then and now

 during the winter Karla (pictured on the left above) dropped of three of those dresses she explained they were cleaning out he rmom's house and had come across these matching outfits.  She thought of our girls and wondered if we would want them.  of course I said yes!

 easter morning and all three girls are wearing their matching dresses....yes I do realize that matching anything is not going to be happening much longer but this mamma is going to take advantage of the fact that for now they are cool with it.

we had to have some alterations done on reyna's but the other two fit perfectly.  Love that their dresses had a story and history to them.

vintage

a friend from church dropped off a box of clothes one night, she was in the process of cleaning out her mother's house and said maybe you can use some of these for your girls or for dress up for the daycare.  I looked through the box and discovered some beautiful dresses.  Handmade and in amazing shape.   I selected a few and after they had been cleaned and pressed the girls were very excited to try them on.  Reyna has worn the red dress pictured above many times, she likes the fact that the skirt twirls.   So glad that Karla thought of us to share these little treasures with.

concert association

a very fascinating concert by a trio from Russia

when everything

outside is brown, and dull... a little bit of green in the window sill is a welcome sight

smile!

daycare easter egg hunt

 a smaller number of kids this year, some years it's nearly impossible to get everyone together...this crew didn't mind the fact that there were fewer kids

Student of the month

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone

New shoes

Equals happy feet 

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone

First walk by the lake

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone

Bike ride

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone

Parking garage

A cardboard box some spray paint empty toilet paper rolls and voilà a parking garage for matchbox cars. 

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone

Honor band

Today Anthony spent the day at a neighboring school participating in a band contest tonight he performed with students from several local schools as part of the junior high honor band.  He said it was fun to perform with other trombone players. He is the only one in 6th grade band  it was a very entertaining concert 

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone

Superheros

Are in the house

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone

These

Taste amazing ....

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone

First

Grill out of the season...at the Blackstads.  

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone

60 degrees

Of pure awesomeness....today was a perfect day we spent a lot of hours outdoors enjoying the sunshine and warm temps 

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone

new library card

 thursday night we headed to the library...she had been asking for days to go to the library.

 she quickly picked out some books and then moved onto exploring the children's area and of course the computer

 we also applied for her library card...she was quite serious as she wrote on her new card

 love her signature on the application...

love her signature on her card

once she figured out that she now had a card and could pick out books at the library and use her card she wanted to go back every day!

Snowflakes

Thursday night snow was falling yet again .....huge snowflakes  sigh it's so hard to find the.beauty in this never ending winter 

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone

Band concert

A few pics from Anthony s band concert earlier this month 

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone

Super girl ice cream

Her pick for dessert after lunch today 

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone