Easter

I made the kids Easter clothes and am so in love with the result. They looked adorable and melted my heart!

 

So Ben!

 

 

The girls and I had fun getting the table all set for our friends to come eat with us.

  

  

Easter Egg Hunt, They had a hard time finding the golden egg so they had to enlist the dads to help out.

Easter aftermath...for days I would find scissors and opened, empty candy wrappers around the house from clandestine snacking.

March

 

Primaries for the Presdiential race were in March and I just couldn't not vote, so the kids and I waited over 2 hours in line to get our vote in. It was a little nuts, but the kids were pretty good!

  

We got a *little* dirt delivered. Haha! It's so exciting to have things moving right along! This dirt was to build up around the foundation of the house to the height it's supposed to be.

 

Oh, how I love spring! We spent a lot of time outside in the garden and enjoying natures beauties. I just LOVE our neighbor's bradford pear trees in the spring!

  

 

My calling right now is in Activity Days. I just love this group of girls (even if I don't love coming up with activities, haha!)

  

I also helped a friend make these incredible waterfall ruffle curtains.

Girls Trip to California

My sister Marti and her girls all had plans to get together in California for a girls weekend to spend time together and to see my parents before they moved away. I had told Rob about how jealous I was that all of my favorite ladies would be together and I wouldn't be there with them. Sweet Rob took matters into his own hands and contacted Erin to see if it would be okay if I joined in on the fun, then he found flights that would work and rearranged his schedule. When he told me, all I had to do was say okay and it was all planned and he would press the button to book it. I was nervous to be gone for a weekend, but was SO GLAD I did it and that he was amazing and worked AND covered the home front for me so Emmi and I could get to spend time with the most amazing ladies I know!

It was so quiet in the airport with just my littlest - such a surreal experience to just be in charge of one easy baby instead of a whole thundering, screeching hoarde!

 

These baby girls are destined to be besties!

Avery was the only big kid who got to come and she had a ball having lots of attention on her and loving on the babies. 

 

Saturday morning we went garage saleing around Simi. Emily found Emmi this scepter that lit up and it was love for Emmi. She would not put that thing down! Awesome Aunt Emily plunked down the 50 cents so Emmi could take it home with her

We spent so much time talking and playing games and catching up with each other. It was just the best!

  

   

    

We played a rousing game of Catch Phrase and somehow it ended up that when the thing beeped on you, you had to put your hand in an "L" on your forehead and everyone would chant loooooo-serrrrrrr at you. I can't remember laughing so hard recently!

 

   

It was so hard to say good bye, so instead we decided that this would become a "thing". When each of us turns 40, we get to pick a destination and we'll all get together for a girls trip for more fun together and maybe someday we will all be childless...maybe :)

February

More of February's adventures! 

Ruby learned how to ride her bike! In true Ruby fashion, she just did it and wouldn't let anyone help her after the training wheels were off. We have a funny video of her screaming to not touch her while precariously peddling haha!

  

Rob and his workmate Clark have the same shirt. Clearly Clark is not pleased about it. They text each other whenever they wear it, haha!

Valentine's heart hair

We added a path on our side yard to make getting trash cans out easier and to cut down on the mud there since grass won't grow. It was a huge project, but we ALL worked so hard and got it done!

       

      

    

   

 

 

We got our seeds started for the spring garden, but sadly one beautiful day I took them outside to acclimate them and fried their poor little brains out. There's always next year!

The kids love hammocking!

 

We said goodbye to an old carseat-friend and traded it in for a newer safer one. So many happy memories of cute kids in that seat!

    

For school, we read the book How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World so we made an apple pie!

 

Cute note I found on my bed one night from Grace 

    

Emmi was not thrilled with starting solids

 

   

Emmi tried ice cream for the first time and was a HUGE fan. She grabbed that cone and wouldn't let it get more than a couple inches from her mouth!

Rob's ingenious garage fixes for storing the ladder and travel box

  

A quiet moment - this is such a rare occurance!

Ready for a bike adventure!

We love to FaceTime with our families. I love this photo sequence because it shows the nuttiness of the whole endeavor!

        

    

Starting to learn how to crawl

Bleh!

Graphic photo disclaimer! We had kids ding dong ditching our house multiple weekends in a row and one night they did it twice and so Rob was ready with door unlocked to chase after them. He actually caught them and gave them a stern talking-to which ended in a handshake and a gentleman's agreement that they wouldn't ring our house any more. That totally didn't stop them, but it made for an interesting night! In the process poor Rob scraped up his toe really badly