Easter 2010

The girls really enjoyed this Easter season.  Yes, they had a blast getting to hunt eggs and have parties, but I could tell Maylee and Ella were really listening to the story of Easter and the real reason we celebrate.  It is so neat to get to see all of this starting to click, and come together.  On the night before Sunday we made resurrection cookies, and what a great way to have them hands on learning about Easter....and the cookies were really good too!  Hadley is all about the candy...she comes walking through with chocolate dripping from her mouth...she has a secret stash! 

Easter Egg Hunt #1, back in Longview with our great friends.

Easter Egg Hunt#2 with sweet church friends

Easter Egg Hunt #3 - Preschool parties

Colorado...

The end of February through the beginning of March, we went to Aspen with all of Matt's immediate family.  Honestly I was a little nervous (ok, more than a little) with all the girls, but we had SO MUCH FUN!!  We skied, went snow mobiling, swam, and ate tons of good food.  Maylee and Ella were in ski school 5 days, and they did a great job.  We really got a kick out of them skiing down the little bunny hill.  However, one day in ski school, they put Maylee in a group where she was the only one that spoke english.  Talk about devastation!!!!  She just couldn't understand why the other kids wouldn't talk or play with her!  The next day we made sure she had at least one english speaking buddy with her.  Again, it was so much fun, and here are some pics to prove.

Getting ready to hit the slopes!

Waiting to go into ski school

Tired little skier....one

Tired little skier.....two

What a beautiful view!!

I think this pic is funny....she is saying "cheeeeeeeese".  Poor Hadley only left the house 4 times the whole time and 3 were going to eat!  However, she had a blast with her cousin....proof is below:

They found lots of things to get into!

So much fun snow mobiling!

The helmets were huge!! They could barely walk straight!

This little "friend" came peering right up to the kitchen window one morning.  Glad there was glass between us!

Our whole group

Where's Waldo?......

Can you find the girls here?

Winter Wonderland

This is what we woke up to this morning!  We missed the last snow on Christmas Eve, so we were thrilled to get in on this one!

Hadley is thinking she has had just about enough of this cold business.

                                   Snow ball fight!!

Busy making snow angels.

Our snowman without a face (actually the head kept crumbling when we would try to stick the carrot in!)

Junior was loving the snow.  He is made for this kind of weather.  Matt felt sorry for him last night and let him come in to sleep in our room.  However he was panting so hard, and not cooling off, that we had to put him back outside.  Crazy.

Horse'en Around

Meet our newest member of our animal family.....Maggie.  The girls had fun on pretty day last week feeding her.  She is a really sweet horse.

A few weeks ago we got to celebrate my grandma's 87th birthday.  She had a great time, and all of us did well.