Happy Birthday Daddy...

...from your girls! We love you very much!!

(P.S. Please ignore the terrible picture of me...I had been planting flowers in our flowerbeds all afternoon...it was just the only pic I had of all three of us...)

Spring fling

Daddy and Anna had fun decorating brownie bites at the Spring Fling at Challenger Park...

In the bluebonnets

For whatever reason, Anna has been somewhat obsessed this year with me taking her picture in the bluebonnets. There is a field of bluebonnets outside of her school, and every day that I pick her up she insists on me taking her picture there. Most days its with a pretend camera, but on this day I actually had my real camera with me so got an actual shot. I was hoping to get a picture with she and Kate in the bluebonnets this year, but I'm afraid we may have missed our window...oh well...its been a kind of crazy last few weeks so I guess we have a good excuse :-).

Egg hunter

Hunting eggs was definitely a popular Easter activity with Anna this year. While she's not quite to the age yet that we're getting creative with hiding them, so thought running around and picking eggs up out the grass was a blast! The top picture was taken at her MOMS Club egg hunt, and the lower picture is her hunting with her school friends. We definitely got some mileage out of her Easter basket this year...

Happy Easter!

Ok, so we're a week and a half late...we were a little occupied on Easter this year...:-).

Anna was completely in LOVE with the Easter bunny this year, so was none too upset to have multiple opportunities to have her picture taken with her favorite rabbit.

The top picture was taken at the mall (I succumbed to the temptation and paid the outrageous price that they charge to have your picture taken at the mall...Anna just loved him too much for me to say no!), and the bottom is from the Easter party at Anna's school.

We hope everyone had as outstanding an Easter as we did!

Big sister!

As many of you know, Anna became a big sister on Friday, April 10th! She welcomed her new little sister, Kate Amelia, to the family at 3:16pm. Anna has been doing an amazing job as a big sister--bringing Kate toys and giving her lots of hugs, snuggles, and kisses. She's even "helping" with diaper changes!

We've been a little behind in blog postings, but I'm going to try to get caught up in the next few days. After I catch up, we're planning to switch to a new blog for both of the girls...more on that soon...

Big sis in training

We took Anna to a "Super Siblings" class this Saturday to help her get ready for Kate's nearing arrival, and she had a great time! They learned all about what babies eat, what they can play with, how to hold a baby and support their head, etc., etc. I think Clint and I appreciated the refresher as well...ha! Here, Anna is learning how to swaddle a baby. If Kate is anything like Anna was as a baby, this will be an invaluable skill...that Anna LOVED to be swaddled! I think I finally stopped swaddling her when she was about 10 months old because I realized that it had reached the point of ridiculousness...