I painted my table green today.

LOVE me some April.

I am the most SPOILED girl in the world. And I LOVE IT!
By spoiled, I mean, my mom and sister got to come visit me AGAIN.
Oh I love them.
Love them, love them.

But before we get to any of that jazz, I have to throw in some pictures of Claire. She's the only one who semi-cooperates these days. It was a beautiful day so I snapped a couple of Claire. She's hilarious these days. She can talk extraordinarily well and she's unbelievably mischievous. She loves to play with her sister and they play everything together. Claire has recently taken to "holding cute wormies" after it rains. She's such a spaz!

Tulips!
I did not do a spectacular job documenting the vacation with my mom and Maryn. We did some awesome stuff: ate at the French Bakery, went to Snoqualmie Falls, visited the temple, shopped at Bell Sq., watched awesome movies... and drove 3 hours to see Tulip Town.
Unfortunately 98% of the tulips won't bloom until THIS week. Boo. So we saw some, but not as many as I had hoped.

My beautiful madre and Claire-bear.

As we were leaving Tulip Town, we saw this HUGE patch of yellow in the distance. We went on a search for it--we were not disappointed! It was a flowing field of daffodils and they were stunning! This is Abby being a daffodil. She wouldn't smile. Like I said, Claire is the only one who really cooperates these days. Abby is learning how to read. She's doing really well and she's recently started a dance class. Oh! Maryn took pictures of that. I should find those.... She's a wonderful helper with Ben and most of the time she is wonderful with Claire. Her Primary teacher is convinced she's one of the best 4-year-olds ever. I agree. :)

The master at work. I chuckled after I took this picture. You'll have to check out her blog to see her pictures. They're GORGEOUS!

Ah... Spring break ended way too soon. I needed a picture of Maryn and the girls. This was on our last day before I took them to the airport. They're all so beautiful! Though I wish I had seen Abby's hair in her mouth.... I would have taken it out. Oh well.

Happy EASTER!
The girls were ready for a glorious Easter egg hunt. It was actually nice enough to do it outside, but the girls wanted to do it inside. Go figure.

Oh, so pretty in pink. REALLY pink. HOT pink. I love it!

(sorry, overexposed. I'm still learning)

My handsome boys!!

More of these yahoos, really?

The girls were doing an Easter craft that the Easter bunny brought. But check out those gerber daisies!! It was $5 for 10 at Trader Joe's. A total steal. And they're my FAVORITE.

Happy spring, happy Easter. I love you all!

Love me some March.

Oy!
It's March!
I desperately owe my family some pictures of my adorable children. And watch out. They are totally adorable.

Here's BENNY! He's seriously a super expressive baby, but of course, he never is when the camera is out. Why would he? He plans to remain mysterious and aloof. Not. One day I'll capture his muppet smile. It's his huge, wide-mouth smile. HILARIOUS.

I made a quilt!! Aren't you proud? It's small, and this is an awful picture, but I'm super proud of it. It's for Ben. It's going on his wall. Woot woot! I might enjoy this hobby.. we'll see.

Abby. So cute. She was the little fingers holding my quilt up for me. Check out her curlers. For quiet time today, she found my old sponge curlers and asked if I'd curl her hair. Of course I will! I've been dying to do SOMETHING with her hair. Wahoo!

Today was a hard day. An exhausting Abby-spilled-her-water-everywhere and Claire-spilled-her-milk-everywhere day. Just one of those obnoxious day. At the end of the day, I told the girls to get their coats and shoes on and go outside. Claire was happy to oblige. She is such a spaz!

THE CURLS. Abby was SO thrilled with her curly hair. They were still a little wet, but we were both too excited to see them and we took out the sponge curlers a little too early. The curls didn't last long, but they were adorable!

Oh my adorable children. You make me so crazy, and yet melt my heart all in the same day. What do I do with you?

A happy Ben

Love me some February.

We did it. We made the drive to Utah. And though the drive was painful, the vacation ROCKED! We had SO much fun with my family. I have many many more pictures to post, but I only have a few minutes so I'm throwing on the AWESOME video Maryn did for us and some pictures that I think Maryn took as well. Go Maryn. She's so hot right now. ;)

Claire is convinced that Grandpa, or "bumpa", is her BEST FRIEND ever.

Modeling adorable outfits from Grandma, or "bumma."

Grandma and Abs. Both beautiful.

BEST PICTURE EVER. Ben at three weeks. This picture just absolutely cracks me up.