Happy Easter

We have had lots of fun getting ready for Easter!

Here are some pictures from the past week.

Princess Bunny

Wild Bunny

Click here to see Lily last year (not sure why she

makes this face whenever she has bunny ears on?)

Egg-cited about dying eggs!

Egg Time

Time to eat!

Lots of egg hunts...

Grace loves the Easter Bunny(Lily does not)!

I think it is b/c she knows this one isn't real

(she saw his sneakers underneath-

in my opinion he wasn't the cutest bunny)

SISTERS

We are headed to NY tomorrow and can't wait to spend time with family and meet the two newest additions! Hope everyone has a very Happy Easter!

Busy but FUN

We had another busy weekend, but this is always one of my favorites in Charleston. I ran the Cooper River Bridge run with some friends on Saturday which wore me out but was lots of fun! On Sunday we went to the Cajun Festival and got to hang out with the John's Island gang. The weather was beautiful and although we didn't get much accomplished around the house this weekend, it was well worth it!

Christina and Grace

Read to ride the Strawberry

(you should have heard their giggles!)

Hula Hoops!

Grace tried to teach everyone her technique

of jumping up and down to make it stay up...

Time to cool off...

and play with Kevin.

When we got home the girls ran around in the sprinklers

( or sprinkles as Lily calls them).

Grace started tennis lessons on Monday and will start

practicing for the swim team in a few weeks(busy, busy).

Lily is ready to join everything Grace does, but I will

have to keep her busy with other things like riding her bike for now.

Weekend with The Rogers

We had a great time in Columbia and just love spending time with family! The weekend flew by with all the fun that we fit in (Brooks and I even got a surprise date to watch the Gamecocks play baseball). The girls loved doing easter crafts, hunting for eggs, trying on each others clothes and just being silly.

Can you tell they are happy to be together?

So SWEET!

- 3 Princesses watching Beauty and the Beast -

Kelly served fruit cocktail in bed.

(or as Grace calls it fruit cottontail)

Finally asleep (well at least one of them).

Dying Eggs with Mimi

Time for Crafts

Stories with Aunt Sallie

On Sunday we went to the zoo. Lily is still talking about the stinky flamingos, baby giraffes and carousel. Click here to see pictures from this time last year. We just love the zoo!

Time for more hugs...

Group Hug!

Cheese!

Carousel Time

St. Patrick's Day Weekend

Happy St. Patty's Day

We celebrated at a neighbor's house on Saturday. The girls had so much fun running around with their neighbors and the weather was beautiful!This is the first year Grace really got into celebrating this holiday. It all started when we arrived at school on Friday and a leprechaun has destroyed the classroom and used the toilet. All the kids were excited!! The leprechauns were in full force at my school also, lucky for me though the second graders are too tall and scary, so they stay far away from our classrooms. On Friday night we went down to a neighbor's house where the girls were making their very own leprechaun traps. Grace joined in on then fun and with some help created a great trap of her own. We came home that night and set it out in front of the fireplace. Being unexperienced in catching leprechauns we figured this was a good spot (I mean if Santa Clause come down the chimney, why not leprechauns). We set out a piece of gold chocolate that we found in the fridge and thought it would trick him into going in our trap. The next morning Grace couldn't wait to go downstairs and check her trap. I'm not sure what she planned to do with the little guy if we actually had caught one, but she was a little disappointed when nothing was in it. The leprechaun did get into some mischief and left behind some dust and even used our potty. Maybe now that we are a little more experienced we will have better luck next year, we really could use a pot of gold! On Sunday we headed to Chuck E. Cheese to celebrate Taylor's birthday! 5 years ago this little girl barely weighed three pounds, look at her know...Lilly loves playing pretend and dress up these days. I often have to call her Elizabeth or Allie and she calls me Miss Heather or Aunt Jen. One day I asked her what my name was and she answered "Super Mom," love this kid! Here she is all dressed up - we decided she was a princess dora butterfly ballerina in Hawaii.

Shem Creek Park

We have had lots of fun these past few weeks! Last weekend we had a blast hanging out with the LaFountains and Mark. The girls are still talking about them - and you should hear Lily say Mark. At times she has a thick northern accent (wonder where she gets that from?). We also have been playing lots with neighbors, taking trips to the book store for story time, and visiting lots of parks. We are looking forward to longer days and the warmer weather that is on its way!

On Saturday we went to Shem Creek park and walked on the long boardwalk. We've been wanting to check it out and it was the perfect day to be on the water. After a long walk, we stopped in at Vickery's for a family lunch. Here are some pictures from our walk...

Sweet!

The girls loved seeing all the boats.

She really wanted to get in the water...

Daddy's Girl

Cheese!

Great view of the bride.

Racing after sitting so well at lunch....

Gracie Girl!

Lily Bug!

I took my camera to get cleaned this weekend and they mailed it off. It will not be ready for 4-6 weeks! Mad at myself for procrastinating, but at least I have a back up and it will be nice and clean for all the summer pictures I will want to take.