Camp Out

I think I mentioned in a previous post that Corey's parents handed down the family pop-up camper to us. We're so excited to use it at an actual campground, but so far we've rather enjoyed it just in our own backyard.

It houses guests beautifully...that is until the temperature spikes... and it offers a comfy spot for a backyard camp out. Corey and Natalie slept in it one night a few weeks ago and had so much fun! I'm a little too pregnant to pass up an available pillow top mattress so I stayed inside all by myself while the two of them watched a cartoon on Corey's laptop and drifted to dreamland in the camper.

Natalie slept like a baby as she was in warm jammies and inside her fleece sleeping bag. Corey got a little chilly when the propane ran out in the middle of the night and the heat stopped. Glad that happened in our backyard and not 3 hours from home!

I know we'll really enjoy it on the road in a few months! Thanks, again, Papa Franc and Nana!

Honeybirds

After hanging numerous feeders throughout the backyard and keeping the sugar cocktail in each of them well stocked, we've attracted a nice variety of hummingbirds. Natalie calls them "honeybirds" and loves to watch them, read about them, talk about them and imagine she can snuggle them (wouldn't that be a sight!!).

We went to the zoo last week and she begged to ride the carousel. It's no surprise what animal she wanted to climb on...the giant "honeybird"! The hummingbird pictures below are courtesy of Aunt Kristen who had the patience and the camera capable of capturing these busy little visitors.

Dressing Up!

Natalie is a BIG fan of dressing up. And my closet (and shoe collection) is an equally BIG disappointment to the poor glamour girl. I live in flip flops and clogs. I don't currently own anything sequined, shimmery, feathery, or ruffly. So, Natalie doesn't even venture into my closet anymore when she's in the mood to dress up.

She, instead, heads under the bed to the bin of winter wardrobe elements that are a total novelty to her. She has no recollection of wearing hats, mittens or scarves as we didn't travel anywhere cold this past winter. So, it's all fun and games to her to pile on all those things and traipse around the house until she starts to sweat. It's nice to know that if we do end up someplace cold again she'll be game for bundling up!

Happy Easter!

I must say, it's really nice to spend Easter where Natalie can actually wear a spring dress and and not have to cover it with a parka! I think every Easter growing up we had heavy jackets over our Easter dresses and some years...moon boots, as well! Yes, moon boots. If you grew up in snow, you wore them...you know you did.

This Easter was a nice but weird one. I've been sick all week and, consequently, our plans to travel to Palm Springs to visit Papa Rod and Grandma Lala for the holiday were cancelled. We were bummed bunnies about that! I didn't even make it to church this morning with Natalie and Corey. It felt strange to send them off without me but they looked so darn cute...how could I keep them home?

After church we had an egg hunt in our yard and a mellow afternoon eating jelly beans and playing with goodies the Easter Bunny and the Grandmas delivered. Thank you all!