Easter

In trying to catch up, here are some Easter pics. We made eggs this year...Princess eggs, of course!!

Here is Brynn in the hunt for eggs at Grandma Knoebel's house

And Elyse

I had a big Easter dinner (since it was conference) and my parents and Jeremy's parents and Grandma and Grandpa Knoebel came over. It was the first meal on our "new" dining room table which was my parent's parents. It was a neat day. We took the picture after my parents left, though. Oops!

Rickett's Glen

On 3/18 we were lucky to have a gorgeous day in Central PA! What better thing to do then go to Rickett's Glen? We thought we would totally beat the crowds and have the whole thing to ourselves. Well, the lady at the visitor's center told us the falls trail was closed due to ice. Ice? Hasn't it been 60 degrees all week? She proceeded to show me a picture that looked like this:




























Seriously, lady, there's no way the trail looks like this right now. This is how it looked a month ago. Whatever. So we found the 'Grand View Trail'. And it's namesake was pretty accurate:

finally, an update!

The list of excuses for not posting a blog update for quite some time is pretty lengthy. But, they are just just excuses. Some of it was due to the fact that we got a new camera, and we got such a huge memory card that we, literally, didn't need to download our pics and vids for several months! Now I know how to do it so I'm trying to use a picture download, picture ordering, blog updating system.

My first update will be from Brynn's birthday. She turned a magical 4 years old this year. Grandma Knoebel made a "Princess Brynn" cake which Brynn thought was just great. She has been pretty reluctant to pose for pictures so here's the best we got:

Some family pictures from Easter, the beach, and beyond


Grandma K and Elyse at the beach house in NC














Beach time!















Brynn and Ainsleigh at Duke Gardens (post-beach)

















Someone always gets Jeremy while he's in his food coma















Elyse at the Science Center near Raleigh














Kenley and Allison














Our mini-golf turtle















Jeremy at home with the girls (mom's bday present picture!)














Brynn with all her stuffed animals














Elyse and Edie wondering, "who is this fuzzy guy?!?"














Edie and Brynn riding a dragon at Boardwalk Boulevard














Edie, Brynn and Allison














Brynn and Tracy and Hyner View State park










































NC beach with a sweet sand castle














All the little girls watching something, probably a princess video














Kenley, Brynn, Edie














The whole family















All the girls in grandma's hand-made pretty dresses...and Elyse throwing a fit
















Nate and Great Grandma K















Jon!















The hot pool


Elyse's stair debut

The jumping continues

Out of the mouth of babes

Easter conversation on the way to church:

Brynn: "I want Eddy."
Mom: "Well, we're on the way to church and Eddy will be there!"
Brynn: "I don't want to go to church."
Mom: "Well, today is a special day. It's Easter and we celebrate Jesus. One day he died, and then three days later he was alive again. It was a miracle!"
Brynn: (after a pause) "Elyse is a miracle."

Cousins

We went to Boston a few weeks ago to visit Nate, Mandy, Edie, and Allison. The girls had such a good time! We didn't even see Brynn and Edie the day we got there, as they were tearing it up all around the house together. The only thing missing was Kenley. And Uncle Matt and Aunt Regen and Adam and Gramma and Grampa. Here's some pics:

Uncle Matt, this was taken for you...note the Yankee being eaten by the big green monster















The Boston children's museum bubble exhibit:















Elyse's loved the IKEA rocking horse!














Brynn and Edie holding hands at church...awww!















Uncle Jeremy showing them nature in the man hole cover at the park:















This picture was taken after Brynn captured Elyse in her bug net...one of her favorite birthday presents!