Easter

We spent Easter with Craig's family. We had an egg hunt at Scott and Annelise's and then had a nice dinner with everyone. We had to encourage Kay to pick up the eggs and look in them later. She kept wanting to stop and peek inside. Kay LOVED the pie pops shared with her.

We also tried going to the tv station gardens again to get some cute Easter pictures of Kay. She is a little girl on a mission! She is impossible to get to sit still now and is into everything. She had to check out every flower and would not look at the camera. It was a beautiful day and we had fun.

First Easter Egg Hunt

Kay enjoyed her first Easter Egg Hunt. Our neighborhood has an egg hunt each year for all the little ones. Last year she was not walking so she was unable to join in the fun. It was so neat to watch Kay. She kept calling them "ball" in the beginning and she was collecting as many as she could keep in her basket. Afterward she got excited again when she realized stickers and other fun goodies were inside!

We had some bad weather come through within miles of our house over the weekend. We are so thankful we did not have any damage. It was a little challenging getting an almost two year old to stay confined in a bathroom for almost an hour.

The porch is open again! We brought in all the cushions and pillows for pollen season. We scrubbed it over the weekend and it is so nice to be able to play outside again. Kay's newest activities are spinning around. She will turn in circles and then laugh when she gets dizzy. Whenever I set my phone down she picks it up, holds it to her hear and says "hi daddy".

Kay also started her new daycare this week. She seemed to really enjoy it. We laughed with her daily report from the first day because the teacher wrote that they were learning about various fruits and veggies. She said the class tasted tomatoes. I could only imagine Kay gobbling them up and asking for more. She LOVES tomatoes!

Happy Birthday Daddy!

We went out to breakfast as a family on Sunday to the Farmers Market. After breakfast we could not get Kay to leave the tractors. She had such a blast pretending she was driving then. We then went to buy some veggies for dinner. Kay helped us carry the bag of potatoes. Whenever she carries something she holds her arm straight up in the air so it will not slip off. Watching always makes me smile. She has also really enjoying taking care of her baby. She gives the baby water, diapers, medicine and takes it for walks. It is cute to watch how she is getting attached to her doll. Kay also loved helping her daddy eat birthday cake. She licked every finger clean!

Check out this hair!

Kay worked on this hair all during her nap. We could not get it to stay down! I had to take the picture because it kept making me laugh while we were shopping.

Kay with her friend Sarah Bess. Sarah Bess is her fellow "thumb sucking" buddy (as you can see in the picture)...

Why do I blog?

I get that question a lot because it does take me a lot of time. Everyone has things that they try to find time to do no matter how busy life gets. Blogging is one of those things for me. I have a pretty good system down so it does not take very long. The two most important reasons why I blog are 1) for our long distance family to keep in touch 2) for our family to have a photo book each year. I have decided against the typical scrap book for Kay. I find it much faster to type and upload pictures than to cut paper and glue pictures. I recently got our latest 2010 blog book in the mail. I always get so excited when they arrive on the door step. It is so fun to look back through the book and see how much things have changed. It is pretty neat how a simple blog can be turned into a family keepsake!

Arbor Day Celebration...

We also took Kay to the Farmers Market over the weekend. There was an Arbor Day celebration going on and each child got a tree to plant. We planted the tree in our backyard so Kay could watch it grow. Her favorite part was trying to help with the shovel and help water the tree.

College...

Craig and I decided we needed to re-live some of our college days. We took Kay to walk around the university last weekend. It was amazing how different it looked. She really enjoyed running around and checking everything out.