Friends

Lucy is really starting to enjoy playing with friends.  She definitely has a hard time sharing lately & I can tell this is going to be a process &  I need to be consistent in teaching her to share.  Emma & Graham are friends that Lucy sees all the time.  A couple of weeks ago they came over one afternoon & could not wait till Lucy woke up from her nap.  When we went into to get her she started screaming, "MA MA MA" her way of saying Emma.  She was so happy friends had come to play!

Friends play in the sand together

Friends share ice cream!

Friends play with sidewalk chalk

And draw beautiful pictures of their friends

Happy Easter!

I LOVE Easter & I'm always sad when it is over.  I am so thankful that the cross was empty on Easter morning so that we could be free & have a relationship with our Savior.  This Easter I found myself being so excited about teaching Lucy the meaning of Easter.  She is too little to understand much but we read books & sang songs & hopefully next year we can do more & more so that she will understand the reason why we celebrate Easter.

Of course I have no pictures of Lucy on Easter in her sweet Easter dress.  We were late for church & then went to lunch with friends & by the time we got home she had to take a nap or things would start getting bad!  So I have her dress still laid out & I will get some pics of her in it later this week.  

We had an Easter egg hunt with some friends on Saturday night & it was so fun.  Lucy is really into hunting eggs, she loves it & it was fun to watch her!

Getting ready to hunt Eggs & holding hands with Maddie

Going to get those eggs...

hmmm....where to next?

Taking a swing at the pinata

 Lucy did wake up to some treats...

Not too sure about them yet...

starting to like the potato head family :)

Looking for the candy & alphabet cards

Found the chocolate eggs!

Wedding Weekend

Well I tried to do this post once before & it seemed to turn out OK but then of course for some reason the pics stopped showing up on my blog so I just stopped blogging for about a month.  When I get frustrated with blogger, pretty much all the time, then I just give up.

I really wanted to try this post again because the wedding was so amazing I want to remember it.  We are so thankful Aunt Erika is now a part of the family, I could not think of a better wife for Kyle & a better Aunt for Lucy Jane!

Lucy had a wedding crush & we gave it a thumbs up!

Just chillin after dancing the night away

The fam

Love Uncle Kyle & Aunt Erika

cousins!

The 3 of us

So pretty!  All the decorations were so pretty, wish I could post pictures of all the things Erika thought of

Sisters-in-law

Congrats Kyle & Erika, we love y'all!

Flip Flops + Sandbox = Spring

I knew it was officially spring when I put these on Lucy:

Flip Flops!

So happy that we can bust out the flip flops & other spring things, it's a great day.

I have been on the look out for some fun things for Lucy to play with in our backyard.  She loves being outside so I am trying to slowly collect fun things for her to do.  I didn't really like the thought of having a sandbox, it just seems like a huge mess.  I like the idea of sand & water tables so I got a cheap tub from Big Lots, a bag of sand, & some sand toys from the dollar bins.  Lucy loves it & it's fun to watch this little girl play.

Homemade sand table

Yay for warm weather fun!

March 17

Four years ago on March 17, 2007 we were doing this:

It has been such a great 4 years & I am so thankful for all the places the Lord has brought us & I look forward to all the places he will continue to bring us.  Since that day we have lived in 3 different places, had a few different jobs, been some pretty amazing places, & met a sweet little baby girl who changed our life forever. 

The morning on March 17, 2011 I heard a knock at the back door & opened it to see this:

Flowers from my lovies!  Thanks guys!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Later that night we went out for some yummy food & a movie while Lucy Lu stayed with her friend, Maddie.  It was a good day!

Since it was also St. Patrick's Day Lucy got a little treat in the mail from her Grammy & Grandpa.  She loves getting mail.

Making her excited face when she saw the card!

And then she sat down to read it out loud

Hello Spring Break

Yay for spring break!  Because of our life we still live on school time - we measure everything by semesters & we still get to enjoy fun things like spring break & we are thankful for these little blessings.  This little break came at such a great time.  It has been so nice for Cody to spend some quality time with Lucy & get lots of stuff done for his grad school.

Since the weather has been nice we have spent lots of quality time at different parks.  Lucy LOVES to be outside & run around.  We have a park down the street from us where we go at least 3-4 times a week.  Here are some pics of a different park we tried out a few days ago...

Lucy & Daddy are a little too brave with tall slides

Checking out all the ducks & saying lots of "quack, quacks"

Notice anything different in this pic?  Yep, it's the pants.  Dad dressed Lucy today & her pants ended up on backwards...oops.

Running & pointing at everything!

Playing in the dirt & rubbing it all over your face = sweet little dirty face