Easter 2011

We had a lovely Easter complete with egg hunts, Easter brunch, flowers, family and.... sick Ellie :) She always gets sick on holidays. Double ear infection and pink eye, blah...  She was a trooper though and even started walking for real over the weekend!

 Egg hunt at the library. Mia wanted nothing to do with Easter Bunny but did a great job elbowing other kids out of the way to get her eggs :)

 Concentrating on dyeing the eggs! She did great this year:)

 Uncle Ben and Grandma helped too.

 Ellie Bunny

 Egg hunt with neighbors.

 The cutest couple and soon to be parents :)

 She had a great time and got completely filthy.

 I always take pictures of flowers...

Easter cupcakes with buddies :)

She did it!

Easter weekend was wonderful! Lots of photos coming soon. But first...

Is there anything sweeter than a 1-year old taking their first steps? This just gets me everytime! She's so cute. Go Ellie :)

Right now

I am very excited to have Easter here with my mom and brother and his wonderful fiance and my soon to be niece! In preparation for their arrival, I thought I'd at least straighten up a little. I was out of the kitchen for about 3 minutes but when I came back there was this...

Maybe I should just leave it to help prepare Ben and Morgan for parenthood :)

Anyway, looking forward to a pretty weekend with egg hunts and family time. Happy Easter to all!
xoxo

Spring stuff

It is absolutely gorgeous here in the spring! The flowering trees are amazing and the bulbs are breathtaking. And soon the azaleas will be in full bloom, yay! How can anyone not enjoy spring :) (Allergies, aside...)

We've been out and about a bit this weekend and I continue to try and take photos of the girls. We visited a lovely little Japanese garden and then the Naval museum yesterday, and meandered through the Botanical Gardens today.


Oh, and we had a date night last night! Just me and Sean! It was so great to enjoy dinner without crayons, sippy cups and high chairs! We found a sweet babysitter who asked Mia when she was leaving if she'd like her to bring some stickers for next time. Mia responded "that sounds good, but what I'd really like are chocolate chip cookies!" ha!


Lots of pictures below. I didn't edit any because I'm just overwhelmed with Photoshop and can't find the time to devote to learning it just yet. But they are still pretty cute :)

 We saw 3 Norfolk mermaids on our walk yesterday.

 That's our climber :) No walking yet, but she can scale a rope ladder!

 My backyard (I wish!! None of my tulips came up this year, ugh! What did I do wrong??)

 Attempts to get cute photo... no luck as usual :)

Amazing tree!!

Our climber

Ellie is a climber. We are thankful that we bolted all of the heavy furniture down a few years ago (although it never crossed Mia's mind to climb furniture). Ellie will climb up and down the stairs giggling happily all day if you let her. We have the bottom of the stairs blocked with a big, heavy trunk because Ellie will try to climb baby gates. At the playground, she is still content to put mulch and sand in her mouth, but soon I think we'll have a little monkey on our hands!