Pullen Park

One of the places we have discovered this year is Pullen Park.  Aiden loves this place. Is a cute mini amusement park.  It has a nice playground, a train ride, a little boat ride and a carousel. It also has a little pond that you can ride paddle boats on but we have not ventured that one yet. We often meet friends here for a morning play date of spend time as a family on the weekend.

Butler Family Reunion

In March we had a family reunion with Paul's dad's family. His dad's aunt Marjorie was in town so that whole side of the family got together at the Richmond Zoo. We had a dinner where everyone socialized at caught up and afterwards we ventured out to the zoo. 

Paul's cousin, Angel, has a little boy, Ian, who is a year older then Aiden. These two love each other. When they are together they do what boys do best and it is constantly "monkey see, monkey do" with these two. I love watching them play together and I love how they love to be together. Macie and Ian's sister Kate are only months apart so it looks like we will be in for even more trouble soon enough.

Riding the carousel 

Always doing what the other is doing

They love Granddaddy as much (or more) as they love each other. 

On the sky lift

A visit from the Giles

Chanda and co. came for a visit in March. We love it when the Giles come to town. I love spending time with my sister, niece and nephew, and Aiden loves following Oaklee around and wrestling with Lincoln. Macie just loves all the extra attention she gets and Paul loves having Chanda on his team to get a little bit of a rise out of me with a  bit of teasing. 

It started with anxiously awaiting their arrival. Luckily they have the park at the airport to watch the planes come in and out. Somehow I convinced a few friends to come along and wait with me.

We try to plan fun things when they are here which always includes a trip to Marbles.

Fill 'er up (or plug 'er in)

Slam Dunk...uh maybe not

Looks like Lincoln is the real basketball star

I didn't see this trick in London

My favorite part was the pizzookie! Best dessert ever!

What we have been up to...February 2012

Here are just a few pictures from February

We love our cousins!

Happy Valentines Day!

I know it is July but I am just trying to play some catch-up. 

What we have been up to...Jan 2012

These are all totally random but this is just a little bit of what we did in January. 

We enjoyed ourselves some Hurricanes Hockey!

You can't really tell but Macie is asleep in this picture. I just thought it was funny that she had a nice bed to lay back on and she fell asleep sitting up.

Aiden is enjoying a little "Are You My Mother?"

We had a little photo fun

Aiden would set up his train track and then line all of his cars up on it.

Aiden had a few of his friends over. I came downstairs and they all said with excitement, "we cleaned up!" but one child was missing. Don't worry, I found him. They buried Aiden's friend Will in the toy box. You can see his little face poking out under all those toys!

One of Macie because she is oh so cute!

Natural Science Center in Greensboro

Since we have Zoo pass in January, we decided to take a trip to the Natural Science Center in Greensboro. It was a neat little place with a small zoo and a lot of small exhibits There was actually a lot more to see, that we did not take pictures of. They are putting in a big aquarium right now so maybe will will have to take another trip to Greensboro soon.

You can see by Aiden's face he was a little nervous of the T Rex behind him.

Macie was not

Even when it tried to eat her

Aiden was still scared

The petting zoo 

The tiger was not part of the petting zoo although he did pace back and forth right in front of the glass.

The weather center

More dinosaurs