Easter, Class Reunion and Palm Sunday

Happy Easter! Here are our pics from today, this week coloring eggs, pre-class reunion brunch, Easter egg hunt at the Stewartsville park, and Easter at my mom's house.

How big does my baby girl look here??!!!!

Playing catch!

Courtney showing us all her eggs! She got all of them herself:) Every year, we have Courtney take a picture with this bunny, who's name is apparently Alice. Courtney loves her:)

Courtney's Easter basket with books, carrot baseball, treats and a magnetic fishing game.

Our fam. I look fat, but Courts is smiling. I'll take it.

Courtney's 2nd cousin ( I think) at the Stewartsville Easter egg hunt.

This year's egg hunt at the park was WAY BETTER. Courts got 1 egg last year and at least 10 this year:)

This year was my 10 year high school reunion. Some of my girlfriends got together with our kids that morning for brunch (Thanks Mindi, it was delicious)!

Courtney with Kayleigh.

Playing with Kylie.

Coloring Easter eggs. Courts wore these cute ears the whole time.

For Palm Sunday at our church, all the kids brought forward palm branches, waved them and sang songs. My daughter likes to run away, but she stood on stage for a few seconds...which we got a few seconds of video of. Sorry the video turns on its side halfway through!

Look at all our kids! We are blessed to have SO many awesome kids and parents at Liberty St.

Spring Break

We had a very fun spring break! It started off chilly, then got VERY warm, and as I type there is 10ish inches of snow on the ground. YUCK! But, it's supposed to be back up to 60 by Wednesday and I am hoping to get some seeds in our new garden by then!

We went to Stewartsville a few days of the break for a little St. Patty's Day fun with my sister and Patrick and got to play outside. Courtney was a little scared of the cows, but liked the baby calves. She LOVED watching my dad on the tractor!

Courtney helped my mom dye Easter eggs.

We got to see a live bagpipe "band". Very festive!
Dan - also being festive.

Yeah for playing outside - finally!

Looking at the cows with pappa.

Trying to see the shy baby calf.

At the zoo!

Friday was my birthday and it was excellent! Here is Courtney dancing to one of my musical cards!

The card that she made for me! Kaitlynn turned two this weekend and we went to her Elmo Party (in the snow). Courtney and her did NOT plan their outfits, they just happened to look identical!

This big girl made no mess when she ate her cake!

Presents!

Birthday Party!

Courtney's birthday party on Saturday was so fun! It was super fun for me to decorate and prepare for! All the little girls wore tutu's and that could have been decoration enough! I put lots of pics on Facebook since that is a lot quicker to do, but here are some highlights!

Displaying all the tutu "best friend pics" that Courtney had taken with Ashley and Kaitlynn!

The "two" themed food included two on baguettes, not two hot salsa and chips, vegetwobles, fruit on twoothpicks, twooty fruity lemonade, two layer cake and (above) tworkey sandwiches! I LOVE A THEME!

Baby Aubrey was a big hit! Courts was merely "breathing" on the cake, but finally gave one big blow to get the candles out!

For some reason, this little girl in her tutu (what look like) long lanky legs and tennis shoes make her look all grown up (like 4). But it's a sweet picture!

Going in for hugs!

thanks to all our friends and family who came and celebrated with Courtney! She (and we) love you all!

Courtney turns 2!

For Courtney's actual birthday on March 11, we celebrated big time by taking her to McDonald's to eat and play. I know - we are great parents. It is fun, though, that we can take her somewhere and bring in NOTHING with us! She got a cheeseburger, apple dippers and ate some of our fries:) We also took her to Kaliedoscope the morning of her party just for her to have something to do that day other than hear, "don't open your presents" "don't pop the balloons" "no, we can't eat the cake yet". Later that day, she kept saying something about Lyda's coat, Lyda's coat, but it was actually that she wanted to go back to Kaleidoscope. Awww. Having some apples.
WEEEE! The musical slide.

Making a puzzle.

Painting!

Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!

It may be February, but at dinner tonight Courtney kept saying, "HO HO HO Merry Christmas to everyone!"

Here are some pictures from our Valentine's weekend. We made cookies on Thursday night to give to all Courtney's friends at the babysitter, neighbors, cousins, friends, etc. Dan and I went out to dinner at Outback and then went to Ophelia's on the Independence Square. Courtney had fun at meemaw Jody's! On Sunday we fixed a "fancy" dinner for all of us to eat!

Courtney and I writing/coloring Valentine's for her friends:)

Showing us all the gifts and cards she got from the babysitter! And the roses I got from Dan are behind her!

Our dinner on Valentine's night (in our sweats)!