Sunday, May 17, 2009

Pony Party!

Last week, one of Savanna's good friends at school had a birthday party complete with pony rides in the backyard! Savanna was so excited to go and ride the ponies! Owen, on the other hand, didn't want to get near the ponies. He would be okay with me or Justin holding him and petting the pony, but didn't want to ride one at all. He still had plenty of fun! We all had a great time!


The birthday girl:




Saturday, May 16, 2009

Bridal Shower Fun!

My cousin, Carolyn is getting married in three weeks! Savanna and I are in her wedding and we're both SO excited for the big day! Her bridal shower was a few weeks ago and we had so much fun! It was supposed to be all girls, but a little straggler named Owen came along. Justin was playing in a paddleball tournament that day and was unable to watch Owen so he got to be the big guy at the party! Savanna had a blast playing with all of her cousins and I had so much fun seeing my extended family again!
My cousins, Monica and May:

My cousin, Marnie, taught Owen how to blow bubbles! It was too cute:


Savanna with her cousin, Keira:


I'm a proud Auntie again!

My nephew, Mason, was born last month and we are so excited that he's here! Owen has another buddy to play with! For a while, Owen was the only boy amongst all the girls, but now the boys are catching up! We went and visited my brother and sister-in-law the day after Mason was born and these are pics from that day:

The proud and tired parents:

Owen with his other cousin, Brendan:

Owen was so curious about the baby:

Butterfly Jungle

I totally forgot to post these pictures from last month. Oops, sorry! I know I've been a bad blogger lately. Hope you all forgive me! These pictures are from one of our many trips to the Wild Animal Park. We just love it there! Every year during the month of April, they bring in butterflies from around the world and you get to walk through this really humid room and see all different kinds of butterflies. Whenever we have gone in the past, there was always a really long line and we never had the patience to wait in it. So this year, Owen and I made sure to go nice and early to avoid any lines and it was perfect, we walked right in! The butterflies were absolutely beautiful and some of them would land on people, which was really neat!









Afterwards, we went to the Lion Camp:

Then I took Owen to the playground there and he had a blast: