Easter

These next few posts are about this Easter weekend.  It was full, amazing and so much fun.  It started with an Easter egg hunt at Eli's Rainbow school. His class only has seven students and after hiding the eggs, they found them quicker than it took to hide them.  Barbie was really quick and when she and Eli were racing for an egg, she left Eli in the dust.

Shots Outside!

This little baby is so cute and changing so fast and so I am taking tons of pictures of her outside.  The only trouble is that the baby usually makes silly faces.  We are not sure if this is because she has trouble focusing (cross-eyed), or she is just not photogenic.  Fortunately, we can take a dozen photos and chose the best ones.  These are the best ones, minus the one with the three kids.  The one with Morgan in purple has Riley running in the background.  It was a challenge trying to get a good shot of Morgan while at the same time missing the 3-year old running around in circles around the baby. 

Eyelashes

Look! She has eyelashes!

Sisters

I cannot express how happy I am to have two girls.  I never had a sister growing up and I am glad my daughters have each other. I just hope that my son can have a brother. 
In this picture, Morgan was fussing and Riley came up to me and said, she wants her big sister.  Ok, so I let Riley hold  her.
The other picture, both girls were waking up from a nap and Daddy got the benefit of waking them up. Fortunately, they are not as bad as waking Eli up.

Serenity Came to Play

We had Serenity come for a playdate and as soon as she got here, she wanted to dress up.  Serenity was Ariel, Eli was Captain America and Riley was Minnie Mouse.  After I took the photo, I sent it for her mom, who was attempting to go into labor.  It can be hard to leave your kids while staying at the hospital and so she was grateful to have a picture of her kids and to know they were just fine.
Serenity kept my kids busy the entire day, with only a few normal conflicts with Eli regarding gender.  Eli wanted to fight and the girls wanted to be princesses.  With the right coaching, they were able to settle their differences.  All in all, she fits nicely with my kids because her age is in between my kids and they enjoyed her company.

Stop and Smell the Roses

I have a few pictures of Eli when he was about 2 smelling the roses and thought it would be fun to post some updates of my kids smelling them again.  Stop and Smell the Roses

Rose Gardens

One of the items on my El Paso bucket list is to go to the Rose gardens.  Our family went and had a great time.  They didn't cost anything, because this was considered a city park.  They weren't very large, maybe a few blocks, but they were very beautiful.  The roses were in full bloom and some the rose bushes date back to the 1950s.  It was kind of strange to see have full bloom roses in El Paso and even stranger, to see palm trees in a rose garden.