EASTER

Easter morning was lots of fun and excitement at our house. The girls loved finding their baskets and all the eggs that the Easter Bunny hid. Then we went to Church, and after that we went to Grandma & Papa's house for Easter dinner. The girls had lots of fun jumping on the trampoline, and trying out all their new stuff.

Ally finding her basket

Ally's Basket

Abby finding her basket

Abby's Basket

The girls with their new slip-n-slide

Ally & her eggs

Abby & her eggs

Their Easter Dresses

Ally Mommy & Abby

Grandma & the girls

Jumping on the tramp

EASTER BUNNY VISIT

As we do every year we took the girls to get a picture with the Easter Bunny. This year we went to The Woods in Maple Grove again, although this year we had much better weather than last year. Everything was outside this year and the kids were able to see all the animals and walk around without being so crowded. Ally loved petting all the animals especially the little ducks. They had baby ducks, chicks, bunnies and lambs. They were all so very very cute. We had a lot of fun!! Abby even brought the Easter bunny some flowers (a few weeds she found in the yard), and told him her long list of wishes for Easter.

Daddy & Abby

That weed Curt is holding is the "flowers" Abby brought for the Easter Bunny

Mommy & Ally

Abby Petting the little bunny

Ally and the little ducklings

This one you can see the little bunny

Ally Petting the baby duck

Ally looking at the little lamb

Abby, Ally & Daddy looking at the baby lamb

One of the little lambs.....so cute!!

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!!!