Green Thumbs -Part 1-

For Easter the two older girls got some gardening bags.  Every time I go outside they ask if they can wear my gardening gloves and dig in the dirt.  So, I figured it was a good time to get them their own gardening tools and gloves.

I found the bags and gloves at Walmart and then filled them with a variety of seeds.  Some vegetables for our garden and some flowers for the rest of the yard.  Each of their bags came with some starter kits for flowers.  So, we decided to put those together today.

 

My little gardeners.

 Mixing up the dirt and getting it ready to go into the pots.

 Filling the pots with the dirt and seeds.

 Showing off the final product.  (Mmmm...they look good enough to eat.)  As you can tell the girls are really excited about their hard work.

 With the extra dirt and seeds we put together a little pot for me to enjoy.  I love that we're all wearing striped shirts.  Mylie was napping while we did this, but she had on a yellow shirt that was striped too.

Here's the little lady after she woke up from her nap.  She was too cute not to add to this post.

 

Once the flowers start to bloom and grow we'll transfer them outside into the flower beds.  We also have plans to get some veggies planted into our garden, but we need daddy to go and get the soil first.  So, more pictures to come.

 

Easter 2013

With 9:00 church I felt we were scrambling around all morning, but amidst the chaos I was able to snap a few pics of the girls in their Easter skirts.  (Excuse the poor quality of the pictures.  My camera has been giving me a lot of grief lately!)

 Mylie pointing out the birds that were singing and flying around. 

(Can you see her little piggy tails?  Love!)

My Kids in a Nutshell

Here is a quick update of my kiddos.  Our camera has been really glitchy lately, so I haven't been able to document as many events as I would have liked to.  I was able to snap a few pictures of Christmas and some b-days, but those will have to wait until I'm able to sort through them. 
Luckily, I remembered I had a back up camera.  While I was taking some pictures of a quilt I'm going to be making I thought I'd take a few updated shot of the girls.

First we have Kinsie:

She'll be turning 4 in a few months and is my big helper.  She's my girly girl!  Always has to have on some type of skirt or dress.  In these pictures I believe she has on three skirts.  Because, the more skirts you have on the more twirly it becomes...at least that's her thinking.  She's going to be starting pre-school this fall and is excited about that.  She's also decided she prefers showers to baths.  Can't believe how big she's gotten!

 

Next is Britnee:

She just turned three and in now potty trained.  Yipee!  She loves being with Kinsie, but also loves to have her quiet time.  She is still a daddy's girl and will always walk to his side of the bed in the middle of the night instead of mine.  She's actually my crazy one.  I like to call her my little weirdo, but she's also my cuddle buddy.  She loves anything that is small and loves putting those small things into other small things.  She cracks me up constantly!

 

Then we have Mylie:

I cannot get enough of this girl.  She has been such a fun addition to the family.  She just turned 1 and is walking all over the place.  She pretty much taught herself to walk without the help of mommy and daddy.  Yep, she's that independent.  She is the most polite thing and always says thank you.  She too is a daddy's girl and has nothing to do with me once he gets home.  We all love her so much!

 

And let's not forget Jaron:

Yep, we're expecting our fourth and it's a boy.  He'll be making his debut sometime towards the end of July.  If not then, hopefully no later than July 31st (my due date).  Everyone is so excited for this little guy to get here, especially Kinsie.  She asks me everyday if baby Jaron has come out yet.  I've been feeling amazing (considering I'm prego) and look forward to putting together a baby boy room and filling up the closet with boy clothes.

 

 

 

Family Pictures

I wanted to have some nice family pictures taken this year and lucky for me, I have an amazing neighbor (Emily Bitner) who said she would love to take them for us.  She doesn't do this for a living, but she did such an amazing job in my opinion.  Emily was able to capture the stage of life that we are in and was able to do it in a way that makes me smile instead of wanting to pull out my hair.  There are too many to put on this little blog, but here are a few of my favorites (aside from the ones on my side columns):

Don't they just make you smile!  I love looking at these pictures so much I decided that I needed to have them throughout my house. 

I've already hung a large grouping (seen above) on the wall above my stairs and am planning on doing a grouping of just the girls in the hallway, as small grouping of some of the family pictures in another hallway, and two large groupings of the candid shots in my bedroom. 

 

Thanks a million to Emily for these precious moments that you were able to capture for us. 

Halloween 2012

We had a really fun Halloween this year.  It seems to get more entertaining the older my girls get, which is a good thing since I've never been the biggest fan of the holiday.
This year I decided to keep it simple and use the dress up clothes that Kinsie and Britnee already had in their closets.  I decided to spruce them up a bit with their own matching "crowns". 

I also kept it simple with Mylie and had her go as a witch.  I couldn't pass up the cute hat that I found at a dollar store and every little girl needs to have their own tutu. 

I decided that Mylie needed her very own black cat, so I went with my go to cat costume and dressed up with the girls.

While daddy was at work the girls and I got together with some of our friends for lunch.  Warren's was giving free kids meals to all kids in costume.  I couldn't pass up that deal, so I made some call and got a good group of us together.  It was fun to mingle amid the chaos of it all.

Later that night we had pizza for dinner, dolled up the girls, set a bowl of candy on the porch, and hit the streets with our little goblins.  The girls loved going door to door begging trick or treating for candy and daddy and I loved watching them.  It was a fun night and great to have it out of the way for another year.  Now bring on Thanksgiving!!!

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