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| Rilyn-From April 2005 |
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| Ella-From April 2006 |
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After going through their baskets, the girls wanted to do the egg hunt in Grandpa’s front yard.
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| From April 2010 |
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| From April 2010 |
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| 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?!?
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| From April 2010 |
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| From April 2010 |
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)
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| 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!
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| Rilyn was so scared she would drop the eggs! |
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| 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.
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| ‘The obligatory color-coordinated Easter morning family shot’ |
After church, the kids got to go through their Easter baskets!
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| Lots of art stuff and movies! Thanks Grandma! |
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| Asher is trying to figure out how to open this bunch of
lollipops! |
More to come tomorrow!
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!
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| Asher wasn’t totally into it this year, but he didn’t know candy was inside the eggs either! |
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| Sweet big sister helping out her little brother! |
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| Go Ella! |
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| This is me with my flannel board reading the Easter story from the Bible! |
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| On your mark, get set, go Rilyn! |
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| Here is Rilyn trying to race Levi. If you know these two, this is the story of their relationship! |
Happy Spring! Along with this beautiful weather we are having, I’m looking forward to bluebonnet pictures, soccer games (hopefully without the crying!), celebrating Easter, and Asher’s 2nd birthday!
This picture is of Rilyn in March 2005. Poor thing, I took her to Picture People every month because we lived 5 minutes away from the mall in Houston! At least I can say I didn’t buy this costume for her, it was property of Picture People!
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| our little flower |
The girls got their bunk beds yesterday! They were so excited and James said that he still remembers the day he got bunk beds to share with his brother. A very exciting day! Rilyn got to sleep on the top last night and we will flip flop for awhile until the girls get tired of switching. Here is their new bunk bed, complete with drawers, desk (on the right side not seen in pic), and a book case ( which is ‘in the cave’ as Ella calls it, not seen in the picture). What a space saver!
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| From March 2010 |
And, I just made this picture to hang in the girls’ room! 🙂
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I took Rilyn on a mommy/daughter night to the Austin rodeo Friday evening! We went to watch her friend (and our neighbor) do mutton bustin! We were very excited because she won first place! (In case you’re not from Texas, mutton bustin is riding a sheep for as long as you can!) Enjoy the pics “where weird meets western!”
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| horsing around in “Kidtown” |
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| Waiting for the rodeo to begin! |
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| What’s a rodeo without $6 curly fries that glisten with grease?!? |
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| Gotta have the classic “boo Longhorns” picture! |
The girls left for San Antonio on Tuesday evening via Amtrak train! They were so excited as they waited for the train because their Oma and Papaw were already on the train waiting for them to board! (They boarded in Fort Worth.) What an exciting start to their spring break trip! The girls will be getting home Friday. I can’t wait to hear about all their adventures!
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| We are going to ride that?!? No, freight trains are a little uncomfortable! |
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| So excited while waiting! |
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| Rilyn can’t believe how long and loud the train is! |
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| Sporting her conductor hat from last year’s spring break train trip with Oma and Papaw. |
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| Finally! Here comes their train!!! |
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| Notice Ella’s hands…Rilyn is excited though! |
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| All Aboard! |
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| And this is what I did while they were gone! Asher’s new big boy bed (and carpet!)
The girls’ bunk beds will be delivered next week! |
As the weather starts to change around Austin, life in the Paquette household will be changing too. (That sentence sounds way more serious than what this post is actually about!) For almost 6 years, we’ve had a crib in our house. I remember the day we bought it like it was yesterday, full of excitement and new parent nerves! And now tomorrow, we will take it apart and move on to the next season of our life. It provided warmth, comfort, and safety for my three babies and I’m honestly sad to see it come down. (Now there are certainly some things about raising babies that I will NOT be sad to see go-I will throw a party when my last diaper is bought and I don’t have to carry around a diaper bag anymore!) Please humor me as I take a trip down memory lane with our beloved crib. But rest assured, our crib will ‘live’ with us still…we thankfully bought a convertible crib so it will be ‘reused’ as a full size big boy bed for our ‘baby’.
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| Rilyn’s nursery looked exactly like this but with the “Rilyn” over the crib. 🙂 |
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| From February 2005 |
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| Rilyn |
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| newborn Ella |
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| Ella |
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| sisters playing in the crib before Asher was born |
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| last night in his crib |
the paquettes 