Easter 2012

i do realize Easter was a loong time ago but unfortunately these days i feel as though i am always a few months behind...

i will catch up one of these days.

anyway...
here are some pics from our Easter. 
we had a great time spent with family and rejoicing that our savior is ALIVE.

Amen.

i always check on the girls before going to bed and on the night before easter i found them like this...i love that they wanted to sleep together!

and our annual morning egg hunt

the girls before going through their basket

finally levi decided to get up and join the action.

m&m's in the morning...levi was all about that!
don't mind the crusty nose.

my 4 littles...oh how i love them.

and here we are. :)

pics from our afternoon outside egg hunt. :)
levi loved picking up the eggs and putting them into his basket

until mommy took a couple to give to brayden...
he didn't like that so much.

abbie and kenzie's hunt...

loove these 2!

and last but not least the older girls hunt...
only got this one picture because soon after this picture sophie decided to pitch a fit and start crying because ella was finding all the eggs. 
ella laughingly kindly reminded sophie it was a "hunt" and she was doing nothing wrong.
oh sophie.

it was such a great day!
thank you God for all of your blessings!

true love

my dear little sophie rummaged through the recyclables the other day (as she does on a daily basis-searching for things to make out of  garbage used containers)

and created this masterpiece!



yes thats right folks...you are looking at a castle made out of rt. 44 sonic cups!
and yes that is mommy peeking out of the top of the tower~



i could not of been more proud. :)
i love my creative lil sweet pea!

cute little ears

my little sweet pea got her ears pierced!

still can't believe it.

it was something i was never going to push but the other day at the mall sophie started talking to abbie about getting it done...

i dismissed their whole conversation because i really never thought abbie would ever go through with it. 

well about 10 minutes later abbie was sitting on my lap gettting her ears pierced

there were some tears but then the tears went away and the happiness set in. 

i caught her several times putting her hair behind her ear and trying to make eye contact with people so they would notice her new earrings. 

what a brave sweet pea!

big teeth

nothing is cuter than a little without any front teeth.

so the other day when we were all just hanging out in the yard on a gorgeous day i had to grab my camera to capture the cuteness of my dear little sophie

and the sillyness

because before you know it there will be some very big teeth taking the place of that cute little gap and for now i just to r
emember the gap...
a reminder of her youngness....
because nothing screams growing up like big front teeth.

the other day we were watching toy story 2 and it was the part that jesse's owner had packed away all of her toys because she was growing up. 
sophie very innocently asked me why was she packing away all of her toys? 
she could not figure out why anybody would ever pack away their toys. 
it made me sad.
because i knew one day sophie would be packing up all of her beloved toys. the toys she plays with every single day.
and she had no idea. 
little conversations like that really help me to remember to focus on treasuring the time i have with my littles while they are little. 

because before long they will be all grown up
with big teeth. 

mommas little princess

abbie has been going through a phase of dressing up like a princess. 
it makes no difference to her what she is wearing underneath...or what activity she is doing in her princess dress. 
as long as she is wearing it she is happy.

and of course she shares of love of princesses with
her best friend kennie...

and she shares her love of princesses with her little brother...
(i can't believe how fat my little guy looks in this picture...
where is his waist??)
good thing daddy does not read my blog. he would be so embarressed for his little man.

she even can play sports as a princess!

here is my princess baseball player

and my princess kickball player



oh how momma loves her princess.

 

Ella's big news

ella finally lost her first tooth.

woohoo.

to say she was getting a little frustrated that sophie was losing teeth left and right and her own weren't even loose is an understatement

she kept asking me me when she was going to lose her tooth and all i could say was soon ellie. 
be patient.

she even started to pop out her adult teeth behind her baby teeth.

talk about creepy. 
apparently they call this shark teeth.  for obvious reasons. :)

then it finally happened. 

she was so excited.

mommy was too. :)

some snow...finally.

we finally had a snow "storm" that produced enough snow for the littles to go outside and play. 
they had a great time. 

especially levi. 

he loved it.
which i didn't reallyeexpect since my other littles hated the snow at this age.

while outside we...

 made snow angels.

made our annual whitacre family snow man.

tried to sled down a little mole hill. :)

made snow castles

found a disgusting worm slithering across the snow. 
still can't figure of what an earthworm was doing outside in the snow...do you know?

all in all we had a good time playing outside in the snow.
and we can now officially check it off our winter to do list. :)