T-Ball has begun

Micah's T-Ball season officially started today.  Tim is coaching the team and it is the first team sport Micah has ever played.  He really is enjoying it.  Noah wants to play so badly but he has to be five to play.  Noah will be awesome once he gets that chance to play, he does better than some of the kids on the team already. 

They had opening ceremonies this morning and then Micah's team played shortly after.  At the opening ceremony Micah's team held the flag.  All the kids did pretty well, only a few picked flowers in the outfield and kicked a crazy amount of dirt to entertain themselves towards the end, hehe.

Micah's team being introduced.

Holding the flag for the National Anthem.

Micah got to be pitcher.

Action shot, running to 1st base.

Noah cheering on Micah man.

The boys with the neighbor girls, Ziva and Catalina.  Catalina is the only girl on the team.

Spring Break trip to Yosemite

First off, I want to warn you this is going to be a huge post so please forgive me.  I snapped so many pictures and am having a hard time narrowing them down.  Secondly, I have to let you know no matter how many pictures I post, the beauty and wonder of Yosemite really cannot be captured in a picture.  It literally is one of those places you should see in person.  When it comes to photos of the giant sequoia trees, I am a total fail at taking wonderful pictures of them.  They are amazingly HUGE! 

We stayed in a town called Oakhurst about 12 miles outside of the south end of the park and drove into Yosemite.  We all loved seeing everything we could.  Both boys were sound asleep in the backseat for over an hour on the way back out of the park to our camper.  Micah generally can hold out but even Yosemite wore him out.  We even pulled off to get pictures here and there and they both did not budge. 

The campground gave us pamphlet on "Yosemite in a day" and that is basically what we went off of.  We started first at the Sequoia trees, the ground was covered in snow and it was way colder then we are used to after nearly six years in California.

One of the main trees on exhibit if you will.

The trees are protected behind fences so we could not go up close for pictures.

Noah absolutely loved the snow.  When we were not in it he was asking to be in snow and when we were in snow he was stomping around in it and then having Tim make him snowballs to throw at everyone and everything.  I think it is safe to say he will enjoy the next place we get stationed that has snow.

Next we made our way to the Pioneer Village and hiked down to a creek where the boys threw rocks into it.
 

A covered bridge into the little village.

Micah had to look out from behind the little brother was thrilled to throw rocks!

Making our way back up!

This is a picture of Yosemite Falls.

Tim and I with Half Dome behind us.

This mule deer was literally right outside my window in the truck.

On our way out of the park.

We made our way to Bridalveil Fall after the creek, it was awesome!

This picture captures three of the main sights, El Capitan (far left), Half Dome (center) and Bridalveil Fall (far right).





Steam Train Ride - Yosemite

While we were visiting Yosemite and the surrounding area we decided to take the boys on a steam train ride through the forest. It was about an hour long and COLD! We all really enjoyed it and Noah has been mimicking the sound the train makes over and over.

The 15 means that is the top speed the train can go.

They punched the tickets just like the movie Polar Express, Micah loved that part.

Exploring.

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Noah turns 4!

It seems so incredibly crazy writing a blog post about Noah turning 4.  It seems like yesterday I was miserably HUGE pregnant with Noah and now Tim and I's "baby" is 4!  Noah is such a sweetheart, he has a kind heart, is independent and just started preschool (which he loves).

We had an impromptu birthday party for him on his birthday with several families and their kids from Tim's shop.  We had a bounce castle on order but the weather was not good so the bounce guy could not set up.  The sun literally came out as the party came to an end. 

Noah's party was fireman themed.

Opening presents

Cannot go wrong with an Angry Birds game.

I think this cake had 8 lbs of frosting on it.

He has done this the last two birthday's, I guess we are bad singers.

I love seeing Tim with babies, he is such a natural.
Baby Charlotte, she is 6 weeks and Tim's co-workers baby.