One thing I love about kids...

Aren't children just wonderful?

Not only do they enjoy the little things in life...

...alot...

...but then they want to share!

I think we can all learn from their example :)

A Reminiscent Re-cap

I was going through some pictures in Picasa tonight while watching the Olympics (it is very difficult for me to watch TV and do nothing else...) and found an entire folder of a weekend in September 2009 that my niece Sophie came to visit. (I figured that since I didn't make a single blog post for all of 2009, a little tribute wouldn't hurt.) We did A LOT that weekend, so here are some of the highlights.

Sophie helped Grandma with dinner, hence the reason she has a towel wrapped around her waist-- it was her apron :)

Sometimes she would get a little distracted...

...but that's ok when you're 2 :)

We went to Fairytale Town with Jennifer and Nathan and the little ones had a blast climbing on all the giant fairytale figurines they had there.

The handle to the candlestick that our nimble friend, Jack, jumped over:

Steering the Pirate Ship:

Going down the slide with Mom:

Going down the slide as a Big Girl!

Driving Cinderella's carriage:

Looking out the window after a very long and Crooked Mile:

Giving Humpty Dumpty a High-5:

Sometimes getting them to look at the same time was a bit difficult...

Maybe next trip...

At least Jennifer was paying attention :)

And finally, two of my personal favorites:

Whoops!

And of course, no trip to Fairytale Town is complete without riding th ponies outside of the park.

It was fun to watch them both react to sitting on top of a moving horse. Sophie seemed pretty unsure of the whole thing most of the time, as did Nathan... that is until he found out that he could actually pull the horse's mane. Boys and girls are just so different!

I think that weekend we had dragged Sophie along to a birthday party (a grown-up one-- boring!) and a ward party. She was pretty tuckered out in the end.

So was Grandma.

Thanks for the great weekend, Sophie, Jennifer and Nathan!