Carey, Barclay, Lily, Addison, and Miriam: March 2008

HAPPY EASTER

We had a great Easter weekend full of egg hunts. I had Friday off work and the girls and I hung out, ran errands, visited the doctor (as usual), and decorated bird houses - we made 2 fabulous bird houses. Lily said that one was for blue birds and one was for bumble bees, so we decorated accordingly. Saturday morning it was FREEZING, raining and snowing...but we went to the neighborhood egg hunt anyway. We bundled the girls up and walked over to the elementary school field. They separated the areas for "under 5" and "over 5". The five year olds got done with their egg hunt in no time, while the little kids were walking around going "there's a green one, there's a pink one". They got the hang of it eventually though.

And then....the Easter Bunny came! He arrived at our house sometime during the night on Saturday night. We know this because on Easter morning there were 2 Easter Egg baskets filled with goodies and eggs hidden throughout the living room. Who could have done such a thing, but the Easter Bunny? The girls loved what he left - eggs filled with goodies, peeps, chocolate bunnies, and cool sun glasses. Lily found each and every egg he hid. We didn't think he hid the eggs in very tricky

places.

After our egg hunt we went to Mass. Betty joined us. Addy was a real gem during church b/c we went to 11:00 mass, which is right during her morning nap time. So I spent a lot of time in the vestibule...problem was that the church was so crowded that people were sitting out there watching the mass. It wasn't the typical escape for people with crying babies and toddlers that it

usually is.

After mass the Jacobi's (John's parents) invited us all over for Easter brunch and another egg hunt. Lily got to play with Ana and John's nephews. They live at the Noblesville Airport, so there is a lot of room for little people to run and play. The funniest part was that Lily didn't want to take her Easter dress off before we got there, so she was wearing her dress, a sweater, and the sunglasses that the Easter bunny brought her. It still seemed a little chilly so we borrowed Collins' bomber jacket for her to wear too...check out her style. She's a real trend setter!

We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter. Sorry we couldn't make it to the Haute this year!

Ode to Uncle Matt

Gabe's Baptism

This weekend Addison and I traveled to Virginia with mom, dad and Abbie to visit Matt, Taryn and Gabe. Gabe was baptized on Saturday at their new beautiful church. We spent the rest of the long weekend hanging out, visiting the sites along the mall in downtown DC, and eating! As soon as we got there on Thursday Addy got really sick. Her fever spiked so we took her right to the urgent care. I was worried she had the flu or strep, which would stink b/c we'd have to keep her way away from Gabe. Turns out it was an ear infection. Antibiotics didn't fix her as quickly as I thought it would though. She didn't sleep much any of the nights we were there and was pretty fussy and clingy - very un-Addison like. She perked up a bit by Saturday and is fine today. It's always pretty exhausting with a sick kid.

We had perfect weather for walking around the monuments on Friday. Abbie had never seen them, so we saw the Lincoln, the Jefferson, the Washington, the WWII memorial, the Korean, the Vietnam Wall......that may be all. We saw the capital building and the White House from the distance.

Gabe's baptism was on Saturday and he did great. Taryn found a perfect baptism outfit for him. We were so glad to be able to spend time with Gabe and let Addy get to know him better. They LOVED each other. Gabe is such a good boy - he's got a perfect disposition and is just so happy! We even got to see him roll over for the first time!

Happy Anniversary!

Aunt Carla and Uncle John have now been married for 30 years! Sarah, Laura, Emily, Ann and Leah all had an anniversary party for them on Saturday night. It was a surprise and they pulled it off without a hitch. The party was at Clabber Girl, where Keith works. It's really neat in there...we'd never been before. They have a restaurant and a "train room", as well as a whole museum with old memorabilia. There was plenty of room for the kids to run around. Don't ask me how I missed getting a single picture of the guests of honor, but I did get a few other good ones.

I call this series of pictures "the twins"...Mike and Addy and Uncle Bill and Kathleen ;)

Then some more....

We LOVE the Children's Museum

So we went back to the children's museum a couple of weekends ago with my friends from work and their kids. The cool thing is that we saw completely different "exhibits" on round 2. We love this place!