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May

splash day!

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I said in an earlier post how busy May is! This week is for sure the busiest though! Splash day this morning, Rilyn’s soccer party tonight; Rilyn’s field trip tomorrow and it’s our anniversary so we are going on a date night; Rilyn’s end of school award ceremony on Thursday and then the girls dance recital dress rehearsal; babysitting Friday night; and the girls dance recital on Saturday with LOTS of family in town! Whew!

Here are pictures from Ella’s splash day at preschool today. (By the way, I love that Ella smiles while going down the slide! I’m pretty sure she does that because she knows I am taking pictures of her and she LOVES getting her picture taken!)

one handed!

wheeeeeee

wet landing!

water sliding!

May

thursday

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Categories: Asher, Ella and Rilyn

Ella models the cheapest way to get a face lift.

Rilyn is starting to bring home all her ‘special’ kindergarten work from throughout the year. Today she brought home an alphabet journal from the fall. This was her “M” page.

“M” is for “Man”. Good job Rilyn. But when James and I saw this picture, we were trying really hard not to laugh. Apparently this is a soldier man with a shield, a gun and ummm, although it looks like he might be ‘well-endowed’, Rilyn informed us very seriously “that is his sword holder that is on his back and you can see the bottom part of it between his legs.” Right. 😉
The kids went swimming this afternoon and had some fun squirting each other. Poor Asher, one day he will get revenge. I have no doubt!

Getting squirted by my sister and wearing a sillyfloatation device?!? Mom! Come on!

Ella enjoyed this squirting action!

May

little girls

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Categories: Ella and Rilyn

It is so much fun to have little girls! Dressing them up in their costumes for dance recital pictures is just one of the MANY things I love about having little girls! If you live in the Manor area, DanceLife, (run by one of my best friends, Jen Richardson!) is having a 6 week summer session. You can sign up here.

May

wordless wednesday

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Categories: Ella and Rilyn

May

the first swim

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Categories: Ella, Silliness and Summertime

Ella had the honor of the first swim of ‘kiddie pool season’ this year at our house! Since we are in the low 90s already, I think the time is right! I signed up Ella for ‘advanced swimming lessons for ages 3-5’ in June since she did so good last summer, but now I’m having second thoughts…what do you think? 🙂

I asked Ella to swim

Choking after holding her breath under water

trying to back float

It was sure fun taking pictures of our little cutie!

From May 2010

The End

I’m foreseeing lots of this with my girls!

Apr

flashback friday

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Categories: Asher, Ella, James, Julie and Rilyn

Asher is going to be two next Saturday so in honor of his ‘twodom’, here are some pictures of our family at age two!

pretty sure Asher looks like James!

me at two!

Asher almost 2…(and freshly bathed!)

Apr

flashback friday-bluebonnet style!

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Categories: Asher, Ella and Rilyn
Tags: bluebonnets

Rilyn-From April 2005

From April 2005

Ella-From April 2006

From April 2006

From April 2007

From April 2008

From April 2009

Apr

new Easter tradition?!?

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Categories: Asher, Ella and Rilyn

After going through their baskets, the girls wanted to do the egg hunt in Grandpa’s front yard.

From April 2010

But this year, Grandpa wasn’t satisfied with just a normal egg hunt. This year, he bought a metal detector and thought it would be fun to hunt for coins that he hid throughout the whole lawn! The girls loved it! (Grandpa was secretly hoping that the girls might find his lost wedding ring, but to no avail!) Could this be a new Easter tradition?!?

From April 2010

Apr

Easter fun!

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Categories: Asher, Ella and Rilyn
Tags: Easter

Remember the elusive bunny shot? Well, I finally got one after we watched How to Train a Dragon on Saturday night! (Good movie, but a little scary for my girls)

Too bad Asher wasn’t in the picture! It would of been

much funnier to see him scream cuter!

We always dye Easter eggs the night before too. We never do anything with them, but it’s still a fun activity for the girls!

Rilyn was so scared she would drop the eggs!

Wow! We made a pink egg!

Easter morning we all get ready to go to church. We stayed in Temple at my parent’s house, so we went to church with them.

‘The obligatory color-coordinated Easter morning family shot’

After church, the kids got to go through their Easter baskets!

Lots of art stuff and movies! Thanks Grandma!

Asher is trying to figure out how to open this bunch of

lollipops!

More to come tomorrow!

Apr

a hunting we will go!

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Categories: Asher, Ella and Rilyn
Tags: egg hunting

Happy Easter! He is Risen!

Who doesn’t love celebrating spring and Easter with an egg hunt?!? This year, on Saturday morning, The Austin Stone, our church, put on several egg hunts around Austin and one of them was at our neighborhood park! It was so fun to put together with my good friend, Denise. And, I was also privileged to get to share the Easter story from the Jesus Storybook Bible with the many neighborhood kids who came. I busted out my flannel board that I inherited from my mom’s Sunday school teaching days. It is totally 80’s, but the kids love it!