This is What Happens when they play on my computer

I put the pictures up! (Bwahahaha!)

It's with two young women in our ward: Brett and Kasey Anderson. And it was at a pre-camp campout in the backyard of the YW president (because it threatened rain, and the president DOES NOT go camping in the rain). They decided to do a photo shoot, and took a whole bunch of fun shots.

Here's a couple more for good measure:

An Explanation

A couple of people have commented on the drawing of Megan in the sidebar, and have asked who did it. Well...

We did.

The before shot:



And after we played with it on our cheap-o photoshop program:

Voila! Instant art.

The Dulcet Sounds

The girls' piano recital was yesterday, and this year I managed to remember batteries in the camera!

Caitlyn played "Heartbreak Etude":


And Megan played the theme from Star Wars:

And they both played well, too. :)

Let's Go Fly a Kite

After 11 years, our last kite finally died last spring. So, when we were out and about this week, we decided to splurge on a new kite. Friday, it was FINALLY windy enough to fly it (it's been really non-windy here lately, which is weird. It is Kansas, after all...)

Our new kite:

Alison and Kristen were happy to fly it. We had problems getting it up in the field behind our house, so we headed over to a local park where it flew quite lovely.


Unfortunately, it got stuck in a tree, and we lost a part to it. :( Hopefully, it won't be hard to replace: we love kite flying!

I Don't Know Whether To Laugh or Cry

See the date? It's APRIL! And this is what the girls talked me in to yesterday:



What happened to spring?

My Model-in-Training

I swear, every time I look on the camera, there's a least a half-dozen pictures of Alison. So, this time, I thought I'd have a bit of fun with the photoshop program.





You have to admit that she's cute...

Third Annual Peepapalooza!

We had fun, though we also decided that maybe we should stop nuking peeps for a while. It just didn't have the same shameless glee as it has in years past. Ah, well. Chalk it up to age, maybe.

She's Wee!

We had a birthday girl in the house yesterday. She was so excited, holding up three fingers and saying "I wee!"

She got to open one present in the morning:


It was a fairy dress that Megan bought her. She was very happy about that.

After breakfast out, going shopping with Daddy, and morning session of conference (ah, the joys of an early April birthday!), we finally got to do the rest of her party that Megan and Caitlyn had set up for her. First, the games:

This is what she's pinning on...


Then presents:


She loved all her presents, but this was my favorite picture!


She also sang this little song, which cracked us up:

(You might have to come back to see it...)

And, her cake!


It was a wonderful birthday!