Springtime!

So the weather overall lately has

been great and we have been outside :)

My lil' gardener.

I think we need a big kid swing, she's huge in this!
She's discovered how to "pump" so she
doesn't need us to push anymore. How nice!






Last Wednesday, we visited Bennett's preschool to
feed and pet some lambs (thanks to Carol!)

A morning tea party as the sun shines in the front window.

Friday we headed into Holland to stay at Brenda and Keith's house for Easter weekend. We had lunch at Russ', ran to Target, and had people over for pizza to watch the Michigan State game. Easter morning we got up early to eat breakfast at church before the service and then had a delicious meal at Aunt Rachel and Uncle Jim's. Later in the day, the girls had a hunt in the backyard and found some fancy wooden shoes that Bumpa made for them. Mace was thrilled!

Here they are, back home after all the Easter

fun, proudly wearing their wooden shoes.

Jason is currently on Spring Break and we have no big plans besides lots yard work, Chuck E Cheese, transitioning Kels to a big girl bed, possibly the movie theatre, and just relaxing!

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!