Playing with Hannah

We got to have our niece, Hannah, come stay with us twice in a week!  Once was during Spring Break and then the next time was the next week on Good Friday.  We had so much fun.  We made cookie bars, played on the trampoline, drew on the sidewalk with chalk, went for a walk, played with Winston, played at the YMCA gym, got Happy Meals for lunch, colored Easter Eggs, piled up on Daddy/Uncle Chris, went to a cookout, rode a Go-Cart, and had all kinds of fun!  It is so fun to have her around to get to know her little personality better!  The girls are all so close in age and it will be such a blessing for them to have each other growing up!

More random catching up

Still trying to get caught up....

Emma started swimming lessons at the high school on Sept 8. I'd say she loves it, but then I'd be lying. She tolerates it. I just want her to get more comfortable with the water and not be so petrified of it.
The lessons are done through Swim America which has specific guidelines to pass each of 10 levels. The first level (which Emma started in) requires you to bob up and down in the water 10 times while blowing bubbles. Emma was not having the bobbing.
They did let her pass by just sticking her face in and blowing bubbles 10 times. However, she really only put her mouth and a tiny part of her nose in each time. It is just young kids teaching her.

Last weekend, we also got to visit with Nana and Papa! We were excited to see them. We even lost our minds temporarily, and tried to get a picture of all 4 kids. I think this is the best one. One with eyes shut, one laying her head back.
This one was a close contender...isn't Morgan just precious?
The closest we got to all 4 kids by themselves.
*sigh*

Easter Eve

What a busy and fun day we had today!!!!

We started out with a girls' and boys' morning! Daddy and Carter went to run some errands and perform certain bunny-ly duties that had not yet been done. The girls went to the Easter Angel Breakfast at church. They had a yummy breakfast of french toast sticks, sausage, and bananas along with orange juice. After that, they divided up into 4 age groups and Morgan & Emma's group went with Pastor Marti to learn about Easter by opening up Resurrection Eggs and learning about what was inside.
Then Pastor Marti took the kids to the closed up tomb where they "pretended" Jesus had been buried. Tomorrow during Children's Church, the kids will go to it and see that the stone has been moved and the tomb is empty because Jesus has risen! It was really neat!

This is Emma and her good buddy Cade. They are in preschool together and will be in Kindergarten together next year at the same school. This picture cracks me up just looking at it. They are both making the funniest faces like they just can't believe that I'm taking a picture of them. I'll have to put this picture next to a picture of them on their graduation day! *sniff, sniff*

Here are Emma & Cade again deep in conversation.

After church, we came home and Carter took a good nap while the rest of us had lunch. When Carter got up, we all headed to Connersville to see Chris' parents for Easter. Here is Carter opening up his Easter treats from Nana & Papa!

Morgan & Emma got matching Hannah Montana nightgowns! (Nana usually gets them jammies for Easter)

Carter got to have a relatively short horsie ride from Nana whose horsie was kind of weak and got tired easily. *wink, wink*

Nana and Papa had never gotten to see Carter's camera face in person and they were laughing pretty hard at his ability to make the face when the camera was up and then immediately go right back to normal when the camera was lowered. Nana called this one his "camera face with attitude!" (By the way, Karen, I think you need to reset the date on your camera)

Here is Daddy demonstrating camera face....I'd say its a perfect impression!!!!

I don't usually think Chris & his Dad look too much alike but I think Carter sure looks like him in this picture!

The girls having ice cream cones for dessert!!!
The girls back home and ready for bed in their new nightgowns!!!

The girls eagerly went to bed ready to get up in the morning to see what treasures the Easter Bunny has left.

Its an All Skate!

Chris' parents' church was sponsoring a skating party today in Richmond and they asked us several weeks ago if we'd want to come and bring the girls. Sounded like fun to us! We made a whole day of it!

Here are Emma & Hannah preparing to skate!
Morgan trying to get the hang of it on the carpet.

Emma was really brave and tried a lot more than Morgan!

Karen tried to get out of skating, but finally did try. She started out on the Beginner's Floor!!

It was really fun and actually pretty good exercise!!

Afterwards, we went to a McDonald's with a playplace and then to see Bolt at the dollar theatre. My mom kept Carter. It was a fun day!!!

Pictures!

Here are the pictures we got on New Year's Day of the 4 grandchildren of Chris' parents (who they call Nana and Papa) Hannah is Chris' sister's daughter and she is 4 (2 months and 24 days younger than Emma) Not too bad for an outing that only took about 20 minutes total!