Spring Break + Easter

This past week was spring break, which means that Milan and Eden were home from school, yay!  I asked the girls what they wanted to do and offered suggestions for outings, but they just wanted to play outside all week.  We met up with a couple of friends, but they spent most of their time playing in the backyard with Lucy.  They played all day long, ate Popsicles, got dirty, and made up a ton of games!  Dave and I were saying that they are some of the few kids of their generation having a good ol' fashioned childhood haha.  Cora does her best to keep up with her sisters, but she has quite a few tumbles and band-aids for each injury.  Her knees look a little rough right now, but they are all having fun!  

We also had  a fun time coloring eggs.  The older girls drew and colored, Cora covered each one with a ton of stickers, then the 4 girls ate 15 eggs.  Milan got a tummy ache for a little while, but after a little medicine, they were running around outside again.

We also went to an Easter Egg hunt at a local church yesterday.  It was packed, but well organized so it was a good time.  Cora's age group went first.  When it was time to go, she ran over lots of eggs, decided to pick up 6, then just decided that she had enough even though there were tons of eggs left.  She did win a bubble prize from one of her eggs, and she had fun so it was a success. 

Next up was Milan and Eden's egg hunt.  Before the official start, the leaders were trying to start a chant for "Go Big Red!"  The first words was "go" and the kids were off to get eggs.  It was hilarious.  Eden was a determined little gatherer.....all business!  Milan also managed to get a lot of eggs despite the confusion about the start.   

Easter morning at our house, the Easter Bunny filled baskets and hid eggs around the backyard.  Milan was apparently the first one up then woke up her sisters.  When I woke up, there were already going through their stash.  Afterwards, Milan and Eden were super excited to gather the eggs outside, while Cora just chose to hang inside with her candy.  Love the bedhead and cute outfits on these little ladies!  I did get at "after" Easter morning picture, but no "before" picture of their cute baskets, guess you snooze, you lose around here.   

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!