A great couple of weeks

Sorry for the lack of pictures, I've just been too lazy to upload the pictures. But I finally got around to it. So here are pictures from the last couple of weeks.


We taught Isabella to go "Wheeee" as we drive down the road. Especially when its nice enough to open the sunroof. It keeps her occupied when she's stuck in her carseat. And that's a new favorite of hers....to tell us that she's stuck.


My odd child. She loves to wrap herself up in a blanket and say "cold, cold." Even when its not cold in the house. I thought this shot of her was funny though.


And she had a little run-in with the sidewalk a couple weeks ago. Luckily this was as bad as she got. Just a scraped up nose.


Someone help me please. I'm in baby jail. This is her looking through the fence that overlooks the parking lot in front of our house.


Then she decided to lay down next to Daddy.


Can you believe that she sat and let me french braid her hair?




We had General Conference instead of regular church this weekend, so we went up to Washington DC this morning to see the Cherry Blossoms. There were quite a few people despite getting up there fairly early. But then again, the Cherry Blossom 10 mile run was going on. Here's a few pictures from the cherry blossoms.

Isabella sitting in the trees (yes someone really was holding her)


The Gallahans - Ken was trying to get Isabella to look at Linda while she took the picture


The Dixon-Gallahan-Barton girls


Hey look, Isabella's as big as the Washington Monument.

Family connections

It's amazing what happens even when you're not actively doing any Genealogical searches. About 7 or 8 years ago, a cousin of Ken's posted a request for information on a genealogy website. I found that post and posted a response about 2 years ago. Lo and behold, but this week, the daughter of one of Ken's cousins found the post and contacted me. In the last day or so, I have been able to get in contact (thanks Facebook) with 5 of Ken's cousins. Now Ken doesn't know most of his cousins, especially being the youngest child of the youngest of the siblings in my father-in-law's family. It just goes to show you that you never know when you might get a response, so go ahead and post your questions on those genealogy websites.

For those of you noticed....

There are some of you that may have noticed our new widget and have not heard our news yet. Yes, we are expecting Baby #2. Our current due date is September 28. We'll see if that changes or anything. We're almost to 12 weeks....hallelujah. Not that I've been super sick or anything. I have a couple friends who are also pregnant that have been quite sick. I'm very lucky that I have not been that way. I've just had an overall sense of nausea and no appetite. So stay tuned and I'm sure you'll hear much more about the pregnancy as we go along.

Go figure....

Go figure that we get 7 inches of snow on Monday and its 70 degrees yesterday and today. And then people wonder why everyone is sick around here!

March Snowstorm

We got a major snowstorm (for this area) yesterday. Ken took Isabella out with him when he went to shovel the sidewalk. She had a ball in the snow.


My hubby at work....isn't he is sweetheart.


Hmmmm.....What's this?


Oh, that's kinda yummy.


Ken cleaning the car off. Isabella is down there somewhere too.


15 minutes later....still working.


We never did get Isabella any snowboots and her old tennis shoes really don't fit anymore, so we got her some wellies so that at least her feet would be dry. Well, she now associates those with going out in the snow. Ken got up with her this morning and she brought him her boots and put her hat on. He finally realized that she wanted to go outside when she brought him his gloves. So she ended up with her boots and hats on with her pajamas. Goofy kid.



Isabella, Ken, and our niece, Katlyn, playing in the snow at Grandma Gallahan's house.

Ken and Isabella sledding at Grandma Gallahan's house.

Katlyn sledding.

Katlyn and Isabella sledding. Ken was actually behind them because he held on to the sled until the were ready to go.


Now, let's bring on spring please!!!