Today- Saturday April 14th

Dad's birthday- we celebrated by going to the park before it rained. It was kind of cool out-- Dad's back in Ohio going to Laura's for his birthday- Happy Birthday, Dad.

The kids at Houston Park

Again at Houston Park

Nice scenic picture

There's a duck in the middle of this picture, I wish I would have had my zoom lens.

Looking and finding the Easter Basket 2012

Our Easter morning holiday tradition- Amy always does a nice basket for them and hides it and they have to find it.

Adam getting a game (and lots of candy)

Justin getting a game (and lots of candy)

Luke looking at and loving a gum pack

Happy Easter, Luke

Grandma and Grandpa's Birthday

Grandma and Grandpa came over for Easter dinner and we surprised them with a duel birthday cake-- Here it is

The Birthdayeaster Cake

Lovely Grandma

Grandparents and Grandkids

Cake and Ice Cream!!

Relaxing

The first 80 degree day

It was the very first VERY nice day early spring- here is our walk around the lake

Taking a walk around the lake

Being Silly

Kind of serious

Nice full length shot

Blowing Bubbles in the Spring

Luke got a bottle of bubbles from school for being good and started to blow them on the deck (last picture)- after just few bubbles he spilled the whole bottle- of course he was devastated.  I bought new bubbles from Wall Mart the next day and he and Justin loved them.

Justin snuck in on this picture

 

Justin in the front

 

Luke in the front

 

Both in the front

 

Luke, again

 

The first day-- this is after he already knocked that purple bottle on the deck

The Water Front

2 weeks ago it was a beautiful spring day that actually felt like summer.  There had been a news paper article about an elk preserve near here and I thought it was about an hour away.  Here is the website for where I thought we were going.  

Turns out, when I Google mapped it it showed it was close, but it was actually more then 4 hours away- very disappointed.  But we went to this place called "The Waterfront" in Homestead pa, had lunch at Redd Robin and walked on the path outside:

All the boys

A groundhog in it's hole-- nice camouflage.

Adam Soooo cool

Looking at something

A & J

Justin with his drink

Luke at some reading thing

Some hottie (and chunky) jogger

Another Adam

Moon over Canonsburg- a week and a half ago it was a full moon- this is what it looked like from my deck and my higher zoom lens.

Adam's 12th Birthday

Adam with a cup cake before his actual birthday

His first cell phone- he loved it.

Reading something

More of the presents

The Cake

The Crew

First time in 2012 out in the snow

Today is the first day it's not too cold out and there was snow  Luke wanted to go out (for a while now) and they all went out for quite a while today.  Here are some pictures.

Just getting out-- nice pose.

A bit silly

Justin getting ready to throw snow

Luke being Luke

They got a sled!

Adam on the sled

Luke on the sled

A close up of Luke on the sled

Justin on the sled

I went in and changed the lens to my telephoto lens.  They didn't know I was back outside with my close up lens.  Justin was eating snow like an animal-- funny and cute-- here's one picture of that

And him getting up with his "mustache"- he has no idea I'm taking pictures.

 

A cool shot of Justin spitting the snow out of his mouth.