Photo shoot with new dresses!

Easter 2010

The girls Easter baskets

They got paint!

Looking for Easter eggs in the front yard.  That way we didn't take chaces with the dog eating any eggs.  Although we never found one egg. 

Our Bunny cake!  I quickly threw this together with what I had on hand.  I wasn't planning on doing it, but I've had the pan a couple years now and haven't used it.  So here is our bunny cake.

Our Easter dinner.  We broke from the traditional this year.  Normally it's a turkey dinner.  But since it was just the four of us (originally it was just us but Honey and Leila came over to eat) I made chicken cordon blue, real mashed potatoes and rolls and sweet carrots.  It turned out very good. 

Easter eggs

The girls had a great time decorating Easter eggs this year.  Surprisingly Elizabeth broke more than Ashley did while they were decorating.

Fancy Nancy Party

Elizabeth was invited to a Fancy Nancy birthday party the other day. We are well aware of who Fancy Nancy is. Elizabeth loves those stories. So I got her all pretty and fancy for the party. I took forever curling her hair, which the curls don't show in the picture, and they didn't hold for too long. Too bad that when she got to the party none of the other girls were as dressed up as her, but she had a blast anyway. Everyone thought she was so cute.

~Who is Fancy Nancy and why are books about her so popular? Fancy Nancy is the creation of author Jane O'Connor and illustrator Robin Preiss Glasser. Fancy Nancy is a little girl who loves everything fancy: clothing, accessories, furnishings, activities, and words. She is enormously appealing to the little girls (and their moms) who also love dressing up and enjoying the fancy life. Fancy Nancy is also very popular with teachers because of all of the "fancy words" she uses and explains. Not surprisingly, the first picture book about her is titled Fancy Nancy.

Easter Dresses

I decided to make the girls Easter dresses this year.  I had bought myself a new sewing machine not too long ago and needed to put it to use.  I'm very proud of how the dresses turned out.  The girls were excited too.

Can you say no to this?

If you walked out of the store and heard these two little voices in unison say to you, "Would you like to buy some girl scout cookies?"  Would you be able to say no?

Today they sold 72 boxes.  Which brings them to a total of about 323 boxes sold together.

Getting ready for spring...

Spring is just around the corner, so while we had some sunny days we started to prepare our yard for a garden.  We rented a rototiller and tilled up a decent size of our back yard.  We even got a wire fence put up around it with a gate.  But I haven't taken completed pictures of it yet.  So you just get to see the work in progress picture.  We also bought an apple tree and planted it in the front yard.  It's a semi dwarf apple tree with 3 different types of apples on it.  So it's self polinating.  It has jonagold apples, liberty apples, and yellow delicious apples.  We can't wait to see how well it will do.  One other thing we have done so far is plant strawberries in our flower bed where we had our garden last year.  We also tore out the green bushes we had in front of our porch and put in some rosebushes.  Hopefully that will give us a little color.

We are looking forward to all the food we can plant in our garden. Hopefully this year will be as good as last year, just with a bigger garden.