Mormor and Me

We love it when Mormor comes to visit.  This visit was from June when she stopped through on the way to and from Denver.  Tate loves it because Mormor is his favorite playmate to play coffee shop with and I love it because it's always great to have extra help with the little monkeys!  

Denver

Mormor, Peja and I flew to Denver to visit Great-Grandma for her 97th birthday.  We had a great trip and Peja was a trooper through all the travel and the heat.  We stayed with Don and Kathy in Golden on Friday night and went for a great walk along the river Saturday morning. We lucked out on a great hotel deal Saturday night that was near Grandma's place. Of course it was near a mall so we found a few free minutes to do some shopping since it was a girls trip after all!  

4 generations of Baird-Todd-Skinner women

Hard to get a good one of all of us at once!

5 Months Old

Peja was 5 months old in June. She's such a happy and mellow baby.  Cooing and laughing all the time. 

Happy Birthday Daddy

Grandma and Grandpa Skinner came for Memorial Day weekend.  We played, celebrated Daddy's birthday, and worked on plumbing in the basement.  

Bright Spring colors on Peja and Grandma

Walking to the drive up coffee shop so Daddy could get  some work done.

Tate setting up and driving his train

Reno

We decided to make a mad dash to Reno one weekend in May to see our friends and take our new truck for a test drive.  It was a lot of driving in a short amount of time but we had a wonderful weekend catching up with friends and meeting the newest baby of the gang, Maggie Rassuchine.  

Tate loved playing with Eva, Brynn, Brooke, and Stig.  Eva's house had lots of shopping carts, kitchens, and toys that we don't have at our house so he was in heaven.  Peja was the perfect little trooper, sleeping anywhere and everywhere! 

At Casey' & Jen's house on a real mini loader!  

Tate & Eva playing in the sprinklers 

Two sleeping babies-Peja & Maggie Rassuchine

Peja happily sleeping

Soccer

I got a chance to practice my Soccer Mom skills this spring as we signed Tate up for soccer.  Ollie and Tate were a little too young as they were more interested in running around the field than following the ball and listening to the coach explain the rules was definitely out.  Luckily it was only 3 weeks long.  Maybe next year!

Tate laying down on the job

Look who's not listening to to the coach.

Practicing standing on the white line

  

Spring Time

Springtime in Salt Lake means playing outside in warmer weather, and smiling babies, boys and daddies! These were taken in April and May.

One of my favorite pics of Peja.  I think she looks so much like Tate here