Spring Cleaned and Rested!

This past Saturday night, the girls went to MomO and Joe's and my Joe and I cleaned out the garage and the closets. It was hard work, but well worth it! We also got some really good sleep on Saturday night. We just rarely get a night where everyone sleeps through the night. Someone has to go to the bathroom, or already has, or has a nightmare or is cold, or well, it's always something and if it isn't the girls... it's the dogs - right? You know what I mean if you still have your first furry children!

Anyway, we also went to our annual Home Team Easter Egg Hunt. It's the first of many hunts this Easter season and it was a great one at that!

The Princess is Four!

Elle is 4 years old today. As I was watching her sleep this morning I just praised God for this little girl who continues to amaze us and bring joy to our family.

Born 2005

As a baby, she was a great eater!

1 Year Old Party

As a 1 year old, she loved swimming

2 year old party

As a 2 year old, she loved Dora!

3 Year old Party

AS a 3 year old, she loved the Princesses!

Her 4th Birthday Party

Still loving the Princesses! She also loves Mermaids, Ballerinas and Barbie

Elle's Party at School Today.

E&E Lodge

It's hard naming your swing set! We came up with a lot of ideas, but E&E Lodge was the choice.
The girls are having so much fun!

Happy St Patty's Day!

The girls went to school in their green today! Here is our new outdoor play set. Joe is putting up the swings and the other accessories today, so I will update my pictures on here tomorrow. Hope you are having a very lucky day!

Pray for Sara :)

Last night Joe and I watched Fireproof, a cheesy, yet good Christian movie about keeping your Marriage together. It really did have a great message and as we were talking about the movie, I said to Joe, "You know, one thing I learned from that movie is how important it is to pray for yourself. I spend alot of time praying for you and your heart and just thanking God for the man he gave me and that I pray that the love continues and that you will feel this way forever. I never think about praying for me and my heart. I don't know why, I just don't ever pray for me."

Kirk Cameron's character in the movie spends his 40 days praying for himself and how he can change for the better and be more loving. So, I thought this was a great thing. I mean, I pray for myself in other ways, to be a good mom, friend, co-w0rker and a wife -- but I never pray for me to have a loving heart and that my heart would stay committed. I am committed now for sure and don't doubt my future commitment to the marriage at all... but I guess I just always pray to God that I will continue to be Joe's one and only true love.

So, I was saying all of this to Joe. He turned to me and said, "You know what started doing for Lent? I have started praying for me and my heart that I will continue to love you and be the husband you need me to be."

So, I said "I am praying for you and you are praying for you."

Joe said, "I guess nobody is praying for you."

We started cracking up... I don't know why it was so funny, but it just was!!

Anyway, I think I will also start praying for me... but if you who are reading could also pray for me, then we would have more people praying for me... ;)) He he!!

I hope you took this blog as light hearted as it was supposed to be. It was just a funny moment.

Emme's First Haircut

Yes, that's right... Emme, who will be 3 in July, just had her first haircut. She never really had any strange hair growth, so we never took her. The other day, I saw this little girl and she had the cutest hair and I thought that Emme would look cute with the same do. I just loved how it turned out and she does too!

This is at Valentines Day, to give you and idea of her "before look"

My new cut!

Emme is holding up her hair that they gave to us as a keepsake. It's funny, because Elle's keep sake hair is literally just a little curl.

Hanging at Mimi and Poppy's... I am sassy!

From the back

Family Fun

I have not posted in a while, been sick. Feeling better and having some good moments with my kids. They are starting to get easier and I think Emme is liking me a bit more everyday! For those of you who don't know, she is obsessed with her daddy and rarely wants to be with me. But, I have taken some extra steps to ensure that the relationship with her is a priority and I think it is paying off!

I have also blogged about not knowing exactly what she likes and I have learned a lot about her in the past few months... and she is also getting older, which helps, because she is able to express what she likes. The other day just out of the blue, she said "I like Chicken Nuggets, Candy and Crayons." It was just one of those cute moments that I had been dying to see from her!!

The last couple of weekends have been fantastic with the family, we are all having so much fun together!

Here they are before their Valentines party at School.

Scooting around the neighborhood to drop off Birthday party invites

Hadley came over on Saturday to play. I thought this was a cute picture

Here are some photos of Tommy. I think these are so great!

"What?"

I love tying to figure out what babies are saying/thinking