New house pictures! Dani requested pictures of our new house, so I thought this was the best way to show it.

Happy Easter! We finally moved into our new house and are very happy to be here! We had Easter in 2 parts this year since Scott had to work on real Easter. We were sad he had to work, but Daddy made it special by buying baskets and candy on Saturday and organizing a fun Easter egg hunt at our new house.

Part 1

Daddy had to help keep things on track since she kept stopping to eat what she'd found...

Part 2 at Mimi and Papa's house

Now that she had a practice round, she's an expert at finding the candy...

And Carter is very grateful for all the good stuff his sister keeps bringing him...look at that mouth full of food. That's pretty much how he rolls.

Ah, all that good stuff. Now it's time to explore what we found.

Wow, another piece that she didn't find the first time around! Extra bonus!

And, a special thanks to Aunt Jodi for the yummy Easter basket and especially the Barbie doll...it's her new favorite toy!!

Hooray for playing outside!!

Carter isn't quite sure what to think about Anna pushing him in the swing...

But maybe this isn't such a bad thing...


Yippeeeeeeeee!!!!

Anna is officially a ski bunny! We spent a week in Colorado with Nanny, Poppy Stacy and her friend Emily and Anna really enjoyed skiing and playing in the snow. Both kids loved Wally, which is what we named the giant stuffed bear. Daddy is such a proud Papa with Anna starting to ski at 2 and a 1/2!!

At first Anna wasn't sure skiing was such a great idea, and just as we were about to give up, Stacy came skiing down the mountain and asked Anna to ski with her. Anna was very excited and then suddenly Anna was all about it! We even ended up taking on the lift twice and she skiied down all by herself and was so proud!! Stacy to the rescue!! She was the hero of the trip!!

Here is the big girl, skiing with Stacy and Stacy's friend, Emily.

Here is Wally, their new best friend!!

Phew! After all that skiing she needed some yummy hot chocoloate out of her special tea cups!

It was real hot chocolate...well warm anyway and she was pretty proud of herself!

After we got back, we made Frosty the Snowman out of all the new snow we got while we were in Colorado. Even Carter enjoyed playing in the snow!

Decorating Christmas cookies at Mimi and Papa's!!

Anna was actually very serious about this job and didn't take a break from decorating until it was all over.
Gingerbread houses!! We went to Nora's house and decorated Gingerbread houses with Lily. Ours was the messiest, but we all had a great time, especially Anna who snuck a lot of candy while I did my best to put together a decent gingerbread house. Unfortunatley I'm not very creative and by the end ours was falling apart!!

We put up Christmas Lights this year and both kids had a blast observing the process

Happy Birthday Daddeo!!!

Movie night got very crowded when we brough the picnic table inside so Anna could eat pizza while watching her movie...the problem was when Carter decided he wanted pizza and wanted to sit at the picnic table with Anna and she didn't think that was such a good idea. Especially when he was actually almost able to climb onto the table with her!

I never thought the day would come that they would actually play together...but now they do...sort of. Anna bosses Carter around and he smiles.

Fingerpaint extravaganza!! Very popular activity for Anna...however I continue to curse the day I purchased finger paints!! :-)

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Halloween!!

Anna was a crayon and Carter was a puppy. Originally I wanted Anna to be a princess or Tinkerbell or somemthing really cute, but the only thing she wanted to be was a crayon. Oh well, there's always next year and actually she looked really cute. First we went to the village to trick or treat at the shops with the Stuarts and Anna loved going with Lily, who was Minnie Mouse. Carter got a little chilly so when we got home we changed him into the skeleton sweatsuit that Nani Mullen bought for him.

Yummy candy!!!

After the village we went trick or treating on our street and Anna had a great time because two little girls came to our house and she was thrilled! Then she insisted that we follow them and everytime they got out sight she would yell, "The girls are running away!!!!" We ended up skipping most of the houses because she didn't want them to get away and they were going really fast!!