Baby Ducky Ice Cream

Blake has been practicins his reading skills since last summer.  Kyle told him that if he read this book called Weather, he could make Baby Ducky Ice Cream.  It's a pretty hard book for a pre-k kid but Blake has been practicing and last week he read the whole book!  Kyle and Blake made homemade icecream with yellow food coloring and then put candy in it to create Baby Ducky's face.  Good job Blake!

London

London was amazing.  We had a fabulous time visiting our friends and the city.  Below are some of the pictures from the trip. 



Kyle's first sip of beer (London Pub beer that is)



Fish & chips



Long story short....I was so excited to see the John Snow Pub because John Snow is a bit of a Legend in the Infection Prevention and Epidimiology world.  Turns out the Broadstreet Pump that I was so excited to see was torn out for road work while we were there.  So sad:(



Royal Courts of Justice

Inside the Courts of Justice



St. Bride's Church (in which the wedding cake is patterned after)



St. Paul's Church

The next few pictures are a side of London that most travelers don't get to see.  This is our friend's house that overlooks the Thames River in Staines.

 

Westminster Abbey

Not pictured was the Churchill Museum which was really neat. 

Friday Night we went out for Indian food and ended the night with Les Mis.  It was incredible!

Saturday we went to Windsor Park -Technical difficulties with these pictures.....they aren't posting. Sorry, it was beutiful though.

Sunday we headed in to the city one last time. 

The next few pictures are of the Tower of London  (never mind, only one picture-more technical difficulties).  This was one of our favorite things we did.  We could have spent all day there.

The next few pictures are out of order.  They were things we did on Friday but I am getting too lazy to move them up where they should be.

These pics are on a stroll through St. James Park.  Spring has started in London and the flowers are beautiful.

 Below are some pictures from our trip to Windsor.  This is the place we had tea.

 Notice Kyle's pinky is out for proper tea drinking-Just kidding, we don't know if you are supposed to stick your pinky out but it seemed so natural for him.

 Windsor Castle

Kyle and Reed finished the trip with an evening attempt at fishing.  They were not successful but it turns out Drew caugh a huge fish at my parents while they were fishing.

Grandpa and Granny's Visit

We had a wonderful time getting to see GG and Granny before they headed off to Hawaii for a two month mission trip with YWAM.  My Grandpa just turned 82.  I hope I'm still that active and full of life when I am his age.  What am I saying?  .....I'm not even that active now.  They are such as inspiration! 

 Blake made GG a birthday card

 Ducky got to come downstairs to visit Granny since she was the one who gave him to Blake 5 1/2 years ago.  Oh, Ducky is REALLY sad looking right now.  Blake loves him so much and now Drew is starting to love him.  He calls him "Baby Daddy."  I guess ducky must be harder to say.  Blake will ask Drew if he wants to hold him and Drew squeals with excitement. 

 This is us admiring the blue bonnets and thinking what a great spot to get a picture of the boys......

 ......and this is the best one we got.  Wow, not sure how people with more than two kids ever get a shot of all of the kids looking at the camera with their eyes open.

 Drew is alternating who gets their head bopped

 Happy Birthday Gramps!

 This is my FAVORITE picture from their visit.  You can't see anyone very well, but it just hit me how awesome it is that GG is able to play tennis with Blake.  Blake gets to grow up knowing and interacting (although not nearly as often as we'd like) with 3 sets of his great-grandparents!

Blake has really improved on his tennis.  He just finished a 4 week tennis class.