Friday, September 14, 2018

Easter 2018

It was pretty wet (and chilly!) around Easter this year but Highland Heights was still holding their Easter egg hunt so we headed up to the city building - where we ran into Alli & P.
Turns out, it was still too wet to have the kids hunting eggs, but they got to pose for pics with the Easter bunny, eat some treats and the kids were given a paper bag filled with eggs...they didn't have to work for it this year!

Max took his little juice bottle over to one of the grills and used it as his personal table!

The library was having their Easter party on the same day so we all decided to head over there. The cousins had more fun hanging out together and actually got to "hunt" eggs (aka race to pick them up in the open yard in back of the library!).







They also got to color and play silly games inside...turned out to be a fun afternoon!


As usual, we got to color eggs a few times - Max got to color some at school, we invited Grandma & Troy over to color them at our house, and we also colored with GranJan, Aunt Donna & her crew and Granny. Max probably only broke 17 eggs this year!




A fun "Brady attack" broke out after the egg coloring fun! 

Matching bunny socks (from the Dollar Spot at Target) and
plush Peeps from GranJan & Grandpa -
super cuteness!




Max's school sends out photos one a month and we love seeing him in his element at school! He got to color eggs with his best buddy and have an egg hunt in his classroom (too wet / muddy to have that one outside too - bummer!).


Easter Sunday was a bit cold but at least it didn't rain...and all of our egg hunts that day were able to be held outdoors - we had one at our house, one at GranJan & Grandpa's house, one at Grandma & Troy's house and one at Granny & Great Grandpa's house!

The kids also had lots of fun searching the house for their baskets which that silly Easter Bunny had hidden - at least he was kind enough to leave them each a new Beta fish! Lucy's is a pink-ish purple so she named her Rainbow and Max's is yellow so he named him French Fry!



Meet Rainbow and French Fry!




Max was a stud in his whale print shirt from Old Navy
Lucy was a beauty in her "cold shoulder" dress from Children's Place






Happy Easter!

Happy 7th Birthday, Lucy! - with 7 year old stats

As has become the norm for my kids' birthdays, ringing in the big #7 was a long-lasting event.

Her actual birthday was Sunday, March 25 but we had her family party the prior Sunday. She wanted the party to be at GranJan & Grandpa's house and chose a fabulous theme - Barbie!
We had family fun throughout the week coloring Barbie posters to use as decoration and I made a frame to use as a photo prop at the party.
Lots of fun with that frame:








The Barbie cake GranJan made looked exactly how she wanted it to, she loved the balloons and decorations, she got tons of fun new Barbie toys and had a blast at her party!






The next weekend, Max & I took her to Busken to get her free birthday cookie (and a donut for all of us!) then to Sky Zone to play / jump for a bit.


Such a sweet big sister!
Putting Max's special jump socks on for him











The next day was her actual birthday - a date she shares with my Grandma Stallkamp (aka "Grandma Doodlebug").
My grandma's health had been quickly declining so my dad's family decided to throw her a big birthday party for as many people who could make it.
I'm so glad they put this together - now I have some very sweet memories to cherish - and the two birthday girls got to blow out candles together.


We also went to see a movie that day (Ferdinand), ate birthday cake the kids had made, and gave our birthday girl a gift or two.
I asked Max what he wanted to give her and he was immediately prepared with an answer. He said he wanted to make her a road for her Barbie cars...
Making a road for a mini Barbie car he picked out for her









Happy Birthday, sweet Lucygirl!


7 year old stats:
47.3 inches tall - 34%
57 pounds - 74%