First Camp Out of the Year

It just seemed like a long week last week, so we decided to go camp out at Cooney for a night. We headed outta town on Friday after work. It still gets pretty chilly (upper 20's/30's) around the lake in the evenings, but we decided to tough it anyway. Here's Blake and Daddy hanging out at the camp site. You can see Red Lodge ski hill in the background.
Of course, Copa & Maddie got to come along and enjoy the outdoors. I think they were more excited than any of the rest of us :)

Blake helping Daddy cook dinner.

Our little missy staying warm by the camp fire. Yes, she's wearing Lauren's gloves. You know you always forget to take something when you leave the house...this time it was Blake's gloves.

Our happy little camper...

...and she's even happier with the sun shine, some juice and snacks the next morning.

Blake likes to "go walk" as she says.

Blake got her first fishing pole to take out on this trip. It's a Disney Cars pole, of course. She seemed pretty content to let Daddy do all the work for her.

Yep, that's the only fish we caught all weekend. If you look closely, it's a plastic fish that Bob found by the lake and tied it on Blake's pole for her. As always, Copa is very interested in inspecting the catch. Maddie, on the other hand, could really care less.

Blake adjusting Mom's fishing pole for her.

NOT IT...who could have possibly knocked Mom's pole into the water ;)
We did actually get to wear shorts by Saturday afternoon; we just didn't get any pics. It was great to get out of town, and Blake did really well considering it got down below 30 degrees overnight. Bob kind of got the short end of the stick because he stayed up late to fish, so by the time he was ready to go to bed there were no blankets left...oops! He ended up sleeping in the pickup, and he took Blake along to keep her toasty warm in the heated cab. Lauren wasn't exactly suffering though. She had every blanket in the camper in their absence and stayed perfectly warm cuddling with the dogs.

Hope all is well with everyone! We look forward to heading out more often as the weather gets even nicer.

Wedding Weekend

Well, we're a little late in posting but some friends of ours got married on the 10th in Culbertson (where Bob grew up). So, we spent the weekend with Grandpa DeCoteau and Great-Grandma DeCoteau. We were also lucky enough to get to see Gene & JoAnn since they happened to be in town, but we didn't get to spend too much time with them. The wedding was beautiful, and we had lots of fun visiting with everyone. Here's a pre-wedding pic of Blake & her daddy...awwww

Blake with Grandpa DeCoteau

and with Great-Grandma DeCoteau

Blake really seemed to have a good time with all the kids at the wedding. There were quite a few little kids there that were right around her age. Here's Blake & Emma (flower girl/daughter of the bride & groom). Emma looked so adorable in her white dress!

But, she managed to find some time to give me a goofy face :) What a little ham?!

Unfortunately, Blake caught a stomach virus and started puking the Monday after the wedding. Then, Lauren caught it on Wednesday. Needless to say, it was a long week for us last week. And, of course, Bob started his stint with the virus on Friday evening. Both Blake & Lauren had finally kicked all the symptoms by the end of the day Saturday...poor Blake had it for a long time :( Bob lucked out and was done by Sunday evening. So now that we're all healthy and the carpets have been shampooed, we finally found the time to post some pics from the weekend. Hope all is well with everyone!

Easter Sunday

Well, we hope everyone had a wonderful Easter. Of course, we took all sorts of pictures, so we'll just dive right in. Blake got a quality Easter morning nap with her daddy.
Blake's Easter dress

She's off and running...

...and loading up her basket with candy filled eggs.

Blake really liked picking up the eggs and putting them in her basket.

More egg huntin'

trying to blow bubbles with Daddy

O...BIRDIE!!! Blake had to stop to point out birds to us every once in a while.

This little necklace of bubbles has been a priceless possession since she found it in her Easter basket. She carries it around everywhere.

Takin' a break to dig through her stash

Showing off a mouthful of candy

Here's the eggs that we colored on Saturday. Blake wasn't really too interested in waiting for them. She liked pointing out all the colors though.

