I See Rolly Derby In Her Future

Ava has been asking me if she could go roller skating for a while now. She saw it first on a cartoon (thanks alot Kai Lan!) and so while we were in Medford and had a rink close by and a babysitter for Sadie I thought we'd give it a try.

 We started out practicing on the carpet. Much easier for a kid.

 Then we graduated to the mini rink. I have to say I was impressed. What she was doing was more like walking on skates instead of actual skating but she hardly fell down at all.

 Finally we moved onto the big rink. Unfortunately there were a few derby girls there going pretty fast around us and it made Ava nervous.

 So after asking a derby girl to take our picture we headed over to the arcades. Ava liked them better anyway.

And she knew exactly what to do.

Afterwards she fell asleep in the car. Roller skating is exhausting. I never did get to show her my skills on skates though. Oh well. Maybe next time.

More from "Easter Saturday"

Like I said in my Easter post we celebrated with our easter baskets on Saturday. We also did an easter egg hunt but the rest of the day was spent playing.

There was some jumping on the trampoline (every grandparent should have one because it's a big hit!).

But the most fun was when the girls and baby Ezra got to put their hand prints in Grandpa's cement. Ava went first. In this picture Grandpa is explaining what they are going to do.

Ava did pretty good.

Sadie on the other hand, well as you'll see in the final picture, she didn't do just a hand print she also did here forearms. It was pretty funny.

Baby Ezra sort of grabbed the cement with his fists but that's what babies do, isn't it?

And not pictured above is Molly.....the dog.

If you look closely you can see Sadie's forearms. So cute.

Saying Goodbye

I can't think of any other way to blog about my vacation than to do it in several different posts. It's mostly for my own sake, really. I want to have my vacation posted here (it's kind of my back up plan for pictures). So I'll start with first things first. We went to Oregon for two main reasons. #1 was to see my little brother David (I should say Elder Morgan) leave on his mission. 

 We took these pictures just before David was set apart as a missionary.

 I love how in the first picture Keith is the shortest and how he has magically grown three inches in the second one. (I think he has a complex!)

 Here is mom helping Elder Morgan put on his missionary tag. He is now officially Elder Morgan.

 And the best part.......waking up at 4:30 in the morning to see Elder Morgan off!

 You'll have to excuse my appearance. It was 4:30 in the morning after all and I had ruined my contacts and was forced to wear glasses. ugh.

 Seeing Elder Morgan hug his mom goodbye was the hardest moment for me. Even harder than when I hugged him myself.

 After he went through security we headed upstairs to see if we could see the plane take off. We happened to catch a glimpse of Elder Morgan through a window as he was getting ready to board. It was his final wave goodbye.

And we weren't able to see through the windows upstairs to watch the plane take off because they were covered in frost. Miraculously my mom was able to get her camera in some small crack and caught a picture of him boarding the plane.

I'm so proud! He's headed to Porto Alegre, Brazil. Anyone interested in keeping up with him can check out his blog at http://www.eldermorgan.blogspot.com

Easter

So I realize I am now almost two weeks late with these pictures but I have so many to post from our vacation that I need to do them in some kind of organized fashion. So here are some pictures from Easter this year. We celebrated with Easter baskets on saturday morning and the girls loved it! Then we did an easter egg hunt in my parents back yard.

Ava knew what to do and Sadie picked it up really quick.

Ava is obviously older as her basket as about twice as many eggs as Sadie's!

Sunday morning the girls got dressed up in their Easter dresses and we took a few pictures before we headed off to church.

I took probably 50 pictures and never did get one of them both looking at me and smiling. Oh well. They still looked adorable. Thanks Grandma for the Easter dresses!

So blogger just deleted two of my pictures. Oh well. Here is the girls together in at least one picture.

Happy Easter!