Easter Photos

Here are some pictures of our Easter!

We saw Mister Easter Bunny at The Woods in Maple Grove!


Dying Easter Eggs:





(or... hand dying?)







Mom thought she'd make our Jello healthier by adding some Beans... JELLY BEANS!

So the results are in....
She doesn't have Whooping Cough.
Or even "False Whooping Cough".

Today we went to a park near our house. I noticed something lumped around Hannah's ankle. Her diaper had ripped at the tab & slipped down her leg. Well, she was about to go down the big slide... something she's been afraid of... so I didn't want to slow her progress down with something as trivial as a diaper. After all, she has been potty-training & she knows pee-pee goes in the toilet or diaper... and she has some great bladder control. I didn't think 2 minutes would matter (famous last words of a mom)... YOU ALL KNOW WHAT IS COMING! She slid down & then on her way back up... she pee'd all down her leg, promptly ending our trip to the park.

Note to self. NEVER leave a potty-training child diaper-less. Ever.

This upcoming weekend, the girls & I are headed to IOWA!!

And by girls, I mean, Hayley, Hannah, My mom AND my Grandma.
PARTY ON WAYNE,Party on Garth.
My Twin-Cousin*, Carrie, is expecting in June and we are attending her shower.

The "good" parts of this trip will be:
I get to sit in the back of the van with the girls & the DVD player.
We are staying at a hotel that has a pool.
We get to go to Carrie's Shower (Crossing fingers for silly Shower Games... my specialty).
I get to see Auntie LaLo & Laura.
AND I get to share a bed with one of my babes.

By "Share" I mean... no matter HOW big the bed is,
a) I will be grabbing the edge while pushing a foot away from my face or a fist out of my gut...
b)Maybe mom & I should share a bed and let the girls fight it out in theirs.
OR...
c) the girls can camp out on the floor & mom & I get our OWN space.

Me thinks plan C is the winner.

Well, I have pictures from Easter Sunday. On the Camera. Locked in the glove box in the car.

I know the suspense is killing you, but you'll have to wait.


*Twin Cousin... we are basically the same person in different bodies. We don't look alike, but we have the same sense of humor, the same outlook on life, talk the same, walk the same, we have the same grandma... TWINS!

Seventeen Days.

That is all it took to get me back to my blog. I just feel I have nothing exciting to say!!!

But let me tell you about our "excitement"!

Hannah & Hayley have had "weird-to-mom" coughs the past week. So I took Hayley in to the doctor today. (Her's seems to be more aggressive and a bit more harsh than Hannah).

The Pedi. said he wanted to test her for WHOOPING COUGH! What?? is this 1942? Apparently there are outbreaks of W.C. in the area and even though she's all inoculated, she can still develop this "bacterial infection of the lung" So they stuck a cotton-tipped wire up her nose to scrape the back of her nasal passage...

I'd LOVE to report she was nice and calm. HA HA HA !!! Have any of you met my drama-mama?? It took me & an LPN to hold her down. The RN doing the test said "WOW! She's strong for a 4-year old girl."

Here are a couple pictures for your viewing pleasure:



Hayley is enjoying her Gymnastics class. I'm not sure if an Olympic career is in her future. I think she is already taller than most Olympic Gymnasts...


Tim & I took the girls to the Children's Museum on Family Free Day in March.
The third Sunday of the month - everyone's free! & if you park at Macy's... FREE Parking.

Tim had to tell me no less than a hundred times to stop making the girls POSE for pictures, because we were there for them to have fun!! WHAT?! If you can't make a photo shoot out of it, it isn't worth it!!

(Tara... Tim said "Look, it's Antie! He didn't really die!")

And finally... since I didn't go out much with the girls this winter, Hannah decided to take matters into her own hands.

and made...

Salt-Angels.



I learned my lesson after Hayley made "Formula-Angels" 2 years ago... so I took some pictures & found the humor in the situation before cleaning up the mess. (& might I add, Salt is WAAAAAY less expensive than a can of baby-formula.)

Ta Ta for Now... I'll be back with some Easter Pictures, I'm sure.