Easter Bunny Visit Number One

To start things off, I finally took some pictures of my kids together. All three of them! And their dad!

 

It is my personal opinion that our baby girl looks like Tim. Others agree.

Saturday morning we had our first Easter party. The bunny will be visiting these kiddos three times this year, so there will be another post, very similar to this one, soon. My mama always plans some pretty fun parties. The kids started out by planting magic jelly beans. They grew into lollipop flowers while egg hunting.

 

 

Then off to find what the Easter Bunny hid.

 

 

 

Then the annual rocket launch contest which, of course, I won.

 

This morning Mason and Brielle woke up to find even more junk food and a few little toys from that old rabbit. I didn't get any pictures of that because I was busy staying in bed for ten more minutes. :) Happy Easter everyone!

Ava's blessing day

Yesterday Ava was blessed at our home with most of our family around. We'd been trying to get a few projects finished up before everyone came (before and after pictures to come soon!) so it was kind of a crazy week. The first half of the week we worked so hard and stayed up so late that I thought I might murder a person. The second half of the week we worked so hard and stayed up so late, but then my 8 week old darling decided to start sleeping though the night and...glory hallelujah. Eight hours of relatively uninterrupted sleep will save your soul, or something like that.

So back to the blessing, Ava looked totally adorable. Since she's the third child I had to follow suit and get practically no pictures of her. (I still have not taken a single picture of my three kids together since we brought her home from the hospital.) She was a trooper and let everyone hold her and just smiled a cooed and then fell asleep in their arms, only to repeat when she got passed to the next person. She has turned from a sad, fussy newborn into a happy, wonderful infant. Her dad gave her a beautiful blessing. It was so nice to have so much family together to join us while we swoon over our perfect little addition.

And some recent pics...