Easter Weekend 10

• Family arrived at our house on Saturday around lunch...spent the afternoon together...then went to Saturday night Easter service at HCC.  The church has a really pretty courtyard and we stayed and took family pics afterwards.

• All the girls colored, decorated, glittered...you name it...some eggs.  

• Uncle Cody thought it was a good idea to bring a baby chick to each of the little girls.  YES, A REAL ONE! SIX OF THEM!

• The Easter bunny stopped by our casa to decorate our front yard with lots and lots of eggs.

• The girls were so excited and had a blast hunting eggs together!  It is so much fun when we can all be together for Easter! Such a blessing to watch them together.

• Gram bought some fun bunny masks that everyone, even Chloe, enjoyed.

• The table was decorated with candy, bunnies, colored eggs, and goodies for each little girl!  

• I finally got to watch the movie, The Blindside.  It was so good!

• We played a game of Phase 10 amongst all the craziness with 6 little girls, 9 adults, 3 dogs, and a small house!  We love to play games when we are together...nothing will stop us!  

• And finally, after everyone left on Sunday afternoon...we are left with a sweet...little...fury...stinky...chirping chick in our garage!  And Adi adores it!

Hope your Easter was as exciting as ours!

PARTY, PARTY, PARTY!!

Adilyn's 3rd Birthday party...Dora style!

The precious birthday girl.

Playing hard.

Made her wish and blew out her candles!

Opening presents is always a group effort!!

Her sweet friend, Noah, singing "Happy Birthday" to her.

He had practiced all morning!!! 

It's hard to believe she is already 3!! Before we know it, she will be 16. :(

She's 3

 Three years ago on March 21, 2007 my sweet little Adilyn Beth was born.

Time went by quickly and soon she was turning 1.

Last year she turned the big 2...

and now my little redhead is 3!!

I just want to freeze her and her sweet little self so she can't grow up anymore.

Her birthday party isn't until next weekend and we debated on telling her it was her birthday.  We didn't want to confuse her and get 100 questions about her party, cake, and presents.  But as the day arrived and a few morning hours passed, we decided we couldn't keep her from knowing!  We were excited and she had been asking for weeks, "Am I 3 yet?"  Daddy got her a Happy Meal for lunch and we took her to Chuck E. Cheese later.  Chuck E. Cheese is one of those places, could be at the top of the list, that parents dread going.  We definitely fall into that category of parents.  However, it was well worth it to see her little face light up with joy and excitement.

After she wore herself out playing games, we took her to ToysRUs and Target to shop!  

We came home with the following...

Watercolors!

(A new kid table with 4 little chairs for her to eat and play on.  We have been looking for one of these for a while now.  I'm kind of picky and didn't really want one with princesses, dora, etc on it.  Finally, we found this one!! Not sure she cared so much about this but Mommy was excited!)

New pajamas with princesses on the front and her own little pink lap top.  She says, "I'm working mom!" 

A musical set that includes the drum, bells, tambourine, shakers, etc.  Now we have our own little band in our house!  She has two friends that have a set like this and she has always enjoyed the drum!

And finally, her own golf clubs.  Daddy is starting early with her...training her to be his new golfing buddy!

And this is how Chloe celebrated most of the time...

One more thing that Adi got from us...

We gave it to her a few weeks early because we had to plan around weather, time and help in order to get this thing built. Daddy and Uncle Ryan worked hard for two days!

Happy 3rd Birthday sweet angel!  I love you and your sweet heart, funny personality, and the girl you are becoming! 

Three Generations

I love this picture!

My mom is so proud of her girls.  I just wished we lived closer so they could grow up 

spending quality time with their Nana more than once a month. 

Adi resembles my mom some, especially her facial expressions when she says certain things.  

Thanks mom for all that you do for us.  I love you and the girls adore their Nana!

My Sweet Valentines

Our Valentine's Day was pretty calm.  Spending time as a family, at home, was nice!