My Little Cowboy

Josh got to tag along with me to Andrea's preschool field trip where they rode horses.  I knew I needed to be there with her after her experience with Roos N More.  Andrea was going to ride the horse until it started making noises right when she was walking by the horse's head!!!  Josh LOVED it and wanted to ride more.

Roos N More

Andrea got to see some really neat animals at her preschool.  She was only brave enough to hold the joey (she was crying for most of the other animals).  I felt really bad after because I wish I would have stayed with her so she wouldn't be as scared.

Build-a-Bear

We had a visit from Grandma and the Hirst cousins in April.  My kids had so much fun with Isaac, Joey, Anna, and Will!!!  They love it when family comes to visit.  While they were all here, Grandma took everyone to Build-a-Bear.  Samantha wasn't able to come with us because she was at school and couldn't miss any more days but we picked her up an animal too!

After making our animals, we found some fun ride-on toys in the mall.  Luckily, we had just enough quarters for everyone to have a ride!!

Disneyland

We took a little trip to Disneyland in March to escape for a few days.  Josh doesn't remember the first time he went to Disneyland because he was only a few months old...he LOVED it this time!!!

Our Newest Addition

For those of you that don't know, we are having another boy!  This is a profile of our little boy when he was 15 weeks (I think).  I am lucky enough that I get to have ultrasounds every two or three weeks for the first 30 weeks of my pregnancy and twice a week after that.  When I find some of our other pictures I will post them.  It is very interesting to see the growth of your baby through 2D Ultrasounds.  This was also our ultrasound where we found out we were having a little boy!!  Andrea wanted a little sister really bad so I felt sorry for her.  She cried for about 10 minutes after we were told it was a boy...it was very sad.  Now, she is fine and can't wait to see Baby Benjamin.  She talks to him all the time and lets me know what Benjamin is saying to her!  He frequently lets her know that he wants to come out.  It will be interesting to see what happens when Benjamin is born because in all but one of his ultrasounds, he has been sucking his thumb!!  It is funny to see his little mouth sucking away on his thumb!

Let's Try Again...

In case you haven't noticed, there hasn't been a lot of activity on the blog lately.  I do have good reasons.  The biggest reason is that it was almost impossible for me to post with our dial-up internet.  The connection had gotten so bad that it would take FOREVER to try to post anything and half the time it still wouldn't work.  So, I gave up!!  I also have been really sick with this pregnancy so nothing was getting done in the house and the thought of blogging never really entered my mind. 

However, we now have this new thing called high speed internet...it is fabulous!!!  We are going to try to do this blogging thing again and see how it goes.

The Web Files

Samantha's school does two musicals every school year.  They do one in December and one in June.  This is a video of Sammy's dance in the first grade musical.  She is the one with a pink long sleeved shirt under the gray t-shirt on the right side of the movie.  Because of our dial-up I had to make the video really small in order to upload it...sorry.  I was also using a new video camera and had no idea how to use it!  I was mad because it wouldn't zoom and I couldn't figure it out.  Apparently when you are in 1080 mode you can't zoom!  So, that is why there is no zooming in on Samantha.  She did a really good job!  I can't wait to see what they do in June!!!  One last note...the kids dancing were not supposed to sing the song and it seems the first graders didn't know the dirty rat song very well!!  Oh, well!