Happy Egg Hunting

This weekend I held a small brunch with an Easter Egg Hunt for the kids. We were lucky enough to get great weather for the hunt. Look at these adorable girls getting ready to get some eggs!

And they are ready to hunt....

I wonder what's over here by my favorite rock???

An egg...WOW!

Another one here under the bush...

And finally time to check out the goods! This is just the beginning of our egg hunts this Easter. There will be a few more before Easter!

Springbreak 2012

We are back from a week of sun, surf, sand, diving and tons of fun. All week we just enjoyed the water from morning until night. Each day we were up by 6:30 and in bed by 7:20. What an amazing vacation. Cayman was our destination because I wanted to go diving. A hobby I have not had the chance to do much since Dawson came home. It seemed to be the perfect spot for everyone to relax and do whatever water sport they wanted to!

Took a dive to feed the stingrays. They were so gently and fun to play with in the water. I did have a few other wall dives but, this one was the only one I got a picture of myself!

Endless hours were spent in the sand making castles and writing words!

All week long I found lots of words written in the sand. It was fun to see how many words she knew how to spell without my help!

A few water fights happened during the week! Daddy is mean but fun!

Dawson started this one!

Writing her name in the sand!

Our feet.....

Hanging in the pool.

And a few final braids to end our fun vacation!

Time to Decorate!

Took a little time today to get out a few Easter decorations. Then, someone decided we needed a few extra decorations for the bunny that hangs on the window.

We cut out some eggs out of paper and decorated them with glitter glue...a favorite at this house!

Then it was grass cutting time. This was lots of fun!

Finally, it was time to tape the grass under the rabbit. Looks good! Tomorrow when the eggs dry, we will add them to the grass!

Speed Racer

After 3 long years, Dawson can finally reach the pedals of her Schwinn bike! Yes, 3 Christmas's ago, her Grandpa Tom bought her this awesome bike. We waited and waited and waited to be able to use it! Now, I can't keep her off of it or up with her. She is a SPEED RACER!

There has been a lot of independence and personality shining through lately. As you can see, she got dressed this morning in her Christmas dress to ride her bike! I said OK because we will never wear that dress again!

And Teddy came along for the ride also!

Love this hat....

Just strolling along and enjoying the ride.

Indoor Time

We have had a mild winter with warmer temperatures and not a lot of snow. This has made our ice skating outside come to an end already! Luckily, there are a few indoor places not too far away. Yesterday we met Grace to enjoy some indoor skating. Dawson mentioned she liked how warm it was inside and why did we ever skate outside in the cold! Good question!

Thanks Lynn for the cute picture!

Party Girl

Just a quick post.... Last weekend, Dawson had a birthday party with a friend from her class. It was a swim / mermaid party. Look at all these adorable girls. I love all the diversity of her class!

New Lens

I know I know...more ice skating photos. We are taking lessons on Saturday morning outside so I thought it would be a perfect time to try out my new lens. It's a huge zoom so I can get her in action from across the rink. The only problem is when she gets too close to me. As you can see from the photos, this weeks lesson was focusing on arms out. This encourages the kids to glide more instead of walk on their skates.

For some reason....I like this photo!