spaans cookies!

Last Saturday we finally got around to going to the infamous "spaans cookies." The kids were so excited to go to a cookie factory.

There were a ton of different cookies to choose from. Isaiah wanted everything. Rebekah just wanted anything that looked colorful (and as un-natural as possible) :) The cookie she's pointing to here are sugar cookies mixed with nerds..Mmmm...
This was Isaiah's favorite part of the experience. The taste table. He would have stayed at that table the whole time if we let him. Just a table with a ton of different kinds of cookies waiting to be eaten :)

We had a fun afternoon. It was cute seeing the kids super excited when we told them they could pick out a cookie. Decisions, decisions, decisions :)

BUGS!!!

This little girl LOVES bugs! Our family was enjoying some backyard time pulling weeds and watering our plants and she was hunting for any kind of insect life. She found a cricket and a dragonfly (she did also catch a bee but we told her to let it go immediatly!)
Here she is with her dragonfly. This bug really liked her. It stayed on or near her all evening!
Here she is with her cricket. She didn't get this bug interest from me! Isaiah caught a bug that night too but as soon as he picked it up and the bug wiggled he screamed and dropped it and was no more interested in bugs.
This photo is pretty funny. The dragonfly flew away and then came back to land on her bunda! It was funny watching Rebekah trying to look at it too.

Busy Busy!!!

Rebekah and Byron panning for Gold with the Pro at Columbia.
The Family at Disneyland.

Okay, So I'm two months behind in my blog but we've been so busy! A lot has happened in the last few months. Sadly our Puerto Rico experience is over :( But we just bought our first home! It's been great making it ours. We took the kids to Disneyland for the first time. It was awesome to see how excited they got over everything. We went to Columbia with the family. I love historical places. It was so beautiful up there! The kids had fun panning for Gold and most of all climbing on the rocks.

Our new home! :)