Sunday, May 24, 2009

It's been awhile!

We are happily approaching the end of the school year and things are winding down, yay! I don't have much to say but here are some fun pictures of what we have been up to - in order, starting with most recent.
This blog is also like our family journal/scrapbook so sorry if it isn't too exciting to anyone else.

Gabriella being her cute self, I love this picture (: But I am a little bias.


Three weekends ago Luke's Granpda passed away. The next week we went down for the funeral. It was a really good funeral the spirit was really strong. It was good to see and meet a lot of that side of the family. Grandpa Bud will be missed he always had a big smile and I loved his license plate "ITLLDEW." It always made me laugh!

Here is Luke and Gabrie having our lovely continental breakfast at the hotel.Ashlyn and Gabriella in the hall between our rooms with there matching blankets.

We also went swimming at the hotel but Gabrie was too nervous to leave the stairs but that was okay she still had fun.
Giving Daddy kisses!
On the way home we stopped by Wilson's Arch, to see where Luke almost died when he was a little kid. The story goes that he was trying to beat all of his brothers to the top and was running as fast as he could not knowing the slope dropped on the other side of the arch. Well I guess his brother Spencer stopped him but it is good to know where Gabrie got her adventure gene.

Dianne, Parker, Luke, and Gabrie
Cute lil' Parker with his shades! I love this picture!
Luke taking it a little slower this time ( : and helping Gabrie.

At the top!
Luke and Kiley were trying to catch a lizard, they didn't succeed.

Dianne, Gabrie and Parker on the "lizard" - a log that looked a lot like a lizard (you can't really tell from this angle and I accidentally erased the better picture)
We did the Autism Awareness Walk at the beginning of the month, it was cold and rainy but still fun! Gabriella was a little nervous when we went to see the Disney characters especially Captain Hook, but she liked meeting Snow White. She is in this funny stage where she gets scared by a lots of things she didn't used to! Later that day we stopped by Walmart and there was an Owl mascot there and Luke said she was really scared of it. Then later she told me "I scared of Owl" and she still talks about it especially when we pass Walmart!

Again she was too scared to climb the slide, I think there were to many big kids.
But my friend Whitney's daughter was brave she just had some trouble going down slide, she was so cute!
We went to the farm at Thanksgiving point with my friend Marisa and her kids. It was lots of fun but Gabriella couldn't decide if she wanted to ride the ponies or not. She said she did but then got terrified when I tried to put her on one then this is her watching while the other kids rode ) :

Anyways, now your caught up - hope you enjoyed it.