Easter and Reagan's Birthday

We had such a fun weekend between Reagan's Birthday party and Easter. We went to church, then off to Dad's and then over to Marilyn's for Easter. We enjoyed spending the entire day with family, it was almost like Christmas, we traveled and ate and received presents everywhere we went. The girls would like to get used to doing that. Piper and Reagan started getting into the candy and once they got a taste they couldn't control themselves and by 6pm they were crazy!!! Today Reagan asked for M&M's for breakfast and requested cake and cupcakes for dinner. Just because it is her Birthday I actually considered giving her some M&M's at breakfast but then I remembered her bouncing around last night and came to my senses. Here are a bunch of photos, they are not even remotely in order though.

At Marilyn's digging into their baskets
Oh they are so cute! Brecken wasn't very happy but we managed to get a couple of photos where she doesn't look like she's complaining.

Piper and Claire both looking so pretty in their dresses

Egg hunt at Dad and Jill's in the yard. I changed them out of their dresses to play outside since we played soccer and t-ball for a while too.

Piper has a serious advantage over both Reagan and Brecken in egg hunting. She knows what she's looking for, is fast, and a bit greedy.

Reagan got her birthday presents from Dad and Jill, she was very excited to two pairs of shoes, these are her new Tinkerbell tennis shoes and she got some pink sandals.

Back at Marilyn's digging in baskets

showing off her pink sandals

Poor baby B, it was naptime and she got stuck outside looking for eggs. She wanted nothing to do with crawling in the grass at the moment.

Piper had her baskets and most of the eggs before Reagan even knew what was going on. Good thing Bill and Niki took Brecken to a corner of the yard and kept Piper looking on the other side or Brecken wouldn't have gotten anything.

I've had a few years to figure out how much candy the girls get from Grandma's and Grandpa's and Aunts and Uncle's, I told the Easter Bunny to just put a few jelly beans in some eggs and loose change in most of the others. Not to mention Jason and I experienced a very unhappy Piper one Easter morning after she got into way too many jelly beans and M&M's, refused breakfast and melted down by mid morning.

Reagan was having a ball!

The Easter bunny brought the girls a t-ball stand and a soccer ball. Heather and Aydan got Regan a little bat and ball for her birthday and they were both very excited about it but neither can pitch it well enough for the other to hit it so we were happy the bunny brought a stand.

Princess Reagan's Birthday Party

We celebrated Reagan's Birthday today and she enjoyed every minute of it.

She loves her new bike!
I asked her if it was time to do presents and she jumped right in.

Just hanging out looking cute! She wanted to wear a dress so I asked her to pick it out and she picked out the pinkest, fluffiest dress she could find.

I can't tell if she's going to be a tomboy or girly girl, she loves barbies and pink dresses but also loves cars. A few weeks ago I asked her what she wanted her cake to look like and she said race car so here is her cake.

This is such a cute picture of Niki and Brecken!

Showing off her new doll blankets her Great Grandma Marilyn made for her.

Could it be 70 degrees???

It may only be 69 degrees but it feels warm enough to us. We are enjoying some afternoon time playing in the yard. Piper doesn't have school for the next two weeks so we are trying to get outside as much as possible. Good thing the weather is cooperating.

One of their games is kind of like chicken, one chases the other with their bike and the other dodges out of the way. I do NOT like this game and am trying to discourage it.

They have been playing very well together today (thank goodness!

Spring fever

I am usually a lot better at updating the blog but I haven't even taken a picture since February. It's hard to be inspired by something when it is the same old thing inside the house every day. That is changing, thankfully, as the weather decided to warm up, the snow has almost completely melted and we are all restless. On Sunday it was 64 degrees. Oh it felt so nice, how can you not get outside and enjoy one of the first warm spring days?

Jason and Piper walked around the yard to inspect the sod, Piper saw the camera and decided she needed to pose.
The yard doesn't look great at this point but we can see the grass, and the hula hoop that has been hiding all winter long. Actually the grass is all covered with mold, it's pretty gross. It's hard to imagine that just a week and a half ago there was several feet stacked up across the yard and now it's all but gone.

Another benefit of spring, we can visit with the neighbors. Bella is such a little doll, she sees the girls and just comes running up to the fence. If it's not her climbing the fence it's Piper and Reagan. At least we've had the opportunity to see Bella at our Mops (Mothers of Preschoolers) meetings twice a month all winter.

Piper and Jason took her bike's up to the gas station and filled the tires. Jason tried to convince Piper to drive without her training wheels and I guess she tried and got scared because they went right back on. We also tried to tell her she's getting a little big for this bike but she likes it this way.

Reagan was all smiles to be able to get out and ride her bike.