The hunts have begun!

This past Saturday, our local grocery store, Village Market, held an Easter Egg Hunt for the kids. Jason's parents were visiting so Grandma and I took the girls. They put the kids at the end of aisles according to age and then announced when they could go. They could grab as many eggs as they could get. This year, both girls got a ticket in one of their eggs for a prize! Mace ended up with a basket with a stuff Easter Bunny, bubbles, and sidewalk chalk and Kels got a larger sized stuffed lamb, which she was thriled about because it was pink, her favorite color. They had NO interest in seeing the Easter Bunny, who was visiting the store, when the hunt was done :)

Here they all are at the end of the hunt.

Kels did pretty well filling her basket. At first she was only going for pink eggs so I had to keep telling her to get the other colors as well.

Before the hunt.

I had to throw this picture in. I was cooking dinner the other night and it seemed a bit too quiet. (last time I thought that was when Macey decided to cut Kelsey's hair, which I should actually blog about) When I went into the living room, I found them like this :)

Today for preschool, Elizabeth had an Easter party for us. We hunted for eggs, decorated cookies, listened to the Easter Story, hopped like bunnies, and colored eggs.

This was a tie dye kit and they actually turned out decent.

Licking just the pink frosting off her cookie. surprise surprise.

Found one!

Excited about hopping!

I love this picture because....

1. Macey's outfit that she picked out today.

(tank top with *matching* pink long sleeve shirt

and pink leggings, otherwise known as pj pants)

2. Annabelle checking out Macey's Snow White socks.

Bennett can hardly wait to find his eggs!

Delicious!

Fancy Nancy Party

Yesterday, the girls and I attended a Fancy Nancy Party at our library. For those that don't know, Fancy Nancy is a series of children's books, where a little girl loves to be fancy and dress up. The girls were so excited all morning looking for what they were going to wear. I think they fancied up just fine :) They had fun decorating cupcakes, making necklaces, making fancy plaacemats about themselves, folding napkins, and eating fancy finger foods at the party. When it was all done we came home and they must have been fancied out because they both took over a 3 hr nap!

Staff vs Students

Jason and Darrin both played in the staff vs students fundariaser basketball game last night. It was a close game, but the staff lost by 3 points. This was our last basketball game to sit through for the season and it was an entertaining one :) Onto baseball games!

The kids attempting their "half court" shots at halftime :)

Update on baby girl #3

Last Friday, Jason took the day off and we all went to the 20 week ultrasound where we found out we're having another little girl! So much for motherly instincts because I was thinking it was a boy for the most part, not sure why, but had a feeling. I sure was wrong! But we're thrilled to add another girl to the family and for the girls to get another sister. She measured on average 5 days ahead of my due date, so she's bigger than average so far. I was relieved to find this out considering I wasn't eating much for the first 18 weeks of pregnancy. She seemed to grow just fine :) Jason thinks her profile looks like Kelsey and I think it looks like Macey. Now I can't wait to meet her, face to face. We aren't going to share names until she's born and we only have a few that we both agree on so far and they're definitely not THE name yet.

Here she is!

Saturday morning is when we threw the reveal party to announce what we're having. Here's everyone with the color shirt of what they thought we were having. As you can see, most were thinking boy. Kelsey then opened gift after gift to reveal a pink outfit for everyone to see!

It was a fun day :)

I took this picture today of me at 21 weeks along. I've been feeling really good lately as long as I keep up on my medication for morning sickness. Our house has gotten hit by some virus this past week with sore throats, low fevers, sinus pressure, congestion, and COUGHING. At night the coughing is the worst, with Jason out on the couch coughing away, while I'm in bed listening to the girls cough away on the monitors. I'll be glad when it's spring and there's no more sickness!

Birthday Parties Galore!

The girls' birthdays have come and gone. They were so lucky to have quite a few parties. Elizabeth threw a party for each girl, and we had a party at Bumpa Nykerk's house, as well as Grandma and Grandpa Burgess'. The theme was an easy pick this year, Princesses :) Macey wanted to wear her fancy Cindrella like dress and Kelsey insisted on a pink dress. I'm glad they are still into the same thing so the theme hasn't been hard to pick when sharing their parties. I'm sure this at some point will change though!

Thank you to everyone who made their birthdays so special!

Here we all are with the fancy princess cake.

Aunt Brenda always wows us with her themed cakes!

Macey with her Great Grandpa Nykerk.

Kelsey and her cool visor she made.

Playing right light, green light at Elizabeth's house.

We're having a .... !!!!!