Spring Flowers Bring Hadley Photos!

Going with tradition (since I forced her to do this last year), as soon as blooms started popping up in the front yard Hadley was forced into a photo shoot.
Enjoy

Easter

We spent Easter this year up North with my parents. The Lauf family got together at the bowling alley on Saturday night and I- for once- remembered our camera. Enjoy.


Two very tired and sleepy girls by 9 o'clock.


Mark, being a good daddy and Uncle.


Precious little Ella with mommy!


Evan is at an age where he doesn't like to pose and I caught one!!!!!

SO MANY PICTURES

I cleared of the camera from the past two weeks and cannot believe how many pictures we had. Luckily for all the followers there will be plenty of posts over the next few days. My topics consist of such exciting things as Easter, outdoor photoshoot, zoo day, meeting our newest cousin Conner, guilty (hadley rummaging through my scrapbook stack), and a tummy shot for Goins Baby #2...wow.

RANDOMNESS

First are some leftovers from Gatlinburg. The mirror maze which Hadley loved since she loves looking at herself whenever she's in the bathroom.



Hadley and I are striking a pose, aren't we fantastic...


Daddy and Hadley napping which they never do....rite?!?!


Mark and his usual antics....I walk out of the room for a second and come back to find Hadley in a box. Surprise!!


I'm on a scrapbooking/picture frenzy...and I found this cool feature online the other night. Let me know if you want the link. It's a beta version so rather rough and I'm still trying to figure out how to add various colorings to the developed polaroid...but it definitely takes us back doesn't it? Enjoy.

HAPPY EASTER

So last night, we put batteries back in a toy that had been put aside for about two months (probably since her b-day). It is a little piano with songs, a microphone, and an attached book. Hadley got it for Christmas and would ALWAYS play with that toy. She would just bang on the keys, not knowing what was happening and then yell into the microphone- yes, a very peaceful sound considering the low setting is incredibly loud. So the batteries die in February (darn), right before she gets all her new b-day toys.

We decided to get it back out and can I say WOW. So she is developing so fast. You would think it has been about six months since she played with this thing. She now knows that you hit the music notes and songs play, but you can interrupt them with the keyboard and add beats with the circle pad. I kid you not, she does this stuff, it actually blows me away. There is just something about Hadley and music (dad the bass player and mom the clarinet/drum major) I can't understand where comes from hahahaha. She dances and uses her one hand like she's leading a band, it is insane. I will try and catch a pic because it's just beautiful. She continues to amaze us everyday. She is getting anywhere she needs to go now but still not crawling, preferring the backwards scoot method which is currently highly effective.

Lastly, I am posting some more pictures from Gatlinburg. I know I am the definition of cheesy with these pictures, but I just COULDN'T resist. So, HAPPY EASTER!

More of our Mountain Adventures.

We had to find sunglasses for James and since Hadley was there she needed to look pretty stylish too.



Elliott is at an age where it is boy team and girl team. So one afternoon during lunch, the boy team was manning the grill....they look so cute.


The innocent pose....


Look closely, she definitely got turkey stuck in her nose!!!