time for an update

I was just organizing my pictures and realized I haven't really posted anything lately (other than the awesome pic of Davie). So it is high-time for an update!

 As a reward for our month off of TV in February, we had a Family movie night with homemade pizza and rootbeer floats! We watched "Dolphin Tale" and the kids had a blast. It was such a fun night!

 Clearly Davie enjoyed the pizza. I was glad we had laid down table cloths.

 Holy Cow, this was good pizza! 

The kids looked so cute for church this one Sunday in March, so I decided to get some pictures of them. 

 Gracie even let me do this awesome hairdo that day. It was definitely note-worthy (Gracie doesn't like me to do her hair...it is a struggle everyday)

Cousin Isabel came to play and the girls had fun dressing up!

 Oh my Goodness! I LOVE these two kids....we have such fun during the day. 

 Davie is such a cool kid....

I love this picture. Scott has been getting his garden spot ready (it is HUGE). I loved watching him out with the kids digging around. The chickens were also out roaming. It made me feel like I was on a farm for a moment! 

Later that day, Scott took the three big kids on a hike while Davie napped. They had a great time.

Ok, so I probably deserve a major prize (hee hee), I threw Lily a surpise birthday party with her friends. Her birthday was the 31st and it couldn't have gone better. Anyone who knows me well knows how much I loathe throwing birthday parties - I had a bad experience once with one we did for Lily. I had kind of sworn I would only give them a party on significant birthdays like 8, 12, & 16. And even at that I would make it way low-key. Well, this year I decided Lily needed a party. Plus I love her little friends here in the neighborhood and I couldn't foresee any major problems. So I did it. I planned a surprise party and it was hard let me tell you. She moped and complained for the weeks leading up to her birthday about how she really wanted a party and no one cared about her birthday, blah blah blah. I wanted to tell her so bad...but I didn't! The day of her party went off without a hitch. It was perfect. Every single girl came. They were all ecstatic about the surprise part (it was hilarious), and they were sweet and polite the whole time. It was a lot of fun. I may even be open to doing parties more often!

So here are the girls eating pizza. There were nine of them including Lily. They were so cute and it was so fun to listen to them talk. Can you tell how excited Lily was...

 That night we had a little family party. This was the cake for that party. I thought it was super cute. 

Over Spring Break we watched my brother's two youngest children while they went backpacking. It was fun and they were easy kids to have around. To keep the kids busy one day we decided to decorate sugar cookies. It was fun! That's Clara next to Gracie. She is in between Adam and Lily's age. 

 This is how Gracie decorates cookies....frost, lick, frost, lick, lick.....

Easter Sunday we dyed eggs. I didn't boil enough eggs....Next year I won't make that mistake again!

Scott came home for lunch yesterday and it was so cute to watch Grace snuggle up to him. They kind of have a soft spot for each other...

 I have a soft spot for this boy! But he is getting too big and that makes me sad.

We decided to crimp Gracie's hair today! Don't be jealous...I found my crimper from when I was in junior high....that's right, junior high. Then she put on this awesome outfit and all I can say it man oh man, she is CUTE!!!! All the girls at the gym (she goes to the playroom while I work out) were totally digging her look!