Camping

We had a fun weekend camping with our family at Wayne's parents property in Fruitland. They are building a cabin, so Wayne helped while we played. The kids had a wonderful time despite the snow, hail, mud, wind, and getting sick.. :( It wouldn't be camping without an adventure! We survived and had a nice time enjoying the outdoors and time away from home to relax. Ellie di pretty good and even started to really smile!
What  a cutie! :)

Anna is blessed to have a fun cousin close to her age to pal around with. They made huts, went on hikes, rides on Gma's Razor, and even slept together in Gma's camper. We read about cooking cinnamon rolls over the fire inside an orange, and had to give it a try!

Megan is also lucky to have a cousin to play with! They had lots of fun playing in the camp trailers during the bad weather and outside when it was nice :)

Even David has a pal close to his age! They loved playing and sometimes fighting typical of little boys. He got really dirty and really tired, but had so much fun!

 

Daddy Daughter date

Anna has been having so much fun in Activity Days. She is lucky that Grandma gets to be one of her leaders. They have been doing a 'princess' theme for the last little while, and they had a Daddy Daughter Royal celebration! Aren't they cute?

They made castles by spraypainting recycled materials.

They did lots of fun games: learning to dance, dressing up dads, going to the 'ball' (shooting basketballs while holding dad's hand), had a quiz about each other, ate fancy snacks and served them to their dads.

What a fun night, and a good sport daddy! :)

spring dance recital

The girls were "red birds" in their spring dance recital. They did a wonderful job, and had lots of family come to see them. This year they were in the same dance class it worked out so well. Miss Heather is so good to us! :) She asked me to make the hair flowers with feathers... I'm always up for crafting!

It is fun to dance with their cousins!

Miss Heather had her students do artwork from all seasons to decorate :)

A year in color was the theme, these backdrop trees changed throughout the whole preformance.

I had fun making chocolate kiss rose bouquets to give the girls on their special night!

A special Day

We had a very special day on Saturday May 5. Anna was baptized and confirmed and Ellie was blessed. We had so many of our family members there. It was wonderful.

Anna's cousin Baylee was baptized too. What a fun day for these two sweet girls!

Spring Stuff

Our little Ellie is growing fast! People see her and still tell me "she's so little", but to me she is getting a lot bigger ;) She had her 2 month check up today and weighed in at 10 lbs 5 oz, and was 22 inches long, about 50%tile in both. Anyway this proud mamma had to get lots of pictures before she outgrew all of her cute 0-3 month outfits, so be prepared for picture overload... I know I got a little carried away!

It has been an adjustment to our family learning how to take care of all four. Ellie got a little cold and it made her more irritable last week, we are so glad she's doing better. She is even sleeping through the night sometimes yeah! :) The kids all love her to peices, they want to play with her and hold her and feed her... sometimes they don't understand why she has to sleep so much. All that growing is a lot of work! The spring weather has been so nice, and we all enjoy being outside. It's getting harder and harder to get to bed on time, we are looking forward to summer vacation! The girls have had a lot of fun riding their scooters and bikes. We were so excited to get the bikes out and take of the training wheels to give it another try... just like that they were off and riding ;) It was on my bday so I said it was the best bday present ever!! We had fun looking at the Baby animals at IFA on my bday. They also had a steer with huge horns and a really small bull.

We have also been getting ready for a special day. Anna is getting baptized with her cousin Baylee, and we will also bless Ellie. We are all very excited :)