A Tea Party and A Wiggle Worm

Claire’s favorite thing to do lately is to have tea parties.  Here are some pictures from today’s tea parties.  (I don’t set up any of these pictures.  This is just Claire being Claire.)

Notice all of her bracelets and necklaces.  My girl LOVES jewelry!

Claire and her guests – her “Baby Cale,” Baby Duck, Miss Piggy, Baby Bunny, FiFi (the dog Claire is holding) and Horton (the elephant)

After her nap, Claire moved the tea party to the living room.

Love my princess!

And my boy has started rolling from one end of the room to the other.  He simply cannot be contained.

I have the sweetest and most beautiful babies!  I am so in love!!

Happy Birthday, Analise!

My beautiful niece, Analise, is five-years-old today!  She is celebrating at the Magic Kingdom at Disney World in Florida.  LOVE this sweet girl!

The weekend before last, we were in Tulsa celebrating her birthday.  Here are some pictures from our visit.

Besties – Claire and Analise

Nanny and Cale

Cale and Aunt Shannon

Allie and Cale – Allie LOVES holding Cale!

Me and my girlies – Analise and Claire

Me and my Gram

Me and my SIL, Shannon

Cale and his GiGi

Cale on the airplane

We’ll be back in Tulsa in May to celebrate Claire, PopPop and Allie’s birthdays!

“Go West, Young Man!”

This past weekend, we took Cale to the Northwest to meet Steve’s side of the family.  He was a GREAT traveler.

We flew out Friday night and arrived in Portland early Saturday morning and put the kids to bed right away, around 2:30 a.m.  Saturday morning, after daylight, we had breakfast with Uncle Clay and Aunt Lori.  Aunt Lori fed Claire ice cream for breakfast.

After breakfast, we traveled over the mountains and through the snow.

Once we we went over the mountain, we went “over the river and through the woods to Grandmother’s house!”

We had a great time with Grandma and Grandpa.

Meeting Grandma

Watching hockey with Grandpa

Coloring with Grandma

Claire carrying Baxter, Grandma and Grandpa’s newest dog

Hanging with Aunt Nicole

Cuddling with Auntie Kalei

Aunt Emily and Cale

Grandma and Grandpa with their grandbabies

Just hanging with his aunts and uncle (Gayle, Uncle John, Cale and Aunt Nicole)

Family Game Night (Emily, Gayle, Kalei, Nicole, Grandma, Amy, Steve, Grandpa and John)

We had a great time with the family!

Claire got to play in the snow on our way back over the mountain.

Sunday night we went to Chevys for Mexican.  It was delish!  When we got back to Aunt Lori’s, she gave Claire a pedicure.

 

My babies got a chance to play with Uncle Clay before he went to work Monday morning.

Aunt Lori took us to Inflatable Kingdom on Monday.  We all had a blast!

 

 

After three hours at Inflatable Kingdom, we went to Five Guys for lunch and then to The Disney Store.  Claire LOVES shopping – especially at The Disney Store.  She ran around and gathered these things.  We just couldn’t resist taking her picture!

Aunt Lori is SO much fun, and my kids simply adore her!

When we left Aunt Lori’s Monday evening, we went to Gramps’ house.  He made us some delicious burgers, and we had a great time!  Claire loved playing with Gramps’ dog, Minnie.  We made some great memories!

Monday night we spent the night with Grandpa and Grandma Osterholm.  We had a great time!  Claire, of course, had a great time with their dog, Beau.

Tuesday, we went to see Grandpa and Grandma Gerdlund.  And Claire, as usual, loved playing with their dog, Chocolate.

We went back to Aunt Lori’s house for dinner and naps Tuesday afternoon.  After dinner, Aunt Lori taught Claire how to play Words With Friends on her iPad.

We took the red-eye flight home at 11:45 p.m.  We arrived home Wednesday morning around 5:45 a.m.

We had such a wonderful time and made some great memories!  We’re planning to head back at the end of July or beginning of August.