Abby's 7th Birthday

Happy Birthday Abby! Somehow it's always hard to believe another year has gone by. We were all telling family stories the other night and realizing how fast the girls change. Anyhow, Abby had a traditional birthday-week. She took frozen cupcakes in to school on Wednesday and got to set the menu for dinner (Ham and Mac'n'cheese).

That evening she opened her presents. There were a lot of good ones. Abby and Nora put together a lego set one evening last week. They're turning into little engineers, just a year or two ago I would help them with a set like that for at least a week.

Thursday for small group she set the menu again, corn-dogs and popsicles. Saturday was her party, she choose a frozen theme at the local ice rink. It took a little while to get all the girls the right shoes, but after a few exchanges everyone had a great time. By the end Abby was skating a little by herself, away from the wall. She may already be better than her Dad.

I think she had a great week, hopefully the start of another great year.

Easter 2015

We had another great Easter this weekend. I always especially enjoy the weekends where our family spends a lot of time together. Saturday we dyed Easter Egg's:

The girls got to pick out their Easter dresses this year. They had been dying to wear them all week and put them on first thing when they woke up at 6 am. After church I took them out to the yard with me to rake. They proceeded to start a leaf war and ended up covered with leaves from head-to-toe, I haven't heard that much giggling since at least last weekend. We did get some shots before all the excitement.

In the afternoon we had our hunt. The girls were careful to search together and split the eggs sort of evenly.

At breakfast we had smiley face pancakes, to tease Nora I gave her a frowny face. She just looked at me for a while afterwards and I asked her what was wrong. She said, 'Dad, the next time you make a frowny face pancake could you please not forget the tears?'. Sometimes I wonder about that kid, at least she asked nicely.