Easter 2012

This was the first thing I saw when I opened our garage this morning. What a blessing to serve God with such wonderful people that provide encouragement!!

Our praise team leading about 2500 people in worship! Amazing!

Brian bringing the message! So awesome!

Looking and waiting for the helicopter!

Look!! There it is!

Yay!!

Here come the eggs!!

Ready, set, go!!!

Go get those eggs!

Mersadie and Joe - they're inseprable!

There they go together, hand in hand. I love how Joe looks after her!

My pretty girl with one of her eggs!

Watching the helicopter drop more eggs for the older kids!

Our precious family - Easter 2012

Happy Easter from the Moore Kiddos!

Fun at the Park

The kids and I spent some time playing at the park today after a photo shoot with a friend. Trying to get a great picture of B is getting harder during his "2's". This is what I get from him when I ask to take his picture! He's so much fun and getting so much more rambunctious - he is so fun and keeps us on our toes!

...and asking Sadie to give me a good smile is difficult too - this girl LOVES to be silly! So fun!

Mersadie loves to pretend! Here she is playing Rapunzel...

...letting down her hair!! :)

My big guy!!

B and Mersadie were talking to each other through these "walkie talkie things". Here Braden is saying "hey saaadieee"

And Sadie is listening on the other end!

Now it's Sadie's turn - "Hiiii B-Man!!!"

Here is a real smile from the girl!!

Braden is sad that he is all wet from the water that was at the end of the slide - thanks to the torrential downpour we experienced here in SoCal last night!

Visiting Papa

In July, the kids and I took a trip back to KC. We got to stay for about 10 days and just hang out with family. It was great. Here are some pictures of the kids and Papa feeding the fish in the pond in the backyard.

Love this one!!

My sister also got to come and visit. This is a picture of all of us, including GG (great grandma to our kiddos - my dad's mom)

So glad to have the opportunity to visit family even though we lives so far away!

Summer Impromptu Photo Shoot

During our time in Kansas City in July, I did a few photo shoots for some friends. I took the kids along on one and surprisingly enough Sadie ASKED if I could take her pictures. Um, yes!! Too bad I didn't forsee this...I would have coordinated their outfits. :) Enjoy...

Sadie wanted to take pictures everywhere I took pictures of this family. Silly girl!!

She was up for it all...even lying in the grass. It was SO HOT and SO HUMID this day!!

My serious one.

I usually ask her to kiss B for pictures, but the was completely on her own. So sweet!

I just love my sweet kiddos!

July 6th

Braden was awake after nap before Sadie today which doesn't happen often at all, so I took advantage of the snuggle time. Braden is my snuggler and I'm in love with that. I take it all in now because I know the day is coming that I won't get as much of it!! B is such a cutie and has such a cute personality! He will wave and say "hi" to everyone we meet. As we stroll by random people in the grocery store or on a walk, Braden is always quick to say hello!!

Silly boy!! Love that crooked little smile!

A picture from a while back when the little guy had a double ear infection. He couldn't get enough snuggles. Poor baby. He was so puny, but I was loving holding him!!

July 5th

Today was more of a low-key day cleaning the house after not touching it in honor of some much enjoyed family time over this long weekend. The kids went to school in the morning and I got some housework done. After naps, they wanted to play with playdoh and it was so fun to watch them sit and play quietly for quite some time. Braden didn't actually play with the playdoh, but loved all the gadgets!!

July 4th

Today was another great family day! The kids and I started with a 4 1/4 mile jog (them in the jogging stroller, me pushing). Sadie decided to run with me a little today. She would jog until she saw a white car then get back in the stroller. Then she would get out and jog again when she saw another white car...after that we came home and rested a bit. We turned on the sprinkler and let the kids play while we prepared lunch.

The kiddos love to fill whatever container they can find with water, then go "water" the flowers for me!!

The menu for the day was: fresh grilled corn on the cob, hot dogs, homemade mac n cheese, watermellon and chips and guac. Yumm!!

Ahhh...summertime!!

After lunch we toasted some marshmallows over the open fire of the gas grill and enjoyed some smores!!

Little B got to have a toasted marshmallow inside of his graham crackers. No chocolate for him as we are still battling his dairy allergy!! He didn't know the difference and was quite happy!

Yumm!!

Sadie enjoyed her smore open-faced. She wasn't much of a fan of the graham cracker, but loved the filling!!

Evidence of a love of the filling!!

After naps and baths, we headed out to join the rest of the city at the Yorba Linda fireworks show. We decided to walk the 1 1/4 mile since we would probably have had to park that far away anyway!

Mersadie enjoying one of the inflatable obstacle courses at the park.

The wonder in her eyes just amazes me!!

Sissy and Mommy!!

Our sweet family! July 4, 2011

It was a good night with an amazing fireworks display!! We had great seats and the kids LOVED it! Braden was scared right at first, but then he settled down and wouldn't stop jabbering about everything he was seeing. It was precious. Sadie just sat and watched and took everything in. I love how our kids are so different, yet so wonderfully themselves!! What a wonderful day!