The Reason For My Joy . . .

The Reason For My Joy . . .

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Andrea's 4th Birthday!

Andrea loves the Pinkalicious books by Victoria and Elizabeth Kann. In fact, I have read Pinkalicious to her so many times that she has it memorized word for word. So, for her birthday this year, she wanted a Pinkalicious cake. We also had a "Pinkalicious" dinner that night by eating everything that was pink. On the menu was pink pancakes with strawberry syrup, fresh strawberries, pink yogurt, and strawberry milk. As you can see, Andrea loved it!
Here's my big 4 year old with her cake.



Blowing out the candles.

Opening her presents. Surprise . . . it's Squinkies.

Andrea got the Pinkalicious book from Santa this past year, so we got her the other 3 books in the series for her birthday. We've already read them just about every day!

We also got her a Pinkalicious doll.

Modeling the Snow White dress from Grandma Linda. She loved it!

Enjoying her birthday cake and ice cream.






















Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Easter Morning is Here!

Playing with the toys that the Easer Bunny left in the Easter baskets.Surprise! The Easter Bunny has been here!
Rylan got some toy dinosaurs.

Alexa got a Zoobles and an umbrella.


The three older kids all got umbrellas. The Easter Bunny was pretty brave getting the kids something that can brake so easily. Andrea's was broke by the next day!


Landon got some stretchy lizards and an umbrella.


Enjoying his lizards!


Andrea got some sunglasses and an umbrella.


A basket full of goodies!

Rylan loved Easter! He was shoving candy in his mouth just as fast as he could. I finally had to put his (and everyone else's) basket up out of his reach.






















Easter Egg Hunts

This year, our kids went on three different Easter Egg hunts. One was at Grandma Kathy's house the day before Easter, one was at our house on Easter morning, and one was at Aunt Trina's house on Easter afternoon. Here is a picture of Grandma Linda with all (except Cameron) of her grandchildren on Easter Sunday. Here's Rylan and I at Aunt Trina's Easter egg hunt.
Beautiful Alexa is getting pretty darn good at this Easter egg hunt thing.


Here's Andrea finding the eggs that the Easter Bunny hid at our house. She's also sporting the sunglasses that were in her Easter basket.

Landon sure had a good time finding the eggs that Grandma Kathy hid in her yard!












Coloring Easter Eggs

Yeah, I'm finally getting aroung to posting Easter pictures! This year we colored eggs at Grandma Kathy's house. Here are some pictures of the kids enjoying the dying of eggs tradition.