Disney on Ice, Princess Wishes!

Yes, we were able to see the Disney on Ice last week here in Columbia. It was such a wonderful night and such a nice thing for Savannah to experience. She loved seeing all of the princesses, as she thinks she is one and they are all her friends:) She was enthralled with the whole performance even though she was getting a little tired. Here are some pictures from that. It was very hard to get pictures while they were skating, but we tried:)

Here is Savannah and I in front of Jasmine's clothes, we got to see all of the princess dresses in this room.

Dan and Savannah before the show starts.

Even Mickey and Minnie were there, Savannah was in heaven.

Trying to get Savannah with "Under the Sea" going on behind her.

This was Savannah's favorite part. That is Maleficent as a dragon, and she really blew fire and lit the ice on fire. It was incredible.

Cinderella's carriage.

Everyone together.

Our New Car!

Yes, we have finally graduated to the mini van and actually having two cars! I love it and it's nice not to have to coordinate our schedules as much. Here are some pictures!

Easter!

We had such a fun Easter and we were lucky enough to be able to spend if with my parents up in Virginia. Seeing as how we spent the last two Easters in China, this felt like Savannah's first real experience with Easter. We were able to color eggs and hunt eggs many times! I have a ton of pictures to put in, but the pictures say it all and are so cute.

These first ones are us dying Easter eggs. Savannah had a blast and would not let anyone crack them to eat them later on, we had to do that in secret:)

This is Savannah finding her Easter basket.

This next bunch is the Easter egg hunt in the backyard, which we probably did at least four times. She just loved finding the eggs.

Here is everyone with their basket and as you see the dog was feeling left out and so he was going for Dan's basket.

Savannah with her baskets.

Savannah in her Easter dress.

Savannah and Grandma and Grandpa Becker.

Family picture:)

Savannah going nose to nose with Grandpa.

Savannah is helping Grandma with the Easter cake.

Camping

Dan had spring break this last week, and Savannah has been dying to roast marshmallows, and so we took a few days and went camping. It has been so nice outside and so we just went to a state park about 10 minutes away. We were able to do a few things and just have a good time being together and outside. Savannah is a natural camper and loved camping. She had a hard time when the tent was coming down and wanted to continue camping. It's nice that she likes it and so we hope that we can go a few more times before the baby comes.


This first picture is Dan and Savannah on our canoe. We were able to go out on their small lake and canoe around looking for animals. Savannah wanted to see lions and kangaroos, but we told her that was probably not possible:) Thanks to Dan's good eyes we were able to see a beaver dam and baby turtles.


This is Savannah rowing by herself. She likes to do everything by herself, and she kept moving around the boat, which was scaring me because the canoe was a bit wobbly, and I didn't want to fall in.

Here is our lovely campsite. Savannah is playing in the tent and Dan is figuring out our lantern. It was not very busy and nice to have it so quite.

Here we are roasting marshmallows. Savannah loved it, but was somewhat wary to do it herself.

Here is the sticky girl herself. She had to have had eight or nine marshmallows at least and kept asking for more.

The next morning Dan and Savannah got out of the tent to make our warm fire. It was very nice during the day, but at night it got cold! It was so nice to have a roaring fire to come out to.

Breakfast.

We took a hike around the lake and surrounding woods. Here is a little waterfall that Dan and Savannah liked to put sticks and pine cones in to see if they went all the way down. She is definitely a little outdoors girl. We had so much fun and didn't really want to leave, but didn't want to spend another cold night out and so we did leave.

At the Zoo

Dan took Savannah to the zoo here in Columbia near the end of February. The zoo here is so cute and nice and we love to go, especially Savannah! There is so much to do there and so many different animals to see and it doesn't take long to do it, it's wonderful. Here are a few pictures of them at the zoo.



The first picture is of Savannah and the Flamingos. They are an absolutely gorgeous color, but Savannah thinks that they smell very bad and so every time we go by she plugs her nose:)

This is of Savannah riding a pony that they have there. This ones name is Spooky. She loves to ride the ponies and feels like such a big girl! She is not afraid to do anything.

This one is hard to tell, but those are Savannah's hands. She loves to feed the giraffes and feel their sticky tongue. Of coarse she thinks it's gross, but still one of her favorite things to do at the zoo.

As you see there is so much to do here. She also feeds birds with Dad, but Mom will not go in the bird area with them! She is more hesitant about the birds, but will do in as long as Dad is close by.

Visiting Charleston!

Today we were able to go to Charleston, SC and visit one of Dan's old college roomates and his wife and family. We had a great time and love visiting Charleston. Here we are with Mitch and Lexi in front of a huge bridge in Charleston. We had a fun time walking along Market St. where the old slave market was and then having a nice lunch at Bubba Gump's. Then they took off to Fort Sumter and we went to the Battery, where the shots were fired from Ft. Sumter. Here is Dan ready to throw Savannah in the cold water!

Savannah's Birthday!

Wow, can't believe that she's 3! We had a fun time with my parents here the weekend before her birthday and loved running Grandpa around the playground. We then had a wonderful birthday morning and then a party with her friends at McDonalds. Savannah loved it, and had a wonderful time. It's fun to see her get so big. We went to the doctor the next day for her and she is doing just great growing wise as well as loving to go to the doctors. We also went to the doctor today for me and found out that we are going to have a boy! We're all pretty excited, but Savannah still thinks that she is having a girl:) We've had a busy but very fun week.