Happy Easter!

Our Easter celebrations started on Good Friday! And it ended on Easter Sunday. Friday, a group of us gathered for a friendly Easter egg hunt. I try to invite 1 or 2 friends for each girl. So this year, the group consisted of Mia & Camila, Kayla & Chloe, and Leanna, Sarah & Laci. And the moms, included myself, Luisa, and Melinda and James & Pat were there to do the hiding! The girls found their eggs quickly! Kayla got the egg with some $$!! And she was happy about it! And Leanna was jealous, of course...oh, well, they can't always win. After the hunt, they had cupcakes. And we followed that with a trip to McDonald's--where they had even more fun!
The next morning, we headed out to our neighborhood egg hunt, hosted by one of the surrounding churches. The neighbors hosting it happen to be the parents to one of Kayla's classmates & the parents to one of my students! They had set up a few games before the egg hunt. They had a table set up with goldfish, lemonade and water--very cute! Once they played "catch the marshmallow" game, they let kids start their egg hunt. It was so much. I could not keep up with the girls to get their pictures. They had an amazing time! Leanna even found the golden egg--she won a $10 Walmart gift card! (Which she immediately wanted to use!) Once the egg hunt was over, we headed back home!! We really enjoyed this and I hope they do it again next year!James took this picture of us--I kinda love it! Sunday morning, we woke up and got ready for church. Oh, Mia spent the night at grandma's house, so she didn't get to go with us. Before we left, the girls got their Easter baskets. They loved it. They wanted to eat everything and open up everything right then and there.

Here are some pics form the morning and with the cross at Second. Each person got to put a flower on the cross before service. It turned out so beautifully!
After church we went to mom's. We had some more fun there. Tia Elida had made some special eggs for the girls. They enjoyed cracking them on everyone! Thanks My--it was fun! And I love how you painted them! When we got home, the girls were still so excited about finding eggs, they asked us to hide more!! Crazy girls. So we did, and they enjoyed looking for more eggs! Happy Easter to all!

Spring School Pictures

This year, as every year, the preschool has pictures done. Well, this company did a great job--at least I think so. The girls did individual pictures as well as sibling ones. They wore their Easter dresses, since the background was Spring-ish! Here are the pictures! If you want some, I have them. You can't not buy them when they are this cute--I know, I know, it's not good to brag. But they are really cute pictures!
Kayla also had graduation pictures done! They came out super cute. My little graduate in her big ol' gown! And my cute little Mia. She is so big!

Florida or Bust!

We made it to Florida! Finally! This will be a short post, but with many pictures. Our trip to Disney included a stop at Destin. It's a beach town that we had been told was a nice place to stop. And let me assure you, it was a really nice beach town to stop in. The sand was so white, Kayla thought it was snow. The water was so blue, it looked turquoise! And it was clear! But it was cold! Didn't matte, we were enjoying that cold water! Well, everyone did. Mia and I were in it for about 5 mins total and we got out! We only spent one full day there, but we'll be going back for sure! At night we had dinner at this cool restaurant, Pete's, and it was great. it was child friendly, the food selection was good, and they had face painting & balloon making to keep the kids happy. Plus, their drinks were awesome! We drove out of Destin the next morning and headed down to Orlando!
We got to Orlando around 7ish. We checked in and settled down. And we headed out to Downtown Disney. The girls loved all the stores & restaurants in downtown Disney. We went back to the hotel around 10:30 at night--worn out and ready for bed!
Ok, I'm going to just write a short description of our days there. Cause I've already waited too long to write this post! So here it goes!

Wed: We went to Magic Kingdom. It was packed. The day before Florida had this cold rain storm come through, so a lot of people had gotten rain checks for Wed. Who knew that would happen? We did a little of some stuff, but it took for ever. We were there from 10 a.m. until 10p.m. Yes, we were exhausted. but we spent most of our time in long lines waiting for autographs. The ride lines weren't so bad, since we did the Fast Pass.

Thurs: We did Magic Kingdom again. Then we went to Epcot. This park was MUCH more calmer than MK. We got tons of autographs there. Everything was more relaxed...although it was an extremely hot day! After we got some autographs, we went back to MK. We stayed there until 11:30 that night!

Fri: We did Downtown Disney again. We left there around 2 in the afternoon....and headed back home. We drove straight through!! We got back home Saturday morning. What a drive! We would totally do it again. Destin and Disney were both very worth it! Ok, here are some of the 600+ pictures that we took! Enjoy! Please be advised: I tried to put them in order, but we have pictures from 2 cameras, and the uploading feature was driving me bonkers, so I stopped trying to put them in order! Just remember, we only did 2 days in the parks!
Ok, I just realized that I'm missing quite a few pictures--they'll just have to be on another post!