Annual trip to the Botanical Gardens

This picture gets better every year!

Sometimes when I tell Lukey to put his arm around Anna he ends up putting his arm around her neck.

Anna found a lot of snails.

Anna put her snail on a map.  Then she put it back in the wilderness because we wouldn't let her bring it home.

We saw a wild turkey!

The kids wanted a picture in front of the turkey.  You can't see the turkey in the background at all but the picture turned out nice because they were so happy about the turkey that they were smiling good.

Tulip time

We went to Holland for the tulip festival a few weeks ago.  We saw Maeve do her dutch dance then decided it was too windy to walk around much so we went back to the Morgan's house and drank mint juleps and watched the Kentucky Derby.  The tulips we did see were lovely.

The kids had their usual tulip time cotton candy.

Easter

Oops forgot to post these.  They're not good pictures anyways.  The kids had fun finding Easter eggs on Easter though.

Rubik's cube

On Good Friday, Da took the kids to U of M's campus to see the world's largest Rubik's cube.  It was not solved yet.  It was only the second day it was there.  Da thinks that the girl in the picture is one of the people involved in the project.  

OBX

We spent Spring Break in Duck with cousins and Nana and Pa.  The sea looked better than ever!!

The area was even more empty than usual.  There were times that we could look at both sides of where we were on the beach and not see anyone else.  Once, we were out at the beach and it was about 75 and sunny and we had the entire beach to ourselves.  This is about 4 miles one way and 2 another way so it was pretty cool.  

The girls.

The siblings.

The big kids.

The boys. 

I put just a squirt of shower gel in Anna's whirlpool bath and this is what happened!  She was very excited about it.  

The Smithsonian National Zoo

On the way to the Outer Banks, we stopped in Washington DC for a night.  We planned to spend the whole day at the zoo because there are pandas there!!  Unfortunately, Lukey was feeling car sick.  We thought he'd get over it once we got there after he puked in the car and the parking garage.  However, his stomach continued to hurt at the zoo and our trip got cut short.  We did get to see the Giant Pandas, Red Pandas, Sand Cat and Fishing Cat.  And others, but those were the highlights.  After the zoo, we found Lukey's puke in the parking garage to know what level we parked at, got in the car and drove around to look at the sights of DC.  The kids rested for awhile then we went to dinner at Dogfish Head in Falls Church, where our hotel was.  It was really good.  Then we went to the hotel pool and in the morning had a really good breakfast at the hotel.  It was nice getting to Duck the next day after just a short drive from DC. 

Its amazing that these animals are even real!  Pandas are quite wonderful and always look happy!

Red Pandas are pretty cute too.  

We watched this guy chomping on bamboo for a long time.  So cute!!

Happy Birthday to Kent!

Kent wanted to celebrate his birthday in the Plymouth-Canton area and eat Coney Island food.  We loved the idea!  They brought food over to our house and had the party here.  We had a lot of fun!