Easter Egg Hunt!

We are going to be out of town next weekend so we decided to celebrate with an Egg Hunt a little early!
There is great petting zoo here in Calgary that has the Egg Hunt every weekend of April. We were a little disappointed in the actual Egg Hunt, but the petting zoo was Awesome! Hadley LOVES all animals so she was in heaven yesterday! The kids actually got to go in with the sheep and goat, and pet the horses so she was having the time of her life! The weather was brutal (cold and snowy) but we have come to expect it and just make the best of it!
Here are some pictures of Hadley @ her Brilliant Beginning Class on Thursday celebrating Easter and of course Lots from the petting Zoo!


Face is still healing... She left these ears on for about 10 seconds!

Ok you have the picture Mommy! Off the come!

Picking her basket

Finding Eggs

Well, really just playing in the blue stuff!

Rain Boots on! Ready to go to the Farm!

Bundled and ready to go!!!!

Sun Glasses didn't last, but she is still excited

She LOVED the sheep! She kept trying to hug them. The one behind her followed her around like he was in love with her.... She did NOT want to leave this pen! haha



Trying to pet the horse... He wasn't. quite. close. enough!



She loves this pony even though he kept trying to bite her!

Please notice this horse's head is the same size as my child and she is still trying to dive into the pen!

NO FEAR!

Mommy and Hads being silly

BIGGEST PIG EVER!!! Hads LOVED HER (Ruby)!

Hadley is "petting" this pig and she starts rubbing against this "tiny" fence!!! We moved soon after! I was afraid that fence was going to collapse and Ruby was going to fall on top of us!

LOVING IT!

Waving to Daddy. She was so proud of herself!

Tears fell as I took her off the pony! She was NOT ready to be done :(

Daddy and Hads warming up in the barn

Hunting Eggs

What Eggs? Those are rocks!!! Yes, rocks on an Egg Hunt! :(

We had such a great time with Hadley and will defiantly be revisiting the petting zoo this summer when its a little warmer :)

Hadley's 1st big Owie

I had every intention of finally getting the pictures of Hadley's new Patio toys up but then this happened....
While playing outside with my Mom the other day, Hadley (well her face) met the concrete :(

Mom said she missed the bottom step (there are only 2) of the stairs outside, that she is NOT allowed on-I digress- and face planted into the concrete patio! She is one tough cookie though. Mom said that she didn't cry long and was outraged when my Mom wouldn't let here back off the deck to play in the yard.

Her face is healing nicely but the cleaning of her 'owie' nightly is a nightmare. Hopefully only have to doctor it a few more nights and she should be as good as new ;)

Aggie Days

On Sunday we went to the Annual "Aggie Family Fun Day" at Stampede Park...
Its an agricultural show aimed toward kids. Obviously we knew that Hadley wouldn't understand the farming part of it, but there were animals there (and LOTS of them) so we knew she would LOVE IT!
It takes Hadley a while to warm up to most people but she has NEVER had an issue warming up to any animal. She loves them all. We saw Cows, Pigs, Chickens, Sheep, Goats, Horses, Alpaca, etc... You get the point, lots of animals. Every fence/enclosure that we came to with any animal in it, she would try her best to get to them. She wanted to pet everything. I would pull her away as she stuck her feet/legs, arms, and finally her head in a last stitch effort to 'get to the animals'. She would run from pen to pen so excited to see the next animal! There was only one animal, a horse, kids were aloud to pet and this was her FAVORITE!!!! She is defiantly her mother's daughter... Horses are in her blood. They had a bunch of animal statues that she kept running up to and hugging... She would get mad and start hitting them though when they wouldn't move! haha. We were kind of disappointed there wasn't more petting, but after seeing how much she loved it, we are going to a petting zoo this weekend! :)

Here are a few pictures from the "Aggie Show"

All dressed up and ready to go

Check out my Cowgirl Boots! Thanks Aunt Tara!

Why isn't this cow moving?

Bunny Rabbit obstacle course! Hilarious!!!

Go, bunny, go

She was in awe

Wait a second, how do I get on this thing!

Mom, you know this is just a saddle and there is no horse under it?

Can we put this on that horse over there?

She was in LOVE! Defiantly didn't want to give the other kids a turn

She wasn't overly sure about this one! She is right to be leery of a "Longhorn"! haha. Sorry Mimi and Auntie Lindsey (C)

She didn't really care about the "Do Not Climb" sign! Shortly after this pic she was trying her best to climb on the pig!

Come Here little horsey! You're just my size! :)

Foot through, now how to I get the rest of me through here? If you notice she is also about to push this kid out of the way!

Oklahoma-Last of Pics... A little BBQ fun!

We are so grateful that our friends Dave and Megan had us over to their beautiful, very kid friendly home,  for a cookout before we left OK. Hadley had so much fun, especially with Paige's golf clubs that she was sweet enough to share with Hadley and Beckham. He are a few pics of all of the kids have a blast fighting the Oklahoma wind and "playing golf"!

 I love that our group of friends all have kids close in age! I am going to love watching them all grow up as friends!!!

Thanks again Meg! We had such a great time and cant wait to be back and do this on a more regular basis!

More Oklahoma.... The Lighthouse and a stroll along the Lake.

The OKC Lighthouse on Lake Hefner is one of my favorite places in OKC. Hadley and I met a friend at Louis and then decided to go for a walk down by the Lighthouse! Here are a few pictures of our sweet girl! The sun and weather were so nice, but HOLY WIND!!! Poor Hads literally gone blown over a few times...



Showing Mommy 'How big she is'!





Hi Mommy



More Tomorrow!

Oklahoma Cont... Zoo Fun!

On Saturday we went to the zoo with a few friends and had a BLAST!!!!
Hadley had so much fun....

Beckham and Hadley giving Hugs



Hadley is so interested in whatever Beckham is doing ;)



We may have to keep an eye on these two in the future! haha



Love this face!





Playing in the Water and Rocks





Looking at the Elephants

 The OKC Zoo is fabulous and when we move back I have a feeling we will be spending a lot of time there!!!

Oklahoma for the weekend

The next few posts will be pictures of mine and Hadley's recent (very short) trip to Oklahoma.

We are so blessed to be able to go home as often as we do, even if the trips never seem long enough! We miss everyone so much and HATE being so far away! The countdown is officially on until we no longer have to visit!
In the mean time here are a couple of pictures from Grace's 'surprise' birthday dinner!!! I still cant believe that my baby sister is 16! I still remember being such a proud 7th grader telling all of my friends about my baby sister being born 16 years ago!
Grace- Hadley, Graham, and I love you soooo much and we are so proud of the beautiful young woman you have become! Miss you Tamale!!!!

Surprise

Love this Girl

Hadley LOVES her Auntie Grace

Uncle Mason and Hadley swinging!

She thinks he is pretty special



Kisses for Uncle!!!


Amazing Trip! Cant wait to be back in July!