Happy Easter

Easter was loads of fun this year! We ended the day at Steph and Ricks for Easter dinner, yummy fried chicken, pasta and potato salad. It was fun to see the girls play with their big cousins Emily and Tyler ...
Playing outside on the swing set

Emily is so cute!

Earlier in the day we went to a delicious Easter brunch at Bradley and Jolenes house and watched the kids hunt for easter eggs!

At home in the morning we had fun seeing what the Easter Bunny brought the girls, they loved the bubbles and candy of course!

And the Easter Bunny left some eggs lying around the house, probably so the girls could practice for the big egg hunt later ;)

Yummy candy for breakfast!

The girls were very excited to see their easter baskets after we got home from Easter Mass

Cooking Dinner with Daddy

James made yummy enchiladas the other night which finally gave me the chance to take pictures of the girls "helping" us cook. We always pull the kitchen chairs up to the counter and let them make dinner with us!

Ladybug Hunting

Spring Fever is in full swing at our house! The girls are obsessed with new things these days - going for a walk (aka ladybug hunting) or going to see Lylah and Matthew, their little friends a few doors down. We have had so much fun taking the girls out for walks on the trail behind the house, looking for ladybugs, ducks and bunny rabbits. They like to yell out "Duck, Duck, Where are you!?!" as loud as they can and Sophie especially likes to catch ladybugs and carry them around with her. Bella likes to pick out pet rocks and carry them with her. Matthew is so nice he always brings her rocks back if she leaves them at his house, so funny how these kids look out for each other!

Lylah, Sophie and Bella on a walk in this picture, the three amigos...

The girls had fun having their friends over for lunch

During Spring Break we took the kids to the Childrens Museum of Denver, they had such a great time fishing in a pond, playing house, planting a veggie garden, running through a meadow with bridges and tree stump slides and even climbing around on a real firetruck!

Here are Bella and Lylah at the park by our house on St. Patties Day. James and I also took the girls downtown that weekend for their first St. Patties day parade, it was lots of fun with the sun shining and plenty of cool things to look at like clowns, horses and of course all of the other kiddos. We went to lunch at Earls afterwards and sat ouside on the 16th street mall, Bella was cracking up and trying to get everybodys attention who walked by, she is a little ham these days! Too bad I forgot the camera that day :(

Sophie is holding her little pet ladybug, she took such good care of that ladybug all morning! Even now, weeks later she will tell you all about her ladybug if you ask her :)

James and Sophie watching the ducks behind our house - Donald and Daisy :)

Goodbye Eclipse and Hello Durango!

It took us two years but we finally gave up on the idea that we can still use my old Eclipse :) It's just a slight logistical problem what with the two carseats we have to put those kids in to go anywhere! So a few weeks ago we purchased a 2000 Durango that holds our whole family and we just sold the Eclipse today. It was a bit emotional for me to get rid of that last memento of those pre-children years, especially with the big 3-0 coming up this summer, man I am feeling old! Anyway...here are some pictures of us cleaning up the Eclipse getting ready to put it on craigslist

Ski Weekend

I was able to get Auntie Geri's camera chip a few months back and decided it's probably a good idea to get these pictures posted from our ski weekend in March!

We had such a fun weekend with Geri and Stacie! Hope we get a repeat this year :)
Little cute patoots at the top of Keystone!
The 3 amigos Papa, James and Stacie were all in it to win it, skiing like crazy!

All the ladies so excited to Ski the Beav!

Geri and Stacie at the top of the Super-G run

Of course Geri had their hair in rollers when she babysat!

We managed to hit Keystone twice, Breckenridge and Vail... what a weekend!

I'm going to back-date this post to March since that's when our trip was :) Nevermind that it's September now!

Play Play Play

Yes, they are girlie girls and playing dress up is their hands down favorite thing to do! They will dress up in anything, their clothes, our clothes, blankets, Sophie came out the other day wearing a pair of James shorts like a dress with one leg on and the other leg hanging off the side :) Here are some of our favorite outfits.... Bella striking a pose!

Little ballerinas! They already love to dance and when we were watching the ice-skating during the olympics they both started spinning in circles :)

They just learned to hold hands so now they love to hold hands and giggle everywhere they go, they crack up the whole time :) So funny to watch with the giggling and the clacking of their high heel shoes!

Time for an outfit change

Bella

Sophie

Bella putting together her animal puzzle, she sings "e-i-e-i-o" every time she puts a piece in place

Sophie taking a break to sit in her dump truck

They finally learned that reading is fun! For a really long time it was almost impossible to read them a book because they wouldn't sit still and whoever wasn't interested would keep trying to grab the book - but now they love to sit and be read to or just look at the pictures and talk to themselves!

Their favorite book by FAR is "If you give a pig a party" they want to read it all day! The first time I read it to them I laughed at a couple of the pictures so now they turn to those pages and fake laugh :)

Picking out a book to read. They are very good at taking all of the books out all the time and we are working with them to learn to put them back!

Sophie looking at herself in the mirror

Bella giving her dolly a ride in the stroller

Our living room on a typical day - trashed beyond recognition!