Happy Easter!

Happy Easter to all! We started our celebration with a week off from school and work for both Ellie and I! It was a wonderful week to play with the kids, meet my grandparents for lunch, workout whenever I wanted, and to do some scrubbing of the house.

Despite my reservations, we decorated eggs on Saturday. Since only Ellie and Carter like hard-boiled eggs, we only boiled up 10 eggs for the kids to dye. One did not survive the boiling process so I did not decorate an egg for Hannah since we split the remaining eggs between the 3 older kiddos.

They had lots of fun dyeing the eggs!

The finished beauties!Where was Hannah since she didn't get to decorate this year? Eating Kix in the living room. She couldn't figure out why her bowl was empty!Today, Easter Sunday, we went to Mass in the morning and over to Papa and Mama's for lunch.The kiddos got to love on Isabella and we hung out with family, napped, and headed home for an early bedtime. A great day celebrating the ultimate sacrifice made for us! He is risen!

Now to bed since my spring break is over and I have to go back to work tomorrow. Blah!

The Madness of March

March kept us very busy. Due to some super nice and unseasonably warm temperatures, most of our free time has been spent outdoors. Since I already have a bunch of April photos in queue on my camera, here's a quick glimpse of how we spent our March.

Sweet baby toes in sandals and playing "So Big" with her shadow!

Num, num, num. Hannah loves to eat the chalk. While she grimaces nearly every time she eats it, the allure of the chalk has not dissipated and she continues to sample it daily!

Ava's great fashion sense still continues....

Busy girl outside with her chalk again, taking a ride on toy from a neighbor's house, and trying to figure out bubbles.

Ah yes, I had a birthday in March too. My catch phrase for the year is "A piece of heaven at twenty-seven"! It gets better the next two years, I promise. Not much rhymes with 27. For my birthday present, I finally got to get my DSLR camera! Jake caved after two years of begging and pleading. It has been oodles of fun to play with it and take gobs of pictures. More on my camera in posts to come....

The beautiful March weather meant a trip to the park was in order.

The troops do love being outside to play.

The multiples group had its spring sale the end of March. I managed to snag a ride-on toy for Hannah so we don't have to "borrow" from the neighbors anymore. She loves it! Ironically, Ava had this same car that I purchased new for her (and a red one for Carter). Sometimes it doesn't always pay to be in such a hurry to sell things off since I had to buy the car again. (Same goes for the baby monitor I received new after Ellie was born. Still haven't figured out what possessed me to sell it after the twins no longer needed it but we were planning a finito. We may never know how my mind works.....)

March kept us on our toes. Hopefully things will slow down in April! It sure would be nice to have some time to actually catch up on things around here! I need to hire a full-time assistant to help me get all my tasks and projects accomplished.