Still Swimming!

We started up with swimming lessons again a few weeks ago and Annaliese LOVES them! She is always asking to go swimming or to watch swimming...which means looking at pictures or videos of herself in the pool! 

It's a bit different this time around; we only have lessons once a week and I don't get in the water with Annaliese. Although I really enjoyed being in the water, I am also loving getting to watch and photograph her progress! 

Annaliese would sit and watch videos of herself swimming for hours on end if I would let her!!

Happy Easter!

To celebrate Easter, we spent the weekend with Jay and Kelley (aka Bapa and Mama.) Annaliese doesn't totally understand that she has two different sets of grandparents, so the entire drive over she was excited about going in the hot tub...which is at Grandpa and Grandma Hendricks' house! She was equally excited about the idea of a swimming pool though:) 

Friday evening Annaliese was able to hop in the pool and show off some of her swimming skills. The water was a bit colder than she was expecting and so she didn't last long in the water! 

On Saturday, Haleigh and I went with Grandma and Auntie Laurie to a bridal shower for Adam's fiancee Emily at Cafe 225 in Visalia. Haleigh had on an adorable little dress but about 5 minutes after we arrived at the restaurant, she pooped all over it. And me. Thank you Auntie Sarah for helping us get all cleaned up!! 

 Auntie M

 G Momma

 Great-Grandma Didi

Grandma Kelley

Saturday night we went over to Jon and Sarah's house for pizza...they know of a special place that makes Reed-friendly pizza:) It's always fun to watch Reed and Annaliese interact with one another, especially as they are becoming more verbal and more opinionated!

Sunday, the whole family came over for a delicious tri-tip lunch, an Easter egg hunt, and a few lawn games. 

Linda (Penny's mom), Penny and G-Momma

Great Grandma Norma (aka Blingy)

Kyle with his cousin Melissa (Auntie M)

 Aunt Jana helping Annaliese with the Easter egg hunt

 Reed was very generous and gave Annaliese all the eggs he found!

 Opening presents!

 Trying on her new shoes!

 She immediately had to try on her new dress...and Haleigh's new hat!

There was a little bit of down-time at Bapa and Mama's house...so here's a few pictures of that:) 

 Brushing Mama's hair

Haleigh's Newborn Photo Shoot

When Haleigh was a week old, we had a photographer come over and take some newborn pictures for us. She brought along some props and we had a great time! Haleigh was mostly cooperative, although she did pee all over the photographer and poop all over the pretty pink blanket!! I am super happy with the pictures that we got (and can't wait until I have a house to hang some of them up in!) 

Here are a few of my favorites:

 These are my Grandma Tursellino's pearls...I wore them in our wedding too!

A Washington Vacation

Our niece Mallory and Haleigh were supposed to be 2 weeks apart; but they're actually 7 weeks apart. Knowing when they were both due, Kyle and I decided to plan a trip to Washington to meet our little niece and to introduce Haleigh to the rest of the family. Given her late arrival, she turned 4 weeks old on the trip! 

Our trip didn't start off as we'd hoped; the flight out of SLO was delayed by almost 6 hours! Kyle waited in line to figure out other options while I entertained Annaliese and fed Haleigh. By the time Kyle had things figured out and we got on a different flight, Annaliese had eaten half the snacks I'd packed and checked out the 'goodie bag' of things to do. Needless to say, I was a bit concerned about how the flight was going to go. But, my girls pulled through and did fantastic...even though we never had time to get dinner and didn't get into Seattle until 1:30 am. 

The first day we planned a trip to the Seattle Zoo, along with Auntie Kim, Uncle Thane, and Elias, and Auntie Kelsey and Mallory. We got off to a late start (we wanted to sleep in and Kyle made a run to Urgent Care to get some meds for his poison oak) but enjoyed a picnic lunch and checking out all the animals. 

 Cousin Mallory

 Mama and Mallory

 Haleigh and Annaliese

 Cousin Elias and Annaliese

 Bapa and Haleigh

 A Sloth Bear...who knew such a creature existed!

 Uncle Thane and Elias

 The hippo

From the zoo, we headed north to Bellingham and to Bapa and Mama's house. Unfortunately, we got stuck on a one-way street heading into downtown Seattle and lots of traffic. It was a pretty drive past the waterfront and ended up only delaying us by about half an hour...but it also resulted in a fender-bender (no damage was done.) 

Once in Bellingham, our days were filled with baking, hot-tubbing, a bit of tile-shopping, driving around the city and eating. Lots and lots of eating...if I wasn't eating, then Haleigh was!!

 Annaliese helped Mama get everything set up so that they were all ready to go when Elias arrived...I wish I had a video of her because she was so excited when he showed up...She could not wait to bake together!

 Blowing bubbles!!

 Auntie Kim and Annaliese

not exactly sure what Auntie Kim is doing...

Isn't this cute:) 

We also celebrated my parents birthday's while we were there...my dad turned 60 this year! Kim and Kelsey put together a slideshow from some old slides that my dad had from way back when...We also enjoyed a delicious chocolate cake that Kim made. 

And we had to try for a few family pictures!