Easter!

We had a lot of fun at our ward Easter party on Saturday. Kailey had a blast finding eggs and playing with her friends. She also had her first experience with a boy chasing her which she found a little confusing. We told her she'd better get used to it.
Waiting for the egg hunt to start

Finding those eggs

Going through her loot with Natalie and Sabrina. I couldn't get all three of them to look at the camera

Running from Asher

On Easter morning Kailey came out of her room and into ours as usual, told us she was going to play in her room, went back and lasted about five minutes or so before she burst out asking if the Easter Bunny had come. We went downstairs and she was super excited to see that he had.
Mmmm...chocolate bunny

Showing off one of her eggs

Her new Easter Dress

After church we decided to head up to the temple and take some pictures of her in her dress. She really wanted to run around, but finally settled down after a little while and let us take some cute pictures of her.



My favorite. I was disappointed it ended up a little blurry because she kept moving constantly

The Science Center and Rose Garden

Chad and I were delighted to find yet another free form of entertainment in our area last Friday. We found out that the LA Science Center is free (except parking of course) and decided to go try it out. It was actually pretty neat and Kailey had a blast, though it was packed because of spring break.
Concentrating hard on something


Checking out the fog in the fog machine


We went outside after we were done at the museum and discovered the rose gardens. Kailey wouldn't hold still and was running around and around. She would check back to see if we were still following her, laugh, turn around and continue on running.

Posing for a cute picture

Smelling the roses

More Visitors!

We were excited to have Tessie and Brad and their adorable little girls stop by last Tuesday. I took them to our new go to place for free entertainment--the aquarium. Unfortunately, it was almost impossible to get some good pictures of both Laney and Kailey, but I did get a couple where they are at least both looking at me.
Kailey with a very grumpy face telling me not to take anymore pictures

Laney and Kailey on the whales' tail

Knott's Berry Farm

Over conference weekend we were excited to have Chad's family come visit us. Kailey had a blast with her Nana, Papa, Aunt Jamie and Uncle Chris, and meeting Aunt Jamie's boyfriend Beau. We ended up going to Knott's Berry Farm on Saturday. Unfortunately for me, they have very few rides they let pregnant women go on (I think I rode two), but it was a blast seeing how much fun Kailey was having riding all the rides. She even went on the big log ride twice and still can't stop talking about how neat it was.
Flying Snoopy's airplane

Riding on some rides with Nana


Posing for a cute picture outside the mini roller coaster

This was the strangest ride. It was a little push cart that went on railroad tracks and they had to pump it back and forth to move themselves around the track.

With Papa on the train

With Daddy and Aunt Jamie

Gazing out the train window

New Pictures

Here are a few cute pictures from recent park outings. We realized that we took virtually no pictures in January and the majority of February, so we've been really trying to remedy that lately.




Testing out her new sunglasses

The Aquarium

A couple weekends ago, we headed out for the free aquarium in San Pedro. Kailey had been begging us to go see the fish for awhile and you just can't beat free, so we decided to check this one out. It is actually a pretty neat place with quite a bit of things to see. There are even some tidal pools a short walk away. Much easier to get to than the last tidal pools we ventured out to. Here are some of the highlights of the day.
Kailey just couldn't hold still at first as she ran from exhibit to exhibit


Her favorite exhibit by far. I know, its gross so forgive me for posting it, but she makes me look at it every time I turn on the computer and so now it will just be easier for me to access it! If you can't tell, its an anglerfish or a "Nemo fish" as Kailey calls it.

Checking out the neat fish

Looking through the aquarium at mommy on the other side

Posing for some cute pictures


At the end, Kailey was very tired, and very grumpy and it was showing in the pictures. The funny thing was that she would run up to the structures and pose and tell me to take pictures, but she would make the grumpiest faces imaginable for the camera rather than smiling. We were laughing so hard at her faces and it only made her grumpier. Here are a couple of the highlights.

Marching off to pose for another picture

We even got the hands on the hips for this one, emphasizing her mood.

We decided to venture to the tidal pools, but unfortunately there were a couple large groups of teenagers there and they had scared off all the creatures except for a few sea urchins.

A much easier walk to the pools that Abalone Cove turned out to be

Yet Another Zoo Post

So, an update to our blog wouldn't be complete without pictures of a recent trip to Disneyland or the zoo, so for your viewing pleasure, of course we decided to add some pictures of our recent trip with Rachel, Natalie, and Sabrina.
It was a nice, sunny day Friday in February when Rachel called me up and asked if we wanted to go the zoo. The morning had gotten off to a shaky start when Kailey had insisted on wearing her hair like "Pippy". I had no idea what she was talking about and after much frustration on both our parts, I finally came to the conclusion that she was talking about Pippy Longstocking, something I thought she had never even heard of before. I'm still trying to figure out where she learned that, but her hair was done and I was ready to get out of the house and Kailey is always up for a good time with friends so of course the answer was yes, so we packed up a lunch, grabbed our zoo pass, and headed out.
It was a beautiful day, the perfect weather for an outing. Not too hot, and not too cold. The first half of the zoo was perfect as we meandered from animal to animal, spending quite a lot of time at the sea lions and seals, and the crazy antelope that was running around in circles. We ate lunch, checked out some ants, then went on to the other half. Unfortunately by this time, the zoo had been invaded by multiple school groups and it was chaos everywhere we went. We finally gave up on seeing any animals without fighting hordes of children, and decided to cut our day short. It was fun, but hopefully next time we go, we somehow luck out and avoid the school days.
Posing in front of the sea lions with Natalie

Checking out the ants with Sabrina