Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Our Patio


We bought patio furniture this past weekend and we've all been enjoying it. Natalie helped me pick out the windchimes (she loved hitting them to make the noise and then eating the chimes) and we got some hawaiian decor to round out the patio decor. Ever since we bought the furniture, we've really been using our backyard - finally!! We've gone swimming now in our own pool (it was finally warm enough this past weekend) and we've had quite a few meals outside too. Here's some pics of the patio and natalie and i enjoying the evening.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Piano Playing Natalie



Grandma Cadden's Visit

Grandma had so much fun with Natalie that she wore herself out!!

Cute Natalie


Natalie LOVES to Jump!!!

Our Awesome Family Pics


Here's the really good one - awe - my two cuties!! :-)
Now - below is the "awesome" family pics.

Messy Eater


San Antonio - Riverwalk

Ok, so it's been a loooooooooooooooooooong time since I've posting anything on Natalie and I'm sorry that the last thing were the sad school pictures. So, I'm trying to catch up from the last month and that starts with finishing the trips from our San Antonio weekend last month. The first day we went to the zoo, the second day we hung out at the Riverwalk (we stayed at the Mariott Rivercenter - it was a great location for us). Natalie had so much fun looking out of our window at the river.

Natalie's first time to go swimming - she sure looked cute!
After our morning swim we went out for lunch. We ate at Casa Rio - it's one of the oldest resturants on the riverwalk and it was very good! natalie had tons of fun feeding the pigeons crackers and watching the ducks. We had a lot of fun watching her!
After lunch, we went up to the steet level to watch one of the parades that is helding during San Antonio's Fiesta. I think it was the flower parade - either way it was Natalie's first parade and she had alot of fun watching it. Matt was carrying her in the Bjorn and he was able to stand up in a storefront window so they could get a better view.

After the parade, we went back to the river and went on the riverwalk boat ride and eventualy ended up back at the hotel. She was really good on the boat and seemed to enjoy herself. She did fall asleep walking back to the hotel. We don't have a picture of it, but Natalie also had her first ice cream that day and she LOVED it!! She kept the spoon with her the rest of the day (we think she was hoping ice cream would reappear!)

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

School Pictures

Unfortunately Natalie had a bad cold when they had school pictures taken and had puffy pink eyes....she had also bumped her head minutes before it was her turn for pictures so we did not buy any but I did scan them so we could post them up for everyone.


Cute smile but I think the pink in this picture brings out the redness of her eyes and the bump on her eyebrow from the fall.

She looks so sad here (and tired) - i wish she was smiling.

Here is a picture of her class.
Bottom row: Tyler, Lily(she's the youngest), Grace and Abigail (have the same birthday)
Top row: Charlie (she's the oldest), Ms Amy, Natalie, Ms Dalia, Leiland (aka Lilo)