Easter 2011

What a great Easter!!! Saturday night we went over to my brothers for the kids to dye easter eggs. It was a great night out so we decided to do it outside--glad we did!!! I forgot how messy it is dying eggs, specially at this age!!!!! But they had a great time and that's all that matters!!!! Thanks Jim and Jaime for hosting!




Sunday: We had Easter at our house! We had a big Easter egg hunt outside--which they LOVED!!!! I've got to say it took longer for them to get all the eggs than I thought they would!!! Maybe cause we put out a LOT!!!! Emily was so cute she wanted to stop and open her's and eat all the candy instead of trying to get the most eggs! Rileigh again was going for all her favorite colors 1st (pink and purple)and Garrison we was after them all!!!!!











The kiddos opening their Easter baskets from Grandma and Grandpa:





Rileigh opening her Easter basket from the Easter Bunny! She refused to take off her dress up wedding veil before taking pictures!!! LOL





Video of the Easter Egg Hunt:

Thank You Grandpa!!!!!

Thank you Grandpa Nelson for making me the CUTEST picnic table ever!!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!





Love,
Rileigh
Easter 2011

Easter Egg Hunt At School-2011

I love this age! Every holiday Rileigh get's so excited about it, she couldn't wait to have her Easter egg hunt at school today! She told me "mommy I'm going to get all the pink and purple eggs before Hughes does"! She wasn't kidding....she went directly for every pink/purple egg she could find! It was so cute she would get so excited and start screaming every time she would find another egg to add to her basket! She came back with a basket full of eggs! At the end of the hunt the teachers took all the baskets back and made sure all the kids got 12 eggs each! Josh (Hughes daddy) and I thought they should get to keep all the one's they found, I can't help it if my kid run's faster than yours!!!! LOL I guess fair is fair!

Destin 2011

Our family vacation this year was to Destin, fl...I just love Destin! Rileigh was so excited for vacation this year, all she would talk about was going to the beach! Last year we went with my parents and my brother and his family so of course she thought they were all going this year too! I think she was a little disappointed that Grandma wasn't going too!

We made the mistake of telling Rileigh the night before that we were leaving in the morning for vacation...I can't help it I was so excited not to talk about it...won't do that again! We had planned on leaving at 3am thinking she would go back to sleep in the car for the majority of the trip! At bedtime the night before she was sooooo excited she just couldn't sleep, I think she FINALLY crashed at midnight, again thinking no biggie she will sleep....wrong! 3am finally comes and we get up load her up and guess who's wide awake...RILEIGH!!!!!! It's vacation time mommy...are we there yet!?!?!! About an hour into the trip we hear her back there throwing up (she did this last year when we left at 3am...seeing a pattern??) We bought her a new DVD player for the car seeing how she broke the old one, problem is we didn't think to plug it in before the trip and try it out cause come time to use it it didn't work! She was so excited to watch all her new movies daddy made for her just for this trip, so we stopped at Wal-mart to buy another one. It was so early in the morning the guy said a manager would have to unlock the case but it would be 30min or so before he could come do that...um I'm not waiting 30 mins dude, I need it now...needless to say we left wal-mart with NO DVD player! Kinda nervous thinking she would throw a fit but I've got to say she was a big girl about it and didn't seem very disappointed! I was amazed at how good she did in the car for 8.5 hrs with nothing to watch, she enjoyed coloring and playing with the toys she brought with her! After being so good we told her she would get a special treat when we got there, so for lunch she choose a cupcake! Normally we don't let her eat treats until eating a good meal at that point with no sleep and a good drive down we didn't care...enjoy Rileigh!!!!!

We enjoyed playing on the beach and making ton's of sand castles unfortunately the water was too cold to swim in. When we wanted to swim we would head to the heated pool! Rileigh meet a little friend the 1st day at the pool, Nolan! He was such a sweet boy, he was 5 years old. They had a ball playing together, every afternoon he would bring her a Popsicle to the pool it was so cute! She was very sad when they left on Wednesday and we still had two more days to go!

We had a WONDERFUL vacation, hated when it was over! Only good thing is we have to look forward to is going back in a couple months with some friends!!! :-)