Spring Day at the Park

Spring is in full bloom and so were the colorful swim suites being modeled by Will, Amanda and Natalie this morning at swim lessons.     Even though it was early morning with the sun still low, Will always has to wear his hat.  (Reminds us all of Grandpa Clarence.)



Right after swim lessons, the kids pose for some portraits with some wonderful greenery and flowers in the background.

Here is a great photo of Amanda!  Wow, how they quickly grow up! 

Natalie captures a great photo as well!  As she said this morning, I'm getting older, I now weight 3 7 7.  (Translation:  37.7 pounds)

Right after swimming, we stopped by the local park to play, burn some energy and have a picnic lunch.  We also had ideas of chasing some squirrels and chipmunks through the woods.

But first, the monkeys need to be monkeys!  Natalie demonstrates her fixed bar swinging skills!

Natalie - "Check my shoe size!"

Natalie - "I can hang here all day long!"

Amanda - "I like having my picture to be taken..."

Natalie demonstrates how to do the trapeze rings.

 

 

Amanda cannot be out done!

Will's turn - "Daddy, look at me, look how tall I am!"

Amanda - "That slide was very fast!"

Natalie - "Dad, I can really play well with my brother...when I want to."

Natalie - "Is this the crazy hair park?"

Amanda climbs the cork screw.

Natalie poses for a quick photo at the top of the curly cue slide.

Will shows off his hanging skills...what a face!

Natalie tries to see how long her hair will reach toward the ground.

 

Next up, the balance beam...where the girls show tremendous concentration.

Finally, we were off to chase some varmints!  The little creatures are sneaky...they can run fast and hide in some strange and cool places?

Will - "Hey Natalie and Amanda, I saw some over this way!  Come On!"

Amanda got distracted by some wild flowers about ready to bloom.

Natalie - "Hey Guys, I saw him go down this little hole!"

Will - "I think several went into one of these holes by the tree."

Finally, Natalie cornered a squirrel up in a tree.  If you look closely, you can see the little guy (Top of the photo) staring back at Natalie, shaking his tail and talking away.

Natalie - :Maybe I can catch him if I reach up...and..."

...start to jump!"

 

We had a wonderful time at the park today.  Beautiful weather and wonderful kids!  We are all so blessed.

Natalie - "I touched him!"

 

And how was your weather on this nice St. Patrick's Day?

This is a blog that was suppose to post right after St. Patrick's day...oops!  The photos were uploaded, but we are still are having computer difficulties at home...so the words did not come as quickly as we planned.  Further, our new Nanny (Sarah) started the last week in March, and to aggravate the chaos...the entire family has been passing back and forth a bad illness that plagued everyone at the house.  The kids recovered only after a few days, but for Mom and Dad, it continued to linger for weeks!  So goes life...we would not change a thing.

Spring time weather in Sacramento is hard to beat and everyone wants to be outside to enjoy the beautiful days.  Couple that feeling with the kids desire to meet up with their classmates from school, and we now have an opportunity for outdoor party!  And what better way to spend time together than to have lunch outside at the local executive airport down the street from our house.  Below, Will, Ava, Natalie, Brooke, and Amanda all watch the planes roll in!

 

Here is a beautiful photo of Amanda watching the other kids play tag.  "You can't catch me!"



Will poses with a nice turbo prop plane in the background.  "Where are they going Dad?"

 

Right after the big lunch, off to the school yard to burn off all that food we just ate.  As many of you probably have already seen in prior posts, all the kids love to be monkeys on the monkey bars, and all are very good monkeys...especially Natalie.



Like all little brothers, Will has to keep up with his big sisters, and can do everything they can do!

 

Hey, look at me!

 

Natalie can swing back and forth, in circles, spin and hang on for a very very long time, just like the real monkey!

 

Here is a beautiful photo of Natalie posing next to the big oak tree at the school yard playground.



No Amanda's turn!

 

You will always know nice weather is at our house once the shaving cream begins to appear in the back yard.  Will loves playing with full canisters at a time.  Fortunately, Will was careful enough to avoid the full body spray and miss his clothes!

 

Look Dad, I made a baby pool of shaving cream!

 

Look at my rocket ships!  They go shoo shoo shoo!  (Check out the black horse in the background!)

 

 

Oops, I spoke too soon about the full body spray.  Time to rub it all over your body.



This feels good!

 

Scrub Scrub Scrub

 

Of course, the girls now had to get into the picture since Will was doing it...

 

 

 

Dad, I made an Angel!