Abby's Birthday

Our little Abby is 5 years-old! We love our spunky "Sweetest of the Sweet Peas" and are so grateful for her life and good health. She noticed on Sunday that her legs were a lot longer than they had been on Friday, so this was quite a jump from 4 to 5! :)

She had a fun princess party on Saturday with some friends from our neighborhood and from church. Everything was pink~pink~pink and exquisitely fancy. (Any Fancy Nancy fans out there? This bash would have made Nancy proud.)

Here are the dainty princesses modeling the crowns they made at the party. (Princess Katie awoke from her beauty slumber later, just in time for cake and ice cream.)


The rest of the royal family attended as well:

His Royal Highness Dad; The Gallant Prince Alex; and The Queen Mother (a.k.a. executive planner, hostess, clean-up committee, etc.).

Easter

We hope you had a nice Easter! We enjoyed ours and wanted to share a few pictures . . .

Alex decided his chicky from the Easter Bunny wasn't quite exciting enough and that he should try eating Abby's book.

Here is our attempt at a picture of all of us . . . not bad for a self-timer shot, except that Katie is eating a comb! Ah, well, we try.

We loved watching the kids find all the eggs the Easter Bunny had hidden . . . he was pretty sneaky this time, with all the nooks and crannies of our old-fashioned house! Abby ran around holding two baskets and one bag, stuffing eggs into all of them as fast as she could. Katie chose a more methodical approach: find one egg, sit down and eat the contents, then stand up and look for another one. She ended up with about 1/10 as many eggs as Abby, but she enjoyed herself thoroughly!

Morning at the Park

Hooray for a sunny, warm spring day today! We've been waiting for this.