Happy Easter 2012!

It was a low key Easter here in the Lumsden household this year as all of our families were with the other siblings.  I will say it was a little more exciting though now that we have a little one to do Easter baskets for and such.  Of course Cammy got her Easter basket first thing this morning and then it was off to church for an Easter service.

Cammy with her Easter basket

It didn't take long for her to dump everything out!

After church we decided since the weather was so nice out (very unexpected) we should take some pictures in the backyard.  So thanks to our friends Lindsey and Nick, we got a family photo for Easter...and then some!

Family Easter photo

Doggies included this time :)

Cammy in her Easter dress

Playing with flowers

Our adorable little 7 month old on Easter

And one last picture in her other Easter outfit

HAPPY EASTER!!!

Off to the Zoo We Go...

We were fortunate to have an amazing Spring weather day here in WA (feels like the first of the season) so we decided to skip all the Easter Egg hunts and take Cammy to the zoo for her first zoo trip on April 7th.  Little did we know (such new inexperienced parents we are!) the zoo would be having a major Easter event going on pretty much all day as well.  No parking in all 4 zoo lots and a line like Disneyland just to get a ticket to get in...ugh, we were ready to turn around right there!  But after walking 4 blocks from where we parked to get into the zoo, we had to make that worth it!!

Luckily once we were in we just avoided all the activity areas and made our way to see the animals.  We knew this wouldn't be our usual 4 hour zoo trip, so we were prepared.  And just as luck would have it, by the time we got into the zoo Cammy was already in need of a diaper change and a bottle.  Such is life as a parent I suppose :)

After we got all the important business items taken care of, we set off for 2 hours of animal seeing fun (had to accomplish this between the morning nap and afternoon nap of course).  Cammy seemed to enjoy looking at most of the animals if she could see them, but occassionally we would find her more interested in just the random ducks than the cool zoo animals :)  I guess this is to be expected from a 7 month old who goes to the zoo.  Needless to say, we had a good time!

At the zoo!!!

First stop was to see the penguins

Checking out the big gorilla

Giraffes from afar

Close encounter with the elephants

Riding on daddy's shoulders to see the Tapir

Up close and personal with an orangutan

Brown Bears

Ostrich

Skagit Valley Tulip Festival

We have been wanting to take our parents to the AMAZING Tulip Festival ever since we moved here and had gone ourselves.  Finally my parents were here in April when the festival was going on and we had a good day of weather, so we decided to take them.

We had high hopes that just possibly the tulips would be bloomed by the time we got there, but seeing that the amount of sun and warmth we have been getting has been very little it wasn't looking too promising.  Despite there not being many tulips opened to see, we did manage to see some BEAUTIFUL fields of daffodils!!

At Roozengaarde Farms

The few bloomed tulips in the front

Cammy posing with some pretty Spring colored flowers

And more posing with pretty flowers

Posing with Grams and Gramps

The beautiful daffodil fields

Sunny days calls for us to break out our sunglasses!!

Grams and Gramps with Cammy

The family with the daffodils

More daffodils compliments of Jason's photography skills

Grams and Gramps with Cammy out in the daffodils

Can't get enough pictures of a cute baby with flowers!!

The first to bloom...such a cool picture!

A few more sunny days and pretty soon the fields will be filled with an abundance of colorful tulips!

Grams and Gramps Come to WA

For my mom's Spring Break this year, my parents decided to make the drive up to see us.  We got to spend an entire week with them at our house.  As much as I absolutely love having my family around, I think I enjoy the help even a little more (so thanks mom and dad)!  They sure enjoyed spending time with Cammy every day and watching all of the new things she has learned since the last time they saw her in February.

While Jason spent his week working away, Cammy and I took Grams to Stroller Strides (our mommy/baby workout) two of the mornings, we took both Gramps and Grams to our library storytime, we had dinner in downtown Seattle at Pike Brewing Co., and we went to the Tulip Festival to see the daffodils because the tulips had not bloomed yet (Tulip Festival will be in the following blog post).

Cammy reading stories before bed with Gramps and Grams

Using her cradle as a place to play :)

Library Storytime

Puzzles in the Library after storytime

Dinner at Pike Brewing Co.

Thank you Grams and Gramps for making the long drive up here to visit Cammy (and us of course)!! 

We miss you already!

A Visit to the Easter Bunny!!

In full Pre-Easter tradition, we set off to go get Cammy's pictures taken with the Easter Bunny on April. 1st.  We were fully expecting her to burst into tears after being set on some "stranger's" lap, but she did amazingly!!  She was content and happy (minus the smile).  We were so proud!!  Next year may be a whole different story...we will see.

Cammy with the cute Easter Bunny

All three of us with the Bunny