Easter Weekend

Kanas City with the Hogge's

A couple weeks ago we went to Kansas City for the NCAA tournament. We convinced my sister Jenni and her family to go with us and watch the boys while Joel and I went to the basketball games. Jenni and Chris found us an awesome place to stay that had a water park attached to it. Tyson was in heaven. Although all he really liked to do was go round and round in the lazy river, we did convince him to enjoy some other things too. Most of my pictures are so dark that you can't even see who is in it, but here are a few that turned out. We had a lot of fun and it was great to spend some time with the Hogge's.

Tyson loves his cousin Noah!

Just Kidding!

I feel kind of bad about the last post. Some people really believed that it was Charlie. The true story is that Joel and I were watching TV last week and saw this preview. We both thought it looked a lot like Charlie. Apparently others thought so to because some people really thought it was him. Sorry to all that we fooled! It was Joel's idea!

Charlie's TV Debut

So many people have told us that we should get Charlie into modeling or acting. We decided to take the plunge!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7949893740713919769&hl=en

Too bad he had to play a girl!

Harlem Globetrotters

Monday night we loaded the kids in the car and headed to Topeka to watch the Harlem Globetrotters. The car ride there was miserable. Tyson took his shoes off and then decided he wanted them on NOW. I was driving and Joel cannot physically turn around and do it. So he screamed for 45 minutes. Charlie was bored to tears so he cried the entire trip too. But we kept truckin! Once we got there, it was all worth it. Tyson was in awe. At halftime we went down to the floor and bought a ball for him. He was soo excited. Joel and I had never been to see them either so we also enjoyed it too. FYI - the car ride home was much better!

Snow Days

The one advantage of living in Kansas when all of my family lives in Iowa or Minnesota is the warmer weather. I do a lot of bragging about how nice it is here and how I'm grilling out when they are looking out the window at a foot of snow. Well, karma has bitten back! Last weekend it snowed and I mean snowed. Joel spent two days outside with Tyson sledding, building snowmen, and building snow forts. Charlie even went out to join him for a short sled ride. I have pictures taken of their snowman on Sunday and then on Monday. What a difference a day makes in Kansas!

Sunday

Monday

Photo Shoot

A couple weeks ago I was outside with Charlie at 9am swinging. It was an absolutely beautiful morning with the sun shining, bright blue skies, and birds chirping. He was so relaxed and looked so cute.