My girls

My girls are growing up way too fast.

I can't believe this year Meghan will be 10....

Sarah has turned into a little girl recently.

She is still just 2 and in diapers, but she thinks she is a big girl.

(check out how long her hair is!)

Jenna is the only one that sat still for me to take her photo.

My rough and tough beauty.

I attempted to take a photo of me and my girls...it took forever to get Sarah to lay down and she was looking good until...the picture was taken. She looks like she is upset, but she wasn't.  Will attempt another photo soon...and may try to get Rob in it too.

Easter 2012

Happy Easter!!!

We had a surprise basket on the front porch on Saturday evening.  We know it is from one of our wonderful neighbors, we just don't know which one.  They have all done something special for us and the girls for each holiday.....so we hope we find out which one left the basket, so we can thank them.

 After the neighbor left a surprise, we all headed to bed and the Easter bunny stopped by with some goodies.

Meghan wrote a letter and we told the bunny we wanted to hide eggs in the backyard, so the bunny left a few 

packs of plastic eggs for us.

Meghan loves to sleep in, but on fun days like today she is the first one up....way too early.

She woke up Jenna, but I didn't let them wake up Sarah.  Sarah slept about 30 minutes longer than the rest of us.

She wasn't expecting a surpise waiting for her, but she was so excited when she saw a table full of goodies.

 When the sun showed up and it warmed up a little Rob hid the eggs and the hunt began.

We had 32 eggs to hide for the girls and they found 31.....

We have looked all over, but still haven't found the last egg.  

Sarah is a pro at egg hunts after doing the one at the church yesterday.

She takes her time, so we made sure the big girls left some around for her.

 Meghan and Jenna had their American Girl dolls helping in the egg hunt too.

 Sarah was so excited about finding the eggs!

 It looks like Sissy is looking for a few eggs too.

I think Meghan was still looking for her Golden Egg when I took this last picture!

We had a fun filled family day today and made many memories.

Easter Eggs

This was Sarah's first year helping color the eggs. I think she really enjoyed it and was much more patient to wait for her turn than the big girls.  

 Sissy likes to hang out with us and she likes to get in on the action when we have family time.

She had a rough Friday night, so I like that she stays close by, so I can keep an eye on her.

 Sarah moved around to try and get a hold of some of the eggs, but it didn't work.

Our finished eggs!  

We have lot's of fun and I think the girls would paint a few dozen if we let them.

Easter Egg Hunt 2012

 Sarah's first official Egg hunt.

St. Andrews UMC.

 My happy baby girl.

 Big girls still finding eggs.

 I wanted to take a picture of the girls with their baskets full of goodies but they were more interested in the goodies, so no one was looking at me.

 We had a fun afternoon.

Egg hunt, face painting, cookies/cupcakes and a craft.

Spring Flowers

I think I'm going to buy more of this ground cover that has the beautiful purple flowers. I was looking for something to plant on the side of the house that was low maintenance and could cover up small weeds.

I love the flowers and then after spring it will be a nice green plant to fill in between the sidewalk and house.

Spring Break Recap

It felt like spring break lasted a long time, but last night as I was getting things ready for school for the girls, it felt like it went way too fast.
We kinda started spring break early with a visit from my parents, but the girls only had last week off of school and gymnastics.
We had a great spring break week and did lot's of fun things.
Monday....swimming and walk around a pond.
Tuesday....doctor appt and grocery shopping (the boring day).
Wednesday....Boonshoft museum.
Thursday.....purchased Alvin and the Chipmunks, Chipwrecked.  We watch the movie and ate lunchables.
Friday....swimming and watched the new movie again.
Saturday....birthday party attended by Jenna.  Rob and Meghan had a little date at the ice cream shop.
Sunday.....Church and new Monster High dolls.
I really enjoy when the big girls are off of school (and not fighting).  I find if I keep us all busy the fighting is less and we all have a more enjoyable time.
Today is back to school, gymnastics and normal routine.  

Hand-me-downs

If I had known way back when that I would have had another little lady, I would have saved all the clothes from Meghan and Jenna.   When I did decide we would add to the family, I started saving some of the girls clothes...just in case we would have another girl.

I pulled this outfit out the other day and thought since Sarah as tall and this outfit had shrunk it might fit her.

Jenna was 3 turning 4 when she got this outfit!

I love seeing Sarah in it.

The link below is from a post I did back in 2008 and Jenna is wearing this same outfit!

http://billsfamily96.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-dad.html