Spring growth

Gee, do you think it's time to get the lawn mower out?

More Spring

About a week ago, Kate and I went out to take some pictures. I let her use my smaller, point and shoot camera. After a few glitches in the works, here are 3 of her pictures. I love this first one with her toes in it. I think it's kind of neat how it is only exposed properly in her shadow. I guess it's kind of a self portrait!
This rock is our "thinking spot." Tyler named it that when he was little and into Winnie the Pooh. It has kept the name, even though it has been moved and Winnie the Pooh has been trumped by Star Wars.
Kate took quite a few of this bunny.

Forsythia and apple blossoms

Forsythia

These geese were honking mad at us even though we really weren't close to them at all. They ended up jumping in the water.

Here's something you probably didn't know about me-I like clouds. Or maybe it is really the sky. I am not quite sure as I really just became aware of this myself. It dawned on me the other day that I often am compelled to grab my camera because of some cloud formation in the sky. Then as I looked through some of my pictures, I saw how many times I actually have grabbed my camera just to take pictures of the sky.
So I began to ponder the reason why, and immediately I knew. It is God who draws my eyes heavenward; to fix my gaze on the heavens; to look past the circumstances of this world and look to my true home.

Psalm 19:1 "The heavens declare the glory of God,and the sky above proclaims his handiwork."

SPRING!

Though it isn't exactly warm yet, the first signs of Spring are showing. Every year I am newly inspired to take my camera out and photograph Spring. Usually I end up taking the same pictures year after year. I attempted to at least try to capture the same things in different ways this year. Here are a few of the resulting images.

We passed these sheep on the way to BB's grocery store. I had to stop to take pictures when I saw this little lamb standing on still wobbly legs.

Kate was so excited that OUR daffodils were starting to bloom. I guess we must be just high enough on the hill that usually all of our plants are a few days to a week behind even our neighbors in blooming! I like it though because I can enjoy the blooms for that much longer!

Star Wars and Princesses

Tyler at breakfast, looking over the map of that days destination.

The boys riding the whatever it is from Star Wars.

Danny and Ty about to be squished by a Star Wars walker.

There was a lot of rain this day, though we got wet, it didn't dampen our enthusiasm. The boys rode the Star Wars ride at least 5 times! Kate and I got to see several shows starring the princesses.

A little out of order. This was the end of the day, somewhere around 9:30 or so.

These 2 are from the Beauty and the Beast show which Kate and I went to.

And the highlight for Kate..... We had dinner with the princesses that night. She met Belle at the entrance, and then all of the other princesses came over to our table as we ate dinner. Kate was beaming with excitement! She just kept hugging them and chattering away to them.