Birthdays and Easter

Time to catch up on some blogging. For a while now my mind has been so filled with our new house and the possible flooding of our old one, that all of the photos of everyday life haven't felt like much of a priority. So here we go . . .

As previously mentioned, we spent Easter with 3 sick kids. Emma still went to church with Daddy and then went to celebrated Easter at Grandma House's house, but the other three missed out on all of that. We had plans to go to my parents' house for dinner to celebrate Easter and Ali, Austin (my nephew) and Julie's birthdays. (Ali and Austin were both born on April 11, Julie is April 13 - so they all get celebrated together, and are usually lumped in with Easter.) We decided to go ahead with plans at my mom's house. Ali basically spent the day on the couch or in bed - but I didn't want her to have to miss her birthday with Grandma and Grandpa.

Here we have Ali showing off one of her gifts - home made Dorothy dress and Ruby slippers from Grandma - she was very excited about those!!


After school gets out we are taking a weekend vacation to Chicago to do the "American Girl Experience" They already knew about that, but they didn't know that Grandma and Grandpa Klarner were giving them spending money for the American Girl Place. Ali and Emma both opened their envelopes at the same time (watching each other, of course.) It took them a minute to register what they had opened, but they were very excited. They have each told me about 50 different ways that they plan to spend that money! Here's Emma opening her envelope (and watching Ali the whole time!)


We can't forget Easter festivities. The kids all found their Easter baskets, and later hunted Easter eggs. We came home with ridiculous amounts of candy!!




Julie pulled in quite a haul for her birthday, including a new highchair and food for her Bitty Baby, 101 Dalmations DVD, new panties, new dresses and some Polly Pockets. I'm glad that they didn't all come home with so much stuff!