Family fun night

We had a fun night of kids karaoke, dress-up, and Rock Band with the Lape family.    Notice that Madeline is dressed up as a Spider Kitty.  It's the best of both worlds, really.

We must have made some sort of impression, because they paid us back for our family fun night by "flocking" us!  Our church is doing a fundraiser for their mission trip.  In return for a donation, they'll place 25 flamingos on your front lawn for a day.  The kids were so excited (and confused) to wake up to all of this excitement!  Watch-out, Lapes!  Payback is coming!

 

Random updates

We have had such a nice spring.  I can tell already that it's going to be a completely different summer than last year....  Now that Henry is older, he is only doing one nap a day, but we were limited by his 2 nap a day schedule last summer.  So, with more freedom in our schedule this year, we're already staying up later after work to play outside and getting more done on the weekends.  And we're weeks ahead on spring landscaping maintenance compared to where we were last year - so we're productive and having more fun!

Here are pictures of the kids enjoying some of the loot I got going to garage sales a few weeks ago. (Yes, I'm officially addicted to garage sales!)

Hilton Head

At the end of April, our family went to Hilton Head, South Carolina, along with my mom and sisters and their families.  Although it's always great to get together, it was especially fun to celebrate Katie's pregnancy (due mid-June) and Frank's return from duty in Iraq.  We honestly didn't do much - mainly swimming at the pool, digging in the sand, and playing our Wii games after the kids went to bed - but it was great to be together and to catch up.