Happy Easter 2011

We have had a wonderful Easter weekend, filled with fun, friends and lots of chocolate! The festivities began on Thursday at my school, we had a really nice party with all my teachers and classmates. Plus Mommy, Daddy and Paige were able to come as well, it was fantastic.

The Easter bunny came to the school when we were eating lunch and hid a whole bunch of eggs outside. I must say I am pretty good at finding easter eggs!!! I think you will be able to see from the picture below that we were all super excited to see the easter eggs…

Paige had fun hanging out with her buddy Grant while us bigger kids went egg hunting! Both Paige and Grant are going to be joining us at school for the last 4 weeks, should be lots of fun to have them there.

Yesterday was a beautiful day, 85 F so we had our first dark party of the year. We got together with a bunch of our neighbor friends and had a BBQ with an easter egg hunt and an outdoor movie. It was the perfect evening, we all had lots of fun. We are certainly going to miss everyone when we move! Check out the neat signs that the Easter Bunny left for us so we knew where to go….

We had two egg hunts one during the day with just Ella, Fisher and I and then we had a huge one after dinner with all of the other neighborhood kids. I got so many eggs, I can’t even count that high! Paige just watched all of us, she still isn’t walking and does not really like crawling in the grass either, silly girl!!!

 

Once it got dark out, we all got cozy on some blankets and watched the movie Tangled outside, it was just like being at the drive-in!

This morning (Easter Sunday) I was a little tired from our fun night so I slept in till 8:30am. Paige and I woke up to find two easter egg trails from our bedrooms to the living room and at the end of the trail was a bunch of wonderful gifts. Some of the gifts were from the Easter Bunny and somehow Uncle Ryan, Gigi and Papa also had a bag of gifts for us there too! Not only that I could smell some yummy chocolate chip pancakes that Mommy made while I was still asleep, it was a fantastic morning!

We all loved the breakfast that Mommy made but I think Paige liked it the most, check out the picture of her below!

When it was Paige’s morning nap, we went outside since it was already 80F by 10:30 am and we coloured some eggs. We painted them different colours and then put glitter and stickers all over them, it was so much fun!

 

After the perfect Easter morning we got all dressed up and headed to town for a nice lunch at Cafe Lola. We had some really yummy food and even better a chocolate fondue for dessert, it was great!

Well, we definitely had a wonderful Easter and we hope that all of our family and friends did as well. Only 4 more weeks till we pack up and head to Canada, wish us luck getting ready!

Love y’all,

Emmie and Paige

A visit with Granny and Pop-Pop

It has been 5 long months since we have seen Granny and Pop-Pop, they don’t like winter so they stay where it is nice and warm, Arizona and California…I think they are very lucky! They arrived a week ago and we have been very busy hanging out and having fun. Here we are in our new Princess pyjamas that they bought us for Easter.

We had a busy weekend when they first arrived…our family had signed up to participate in a 5K run on Saturday for the Trot 4 Tots and a 5K walk on Sunday for the March of Dimes. Both of them were done on behalf of daddy’s work ETSU Pediatrics and they were held on the grounds behind the hospital. We were very lucky that the weather cooperated both days and it was beautiful. We ran the 5K race in 37 mins and we were the first stroller/kids to cross the line!

 

For the March of Dimes walk they were raising money for the premature NICU babies which as most of you know means a lot to my daddy since he has decided to pursue a career in neonatology. They had tons of fun things set up for kids to do before the walk. Our friends the Lowery’s and the Farr’s joined us, it was a great day!

   

Since the weather was so nice we decided to get all packed up on Monday and head to Dollywood, it was so much fun. There was barely anybody there and we got to go on so many rides, including the fun water rides, I think everyone had a great time! I hope we get to go back one more time before we move…hint, hint!!!!

Paige and I each got to ride in one of the old fashion cars with Granny and Pop-Pop it was really cool!

I got to ride on a kids roller coaster with both Mommy and Daddy, it was super fast and lots of fun.

Then Mommy and Daddy got to be big kids for a few mins and ride some big roller coasters, if you look close enough at the pic below you can see them on the wooden roller coaster!  

I also got to spend some time this week with my friends Fisher and Ella, their babysitter hurt herself so Mommy helped out by watching them for 2 days. One afternoon while they were here we got all dressed in bathing suits and played outside in the sprinkler and water table!

 

Our weather has been really weird lately, one day it is super nice and the next it is rainy and kind of cold. So on one of the not so nice days we went to Wallabies indoor play center and Paige and I got to show Granny and Pop-Pop all the fun things we like to do there. I think they were quite amazed at the lack of fear in me…!!!

 

Since mommy and daddy have grandparents here they took advantage one night and went out with some of their friends and by the sounds of it they had a great time! It is nice for them to have a night out, I think Paige and I can be handful sometimes…!!!

I know this has been a long post so I will finish off with just a few last pictures. Last night it was a beautiful evening so we went out to the park and watched Pop-Pop fly his model airplane and helicopter, it was really neat! Check out the nice picture Granny got of the four of us walking out into the sunset!!!

 

Granny and Pop-Pop treated us out to dinner tonight so Paige and I decided we would get all dolled up in some of our new dresses, everyone kept telling us how cute we looked!

Well that is all for now, hope everyone has a nice weekend!

Love y’all,

Emmie and Paige