Sunday Snapshot #17~ SPRING!!!

We FINALLY got some good spring weather. Here are a few pictures of how we chose to celebrate SPRING :)


The girls got to visit Aunt Delores's farm while they were staying with Grandma and Grandpa Horstmann, they had a great time!

feeding the calf

At home we did some spring cleanup outside. Thank goodness Brian is in charge of moving the large heavy objects... if I had been the one to find this I probably would have dropped the rock!

Camryn wanted this to be her new pet... too bad it got away ;)

 Elody has been waiting to fly her kite for more than a month. Today was finally the perfect weather for it.

 Camryn managed to keep hers from getting tangled with Elody's!

This child is so funny. She always wants to do something and then 2 minutes later she is over it. This time she just sat down.

 Elody decided to start her own little game of baseball with Grandpa and Daddy. She was actually really good!

 Camryn doesn't like to miss out on much. She was good too of course :)

Sunday Snapshot #16~ party!

Yesterday the girls went to Stella's birthday party at Twisters in GI. They had a BLAST! Of course Camryn thinks it is the greatest place ever and really wants to have her party there now (which by the way is NOT happening!). 

 

 

 

group shot

Elody was a little unsure of the giant foam pit at first but finally decided it was worth a try. Watch her first actual jump in here. Camryn was less afraid and did it multiple times, here is a video of her farthest jump.

Camryn also really liked the high bar. I didn't get a great video of her ability to get swinging on it but here is one short clip of it.

The girls both LOVED the zip-line. It was an old favorite of theirs after multiple trips down the zip-line at the pumpkin patch last fall. Here is a video with a little bit of Camryn and then Elody, or if you aren't sick of all of the video's yet you can also watch another one of Camryn's trips on the zip-line here.

Phew, that's a lot of links! Let me know if you find one not working.

Sunday snapshot #15~ Kansas!

I have always wanted to go on a vacation where you leave a don't really know where you will end up. With 2 young children I don't know how fun that would be though. Yesterday however, we tried it on a smaller scale. We initially had a destination of Guide Rock to visit Megan, Alan, and the kids. While we were there Brian found a new toy to play with.

 With 2 crossbows  in use and a turkey fryer heating up, I decided it was time to get the kids out of there for a while. This is where the excitement begins ;)

The goofy picture was much better than the posed picture :)

 Our first stop in Kansas was at the Center of the Conterminous United States. And I thought the world's largest ball of twine was the most pointless stop in Kansas!

The girls pretending to be excited

As if the first marker wasn't good enough, they also have this impressive one.

and this one... ;)

 After an interesting annoying trip through Lebanon, KS (which included almost getting stuck in the mud) we decided to head east on Hwy 36. After almost an hour a driving Camryn looked at me and in all seriousness said "so we drove all this way to do nothing?" At that point we decided we had better stop and let the girls get out again. Mankato, KS had a very nice little park right along the hwy so we stopped to enjoy the good weather.

Camryn wanted me to take her picture on EVERY part of the playground.

 Elody headed up this slide on her own, at this point she completely freaked out and wanted to come back down. After a little persuading forcing she finally made it down the slide.

This was mid-freak-out

 Of course at the bottom she decided it was the best slide ever and immediately wanted to go again.

After a couple trips down the slide she opted for something closer to the ground.

 Camryn continued her photo shoot on the wooden train. I had to take at least 2 pictures of her on each part of the train.

She decided this was for tall animals like giraffe's :)

I finally got Elody in one! She wouldn't slow down long enough to take pictures.

 After a quick stop at a gas station for a potty break and some bubble gum we headed to Lovewell Lake. It was pretty windy but we were able to find some birds for Camryn to watch and then headed back to Nebraska.

One more quick picture to celebrate. Even though we did drive a long way "to do nothing" I think the girls kind of enjoyed it. Maybe next time we will do a little planning before hand, and go somewhere other than Kansas....

Sunday (or should I say Monday, oops) Snapshot #14~ kinder-garden

On Friday Camryn's class planted a "Kinder-garden." I got to go help plant and also snapped a few pictures, this is one of the MANY reasons I am so glad I get to stay home with the girls.

waiting patiently to plant their sunflower house

getting ready to plant the garden

Camryn planting her sunflowers, she insisted on wearing her gardening gloves :)

On Saturday we visited Royal so the girls could see where Brian works. They have added on so much since Brian first started there and it is amazing to see everything they are doing now.

the girls standing in front of the HUGE water jet machine that Brian programs

Elody hanging out at Brian's messy desk. She was at little curious as to why daddy would have 3 monitors!