Savanah's 4th Birthday Party

I got to throw a little party for my niece for her 4th birthday! Look at that face! Does she look happy or what?!?!?!

Brooklyn gets staples

Brooklyn fell off the swing set at Uncle Donald and Aunt Judy's house today and went to get up as it swung back and it hit her in the back of the head. We had to take her to the ER because the wound wouldn't stay closed and she got 3 staples in her head. What a way to start the summer!

Grandma turns 80!

My Grandma Jean turned 80 years old this year!

My Aunt Marcia and Uncle Chris threw a really neat party for her. My cousin Lauren put together these cute little boxes with little knick-knacks to represent all the things Grandma has done. My cousin Emily arranged all the flowers.

Grandma is an amazing seamstress and on display were some of the quilts she's made, clothes she has sewn for herself and others, paintings she had done and picture books of all the fun places she's traveled to.

This little pink quilt with ducks is Brooklyns.

Grandma and her 4 great-granddaughters.

Grandma and My Dad. (The bottom right quilt with the cats and dogs is McKenzie's)

Happy Easter!

I've never done a big Easter egg hunt before but this year I thought the girls were at a perfect age to really enjoy one. Usually we take turns hiding empty eggs around the house for a week before (and after). I had a blast finding lots of fun Easter-y stuff to fill over 100 eggs with and hid them all over our yard. Here are the girls all ready to get searching!

I was surprised how fast they rounded up all those eggs. Next year I'll know to make finding them a little harder! ;) Since the weather was pretty nice, the girls played on the trampoline and had a blast!

Then we headed inside to color some eggs.

We all got in on the fun! ;)

Then next morning we woke up to find the Easter Bunny had made a stop at our house.

It might have been a little early for McKenzie!

For breakfast we went to Michelle & Brandon's house then we had another egg hunt.

More to add to their loot!

There were all sorts of goodies inside all those eggs.

There were even a few REAL eggs!

We had fun playing afterwards!

And decorated sugar cookies. Yum!

Happy Easter!

McKenzie gets her tonsils out.

Since Chad was laid off at the beginning of this month and we are unsure of what our insurance situation will be after the end of May we decided not to wait until summer for McKenzie to have her tonsils out. She did soooo good. She went right in and was so brave.

She was a little groggy afterwards and she hated the I.V. and kept trying to mess with it.

But when the anesthesia started wearing off she was back to her silly little self. She brought a Spot What book (like an I Spy) and she kept having all the nurses that came to check on her find random things in her book too.

Her favorite part was riding out in this cool chair!

A couple days after surgery her teacher came to visit and brought get well cards from all the kids in her class. It had been a rough day since it gets worse before it gets better and it totally made her day!