Good Bye Home...For Now

Alex and I are moving out to Philadelphia for a couple of months. We are excited to spend some time with Mark, and to see some cool stuff too! It will be hard to leave our house, but I hear that they have some very nice apartments in Philly. I will definitely be keeping up with the blog while I am out there, because I am finally done working! Yahoo! Also, some of you already know this, but we are having another boy. Hopefully he and Alex will be great friends.

Memorial Day

Some of you may not know this but, Memorial Day is one of my favorite holidays. I enjoy going to cemeteries and learning things about my ancestors. When I was in high school I really enjoyed going to the cemeteries with my Grandma Welch, and she would tell me stories about her parents, siblings, and others. I wish I would have written things down! Well this was Alex's first year visiting the cemeteries because we were living in Cleveland last year, and he was too little the year before. At one point I was putting him in the car, and I told him we were going to another cemetery. He cried and said "No, not another cemetery!" I think he eventually liked it though, especially when he got to pull around the red wagon from his Uncle Alex's grave.

Here is Alex pulling the wagon.

Here is Alex trying to walk Lindsey's dog Izzy.

Here is Alex with his Uncle Alex

We stayed at the ranch, and Alex put on Grandma's shoes and snuck out to do some exploring. At one point he also snuck outside wearing my pink heels.

Alex loves riding the four wheeler, he will miss his rides with Pa Pa Welch because we are moving to Philadelphia this week.

Happy Birthday Alex

I am just trying to catch up on a few things, so sorry about all of the late posts. Here is Alex's 2nd birthday it was on May 8th.

His cake is rocket from the Little Einsteins, his favorite show.

Alex really got into blowing out the candle, we had to do it many times.

Here is the trike that Alex got, it was a big hit.

Aunt Lindsey gave Alex a velcro mitt and ball, and a tee ball set. Do you think she wants him to play baseball? I wonder. All of Alex's aunts, uncles, and grandparents gave him lots of cards and presents and he loved them all! Thanks everybody.

Hogle Zoo

Well we went to the zoo over a month ago and now I am putting some pictures of that up. I will hopefully be a better blogger soon!

This mountain lion was cool, he was snarling at something.

I guess after seeing one mean looking lion, this kid wasn't about to stick his head in this guy's mouth. I don't blame him.

Too bad you can't really see the camel, but at least we look cute.

Lindsey what are you doing?

Easter

Mark moved to Philadelphia right before Easter, so we just had a little egg hunt in the morning, and then my mom had a treasure hunt at her house that afternoon. We miss Mark!

Alex was so excited to find candy outside his door!

I didn't get Alex any big presents, but he really liked this egg with Quincy from the Little Einsteins inside.