Recent happenings

I haven't posted since Easter and of course, with three little ones, it's been busy! Part of that was sickness. Allie and Hannah both had pretty nasty ear infections, as well as Allie had to take breathing treatments for a bad cough. So we are all finally on the mend.

Allie really does well with these breathing treatments. She sits patiently and doesn't complain.

We also had fun experimenting with braids! Ava wanted me to braid her hair after a shower one night so I ended up doing three braids in her hair, as well as Allie's. They both had very crimped hair in the morning! 

This isn't the greatest picture but we planted a flowering crab apple tree in our backyard last fall and I was very excited to see it bloom this spring! It will be a great shade tree for our patio. 

Mike and I took a weekend and tilled the garden. We also layed down fabric this year so that we won't have to weed every day. We'll see how easy it is to plant with this stuff. 

Allie helped Mike form a brick-paver walkway into the garden. We've since added a path inside, using really nice stepping stones that don't match the brick pavers but oh well. We'll probably change it up again next year. 

Hannah helped daddy with a little project. I honestly do not even know what they're doing here but Hannah had fun.

And lastly, we went to an open house for Allie's pre-school this past Saturday. She was able to meet her teacher, Ms. Debbie, and see her classroom. She is so excited! And even more fun for her is that her best friend Maya will be in her class. Ava enjoyed saying hi to Ms. Debbie as well, since she was a graduate of this school!  

Happy Easter

"Jesus paid it all. All to Him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow."

What an amazing gift we have in Jesus. That we don't have to earn salvation, we don't have to do the best we could do, that God accepts us the way we are because of Christ's sacrifice, is an incredible gift that is hard to fathom. I'm so thankful that we can celebrate this amazing gift on Easter.

We had a lovely day. We went to church in the morning and listened to an amazing message. Both the Epleys and the Rosses came over in the afternoon for dinner and an Easter egg hunt. We had a lot of really great food and some tasty desserts as well! It was a beautiful day.

Our attempt at our family picture fell a little short since Hannah didn't take her sucker out of her mouth! 

All the cousins getting ready to search for eggs. 

Jace helped Hannah! 

Papa and Jace helping Hannah, and a shot of my beautiful tulips!  

A fun Easter bunny cake I made with the girls.

Music ladies

I have been wanting to take piano lessons for a long time. I would also like to have the girls take lessons. Our friend Laura is a phenomonal piano player and gives lessons. So now we just needed to get a piano. Mike's parents' friends just happened to have a piano that they wanted to get rid of. And what a beautiful piano it is! We are so excited! The girls play it all the time. They both learned how to play the song from Sound of Music, "Doe, a dear, a female dear." We're hoping to start lessons this summer, if it fits into our schedule.