NASA with Grandpa!

On Friday, we took a trip to the NASA Space Center which is about 30 miles south of Houston, so it was quite a trip for us and took a little over an hour to get there. I guess about 50 elementary classes had the same idea as us as well, because it was packed! The kids loved all of the rocket ships though! This is a picture they took of us before we got on a tram to tour the Johnson Space Center campus. I took a picture of the photo with my camera, so that's why it isn't very clear. But, we thought it was so hilarious with Charlie giving the number one, or pointing up like we were about to take off on an actual rocket ship! It was a very long day for all of us, but we were glad we went, it was really neat. They had the Saturn V in a building laying on it's side that you could walk around. It must have been the length of 5 football fields. Can you tell how tired we all are in the picture? Charlie with his blankey and pacie, and Meg's expression explains it all. And after fighting rush hour traffic to get home we still had Meg's fundraiser to go to that night! I was almost in tears when Tom called and said he would be late to the fundraiser...Help me Rhonda!

Meg's Spaghetti Dinner

Grandpa Rayburn came for a visit this past week, which again, we greatly appreciated! Especially now that Henry isn't sleeping as well as he was at first, I really appreciated him getting up with the other kids while I got some morning z's. While he was here Meg had her pre-school fundraiser, which was a spaghetti dinner at a local church. They preformed some songs for all of us which I got some pictures of. The first one includes Charlie up on the stand, he was wishing he got to go to school like Meggie. Can you spot him? The did "On Top of Spaghetti" and "Jesus Loves Me" with the sign language as well. Can you see how incredibly shy Meg is in these photos? It is almost hard for us to watch, she really has a hard time. I think she may be getting a little better at school about talking to her classmates, but up on stage with all the kids in front of so many people was very hard for her for sure. We love our little Meg though, and thought she looked so cute up there.

Unfortunately, I didn't get my camera out much while Grandpa was here. I'm going to go check Meg's camera and see if she has any good ones on there. Thank you Grandpa, for all the groceries and laundry done. I have to figure out how to do it all by myself again!

Easter Morning

Well, the Easter bunny came for a visit yet again. The kids scored! He even remembered little Henry and bought him a bouncy chair which he loves! Constant movement is required for him. I love the picture of the kids going through their Easter baskets. Can you tell who was more successful during the candy hunt? Charlie loved finding the little chocolate eggs though. Later that day we went to a family's house for dinner in our ward, they had invited anyone who didn't have family near by to come and there were over 60 people there! Can you imagine inviting 60 people over for Easter dinner?! Well, afterwards we had an Easter egg hunt where we hid plastic eggs and Charlie wouldn't pick any of them up because he thought only the little foil eggs were the ones from the Easter bunny.

Daddy took Meg shopping the day before Easter and she talked him into this dress that came with the matching one for her baby doll. And even though we already had an Easter dress that I bought for her last year, she scored another one! She looked beautiful though. We hope everyone had a very happy Easter!

Bathtime for Henry

I thought I would capture our little guy in the bath. He loves his bath, until you actually start washing him, then he gets cold and mad! You can see his little inflamed belly button. I was so worried about it and putting all kinds of stuff on it which turned out was causing the inflammation. Luckily Joe told me to stop messing with it and now it's fine. Also, Grandma got him this super cute cow towel. It even has a little tail hanging off the back of it.

Grandma's Visit

Grandma Rayburn came to help us out for about 10 days, when Henry was about 9 days old. I can't tell you how nice it was to have her here. I didn't have to worry about going grocery shopping, doing our endless piles of laundry, ironing, or waking up early with Meg and Charlie. We were so grateful for her visit. The kids loved coming downstairs to wake up Grandma at "O dark hundred" every morning. And Henry was actually sleeping really well then, so I was getting plenty of sleep. Those days seem forever ago to me now! I was also feeling the need to get back to normal, so we tried to go and do several things. We even made a trip to Dallas to visit our favorite copy cat restaurant: Costa Vida. It is almost, but not quite, the same as our real love: Cafe Rio, in Utah. While in Dallas we stayed at a very nice hotel, for very cheep (thanks mom!) and Tom and I were even able to go see a movie by ourselves! The next day, Grandma, Meg, Charlie, Henry and myself went to the Dallas Aquarium while Tom worked via his laptop. Meg and Charlie love the aquarium there. Charlie still asks to go back and see the dolphins and turtles. I love that first picture on here of Grandma with her grand babies. Charlie expression is priceless! And Meg holding Henry is a regular occurrence. However, he is getting so big now, it is harder for her to do. We love you Grandma!