Friday, April 5, 2013

March Lunch Field Trips with the little girls

 One day we ate with L at her school.
 Here we are with KD for lunch
One day we drove to Dad's work and ate with him in the truck in the parking lot.

Easter 2013


 Dying our eggs.
 Easter Baskets and new dresses
 New Outfits Nanny sent the girls for Easter.
 Easter Saturday with good friends.  We ate a brunch and read an Easter Story and decorated sugar cookies and did an Easter Egg hunt inside.




 V on Easter Sunday

 All our sweeties on Easter Sunday in perty dresses.
 Easter Sunday Meal with our Hmong friends.

Elders giving a lesson on Easter Sunday to the kids.

Week Long Spring Break

 Monday- Went to the YMCA the the Gymnastics Center.  This is the foam pit.
 KD on the bars
 Eating Lunch at the Y
 Monday Night was pizza and reading night.  We had gone to the library and loaded up.

 At the Y on the pads.
 Tuesday was baking day.  We had chocolate lemon cake, applesauce cake, Easter sugar cookies, Carmalitas, and Cowboy cookies.  We played bakery that night.  The kids had play money.  It was fun.
 Wednesday was a visit to Heckrodt Nature Preserve.
 The Baking Day Bakers.  I don't know why my pictures don't post in the order I select them...
 Thursday was "T" Night.  We ate Texas French Toast for dinner and had Twix, Tamales, and Twizzlers.  We played Twister and watched "Turtle Tales."  It was fun.  We just randomly selected a letter out of a bag from the alphabet and "T" was selected.

Friday was dying Easter Eggs and eating icecream Sundays.

Moments

 I found this collection of undies hanging by our front door one day.
 We don't need real toys at our house!
 Every Saturday these girls have the same chore because they do it so well.  They call themselves the "Garbage Girls."  They put their liners in this basket to drag from can to can.
 The is exactly how K arranged things.  She has to have them just so.
 My Babies!
 L was a raindrop in her school grade play.
Our morning scripture study.

St. Patty's Day

 The Leprechaun always hides a box of sugar cereal for each of the girls.

E's 5th birthday!


 She chose pizza for her dinner.
 We went to ChuckECheeses the next week to celebrate also.  That was fun!

K is potty trained!

We didn't even attempt to train her until she was three years and four months old.  She did it right away.  She loved putting a sticker up each time she went.

V's Firsts

 First baby Food at 6 1/2 months.
 First Bottle at six months.
First bath at 5 1/2 months.

Our Dell's Trip

 This was a huge dryer that dried you super fast after getting out of the water.
 Our hotel, Atlantis, gave us free passes at Chula Vista, a huge water park!  So fun.

 In the Family Dressing Room
 Such a fun, fast train.
 Lunch at Culvers
 Dinner at Buffalo Phil's- So fun.  The train delivers your food and other times blows bubbles at you.
 Breakfast in the hotel room.  We brought the food from home.

 The jetted tub in our room
 Atlantis!  So much fun!

 Our double room with jetted tub and fireplace.