Spring 2010

Our spring 2010 was quite busy as we prepared for our big move to Seattle! Unfortunately, blogging lost a bit of priority to us! In an effort to catch up...here goes a very abbreviated recap of a few events....

We went to the arboretum with Mimi and Aunt Kristi & Greer and these are my only pictures to capture the fun day.





here's Ella, Will & Cal excited to open Easter cards that came in the mail from Grammie and Poppa:
Easter morning pictures:





I wonder if we can ever convince Will that it's okay to pose & smile for pictures!



our attempt at a cousin shot. this picture cracks me up! they all look thrilled, don't they!

Happy Birthday Jesus!

Let me start this post out by saying how pathetic that the only pictures we have from Christmas is on Michael's iPhone. He did manage to capture a few of our many memorable moments of spending the holiday with our families.

We spent our early Christmas in Austin this year. It was extra special for all of us since it was Caden's and Caroline's first Christmas (though they slept through most of it)!

Here are the kiddos chowing down on Uncle Jason's candy pretzel sticks:

Opening their stockings on "pretend Christmas Eve" after enjoying a delicious dinner at Pappasito's:
On "pretend Christmas morning", Cal won the prize for the largest present! It was bigger than him, for sure!
Here are the kiddos on Christmas morning checking out what Santa brought them:

We had a wonderful Christmas and loved celebrating the season of our Savior's birth with our families!

Halloween

Our kids loved the chance to trick or treat in Austin this year! We went with the community helper theme (our first year with a theme...usually it's just a random assortment of characters).

Here's policeman Will:

Doctor Ella:
Fireman Cal:
Big Cal was very unsure about the whole costume thing until he realized people were putting candy into his bucket. Once he put those two things together, he was glad to keep his fireman outfit on and mumble out a very cute, but impossible to understand "trick or treat"!

Easter Festivities

We had a fantastic long Easter weekend! We stayed busy celebrating our Risen Savior with lots of family time, Resurrection egg hunts and lots of candy egg hunts, too. Grammie, Poppa, Aunt Amy and Uncle Jason all came to town for the weekend and we also celebrated Will's 4th birthday. We were busy, but had so much fun!

We started out the weekend at a big hunt on Good Friday. As evidenced by the below 4 pics, the kids were thrilled to be subjected to a photo shoot before the hunt ever began!


It went well, don't ya think?!

And below is the famous choke hold pose. Ella has really mastered it!
"Here's my belly button!"
Love the below shot of the biggest and littlest Baker Boy!

Here's Ella and one of her sweetest friends, Anna.


Yes, you see this right, there's no pics of the actual hunt. We were way too busy knocking other kids over and ruthlessly going after the most loot. (Actually quite the opposite...we had to coach our kids it's okay to pick up an egg among the large mass of other kids. Aggression is lacking a bit in the Baker kids, except with each other, that is!) But we were sure to get a family pic at the end!
Easter morning began with fun Easter bags from Grammie and Poppa!
Modeling our cute Easter swimsuits:

And the indoor hunt began thanks to rainy Texas weather!



Cal loves his Poppa!
We ended our Easter Sunday after church with lunch at Mimi's and Pop's and another indoor hunt with Greerie-Greer!


Happy first Easter, sweet girl!
And an infamous cousin photo shoot out by the pool. These photos give just a few examples of why I'm not a children's photographer!




And finally some last attempts at a family shot!


We had a blessed Easter! He is Risen, Indeed!

(oh and in case you're concerned, we are still very much an Aggie family despite our orange Easter wardrobe. I prefer melon, but Baker informed me our boys don't wear melon!)