Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Spring Break and Easter

Celebrating good behavior and the beginning of spring break!

Clara likes to gather rocks from the farm where we board Dixie and then bring them home to paint.


Ready for the Easter egg helicopter drop!








Dyeing eggs at Nana and Papa's.



 The Easter Bunny came to Miamisburg!








Looking for more eggs at Grandpa and Grandma's.


She looks so old here.






 Brooke loves the zoo.  She could spend an hour watching one animal.





Sunday, May 8, 2016

Clara's Birthday Party

 Clara celebrated her 5th birthday with a princess themed ballet party at her dance studio.














Tuesday, April 26, 2016

I'm falling waaaay behind on my updates...

Selling cookies at the mall.

Hard at work at Marcy's Clayground on Nana's special birthday gifts.

There's a picture very similar to this of Ellie and Dixie.  Poor girl has aged quite a bit since then!

Family paint night at Ellie's school.


We painted a family ice cream trip to Handels to represent "tradition."

two very best friends*

Styling Brooke with her first ponytail.

brooke loved it*



Birdwatching at Petsmart.

Cold days are good days for crafts.

Happy 60th, Nana!

Checking out the zoo aquarium after her Zoo Tots class.

Ellie on old Bullseye!  A riding lesson was the obvious highlight of their first trip to Louisville, our soon-to-be new home.
   
it was even her first time
she had so much fun*

Clara rode with the trainer on this big girl!

We also visited the Mega Caverns while we were there.

we went on a traler and they loved it*

Catching bubbles during storytime at the library.

And showing off her stamps.

This girl loves pizza!  She raced to get a plate and helped herself to a slice before the rest of us could get the table ready to sit down to eat.

Another milestone...Happy 40th, Nikki!

Celebrating five with the Lash side of the family.

hey'what about me.*


Officially 5!!!




Daddy picked out some special earrings for the birthday girl.


Little beauties! Trying out Clara's new pretend makeup set.

loves his new shirt*



After a dinner of birthday pancakes...ice cream at Handels!

birthday at scool*





"Reading" to herself.

Clara has become a beginning reading this past winter. Kindergarten, here she comes!


If you can't grow it...fake it!  

A St. Patrick's Day dance performance.

to green aligator*



Brooke had a blast in her first gymnastics session this winter.
Our fearless peanut is a natural gymnast.



what did you get Brooke*

Ellie wanted to take pictures of us eating (very seriously) their new favorite vegetable, edamame, for the blog,  : )

love are edamame*

*Ellie has recently gotten into reading our blog and wanted to add her own commentary to this post.