Focht Family Blog

I am trying to get caught up. We are in Pennsylvania and we left for a week to visit New York to my in-laws campground and for a joint birthday party for all of the kids with the family. We are planning on taking another week and a half to go to Hershey and Washington DC in September. The kids started school again one week ago so we are busy teaching once again. I realized that I updated the pictures on the website but never posted them on the blog so here are some of my favorites of the kids from the latest LaRita photos. She is an amazingly talented photographer in Statesboro, GA.

Here are some pictures of Samantha by herself. Both of Samantha’s dresses came from a wonderful store in Vermont named April Cornell that is one of Nathan’s customers. They have beautiful clothes for girls and women as well as household items. Once we decide what we are doing for the next living accomodations than I am buying one of their quilts for our room and one for Samantha’s room….

So this post doesn’t get too big I will post the pictures of the boys on the next post….

Nathan knows that I like to take pictures of beautiful creeks and waterfalls so during the week he would stop when he would see something on the side of the road so I could take pictures. Here are a few of my favorites…

At the Newark airport we stopped to have dinner at the food court and the kids had McDonald happy meals. They were advertising “How to Train Your Dragon.” The boxes turned into viking hats. Here is my mom modeling one of the hats…

And Timmy….

And now I am caught up with Vermont! :)

We were flying home on Easter but we still wanted the kids to have a regular Easter morning. Here is what was waiting for them when they woke up Easter morning…

Samantha and Jax were the first to come down…

Here are the kids digging into the goodies…

Of coures the Easter bunny stopped by and hid eggs, both inside…

and outside…

They had a lot of fun and in some ways I think they weren’t ready for the vacation to end.

Blake and Katherine noticed a sign for a community Easter egg hunt while they were in town so we took the kids to town the day before leaving. Here is a picture of the Easter bunny starting things off…

After the hunt the kids went inside where they had eggs to color and face painting. Here is the guitar that Drew had painted on his face….

Timmy decided he wanted a fire breathing dragon on his arm…

Samantha and Jax decided they wanted flowers…

Joshua wanted something special so she gave him a chick coming out of an egg…

Next up is Easter morning…

My mom is not the most coordinated person on skis so everytime we have gone skiing she gets private lessons so she can feel more comfortable going down the slope. Here is mom skiing with her instructor…

Joshus decided to crash her lesson…

Timmy tried to follow Joshua but he just crashed….

Here is one more picture of Nathan, playing with both of the boys after Timmy and Josh crashed my mom’s lesson…

That is it for the ski pictures. Next up is an Easter egg hunt at a local playground…