Easter

We spent Easter weekend up north. We went to my mom and step-dads on Friday night and to my Grandparents house on Saturday night. We got home late last night. It was a great weekend, the weather was gorgeous and for the first time since I was a kid we actually got to have our egg hunt outside! The kids had a great time.

Pauly hunting for Easter eggs!

Adeline's first egg hunt

Amelia showing off how many eggs she got.

Amelia is FIVE!!

Amelia just a few hours old.
March 28, 2005

5 years later at Olive Garden on her birthday!
March 28, 2010

Blowing out her candles on her birthday cake that Grandma Mary made her.

Hard to believe she is so grown up these days. Next year she'll be going to kindergarten, which doesn't seem possible, how did she gets so old so fast?!

one year stats

Amelia---1 year old
-18 pounds 6 ounces
-29-1/2 inches

Paul---1 year
-20 pounds 6 ounces
-29-1/2 inches

Adeline---1 year
-24 pounds, 8 ounces
-30-1/2 inches

It's fun to see the differences in all the kids! :)

Brusha, Brusha, Brusha...

. After dinner I gave all three kids a bath. After Amelia and Paul got out of the bath, I brushed their teeth right away and then we headed in to get pj's on everyone and I asked Amelia and Paul to clean up the living room while I got Addie ready for bed. I got her ready, and went out to check on Addie and I came back and found her standing patiently on the bathroom stool, pointing to the medicine cabinet, she needed her tooth brush. So I got it down, brushed her teeth and then she likes to brush her teeth herself, I think she's 1 going on 15! She stood here for about 10 minutes "brushing" her teeth. I can't believe how much she is growing up.

Meet Paul's Best Friends...

Buzz and Woody from Toy Story are Paul's best friends. He hauls them everywhere, he sleeps with them and they go to daycare EVERDAY, he even begs us to take them to church, promises they won't make any noise during church, something tells me they won't hold true to that promise! As both of them talk. Woody has a pull-string (I got him as a b-day gift in HS) and Buzz has several buttons to push that make noise as well. Today he even proclaimed that he wasn't Paul, that his name is Buzz Lightyear!

Adeline and Amelia's birthday party...

Last weekend we had Amelia and Adeline's birthday party. Even thought Amelia's b-day is still a few weeks away and happens to fall on Palm Sunday, we decided that it was easier to do a joint birthday party for the girls, especially with everyone living an hour or more away from us, traveling our direction twice in a month can be kind of hard for my family since they all live 3+ hours away. The party went great, we did a lady bug theme with hot pink and lime green for colors, everything looked great, I am kicking myself for not taking pictures of the decorations prior to the party starting, guess I was too distracted to remember!

The weekend prior to the party I had prepared 4 pans of lasagna for the party, I assembled them all and froze them until Saturday morning. It was a it tedious, but it was great in the long run as I had a lot less to prepare the days leading up to the party. I also buttered and seasoned 6 loaves of french bread, wrapped it all in foil and froze it. So now I think I may be able to make a few lasagnas to freeze before the baby arrives in September.

The lasagna and bread seemed to be a hit. Our moms, grandmas, etc filled in with salads and that worked great. I think everyone enjoyed the meal and the fellowship. I honestly don't know where we would have put everyone, had everyone we invited shown up. Our dining room table was full, our living room was full, kitchen table was full and several people were standing in the laundry room, we could have probably put a table up in there too for extra seating. The girls got some great gifts, lots of really nice clothes, they are going to be the best dressed girls I know this spring and summer!

Birthday girl enjoying her dinner!

Amelia showing off her new guitar.

Miss Serious

The big birthday girl!

The super cute lady bug cake!

Party time with friends!

Two of our good couple friends had girls around the same time Adeline was born. I was the first to find out I was pregnant and they found out shortly after we did and all of our due dates were within a week of each other. Matt/Kelly and Shawn/Megan all knew they were having girls, but we decided to remained surprised just as we had with the other kids. I was the first to have the baby, due to my scheduled c-section, so I had my c-section exactly a week prior to my due date and they were both still almost 2 weeks from their due dates. Adeline was born February 25, 2009 and three days later along came Rylee on February 28, 2009, joining big brother Logan and nine days after Adeline, Kaelyn was born March 6, 2009 and was Shawn and Megan's first. I still find it rather ironic that we were all due around the same time and all three of us had girls. What are the chances?!

Well, the time came to celebrate these three great girls' birthdays. Shawn and Megan had a friend party at their house tonight to help all three girls celebrate! I can't believe how big they have gotten in a year, crazy how quickly they grow up.

The three girls having story time!
Rylee, Addie and Kaelyn

Addie, Kaelyn and Rylee anxiously awaiting their birthday cakes!

I made birthday cakes for the party, one for each girl and a big cupcake for all of the party guests. They turned out cute if I do say so myself!

Addie clearly enjoyed her birthday cake!

Tired girl ready to go home!

It was fun to celebrate the first year of their lives! It'll be fun to watch them all change in the next year, and hopefully have a get together for their 2nd birthday!