Storm Lake fun!!

Storm Lake fun!!

This past Friday we packed up the car and headed to Storm Lake. Friday night we all just played. Saturday morning we all headed to the waterpark for 2 hours. Emma absolutely loved it. She is finally strong enough to wear a life jacket and still keep her feet on the ground. After the waterpark, it was time for a quick nap before the dance. But when we got back to the house I decided to send Emma with Lauren and Lori to the twins' Pine Wood Derby. Long story short...Cobe won it all, Seth won best craftmanship and Emma...well she actually won with Dan's car that he made when he was a kid. We started getting ready for the dance around 4:00. She got all dolled up...hair done, princess dress and dancing shoes on. I did Lauren's hair which was crazyyyy because I hadn't done her hair in SO long. Off they went and stayed out till 8:45. On Sunday Zack and Emma headed to the waterpark again...and the twins and Dan met up with them as well. They stayed for 3 hours!! We got home to Grimes at 5pm and are all just tired as can be.

Easter eggs and cookies

I decided to pick Ella up this morning around 8:15am and bring her to our house so the girls could play. I had the magnificent idea of dying Easter eggs and than decorating cookies. Well, we did that AND more. We colored pictures, dyed eggs, decorated cookies, played outside in the dirt, dress-up, dancing to 'Single Ladies', Becky doing some shopping in my closet, a have way broken but fixable kite and paint all over the sidewalk. The girls had a very busy and FuN morning! Jake, Becky and Aaden came over after Aaden's nap so that made for a house full. Gracie cried a few times....because Aaden just goes for her and ends up "hurting" Gracie's feelings but I think that she is getting a little bit braver.

*Disney World....*

nah, i'm just kidding. We didn't go to Disney World, we just went to Valley West Mall. Today they had Easter activities so of course we decided to go. We were the second people in line so we were ready to go. So even though we had our camera I decided that we should pay 10.99 for a "professional" picture because I figured that they would have a cute little paper frame going around the picture like they usually do for xmas pictures. Well, they DIDN't. Whatever, the picture is pretty cute. They also had Tigger and Pooh there as well and a kraft. Emma liked them quite a bit so we got a few pictures. She also got to ride the train. The rest of the day was spent playing outside in the dirt, painting on the sidewalk and playing some soccer in our front yard. It was beautiful outside so after naps we headed to the park. As we pulled up to the park Emma said "i'm going to find a new friend to play with".... so as you can imagine, she did.

-busy last couple weeks-

Well, nothing much is new here. This past week I began watching one of my friends' little girls who is 8 weeks old. We seem to be getting along fine and are adjusting 'fairly' well. Things are busy as usual. But it sure has been great being able to play outside it he dirt (beings we have nothing else to play with just yet) and going to the park. Gracie now has 4 teeth and has mastered climbing up the first stair. Not the best thing to have mastered though. She is pulling herself up on things because she tends to think she is a big girl. Emma is just the same as always, chatting it up constantly and loving being able to play outside. We were flying a kite the other day and it was a tad bit windy and needless to say the wind took...a couple houses down. So if you can imagine, the kite flying away, me running to get the kite and Emma back in the street crying and screaming "my kite...my kite mommy!" So that was fun, let me tell you. The girls and myself headed back to Villisca last Thursday so I could help do flowers for a wedding. Zack came on Friday after work so beings we were all home we went to my Grandma Wainwright's house on Saturday evening and took Drew and Addy as well. We got a pretty darn good picture of all the great-grandkids. Can you believe my grandma is going to be 91 in April and still lives on the farm on her own. CRAZY!