Blake all dressed up in her Easter jammies and showing off her CRAZY mop.

just a funny pic

In other news, Lauren has been working part-time for a small screen print/embroidery operation. She can work quite a bit from home, and the days that she has to go into the office Blake gets to tag along. Anytime the guys are hanging out in Lauren's office getting answers to questions, Blake unties their shoes and steals any paperclips she can get her hands on...she's a little thief! :) She also likes to point at the orders on their clip boards and talk like she's helping us to decide what to do with them...it's kinda cute. Everyone is a good sport about her getting into things, so that's good. It's been pretty nice so far, but it sure makes the days fly by even faster being so busy. Hope all is well with everyone!

Naughty & Ice

Let's start this off informing you that we put Blake in a "time out" chair whenever she is acting up. She usually goes several days without ever having to be put into time out, but she was pushing the envelope a little more than normal last week. Lauren usually tells Blake that she's being naughty and has to sit in the time out chair. Friday morning Lauren went to get Blake out of her crib. She wanted to take Teddy and Dolly with her (she sleeps with a teddy bear and a doll). First Blake walked them over to the couch and set them down next to one of her blankets and said, "O...night, night". Violet (the dog) was already on the couch.
Then she left Dolly on the couch and carried Teddy and Violet into the back room and set them on the time out chair and scolded them, "NAUGHTY"...and wagged her little finger at them. So, I guess she gets it :)

Blake is also seemingly missing getting to hang out with her cousin Collier. When we first got back from Oklahoma, Blake brought me one of her cloth diapers that we had also used on Collier and she said, "Collier". Blake and Collier both LOVE Sonic's ice. So the other day when I was pouring some ice into a cup, Blake said, "Momma ice" and "want Collier". So, I guess that's what our little kiddo remembers about her cousin - sharing cloth diapers and ice.

Well, speaking of ice, here are a few pics from Lauren's day out skiing with some friends. Here's Lauren and her college roommate, Tiff.

And, here's just a pic of Lauren hanging out on the slopes.

It was tons of fun, so hopefully, we'll be able to make time to do it again at the end of this year or the beginning of next. And maybe Suzi, Randy, Jess, Kyle and even possibly Vic & Trav could tag along...hint, hint ;)

At Grandma & Grampy's

Lauren & Blake spent last week in Oklahoma with Lauren's parents. Of course, we got TONS of pictures. When Lauren told Blake that they were going to see Grandma & Grandpa, Blake said, "Grandma & Grampy, yeah". So, it is now Grandma & Grampy :) ENJOY all the pics! Here's Blake chasing bubbles.
Blowing bubbles with Grandma

Grampy has a cool bubble gun!

Bubbles inside?! Only for grandkids...we would have gotten yelled at if we did this when we were little.

This is about the extent of Blake's naps for the week. Pretty much all of her naps were in Grandma's arms.

We were going to go to the zoo, but we decided not to since we figured it would be packed over Spring Break. Turns out we didn't need to go to the zoo. We saw a bunch of wild turkeys in Grandma & Grampy's back yard. We also saw a fox. Take a look at this bad boy.

Suckin' up to Grampy

Aunt Katie, Cousin Collier and Uncle Chris

Blake climbing the stairs with Grampy

Collier had a blast "chasing" Blake around the back yard

Blake walking in Grandma & Grampy's yard

Grandma & Collier

"Helping" Grampy turn on the sprinkler system

A new way to catch bubbles...what a weirdo?!

Throwing bread into the duck pond

Collier & Katie

Grandma & Blake at the duck pond

Blake swinging at the park...looks like she'd rather be off and running

Collier's first time on a swing. She looks so tiny in those swings...how cute?!

the spillway

Ready to run

Collier hanging out on the slide

Blake and her momma...awwww

Blake feeding Collier ice :)

Enjoying a Sonic slush

A cute picture of Collier

Collier getting in on some slush action

The girls ridin' in style.

Sorry for those of you who we may have missed on our trip. Lauren was a little under the weather at the beginning of the week, and we had planned to hang with Chris, Katie & Collier at the end of the week. At any rate, we had to leave Oklahoma to get to some decent weather ;) Here's a picture of what it looked like outside the day our flight left.

Hope all is well with everyone, and we hope you enjoyed the mass of pictures!!!