EASTER EGG HUNT

Curt took the girls to the Annual Easter Egg Hunt at church. I told him to get some good pictures, and I think he did a great job. The girls has a great time making their "baskets" and finding some eggs. Then they enjoyed a cupcake and some juice...yum yum!! It was a really fun time for them.

Ally finding some eggs

Abby find some eggs

The "baskets" they each made

The girls with all their goodies

Enjoying a cupcake :D

EASTER COOKIES/DYEING EGGS

The girls and I decided to do our make Easter cookies and dye our eggs both on the same day....

Ally only decorated one cookie and she ate it immediately after she finished...

So that left Abby and I to finish decorating the rest of our 3 dozen cookies

I was surprised that she stuck with it until the end, of course she was sampling the frosting the whole way through, but she didn't leave the counter until the last cookie was frosted. Daddy even came home early and surprised us....he didn't help decorate, but he tested the final product to make sure it was good enough for the Easter Bunny. My kids think that the Easter Bunny is a lot like Santa....they leave him cookies, and even tell him what they want when we go for our picture with the Easter Bunny.

Here are some of the finished cookies

We actually did our eggs first, but since they came up backwards on here, I didn't have the patience to rearrange them.....So here is dyeing our Easter Eggs.....
Those of you who know me know I am not a fan of big messy activities....we don't even carve our pumpkins at Halloween, because its too messy and the kids never ask to. This is the first year we have actually done eggs at my house, we usually have family in town and I save this job for them at Grandma's house. But since no one came to visit this year it was all up to me.

The kids didn't really get to do much but I think they liked watching me do it....he he he!!

I did let them each take a turn to check their eggs....

and then of course they got to do the stickers and shrinky-dinks.

Some of our finished eggs!

SILLY ALLY

Ally came upstairs the other day with her doll's clothes on her....I seriously do not know how she got them on...I had a tough time getting them off of her...but enjoyed the laugh :D

VISITORS FROM KC & UT

For Spring Break we were so lucky to have Jolynn, Taylor, Beckham & Tippy come and visit us. We all had so much fun while they were here, Abby & Ally love playing with their cousins. Here are a few pics from their visit.

Ally, Taylor Abby & Beckham all snuggled up in bed

Taylor & Abby singing "Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam"

All the kids baking coookies with Aunt Tippy

Taylor, Abby & Beckham with his crazy wig

Taylor & Abby

Jolynn, Tippy, Jen & Jackie

Beckham & Ally (a.k.a double trouble)

Abby & Taylor-they were pretty much inseperable

Jolynn, Tippy & Jackie

Aunt Tippy & Abby

Abby & Ally thought Aunt Jolynn was so cool....she let them play in the giant swimming pool, also known as Grandma's back yard in the spring.....I thought she was pretty cool too, she took care of all the clean up including the laundry from this event.

Going on a walk

Jolynn, Tippy, Mom & Me playing "clue", our new favorite game......although you cannot leave the table or lots of cheating will occur.....I won't mention any names, Jolynn.

Beckham, Taylor & Abby singing a song for us.

Papa, Taylor, Curt & Stephen

Jen, Jackie & Jolynn

Jackie & Jolynn

On St. Patrick's Day we went to a little playgroup, the girls had lots of fun playing and snakcing on graham crackers with frosting and green sprinkles.

Playing dress up

Saying Good-bye...we will miss you guys!!!

OUR NEWEST COUSIN

The girls were very excited to welcome their very first cousin on the Rekstad side of the family. Kari Marie was born on March 8, 2009. She is so very very cute, the girls had a blast going to meet her. They were fighting over who got to hold her first, I think Abby won that one. Congratulations Derek & Kirsten!!! We are very excited to see the girls all grow up together!