Easter Pics

I have more of the kids doing their egg hunt in the house, but I just have these to post-you will have to use your imagination for the rest! I am having a hard time locating the camera today in all the chaos, so I can't download my second memory card, sheesh. We had a great Easter dinner here as our tradition has been for the past 4 years. Even though our house is in a bit of disarray and lacking some furniture, we thought one last family holiday was in order! We sold our dining room table and chairs on Sat. so we had to set up a card table, but with a festive table cloth and center pieces it all still looked cute! Isaac and Vivi loved their Easter baskets that Mommy assembled and had fun doing their egg hunt with cousin Samantha, along with decorating some eggs with Veggie Tale shrink wrappers. For dessert the older two got to enjoy their chocolate bunnies and I made my ever-popular chocolate lava cakes for the adults. Yummy!

Easter Portraits

We did these portraits the weekend before it snowed here, if you can believe it!

Isaac chose the color scheme...yellow...his favorite color of course!

Happy Easter!

Make a scrapbook - it's easy!

Fun Times at the Galleria

Vivianna enjoyed her first "baby girls day out" at the mall w/her friends.

Having fun below playing with Monae. Yesterday we met up with my friends Brandi and Kristin and their two little munchkins each! We played on the playground and ate lunch. It was nice to get out of the house after so much rain! The kids did great. Isaac insisted on sitting next to the girls instead of across the table. It is so cute to see them getting into having friends at this age. Vivi loved meeting her new friend, Gracie. Kristin, Matt, and Big Sister Jaimes (pictured above w/Isaac) welcomed her home on the 14th- Vivi's birthday. Isn't she adorable?! And we were privileged to be at the mall with them on Gracie's first birthday (March 19th)! This now makes my 3rd friend that has a one year old baby girl! So fun for Vivi and us!

Happy birthday and Welcome Home, Gracie!

Isaac's School Spring Fling

The Thursday before Vivi's birthday was the school's spring carnival/egg hunt/fund raiser. They covered all their bases! The kids all got to hunt for 12 eggs, play in bounce houses, eat lots of free popcorn, cotton candy, and snow cones, ride the train, and do a petting zoo. We got to buy raffle tickets for really great prizes, which sadly we didn't win any. It was so windy that day and a bit too chilly for the spring dress I had Vivi in- good thing she had a sweater on. She never left the comfort of her stroller and blanket. Isaac loved seeing his teacher and the school mascot!

Our Little Girl

Vivi went for her one year check-up today and weighs in at a tiny 18 pounds! My goodness. I was hoping we could turn her carseat around because she really wants to see us. Looks like that won't happen until summer!
Doesn't Vivianna look like such a toddler in these pictures?! Today it really hit me that she is growing up. We took her bumper pads and crib skirt off to be washed in an effort to sell our lamb nursery set on Craigslist and we also took off her changing table from her dresser. (We are keeping all furniture for our next baby, and I am hopeful that atleast one of my children will get a gender specific nursery!). So now her room looks really different. But the biggest change came when we sold her rocker and ottoman! This is one of many things we have to sell so we can all fit in an apartment. We posted it last night for $50...apparently this was way too low because by today we had 26 emails of different people wanting to buy it!! So we said we would take the best offer and it was $100. Yeah!! I think we got the chair on sale new for $130 so that was a great deal! Here is the chair corner BEFORE

And here it is AFTER

A kitchen, living room, and garage fit for a little girl!