Saturday, January 28, 2012

Cousins

Dalton's birthday was yesterday. Happy Birthday, Dalton! Now Lisa has a 3-yr-old, 1-yr-old, and twins instead of a 2-yr-old and 1-yr-old and twins. What a relief. ;)


He was oh-so-excited to blow out the candles. Seriously--what more is there to life?


To celebrate his birthday, and to get out of the house, and to take advantage of our new Hogle Zoo Membership, courtesy of Grandma Karrie at Christmas--thank you!!--we braved the elements with all seven kids in tow.

Jane is the oldest. It was a little intense. Just a little. Chris came with us so we were 3 to 7 instead of 2 to 7--better odds, don't ya know.







Between Lisa's stress with new twins and all the drama in my house, we haven't played together nearly as often as we did pre-third pregnancies. I did manage to capture a few shots of our one and only at-home playdate we've managed since both twins made it home from the NICU.




I was also browsing through files on my computer and found these pictures from a trip we made to Copperton City Park back in October.









Ah, we miss those days. Here's to looking forward to bigger babies up for more adventure. And moms who aren't quite so exhausted and able to handle it...hopefully.

P.S. Shout-out to Ivan! He's our cousin, too!


Photo courtesy of Janneke Marquez Photography, via Facebook :)

2 comments:

Liz, Karl, Madison, Brooklyn, Aubrey and Zachary said...

Sounds like some fun adventures. But reading this really made me want to hit the zoo. We really should go one of these days that it's not too cold.

Tannie Datwyler said...

Okay - those pictures from the park are SO cute. They are very artistic - great photo skills my friend.

And Ivan is getting SO CUTE - that picture of him is great.

And hehehe, I had to laugh when you said the comment about Lisa and it being a "relief" that she doesn't have a 2 year old and a 1 year old and twins. :)