Mini Spring Break trip to Baltimore and Kaylee's Baptism

Quick trip to Baltimore to do some touristy things in the Inner Harbor. The kids had a lot of fun and I remembered how cool of a city Baltimore is.  We also got to see a lot of family for Kaylee's baptism :)
Some highlights:

• Mia rolling down the huge hill at Federal Hill!
• Paddle boating in the big purple dragon
• The most amazing salted caramel ice cream from a shop in the Inner Harbor
• Hanging out at Ben and Morgan's outside while the kids played
• Mia wishing on a star and asking me why she hadn't turned into a mermaid yet (that is her number one wish these days).  I am terrible with coming up with good answers for stuff like that. Tips anyone?

Lowlights:

• Someone swiped our credit card number. Not the actual card, but apparently people can just walk by you with some magnetic thingamajig and it will steal your card number. They tried to buy $1500 worth of stuff from some online company in Wisconsin and our credit card company shut it off. A pain, but it could have been worse.
• As soon as we got home, we all got the worst stomach bug ever. I think Baltimore didn't want us to leave.

Anyway, we are happy to be back to normal and here are a few photos. My camera ran out of batteries right before the baptism :( and although Grandma Sharon set me some from her phone, I do not yet know how to convert them to this format. Stay tuned, I will figure it out...

Happy Easter, Happy Spring!

Beautiful spring weather, flowers in bloom, lots of outdoor time, easter egg hunts, ham and potato salad...I love this time of year!

Water drops

Halloween Next Year?

I just love this picture of them so much.

HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY ELLIE!

My Dear little Elena Anne,

Happy Birthday to you! What a fun year we have had! We have watched you learn to walk and talk and run and jump and become the most adorable little toddler ever. You have such a spunk and charm about you and just this past week we've noticed that you have the cutest little freckles developing on your cheeks and nose :) I just want to eat you up you are so stinking cute.

You adore your big sister and try everything that she tries (and then some). You give me heart attack after heart attack at the playground when you decide to slide down the highest pole all by yourself and you love to scream "super high!" when we push you on the swings.

There is not a food you don't love nor a baby doll you don't smother with kisses, but your absolute favorite is "Blue Baby" who is now actually a gross shade of grayish brown. We are so excited about the adventures we will have this year (preschool!) but are also a little sad that our baby is growing up.

We love you so much Elliebean and you have added so much joy to all of our lives!
Mom, Dad and Mia

It was so much fun planning a rainbow-themed birthday party for last weekend. Take a look at some of the pictures below :) The beautiful cake was made by our friend Shana and I somehow forgot to get a picture of the inside of the cake, which was also a gorgeous rainbow swirl! We all just loved it :)