Cousins and friends

 Celebrating spring birthdays last week with the cousins.

a friendly visit

 Lydia...shortly before she slipped in the tube and busted her lip!

 Zane and Anna

Maria and Zane swing
We had fun with our friends visiting...we always do!  Thanks Mindy for making the trek!

Rain, Rain...

don't go away, 

we're having so much fun as we play.

5 years of sunshine

 She picked a rainbow "theme".  SO I pulled out my Ecuadorian tablecloth, and put up a row of rainbow balloons.

 I think she liked it.  And very appropriate that our "sunshine" would choose a rainbow theme, since it takes sunshine with the rain to make a rainbow.

 new bike helmet

 We went to the indoor bouncy house along with two friends for her "party"  We stopped to get McD's ice cream afterwards.

 Anna had fun too!

 She loves these two girls...how she'll miss them when we move.

 Make

 A

 Wish

 The skittles helped me make a rainbow cake.

And the layers turned out nicely.  I used mainly fruit to color it, not as vibrant, but not so much food dye.

March pictures

 For some reason, perhaps the summer-like weather, we were outside a ton so far this month.  So, I took a lot more pictures than I normally do, and I am still figuring out my new camera.  If you would like to see all the pictures, click here March 2012 Album.
 Here are some previews.

We have plenty to praise God for; unseasonably warm weather.

Winter Fun

Since it has been such a mild winter we have been able to get out lots.  The girls and I went to the park last week to enjoy the warm weather, it reached over 60 degrees!

We have plenty to praise God for; this mild winter weather.

the girls

 

We have plenty to praise God for; these beautiful girls He has entrusted us with raising.

refashioning

I used three different shirts to create this fun dress, and headband.  It was a great way to reuse some stained play clothes from a friend!

bunk beds

The girls were playing bunk bed; a box on top of the school table, and the other bed was supposed to be under the table.  I guess they decided to bunk together!