Forgot a few pictures...

I forgot a couple pictures.

Like my new shades.



The easter egg hunt at Quantico was cancelled due to the downpour on Saturday morning. So we drove up, told them how many kids were registered, and they hand us that many goody bags they'd prepared. Each bag had about 15 filled eggs and a little rubber ducky. Isabella decided to put her rubber ducky to good use....as a pacifier.

Easter 2009

We had a fun but busy Easter Sunday. We started out with church, of course. While we were getting ready for church, Isabella had fun exploring what was in her Easter basket. The Easter Bunny brought her some puzzles and coloring books. And some little matchbox cars. She's very jealous of the boys in nursery and their cars, so it was very nice of the Easter Bunny to bring her some. And how could I resist getting a picture of her in her Easter dress. They're a little dark, sorry. The first one was from before church, the second one is at her Grandma Gallahan's house. At church, there was a great Easter program with wonderful musical numbers and then some great lessons in Sunday School and Relief Society.



After showing off her Easter dress at Grandma Gallahan's house, we ate a late lunch/early dinner and played for a while. Then it was time for Easter Egg hunting. Isabella found a basketful and decided that was enough and wanted to just sit and open and inspect all the eggs. It was funny to watch her.



After Easter Egg hunting, we headed over to Linda and Mike's for some dessert. It was nice to sit and hang out for a while. After that, it was home and to bed for a little munchkin. Isabella made out good for Easter. She also received a number of stuffed animals and a Little People Easter play set.



And just for fun, here's a picture of Isabella trying to look stylish.

My poor little pumpkin....

She looks like she's been in a fight. She was outside playing with her Daddy yesterday afternoon, and for some reason, she has to be holding on to a stick when she's walking around the neighborhood. Well, she fell and Ken said the stick hit her and cut her lip. So between that and the cold/allergies that she's suffering from, she looks a little rough. Poor thing.

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.