Trip To Emie and Addie's

Even with gas prices as they are, we ventured to PA this memorial day weekend. What a beautiful weekend to spend with the family. We got to meet the latest member of our family, "baby Addie". Isn't she a cutie? Bella was a bit smitten with her and is already asking for her.

Lily found a new love: dressing up, she wore that purple dress and the pink princess shoe everyday-literally. Today Lily wanted to play dress up (we don't own dress up clothes). So Lily came down wearing her black sparkle shoes and butterfly underwear (that's the best she could find). They all gave us "concerts" on Emie's mini piano. It was very cute. Lily 'played' the wonder pets theme song and Bella 'played' eieio.

We got to visit Great Grandma Ayres, aka "daddy's grandma", who has a booboo on her arm. There was a bit of a discussion about why she couldn't take that thing off her arm. Grandma was in her usual joyful spirits. Lily seemed fond of her and Bella warmed up relatively quickly. I think her pink bracelet and pretzels won the girls over quickly.

We also went to the Pittsburgh Zoo. This was a special treat even for the adults. We are used to the Beardsley Zoo, which is more local wild animals (wolves, deer, bears, farm animals...) but PA has lions, rhinoceros, giraffes, elephants, gorillas, zebra, polar bears, the list goes on. It was really neat. The timing was alittle off with naps and all so we breezed through the last half. But it was a fun outing.

It was a great weekend. The drive wasn't too bad either. We learned that Lily needs to get up and move around every 2 hours and eating 2 go-gurts before driving 8 hours, isn't a good idea:) On the way home, we heard a cute conversation between the girls about reading books and when we turned around we saw this...

A few more pictures from the weekend:

Thanks Uncle Mark and Auntie Marlo!