D.C Cherry Blossoms

Since we've all had a warm spring the cherry blossom trees in D.C bloomed early. Some friends and our girls went to the have a picnic near the cherry blossoms and then we went to the fantastic National Museum of American History. We had a great day and I didn't even get lost coming out of D.C which was a miracle for me.

Here's the crew of kids- I guess it looks like we have our own little school group.

We also toured the Jefferson Memorial.

We had our picnic on the grounds of the Washington monument. Lauren is in a phase where she doesn't always want her photo taken, but of course right before she was all smiles sitting on the rock wall. Maybe I'll get her next time.

Easter

This past week has been Spring break for the girls so we went to Norfolk, VA and Williamsburg for a family trip ( more pictures of that to come). On Easter we went to church and enjoyed a wonderful service there. Then, we went to Aunt Jeannine and Uncle Leon's place for an Easter meal and egg hunt.

Bailey is showing off her chocolate bunny that she won from the egg hunt.

Lilly found one of the coveted golden eggs during the egg hunt and also won a chocolate bunny.

Jeannine and Leon- oh we love you!

We visited Heather and Pat's charming new home they recently bought. What a great couple!

Jeannine's beautiful flowers from her garden. She has quite the green thumb of the family.

Happy Easter! Hope yours was a great day.

February updates

This month has been a bit crazy. Bailey was in the Hospital for two days this week. She had a cold that turned into pneumonia. I took her to the doctor's on Tuesday and they sent us striaght to the ER due to a really low oxygen level. We spent two days there and are happy to be home now with a more energetic Bailey!

Bailey was quite the trooper through it all.

On another note- I spray painted these letters above our stove and it makes me smile.

Lauren joined a basketball team and has been enjoying learning the game. She is lucky #13.

Bailey and Lilly created what they call "Lego Land" where they have lots of fun with their imaginations.

Touch down!! We had fun watching the Super Bowl.

New York City Girl's Weekend

At the beginning of January Alison and I went with our good friends and neighbors to New York City for a fun filled weekend. We were there to celebrate Alison's friend Sarah's birthday. We took the train into the city and headed first thing to the mecca for girls- that's right- American Girl store. The girls had their dolls get their hair done and we looked at all the fun outfits for dolls. What was great was the city still had Christmas decorations up so we got to see the big tree at Rockefeller plaza. My camera died so we used Lindsay's. I still need to get more pictures of our trip from her. However, we stayed busy going to the MET, ice skating in central park, Serendipity's, F.A.O Schwartz, and going to a play. We had a terrific time!

Dance time

Bailey and Lilly and their friend Matthew had a great time dancing to a game on the Wii.

They were so cute. They did this for over an hour.

Lauren's Birthday

For Lauren's 7th Birthday she had some of her friends come over for a 'Make your own pizza party'. At the party I made a little sweet shop table so the girls could fill their candy bags with all sorts of treats. They loved the treats, but also had a great time making their own small pizzas.

Look how grown up she's looking!

We love you Lauren! Happy Birthday!

more Christmas 2011

We first went to Levert, MA to visit Granpa King, the Downey family, and Grandma Muriel and Omar. We had a wonderful dinner there with all of them and had a good time with the Downey cousins.

Then we went to stay at my parent's home for Christmas. We had fun visiting with cousins and Aunties and Uncles. We missed Amy and her family but had a great time Skyping with them.

Trisha with new baby Elise Ruby- what a beauty!

Christmas 2011

We had a great Christmas season. Before we left for my parent's house we hosted our annual neighborhood Christmas party. We also had our girls open a couple of gifts that we didn't want to pack with us in the car. After bath night (hence all the wet heads in this picture) they all had fun opening up this new doll bunk bed that I had found at an antique store. I then gave it a pop of color by spray painting it a bright pink. There were many squeals of delight!

Here are some pictures of what our home looked like for Chirstmas-

Mirror Mirror on the Wall

Steve did yet another great job on a project- framing our bathroom mirrors.

We have a standard contractor-grade mirror, but we were ready for an updated look. We did some research and found on this blog a good tutorial, but there are many good ones out there.

Steve removed the bar light and did some sheet rock repair. Then he added new sconces. We also painted the whole bathroom.

So here is the before:

and this is how it looks now:

Next up- new faucets.