Spring Break...

For the past 5 years we have always gone to Hilton Head Island, S.C for spring break...it was always so nice because my district always designated the third week of April as "spring break" so rarely was it connected to Easter which meant VERY few people and VERY good prices...however this year in an effort to save some money we opted to go NORTH...Ogunquit, Maine...And although we did not get to lay out on the beach or come home with a nice tan we were able to have an AMAZING family vacation!! The girls had a blast walking along the beach (all bundled up), driving along the rocky coast, and swimming in the hotel pool...and mommy and daddy enjoyed watching our little girls search for the perfect seashell, climb the rocky shore, and swim in the pool for hours!! I heart my family!

I fell in love with this house on the coast...too bad it's taken...by George & Barbara Bush (their summer home!!) Can you imagine???

Daddy's girl!

I love this shot...both feet are off the ground!

This was Ella and Abbie's first trip to Maine...Sophie has been several times before...here are several pics from years past.

June 2006

June 2007

*Unfortunately we had to miss last year because my dear Abbie was only a month old

April 2009

Easter 2009

We had a great Easter this year...the girls were at a great age and I just loved all the excitement that was around the house. This was the first year they colored eggs and also the first year the Easter Bunny hid them around house for the girls to find. They were soo cute! We got up super early so we could drive an hour and 45 minutes to make it to my mom's church. We then had Easter Dinner at my mom's one last time before she sells her house to my brother this summer. Although we had a great time at my mom's I can't wait to stay home next year with the girls and entertain family at OUR house! It's just so hard and stressful trying to get three little ones ready when two of the three are on a sugar high!! :)

Ella is begging for another jellybean in this picture...

And here she is eating the jellybean after mommy caved...

My dear friend, Donna, bought this beautiful pearl bracelet for Abbie. It is so precious...I just love how it looks on her little wrist....

We just got back from our trip to Maine yesterday...hopefully I will be able to post those pictures tomorrow!!

Happy Easter!!!

Happy Easter!!!!

* I feel so weird posting this picture without one of my daughters but my dear Ella was so so scared of the Easter Bunny!!!! But I had to buy the picture b/c it was soo soo cute of the other two!! :)

SNOW???

We should be wearing capris , open toed shoes, spring jackets, playing outside, riding bikes...but instead we are watching the snow fall....ughhh!!! Oh how I would love to move down South!!!!

Here are some pictures from the several nice days we had last week...

A Free Day!!!

This winter was quite crazy here this year and as a result we used our allotted snow days very quickly (I'm a school psychologist for a local school district). So our administration decided to take away three of our vacation days in February in anticipation of more bad weather...well that bad weather never came and so the days were given BACK to us!!! So last Thursday we received a memo stating they would be adding two of the days to Memorial Day break (YEAH!!!! Now I have Abbie's FIRST birthday off!!!) as well as March 30th. Nothing beats a surprise day off!! So the girls (minus Abbie) took full advantage and headed to Chuck E. Cheese followed by a little shopping and then to the jewelry shop to get my little Ella's ears pierced!!! We had so much fun...the best part is I did not miss anything with Abbie b/c she napped the entire time we were gone!! So then I got to come home and kiss on her for the rest of the day! I LOVE these kind of days...

Here is the story of Ella's ear piercing experience...She has asking me for days to get her ears pierced and I kept putting it off because I was not comfortable taking her the mall and having a 16 year old from Claires try and pierce her ears (NOTHING against Claires NOR 16 year olds!!!) I just wanted to find the right place. So I was getting my watch fixed at a jewelry store and noticed they did it there! So after CHuck E. CHeese and shopping we stopped to get her ears pierced. Well Ella kind of went crazy and started crying hysterically when the woman came near her...as I'm trying to calm Ella down I start to hear Sophie starting to sob....I was a little confused b/c Sophie wasn't even getting her ears pierced!!! Nevertheless she starts screaming, "I just want to go home!"...As I was comforting the girls Ella had decided that she wanted ME to do it so I had to pretend to hold the gun as the very patient woman pierced her ears....

Well fast forward 10 minutes...Ella was in love with her new earrings and even said she looked like a princess...and of course now that I exposed Sophie to such trauma I can kiss goodbye any ideas I have of getting her ears pierced! Lesson learned: Never bring a child you hope someday will get her ears pierced to watch another get them pierced!