April 1, 2013

Family Time

Nothing is more refreshing than spending time with family. It had been a little while since we spent time with my family (since Disneyland in January), so when our newest niece Claire was being blessed in Idaho, we definitely wanted to be there. We hadn't even met baby Claire yet (my brother Mike and his wife Lara's baby) so it was a perfect time to go.

We had a great weekend-- early Easter presents from Grandma and Grandpas, plus games, tons of food, and of course meeting Claire! Great fun.
Easter presents from Grandma and PoppE!
I know she looks thrilled....
We even attempted some pictures of all the Strobel grandkids:

Poor Jace is outnumbered. That's a better caption than the one I put on Instagram of this picture. I put that one of these things is not like the others and then got a bunch of comments about Flor being the standout. HA! Not what I meant. I think that would definitely have qualified me as a bad mom to point such a thing out. hahah. It made for a good laugh, though.

Okay, perhaps this it out of order, but here is Jace with one of his presents from Grandma-- a chia pet type thing. Remember those things?? He won't let it go-- still won't. It has some serious hair now. 

Can't NOT include this one...I was very surprised to find  this lovely shampoo in my mom's shower and had to question  whether it is her or Dave who believes that they are a woman of color?? Still up for debate...
Game night. Apparently Mike doesn't feel the need to dip his chips in salsa, rather he dumps it all in a bowl and eats it with a spoon. The things you discover about your siblings late at night...


Devin loves babies-- it is cute to watch him with them. 
Claire's blessing- after all the fun on Friday and Saturday, it was really special to be a part of Claire's blessing day. Michael gave her a beautiful blessing and she looked just darling, as you can see. All of these pictures came from Lara, so thanks Lara for letting me steal them!




This was this week, but thought I would include these pictures on this post, since it was more family time. Jennifer and Steve came down last weekend on their way to a spring break vacation, so we took the kids swimming at their hotel on Monday. Always a good time, except that this pool was rather cold. Yippee. Oh well, the kids couldn't have cared less. Swimming is swimming. 
And we have an escapee...




Whew! More to come on Easter and Instagram pictures from March. 

2 comments:

Lara and Mike said...

Thanks for coming up for Claire's blessing!! It was so fun seeing you all!

The Cumming Fam said...

Okay, another laugh out loud picture. The "woman of color?!?!" I seriously busted a gut! That is funny right there but also something I could see my mom doing because "It was on sale." Bwahhahaha!!

Oh and side note from your first one: Can't believe Jace is potty trained...at TWO! GO him! Grady has regressed the past few days and I just want to go back to diapers!!