Del Grosso's

Going to the theme park is always fun, it makes all of the adults sick and the kids tired haha! We went to Del Grosso's in Pennsylvania.
I didn't get one good picture of Porter, he refused to look at anyone! Oh well, at least I tried.

Standing in line for the rides...

Uncle Mat and Jessie about to get sick for the rest of the day.

Yay for racing! I like the kids faces in these pictures. Brigham has his head covered up, so funny!

Horses are a Girls Best Friend

Aunt Emily brought her horses with her all of the way from Maryland. We arrived at Grandma’s house several days before Emily came, and all that Jessie wanted was for Emily to get there! She was so excited to see the horses, especially Baby Girl, the big giant draft horse. I think Baby Girl’s head was as big as Jessie. We got to ride every day, and we all enjoyed them. Curren was on poop patrol, he did a good job keeping it cleaned up… he soon realized 4 horses make a lot of poo!

Zip Lining

Mark tried to pack up our whole entire house full of toys and bring them with us to West Virginia. I managed to talk him out of a lot of stuff, but he did manage to sneak a big bag of climbing gear. He made a Zip Line that ran through his dad's trees and into the yard, the kids LOVED it.
Do you all notice Curren's long luscious blonde locks??? He refuses to let me cut it off, he wants to grow it out "five more inches" He's hilarious! (And I am so not letting him grow it that long) He'll look just like Jessie!

Wa Wa Washington D.C.

First off, I have to ask... have any of you been to Washington D.C.? If you haven't please move it to the top of "Places I must go right now" list. Seriously folks, it's amazing.

We saw the Washington Monument, from there you can see the White House, Capitol Building, and the Lincoln Memorial, and just about everything else, it's pretty cool.

We stopped in two of the many (many, many) Smithsonian museums. The museum of Natural History and the Museum of American History.Here we are by a big dinosaur bone, it was pretty hugemongous yes?? Jessie, Brigham and Aunt Heather... or Aunt Header or Aunt Heaver, that's how we roll.

Checking out the cool butterlies, they were really pretty.

Walking back to the car... Jessie and Uncle Mat

It was a really fun day! I can't wait to go back and visit again.

Prepare yourselves

You are about to be inundated in tons and tons of photos from our month long trip to West Virginia...

You have been warned...

Enjoy!

Littlest Pet Shops are Taking over my House

Jessie loves Little Pet Shops, she has been getting them for the past couple of years for birthdays and Christmas... until last week.

Aunt Nikki hit the motherload. She found about 50 bizillion of them at a garage sale for $6.00! When Jessie opened the box, her eyes about fell out of her head.

She has spent the last few days setting them all up in a row, taking them down, and starting all over again. She is in awe of them, it's so cute! Thanks Aunt Nikki, we love you :D

Mark has been...

in the past month:

Running a half Marathon. The Helvetia Half Marathon's course is right out here by our house, it is 13.1 miles out in the country. Mark and Kasey ran it and did great! You guys are awesome :D

Catching fish, and they are actually big fish! I know, you were all starting to doubt Mark and his fishing abilities. He can catch a big one, this is a Steelhead Salmon caught on the Washougal River in Washington.

Making a wood surfboard. He and Kasey are each making one, they are going to be really cool.

Cutting off his fingers. While cutting out wood for above surfboard on our tablesaw, he tried to cut off his middle finger and had to get 3 stitches. Ouch! I know, you love me for sharing a picture of it!

Mark: He loves to keep it interesting.