Caroline's 7th Birthday

Miss Caroline is 7 today. Her party was Saturday (pics to follow). We took her to Denny's for her birthday dinner tonight and then took her to pick up her present. We decided to get her a fish and let her pick it out. (This really could've gone either way, but it worked out!). She picked a pink betta fish and named her Miranda. And she couldn't be happier! Happy birthday big girl. You are everything to me!

Grandparent's Day

Today was Grandparent's day at Caroline's school and my parents were able to come to the big celebration.

 

Mimi and Caroline got to participate in a candy trivia game.  They did a great job!

The school nurse did such a nice job putting everything together and everyone had so much fun!

Easter weekend

It was a lovely weekend.  Easter always is, even when it's raining and cold and gray.  Celebrating our risen Savior makes it glorious!

Caroline drew a little welcome to the Easter Bunny in the driveway:

These 2 bright spots hunting eggs and eating chocolate all weekend:

Mark competed in his first duathlon (and finished 3rd in his division):

And we got to spend this little bunny's first Easter with her!

Spring break

The girls are on Spring Break this week so we decided to take a little mini trip to Branson.

(I'd like to make a note that we spent most of our time in the pool and got out just in time to go where we needed to go.....so excuse the hair and random outfits.)

 

We went to The Price is Right Live Saturday night.  It was so much fun!

 

We ate yummy pizza!

 

And we did a lot of swimming!

Snow day

This post is a little late, but I wanted to share a few pics from the snow we got a week ago or so.  Caroline's school dismissed early that day because the weather guys were telling everyone to prepare for a big snow/ice EVENT.  We got less than 2 inches total and no ice, but we took advantage of what we had!

 

Not enough for a snowman or sledding, but enough for 2 girls and their black dog to play around in for a little while before coming inside for hot cocoa!

Babysitting

Margaret and I got to do a little impromptu Cece-sitting this week.  Always fun to snuggle with this little lovebug.

Valentine x2

Some more Valentine's fun.

This little girl had her Valentine's party on Wednesday and her class had pizza and ice cream!

 

These 2 got new pjs again this year.