Busy but Fun Weekend.

We had two visitors in our home this weekend. The girls were so excited for both of them to spend a few nights at our house. Our first visitor was one of Claire's best friends...Lilly. The first night she was with us, I told all the girls to go get their pajamas on and then I heard them all just cracking up laughing. Needless to say I went in the room to see what was so funny and Claire and Lilly had the exact same nightgown and they were so excited to wear them together.

 The next morning I decided to take the girls to do something fun. Bryan was busy working on our sprinklers so it was just me and the three girls. I took them to a place to paint pottery. Here they are anxious to get started...which is probably why Claire has crazy excitement eyes.

 They each picked out a hot chocolate mug to paint and quickly shouted out colors for me to put on their plates so they could start painting away. It was so much fun to watch the joy they had in painting these mugs. I wish I could take my girls to do this more often! I am so excited for this weekend to come to see how they all turned out.

Saturday afternoon our other visitor arrived. My best friend Peggy came to visit us. She had run a half-marathon that morning and then drove up here to spend a few days with us. We all had a bunch of fun. Lots and lots of laughing happened at our house. Peggy and I taught each other how to make some scarfs. Peggy taught me how to crotchet a "cookie" scarf from a book we both bought....and I taught her how to knit a scarf. While Peggy was here, we also watched movies, played games, danced, read books (well Claire read books to Peggy), got slurpees from the #1 selling slurpee 7-11, visited the 9/11 memorial, celebrated Peggy's birthday and Peggy introduced us to Geocaching...we had fun finding 7 different ones right around our neighborhood.

 It was sad to see these fun times end, but glad we got to make the memories. We like having visitors...who wants to come visit us next? We love it!!!

Amazing Girl!!

This post is all about Claire. We just have to brag about what an amazing little girl she is. She has such a strong desire to learn and achieve. Back in December she set a goal to be reading second grade books by the end of the school year. She had to read, answer questions in complete sentences and truly comprehend what she is reading to us and then take the book to school and read it to her teacher.
Today she accomplished her goal. She read her last first grade reading book and is ready to start the second grade books. CLAIRE WE ARE SO PROUD TO BE YOUR PARENTS!!

It's Been Way Too Long...

It was been a long time since I updated our blog. I am not even sure if anyone reads this or not, but I am still updating it. I wanted to update it a long time ago, but my laptop died. This post will be full of pictures and fun times.
Claire is still doing swim lessons. She is doing amazing. I am so proud of her. She is a little fish...if only she would kick really hard while she is doing her strong arms.  She is so great!!

 Mia was quite excited for this swim lesson session to start. She was officially able to take the tiny tot swim level. She did amazing. She was fearless.

 

I missed posing about Easter. Our kids loved having the Easter Bunny come and visit them. Here are some of the highlights from Easter. First off, here are a picture of each girls coloring on their eggs before dyeing them in their favorite colors. 

 

Here are the girls after going on their Easter Egg Hunt. It isn't the greatest picture of them, but it is about the only one I got them to sit still for long enough to take the picture without it being blurry. 

 Here are the girls in their Easter Dresses. I let them pick their own dresses this year. yes they are holding their dresses up like Sophia does in Sophia the First.

 Then I had to throw in some misc pictures of things that have happened. We had a visit from the Pooper Scooper Fairy. We were so thankful for her visit.

 Just one picture of my girls loving their time with their cousin ...Baby Echo (that is what my girls call her...they can't just say Echo ...they have to say Baby Echo).

The last thing to update is us...we finally after at least 2 years got family pictures taken. We had a great time with these pictures. Here are just some of the many amazing pictures we got. 

 

 

 

There are so many more things we have done...we have been busy finishing up the outside of our house. We still have a lot of work to do, but we have now painted the outside of the house completely. Now we just need to get landscaping, sprinklers and grass and then most of the outside will be completed.