April 10th

The weekend of the 10th Connor was at Lil Sibs weekend at Simpson with Aunt Rara and Paul had drill so it was just us girls at home:) We had a lot of fun! I even pulled out the sand and water table for Abby to play with. It's amazing that she did the same exact thing that I get after her brother for doing, putting all the sand in the water side;) When I first took the lid off all she did was stare, then she moved in to the touching, then wiping off:) By the end she was eating and drinking and splashing and having a good ol time!

Easter Egg Hunt

Silly Kids :)

So Abby and Connor were rolling around being silly while we were waiting for Lilly and Papa to come for dinner.

Easter Baskets!

Connor and Abby were visited by the Easter Bunny last night!!! They seemed to like what had in their baskets. Connor's favorite was a new Transformer and Abby really liked the dried plums that were in her eggs!!!

Our Family:) this is the best picture:) Don't we all look so cute!

Modi, finishing off the ham bone, yum!

Daddy and Abby

Hi Modi!

Abby loves to look out the back doors at Modi! She just kept walking back and forth banging on the window :)

The New Ball

Abby got a great basket from her infant teachers, in it there was some applesauce, a book, bubbles, and a ball that had a panda on it. Connor asked me if Abby could share with him:) So we had some fun in the hallway with the ball this afternoon!

The Table

I know, I know you may be looking at this one thinking, why is she blogging about the table????? Well because I thought that it looked really nice:) I had a white table cloth and the cream dishes and napkins. The wonderful yellow and red tulips and of course the yummy food in the last picture to add to the look!

We had a honey glazed ham (my very first attempt at a ham!), apricot glazed carrots, strawberry and spinach salad with a sesame and poppy seed dressing and potato casserole! YUMMY!! Then we went to DQ and the "Big Park" wish I would have had my camera then too. The kids had a blast playing and Connor got up on the stage and sang an awesome song about "All day and all week" and then one about him being a monkey named George:)

Old Easter Pictures

I know that I had a picutre of Connor and me on the playground last year before the egg hunt and as I was looking for it I came across some more old Easter pictures!! Enjoy :)

Here is Abby's dress with the ribbons in and all done. She wore her pretty headband to school today too and though most people laughed, I thought she looked adorable!!! And, she really seemed to like it too:) I love the picture of us on the playground right before the egg hunt. I wish I would have let Connor snag a few eggs then because when the rest of the class came out he only ended up with 6 eggs!!! But he got some chocolate, a frog, and a hippo with a parachute so he was pretty pleased:) It was a great day and we all had lots of fun. My camera battery died so I ended up taking pictures with one of the teachers camera but didn't get them off before she took off for the night. Hopefully Monday I can get them and post some more!!

Spring Egg Hunt!!

Today was our Spring Egg Hunt. We "hid" so many eggs around our playground! It was cool and rainy most of the day and then about 2 hours before the hunt it cleared up and the sun came out and it was a wonderful day for an egg hunt!!!

The other New Shirt

Abby LOVES her new shirt! She did spit up all over it about 45min after getting to school though:(

I reall love the fabric :)

Head Bands and Pillowcase Dresses :)

When I was in Ames a few weeks ago I had dinner with some friends. Amy was one of them and she had her little Olivia with her. Olivia had a really cute flowered headband on. Amy insisted I could make on so I tried!!! What do you think? I think that I will tack the flower down in a couple more spots and I just used the thread that was on my machine, which was red, so next time I will use black or whichever color matches the headband but I think that for a first try it's not too shabby!! Plus the hose were $2 and I will be able to get 3-4 head bands out of it and the flower was $3 for a whole branch of flowers so it was a great deal!!!

I also tried my hand at the "pillowcase" dress. I don't have any cute pillow cases laying around that I have been thinking, hmmm what should I do with that so instead I used some of my fat quarters!! I do have tons of those laying around:) and now I have a great little way to use them. I have collected just a few and never really have any plan for them, so I never really have enough of a certain kind to do a whole quilt with or anything. I also found that one fat quarter wasn't enough so I just did strips of 2 to make it big enough. I also have one that I use about 3-4 that Abby will be wearing today. I still need to get ribbon for this one so it still looks a little funny at the top but overall I am happy. The arm holes are a you know what to sew though.......(so don't look too close;))

Lazy Saturday Morning

Click to see some more video!

So I am trying something new. We have 11 videos of the bowling trip and it would take literally DAYS to get those up on the blog so I am going to try to upload them to a Picasa web album to see if that works. Click on the underlined text and see where it takes you!!!!! Cross your fingers!

Ok so it didn't underline it on the post....just try clicking on "Picasa web album" Good luck!

February Pictures

We took the children bowling for the first time on 2-13-10. Connor had a great time as you will see in the videos when I get those up. Abby spent the first oh, 8 frames or so asleep on the table! She did enjoy the shoes and a snack too:)

um, what do you expect me to do with these things????

Oooh, look at my snack!

Connor showing off his cool bowling shoes!

With all that noise she somehow managed to sleep!