Happy Easter!

Easter morning, the kids were so excited to see their baskets! Emma went straight for her Zhu-Zhu pet! Drew has a cat (named "C.A.T.") and he gets so frustrated when Emma tries to play with it (he sleeps with it - it's his best friend!). So, she got a pink bunny named "Hoppy."

Drew was all about shaking the eggs and getting the candy out of them. THEN he realized there were some toys and things in there too! He's mastered his 48 piece puzzle (does it in just a few minutes), so he got a 100 piece Toy Story puzzle. He did it with Chad's help several times.


Drew and I colored eggs on Friday. These are the only ones that survived in one piece through our coloring process!

Drew's allergist told us to try to give him foods with eggs cooked in them (even though he is still allergic, eggs change their form when they are cooked inside things). So, we've done cookies from the store and I made cupcakes on Easter morning - and he loved them!

It was beautiful on Easter, so we took the front panels off the Jeep and went for a ride - the kids loved it!

Our Jeep ride took us to the park for a bit. Here's the kids on the swings. :)

We had pizza for dinner the other night...Emma is a big fan! She ate almost a whole piece! Maybe that's normal for one year olds to do - but not in this house! It is so awesome to feed her ANYthing I want! The hard part now is Drew's reaction and asking why can't he have that too. We try to make it not a big deal - "it's just food." And there are special things that only he can have. But he's been doing better at actually trying new lunches and dinners so we're making improvements!

I forgot to post some other cute pictures from last week. I love this one of her pretty lashes!

Here she is playing with her buddy Annika at the park. Annika is not even 10 months - and she's bigger than Emma!


Drew loved pushing Emma on the swings - it made Emma crack up the whole time!

I love this simple picture!

...scratching her back! haha
Silly kids - almost getting blown away from the wind! This was before the horrible storms we got.
And here's the flower pots that Drew painted, and I made the ladybugs and baked them on. We gave one to Chad's parents and one to Grant and Sherry at the party.

And here's the kids and I enjoying our new table on one of our 80 degree days!

Happy Birthday Emma!

We had Emma's ladybug birthday party this past Sunday! It's so hard to believe that she is already ONE!! Our baby is getting so big - she's walking all over the house, eating all kinds of new foods every day, repeating tons of sounds and some words ("boo," "hi," "wow," etc), loves playing peekaboo (she hides and peeks out at you and laughs and then hides again), she loves giving high fives and clapping when Drew makes a basket, she loves her swimming class, she carries babydolls and stuffed animals around while hugging them and saying "awww," and she smiles and laughs at anyone that looks her way! I think she, Olivia and Drew had a great time at the birthday party. Here's the ladybug cake that Emma won at the Halloween costume contest last year - SO CUTE!

And here's the (homemade!) ladybug pinata!

We grilled out and enjoyed the awesome weather and our new table!

After we ate, it was pinata time! Sherry showed Olivia the proper technique.

Drew took this very seriously! Especially when the candy started coming out!

Here's everyone cheering on the little ones.



And a video of the action.




Then it was off to the Easter egg hunt. Emma started to get over her fear of walking in the grass and moved around a little.
She even knew what to do with the eggs!



Then the kids took a break from scarfing down the candy in the eggs for a quick picture.


Then Chad and the kids rolled down the hill. HAHA!

Family picture time!

Then Emma got to enjoy...CAKE!! I don't know that she tasted the actual cake, but she sure enjoyed the red frosting! After this, she went straight to the bath!

After ALL that plus presents, Emma was ready for a nap! And the rest of us got to sit outside and enjoy the weather (low 70s and sunny) and play a little baseball, bubbles, sidewalk chalk, etc. It was a great day!!

Lenoir trip and swimming

I can't beleive Emma will be ONE next week! Here she is outside enjoying our spring weather!

sweet baby girl!

Drew works on his jumpshot everyday now! Chad taught him how to shoot with one hand and guide the ball with the other, so it even looks like a REAL shot! And he's pretty impressive with his puzzle working skills. He'll do this 45 piece puzzle in under 10 minutes! I'm going to get him a harder one and see how he does! Last Sunday we went to Chad's parents' house. Here's Emma and Daddy on the four wheeler - her first ride! She didn't mind at all - just looked around with a pretty serious look on her face.
And Drew rode with Granddad. I have to post videos of this...Drew watches them over and over...and over!
Here's Emma and Grandmom. We went and visited Nana too. Here she is with the kids.

We won't take pictures every Saturday at swim class, I promise! But Chad swam with Emma this time, so I wanted to get a few shots of that. Here's Drew choking on some water! haha

Emma had a great time with Daddy!

Kick, kick, kick!

Emma walks everywhere in the house now! Even her shoes don't slow her down much. She still sits down outside and they say she doesn't walk too much at the Y.