New Family Pic!

Okay, I'm not feeling guilty any more! :) We took this picture at Yorktown underneath a beautiful cherry blossom tree. Love it!

Family Pic

Every time I look at our blog, I feel guilty about the family picture: we're missing one family member - and we have been for over a year! So to make myself not feel guilty I removed our old family picture. This in turn motivates me to get a new one taken and uploaded very soon! :) Be looking for a new family picture within the next two weeks!

Spring has Sprung...early!

It's not officially spring, but the trees have decided to blossom none-the-less. We enjoyed a beautiful outing to the park yesterday. Here are a few pictures of the kids and trees. Can I just say I love spring on the east coast!

Another Birthday!

Here are some picture of Janae's birthday. It was so much fun! We had a ladybug theme birthday party, so you'll see all the "manlybugs" and "ladybugs" dancing, having cake, and having lots of fun!













Even though the party was all about ladybugs, Janae still REALLY wanted a fish tank birthday cake (from a Henry and Mudge book). So, that's why there are chocolate ladybug cupcakes, and a white fish tank cake. :)

Birthdays, birthdays, birthdays galore!

So we've celebrated 3 birthdays in the last month and a half, and we still have 1 more to celebrate. I decided I better start catching up on the blog before it gets to be too big of a job! I'll post pictures of the kids' birthdays (we didn't take any pictures of mine I guess) :)

Jacey had a fun birthday with some special party-goers that came all the way from Idaho. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for coming! We had so much fun with you!



Daddy's girls



Jacey's special cake (she requested a dress cake). Mom, Dad, and Grandma all helped to make the cake topper.



Eric's first haircut...Before...(check out the curls)





After...(one word - HANDSOME!!!)





Eric had a great birthday too. He enjoyed his presents, cake, and all the many times we sang "Happy Birthday." Here he is playing with his truck balloon.



Opening presents (well, watching as his sisters opened his presents) :)



Looking cute while eating cake (He looks SO much like Uncle Mark in this picture when he was a little boy - at least that's what I think!)



Yay for cake!!!

Halloween 2011

I've already had requests to post our Halloween pictures. Here they are! The kids looked so cute! If any of you want to see pictures of Dane and I, you will have to bribe me with something big! :0) I wasn't even planning on dressing up in the first place, but everyone in the family was begging me to do it. What can I say, I'm a softie! If it satisfies your curiosity at all, let's just say I know what I would look like with big, bushy, black, curly hair!

Eric was a little tiger. The picture doesn't do him justice - he was much cuter in person! :)





Here are my beautiful girls - one a princess, the other a fairy...



I think their favorite part was being able to put on Mommy's makeup!



Tinkerbell loved the fake eyelashes I painted on!



Just another cute picture of Eric. Our little buddy is growing so fast!



These are pictures of a couple of crafty things I've done (those are a rareity now-a-days! :) ) The first one is something I added near the piano (a whiteboard/corkboard)to post reminders or theory assignments for piano students.



I had a quote that I really liked hanging on the fridge. After 6 years of marriage, 4 moves, and 3 children, it was pretty well annihalated! So, I found the quote again and made it look a little bit nicer this time. I like how it turned out!



Hope you enjoy the pics!

Big Firsts

Well, we've had some big "first" events this last week.

First, Jacey started school! She is loving Kindergarten. She is in a good routine of getting up, practicing the piano, and then getting ready for school. Here is a picture of the outfit she chose for her first day - love the color coordination ;) - and her getting onto the bus for the first time...





Her friend is our neighbor next door, who also started kindergarten and ended up with the same teacher!



Janae started reading several new words too. She knows CAT, but now with the help of a new easel with magnetic letters (thanks Grandma Lemon!), we put together other -AT words like MAT, BAT, FAT, RAT, etc... She's so excited to start her preschool group tomorrow! Here are some pictures of her enjoying the easel...





One of her favorite activities is to paint!



Eric is crawling!!! I could tell he was just dying to be mobile, and now he's pretty content crawling around and getting into places Mom doesn't want him to be! Just tonight, he was playing a game with me. I would peek around the corner, and then he would crawl away laughing as he went. It was pretty darn cute! Here are some cute pictures of him... This is him crawling



And these are some cute faces to melt your heart!







Oh, and the girls went riding horses this weekend too. Here is Jacey, and Janae...in that order





Giddy-up cowgirls!