Happy Birthday Grandma, Anna, & Abby!

This past weekend we celebrated Grandma's 60th birthday, Anna's 4th birthday, and Abby's 2nd birthday. We had a fantastic weekend. The celebrations began on Wednesday when Nana arrived:

On Friday Uncle Pete, Uncle Dan, and Aunt Bridget arrived and when Grandpa and Grandma arrived, Grandma was greeted with a surprise: we really were making a big deal of her 60th birthday. She had thought Pete, Dan, & Bridget were all arriving late Friday night. But really, they arrived in the afternoon and we all went to Luciano to celebrate her birthday!

 

I like spaghetti!

On Saturday we celebrated Anna's 4th birthday:

 

decorating her cupcakes the day before

we started the party with a scavenger hunt:

listening carefully to the directions

Abby & Teagan enjoying treats from the hunt :)

 ready for lunch :)

The weather warmed up enough for some rope swing rides:

 wee!!!!

 

"Happy Birthday dear Anna..."

 

On Sunday we celebrated Abby's 2nd birthday!!! 

dressed up in some new birthday clothes!

 time to eat!!!

 

decorating her cupcakes with sister :)

  

Abby could not stop giggling while we sang "Happy Birthday" to her:

 

 

Happy Birthday Grandma, Anna, & Abby! Thank you Nana, Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Pete, Uncle Dan, & Aunt Bridget for traveling so far to celebrate with us!! We had such a wonderful weekend :)

Egg decorating

A video of our egg decorating:

funny quotes

Two night ago in the tub:
Anna: Don't wash my knee that I hurt today.
Mom: Which knee is that?
Anna: I don't know. It doesn't hurt anymore.

At naptime today:
Mom: singing Abby's lullabye song
Abby: "Don't put me on that side." (pointing somewhere inside the crib)
Mom: still singing, but confused. I put her in the crib.
Abby: "I said not to put me on that side!" crying, crying

I guess "that side" meant "that side" of the crib railing. A very creative second attempt to skip her nap. Yesterday she just requested not to have a nap.

Play dough playdate!

Right after we moved into our new house are old neighbor, Janie, came over for a playdate with her grandkids. Play dough ended up being the big hit of the day:

Pigtails!

These pictures are a few weeks old - back from the old house. I just didn't get a chance to post them before now:

Cousins visit!

This past week our cousins Scott, Shari, Sam, and Sophie were visiting Washington DC. We had a great time having them over to our house, going to the Natural History Museum, and going out to dinner with them.

yummy Mickey & Mini Mouse cupcakes from cousin Shari!

Sophie (4), Anna (3), Sam (8), and Abby (23 mo.)

visiting the Natural History Museum

Dinosaurs!

Thanks for the great visit!

Happy Easter!

We had a great Easter! The girls enjoyed meeting the Easter Bunny at the mall and decorating Easter eggs to prepare for the big day. On Easter morning they were thrilled to see that the Easter Bunny hid them lots of treats and an Easter Basket!

Happy Easter!