Fontenelle Forest

 We enjoyed a beautiful spring day at Fontenelle Forest exploring, playing at the park, and snapping some fun pictures.

Milan Allison

Milan is wonderful and we are always excited to pick her up from school and spend our days off together.  Of course, she has a busy social life with lots of play dates (usually here), a few sleepovers, and the sister games to lead.  She is usually very obedient about chores and helping out with her sisters.  She is also a smart cookie in school, even though she is easily distracted by arts and crafts at her desk, she still manages to pull off good grades.  She is very artistic!  At home she makes, woven place mats, homemade journals, a monstrous fairy house, simple sewing projects, and a bazillion pictures.  Her art was recently selected to be showcased at the Lied Center so that was fun to see.  When I asked her to throw away some torn black leggings, she wanted to keep them so she sewed up all the little holes. She is very particular about wearing things consistent with "her style."  She loves sleeping with her dolls and I love sneaking in some cuddle time and chit chatting right before bedtime.

Eden Elizabeth

Eden has really grown up over the last couple of months and I am cherishing every bit of this year before she goes to kindergarten.  She loves her preschool lessons and especially her group of friends.  Her favorite friend is Sidney; they've had a couple of play dates and Eden is always asking for more.  When we talk about our favorite part of the day, Eden always says preschool or mama.  Eden also loves to play preschool teacher at home and "reading" us stories.  She still loves her blankies and fingers.  She likes to pick out her own outfits every day, which is almost always a skirt, leggings, short sleeve shirt, and some cute accessories.  Sometimes, she surprises me though.  She gets regular compliments on her long curly red hair, many from random strangers.  Eden is a leftie, doesn't like cookie dough chunks in ice cream, and has a cute contagious giggle! We recently went on a date to the new Cinderella movie and sometimes I'm lucky enough that Eden wants to tag along on errands.

Cora Ashley

 Cora is my little pal during the day and she is such a joy to hang out with.  She keeps me smiling with her cute comments and little girl voice.  She is getting more stubborn and tries to do whatever she wants even after I tell her no.  We are working on that.  She loves playing with her sisters "Wa-wan" and "E-en bug."  She is very excited whenever she sees her friends Tori and Kelsey and often greets them with a hug.  Her favorite toys are Polly Pockets, My Little Ponies, Barbies, and Legos. When she and I are playing together, she loves to do puzzles and play games.  Sometimes she asks me to tickle her and her most ticklish spot is her neck.  She also loves when I smell her feet and say "stinky feet!"  Sometimes, she helps me with chores around the house.  She likes to stay up late getting drinks, special toys, and sitting with dad whenever he is home.  That tendency leads to some funny nap times (sleeping seems to be a reoccurring theme in these pictures.)  My phone pictures are not the best quality, but some moments are just too cute not to photograph.  

Cora loves putting library books in the slot and the librarians think she is pretty adorable.

She put away dad's socks and told him all about it 5 hours later.  I wish I was that excited about laundry! 

"I has baby socks, you has mama socks!" 

Happy St. Paddy's Day

We love St. Patrick's Day around here!  In the past, we have tried to trap the sneaky Leprechauns, but this year the girls made them cute woven place mats instead.  The Leprechauns seemed to be so happy about their gifts, they didn't play any tricks on us, and left us some fun photo props, yummy cookies, Lucky Charms, and green milk.  Eden told me that she prefers tricks, but they were all so excited about their fun treats, they wanted some pictures.  Of course, I thought that was a great idea!  (Just look at those cute girls!) 

We also enjoyed our annual green dinner with green zucchini casserole, green jello, broccoli, green watermelon juice.  Our holiday dinners are always a family favorite :) 

Joslyn Art Museum

Laid back Saturdays are my favorite.  The girls get to wear whatever they want and pick what we do for the day.  We all decided to try out the art museum kid's area with our friends, the Udalls, and it was PERFECT for my creative ladies.  It was such a hit that we stayed for 4 hours!  

Eden's Perspective

I gave the girls an old Point-and-Shoot Camera to use and Eden was the first to snatch it up.  She was quite the little photographer for 2 days (intermittently because of the camera's short battery life and Eden's excitement for photography haha.)  Here is a small sampling of her work.