Shootin' the Carribean breeze...

Some highlights from our trip:
*spending time with our wonderful friends Scott and Lindsay
*Clearwater Beach, Florida. We bought shell necklaces from a real hippy.
*Ping-pong tournaments, although we never won! There are some serious players out there! Our favorite was a kung-fu ping-pong serve. Intense.
*Guest talent show on the boat. Nat sings The Sound of Music's "My favorite things" as one of the six acts. Feeling like a rock star the rest of the trip as people call Nat by name and compliment her song.
*Riding ATVs through the jungle in Mexico. Seeing lizards and a tarantula and a monkey
*Snorkeling in the coral reefs of Grand Cayman, exploring the ship wreck and taking pictures with our underwater camera.
*Reading the Book of Mormon for 4 hours straight on Easter sunday.
*Eating salmon!!!
*Spending time, uninterrupted, with just the two of us! Memories for a lifetime!

These things are fun, and fun is good!

We are alive in Minnesota! We have been up to lots of family games, outings to the zoo, learning how to do HOT LOOPS (oh yeah), and watching spring thaw. Happy are we!

Gramps and Grammy Teeples

We had a wonderful time with gramps and grammy Teeples when they were here last week! We colored a billion pictures, built legos, marble towers, tinker towers, model electric cars, made cookies, launced airplanes, played I-Spy and Hiss the snake game, read books, went shopping, took a date, and ate great grammy-made dinners. We miss you! We love you!!

Love, love, love all around!

Valentine's Day ranks pretty high on the Teeples family favorite holiday list. We are all about home-made cards, sugar cookies, chocolately treats, and special dates. Tyson gave the girls each a red rose in a separtate vase tied with ribbons. We ate the world's best waffles on our heart plates with whipped cream and strawberries. We cut our peanut butter sandwiches into heart shapes for lunch. We danced to love songs. The kids even got an unexpected gift from mom and dad. A hula-hoop for Kazoo, legos for Buzz, and a Wall-E book for Ez. Dad got new dry erase markers and mom got Willow the movie with treats! It is the simple things of life that bring great happiness. We are so happy!

Pezzy Doodle turns 2!

Happy, happy birthday to sweet Ezra! Ez loved all his gifts, his "cuk" (cake), and of course his "buh-da-boons" (birthday balloons)! He is talking like a champ and he loves to tell jokes. He is so friendly and always says hello to strangers when we are in a store--"Allo"! Everybody loves him and this only encourages his tendency to show off. If he really's happy, he'll sing "ya, ya, ya, YODA"! and stand on his head!

Wisconsin Dells!

So Tyson and I decided to take the kids on a mid-winter escape to Mt. Olympus Theme and Water Park in the Wisconsin Dells. We were gone for two days and one night and it was so much fun! It cost us $100! We rode tube slides and roller coasters to our heart's content. The park was completely dead except for our fam and a cute little Asian family that we took turns with in all the lines. We got to be pretty good friends, especially in the go-cart racing and bumper cars! Ezra loved the bunking bronco tube slide with mommy, Kazoo liked the mouse and cheese roller coaster with dad, and Buzz spent a lot of time in the hot tub! All in all, fun was had and memories were made. Hooray for families!