Color Festival

Here at the Village we had a mini Color Festival and my girls loved it! Actually, when the color ran out they were pretty upset....

St. Patrick's Day

Our girls had so much fun today. It was fun to be a Fighting Irish during St. Patrick's Day! Late last night the leprechauns paid a visit to our house.

 The leprechauns left some green tiaras and green shirts 

 Their footprints leading to the bathroom

 The girls thought it was so funny that they used our potty

 They also turned our breakfast green! 

 We went to the St. Patrick's Day parade

 Adalie was so happy about all of the candy she got

 

 Hallie was our little Christmas Tree

All of the kids at the Parade 

Coates,  Perkins, and Hills

Spring Break!!!

We had an awesome Spring Break for two reasons--one the weather here is PERFECT, and two we went to Indianapolis for three days two nights with our friends the Coates. In Indianapolis we went to the Zoo, Incredible Pizza (an upscale version of Chucky E.Cheese--more fun and better food) and to the Children's Museum. We have never been to Indy and on our way home decided we could see ourselves living there. It's a really cool city! 

ZOO

 Petting the sharks

 Mr. Polar Bear

 The elephant 

 I'm in LOVE with Hallie's smile!

 The love birds Noah and Adalie

 Adalie took this shot--surprisingly Hallie turned and smiled

Incredible Pizza

 Hallie got to drive and thought she was pretty cool 

 Mini bowling for the "babies"

 Brad and Noah

 Nate and Adalie

Adalie got to drive too!

Back at the hotel

Sister loves

Children's Museum

Digging for dinosaur bones 

 

 In a tunnel at the dinosaur museum 

 Barbie--poor Nate wanted a boy so bad during this time, he wanted to go and hang out with Brad and Noah at the Lego Exhibit

 

Barbie fashion show

 Mr. Potato Head exhibit 

 Hallie's Mr. Potato Head

 Adalie's Mrs. Potato Head

 On an African Safari 

 Hallie--daydreaming in Egypt

 Adalie being my server in Egypt

 Of course we can't go an entire day without a tantrum....

 This is Hallie about 2 minutes after the tantrum...

 Working hard

 I was looking through the pictures and found this, apparently Nate thought it was funny

 Another hard worker

 Wouldn't this picture be perfect for "Whats wrong with these photos, photos?"

The end of our trip!!

Lots of Dates!

 Nate was taking finals last week so the girls and I had a date together playing basketball during family hours on campus at the Rolf.

 Hallie has preschool twice a week with her friend Hannah. These girls love each other so much. They are playing "hair lady"

Hallie, Hannah, Dorothy, Adalie, and Oaklee

Girls day at our house last week. They are playing doctor and Hallie is taking care of them all.

 For playgroup last week we went to the Chocolate Factory 

Nate and I had a date night just before Valentines Day. We took advantage of the free babysitting offered once again at the Village. Dinner was in a mansion downtown which was really fun. After dinner we were able to tour the home!

 On another date at the Notre Dame Bengal Bouts--Boxing

 The girls: Me, Amy, Shelley

 The boys: Brad, Brian, Nate

Bad Dreams

Last night Hallie had her first bad dream that we know of. She woke up at about 3:30 am and was crying telling us that there was a bee in her bed. It broke my heart with how sad she was. Luckily in the dream she said daddy threw it in the garbage. However, she is still convinced that the bee is still in her bed. We had to lay a blanket down over her bed so the bee could not get her. Adalie hates bad dreams as well and often asks in her prayers for her and Hallie to have good dreams and if they can be Care Bear dreams which is really cute. 

This is Hallie at the Kroc Center. We went swimming there for playgroup a couple of weeks ago. My girls LOVED it!