Mom's New Work-Tavelli Elementary School

The girls came with me to see my new school and classroom.  They played in the room while I took pictures of my new space for future furniture placement. They enjoyed drawing on the whiteboard and reading some books (classroom being used for summer school).  Some how Carter found the only sharpie in the room and drew on the white board--OOPS. 

While we were there, they had to try out the playground.  The school has the coolest playground structure and they played until their tummies grumbled for lunch.  They told me over and over that they wanted to go back to my school to play again.

Carter turned 2!

Oh my gosh--our baby has turned 2 already!  She is beginning to be such a big girl.  She really enjoyed eating her birthday cake and opening her presents.  Rylyn picked her out some toys and of course Rylyn thinks they are hers.   Carter's favorite present was her new baby doll--she loves babies right now. 

Our 1st Garden

So we decided to tackle a garden box this year.  We have never done one before so we are learning as we go.  We have done some research as to what to do and what to plant, but we'll see how it goes.  Johnny did a lot of work constructing the garden box and boy is it pretty.  We then hand mixed the "special" organic dirt and prepared the box for plants.  We chose some seeds and seedlings to start the garden.  We planted some lettuce, peppers, herbs, carrots, broccoli, and zucchini...I guess time will tell how we did.  The girls enjoyed helping dad put in the seeds and water the garden.  Carter really enjoys picking the leaves off the plants...oh the joys

Birthday Time!

Yes, I have turned another year younger...we celebrated this weekend by going out to dinner with friends and family and also went to a dueling piano bar.  It was a fun evening and a late night for us-we don't do many of those anymore.  I also took my bday off from work and spent the day getting some more than needed pampering time :).

Mother's Day

The girls had a blast planting and picking flowers for Mother's Day. They gave me hugs all day--such sweet girls! We had a busy weekend. We planted in our backyard on Saturday and then went to Grandma Jodi's house for lunch on Sunday. We played in her yard and got some great pics. We then went to Aunt Angie's house on Sunday evening for a BBQ for Grammie. It was a fun filled Mother's Day with all of the Mammas!

Happy Easter!

The girls seemed to really enjoy Easter this year.  They love getting to wear their Easter dresses...so much fun to have two little girlie girls.  Rylyn could not stop talking about the Easter bunny and how they were going to get Easter baskets.  They got to hunt for eggs with their cousins and eat more sweets than humanly possible...good times.

Disney on Ice

The older girls (Kyla, Rylyn, and Lauren) were given a special treat when Aunt Angie and Uncle Bryan took them to Disney on Ice at the Budweiser Event Center.  They got to see all of the princesses and characters from their favorite Disney movies.  They all got souvenirs and brought home a Minnie Mouse doll for Carter since she didn't get to go...next year hopefully.