Pottery Works

 

We got up one weekend and decided it was time to try something a little different.  Mommy and Daddy can only play My little Ponies, playdough, or watch Caillou so many times before we pull out hair out so we deciced to take Mya down to the Pottery works here in town.  For those of you that don't know what that is it is a place where you go and you can pick different clay figurines, cups, bowls, or just about anything imaginable and you can paint them.  They keep the pottery and they put it in their kiln and a week later you go and pick up your masterpiece.  Jessica and I have gone and made a couple of bowls.  Here is a picture of what one of the racks looks like.  Mya loves coloring and painting (mostly finger painting) so we knew she would just love this.  Right now being only 2 she doesn't have a long attention span so we didn't go with a bowl or a figurine right now we just went with a letter.  We were going to have her paint the letter M but they were all out of them.  Must be a popular letter.  We then chose the letter D.  We also let her pick out the colors.  She had a blast.  She started with the blue under coat then her and Jess painted flowers and stems on them.  I have also attached a video of her painting.

Here are a few links to some other videos.  You might need to make an account to view them but it is a free account.

Mya Painting her Pottery

Mya Painting her pottery 2

Mya Painting her Pottery 3

Mya Painting her pottery 4

Enjoy!!

By the way....Jessica/baby update.  Everything is fine and healthy.  We are desperatly praying that the baby comes soon.  We are all excited to meet the little.....(you get to guess what it is until the baby is born).  :)

http://qik.com/video/41104970

Disney On Ice, Easter Egg Hunt, Watching Triplets

I apologize again for going so incredibly long inbetween posts.  I am going to try to get better at it.  My Mom and Grandma came down for a week to help Mark and Ashley out with the Triplets and for their one year birthday.  The day after the party we decided to take Mya to Disney on Ice.  Mom and Grandma came along with us.  It was a great show.  Mya absolutely loved it.  I love seeing the smile on her face when she is really enjoying what we are doing.  I could tell which disney movies she has seen and the ones that she hasn't.  Everytime that Mickey Mouse or the characters from the Toy Story were on the Ice her face would light up.  She really did enjoy the entire show.  The adults had alot of fun also.  I was worried about that but Mom, Grandma, Jess and I smiled through the whole show.  It was very entertaining.  I can't wait to continue to do things like this with her as she gets older.  My only hope is that she likes sports also.  :).  Here are a few pictures of the event.

Jess and I got up easter morning and prepped the house for our Easter celebration.  Mya is 2 and a half now and is getting really excited about surprises and about all of the holidays.  It is such a joy as a parent to see them glow about all the excitment going on around them.  We packaged up all of her goodies and hid some eggs around the house and planned an easter egg hunt for her.  She absolutely loved it.  I enjoyed it so much as well.  Here are the pictures from that event.  I also filmed a video of her hunting for the eggs.  Enjoy!!

I have also included a couple of pictures of us and the triplets.  We watched them so that Ashley and Mark could go to Sea World for Marks Birthday.  We had a blast.  I love those little girls.



While searching my computer for some items for work I came across these pictures.  They brought a tear to my eye.  It makes me realize how fast time flies and how much we must enjoy each moment in our lives and not sweat the small stuff.  Life is Precious and we shouldn't take it for granted.  I hope you enjoy these as much as I do.  Love you all.

Derek