A trip to the Butterfly Gardens...

We had a great time going to the butterfly gardens! My dad was down for the weekend and my Aunt Tammy, Uncle John and Grandma drove over for the day to see the butterflies. There was many amazing butterflies out and James had a great time using our new camera to take some amazing butterfly pictures!

James, Mikayla and Dad (Papa) waiting outside the gardens for everyone else to show up!

Mikayla saying HI to her Great Grandma...they couldn't believe how big she was getting!

Pictures at the horse...Mikayla, Aunt Tammy, Grandma and Me!

Mikayla playing with the boats in the Michigan display!

Mikayla digging with Papa in the sand at the Children's garden!

Ready to go in and see the butterflies!

Having fun!

My favorite picture that I took in the gardens. James got a bunch of great pictures too! It is amazing the details that show up with a good camera!

Dying Easter Eggs!

We had a great night decorating Easter eggs...this was our first time and Mikayla seemed like she was in a race to decorate the most. I think she did almost all of them in the time my dad and I did 1 maybe 2 each. She was loved it and was amazed at how they changed colors!

Our little girl is turning 4...

We can hardly believe it has been 4 years since Mikayla entered this world at only 1 lb 12 oz. It is amazing to us the little lady that she is becoming. Everyday she continues to amaze us, test us and make us laugh!

Since she doesn't have school on her birthday we celebrated it on Thursday, Mikayla helped me make the cupcakes to take in to class and then I was able to take picture of her and the kids enjoying the cupcakes for her birthday-(a wonderful perk of being in the same building as a teacher that my child goes to.)

All dressed and ready to be the "Birthday Girl" at school!

At school celebrating Mikayla's Birthday! Her class sang to her and her teacher has a little cake with a candle that the kids blow out...so cute!

We are looking forward to having Mikayla's first "friends" party at PlayWorld next Saturday! Hard for Mikayla to understand her actual birthday is, since she started celebrating a week early!

No more music...

So I had some music for listening pleasure from playlist.com...however it attempted to give my computer a very bad virus and it did give my friend Kristi a really bad virus on her computer. So for all of you out there using that on your blog...you might want to delete it and not go on there! James says it is one of the worse virus' a computer can get! Other than that..not much else is new with us. Keeping busy with our lives. Check back for pictures later...need to figure out how to upload pictures from our new camera!

Weekend of fun at the Water Park!

So several months ago James found one of his best friends from highschool on Facebook, after losing contact with him for nearly 12 years. They were the best of friends in highschool. So we decided to have a family trip to get the two families together this past weekend. We stayed at a hotel in Rockford-where James mom works and got all of us a great deal on the rooms and passes to the indoor water park. Han and his wife Molly have two beautiful daughters Nyah and Lucy. (Almost 5 and 2 1/2). The girls had a great time and the adults had a great time getting to know each other too. We are looking forward to some more mini-vacations with the Kim family soon!

Kayla had a  blast playing in the water-she is getting more and more brave in the water!

This is the girls playing school in the hotel. Mikayla was the teacher!

Our family pictures right before we left! We went to breakfast at Han and James favorite place to eat on Sunday mornings before they went to church together-Waffle House!

All smiles when we got to the water park!

The three girls the first morning when they woke up! They were like 3 peas in pod all weekend!

Mikayla got to spend some time with her cousin Zechariah at the water park and for a snack of popcorn back in the room.

Mommy and Mikayla!