Fun for Jillian

At the beginning of April, Jillian's friend won an auction item at our school's gala. It was for her and 2 friends to go have pizza with the librarian and then go to the bookstore. Carmela chose Jillian and another sweet friend to go! How fun! Mrs. Potter drove the girls to Grimaldi's during the day(!!!!).

Chloe, Jillian and Carmela

Pizza!

Mrs. Potter and the girls

Having fun!

Playing with dough

Mrs. Potter let the girls each choose a book for themselves and a book to donate to a local school. Each girl chose a Bible to donate. So sweet.

Jillian's message inside the bible

At FBCA, summer birthday's are celebrated in April and May. June birthday's are in April, so it was Jillian's time to celebrate her birthday. She chose cookie cake to bring to the class.

Jillian and Isabella

Jillian's class eating cookie cake

Tony was able to come too! She had a blast. :) Won't be long and we will have an 8 year old!

Neighborhood Easter egg hunt

 Our neighborhood had an Easter egg hunt in early April so we decided to check it out!

 Ready to hunt eggs!!

 Good pics are hard to get!

 "The sun is so bright mommy!"

 My girls

 Josie met the Easter bunny right away and wasn't scared!

 No tears!

 High five!

 Hugs!

 There were games and food while we waited for the hunt to begin! Bubbles too!

 Time to get some eggs!

 Hmmmmm....what's in here?

 Tony made sure Jillian and the twins each got to their part of the field. It was divided by ages.

 All done!

 Yea!

 We had to stop for some cotton candy, of course!

 At home, Josie figured out that the eggs had candy inside! :)  She wasn't too interested in that part, but loved putting the eggs in and out of her basket.

4th grade field trip and report cards

 The 4th graders got to take a field trip to a play at the theater and see James and the Giant Peach. Afterwards, they all went to the Olive Garden for lunch. This was such a special treat! They all got dressed up and had so much fun!

 Kaitlyn's class

 Kennedy's class

The girls all had wonderful report cards this past 9 weeks. They worked so hard and so we all went to dinner at Pappasitos to celebrate. Of course the balloon animals were fun too!

 Kaitlyn got a lion

 Lion for Kennedy too!

 Jillian wanted a big hat!

 And baby girl got a puppy dog....she loved it!

 The waitress gave the girls brownie sundaes! YUM! Jillian was especially excited.

 Dessert!

 The weather has been nice lately! We have been spending time outside a lot. Kennedy had strep this week, but she recovered quickly and we had a great weekend.  Tony snapped this picture of the twins. They have this habit of twisting their earring around. I don't even think they know they are doing it. I just love this picture because they are twisting the same earring and their posture is identical.

 Sidewalk chalk is so fun! Josie always wants us to draw cats and dogs.

And here is little one all ready for church!! So sweet!  She stopped to show lots of people her new shoes at church today. :)

Spring break part 3

After Sea World, the girls went swimming again on the roof.

Then they took showers and snuggled with Dar in her room. 

They got popcorn and drinks from the hotel (free!) and loved every minute. Tony and I stayed in our room while Josie slept.

The next morning, we packed up before breakfast. Josie had fun trying on Jillian's hat.

We ate a yummy breakfast at the hotel and then we checked out and headed to the River Center Mall.

Josie LOVED this ride. How funny...it was just like the carousel, but much smaller.

She didn't like this one though...it rocked back and forth.

There was a fun play area in the mall

The girls shopped and had fun looking at everything...especially the PURPLE store. :)

We went in the Disney store too!

Cheese!

Awwww...Daddy and Jo

River Walk pic with Jilly

Proudly wearing her hat...so cute!

We ate at Chili's on the River Walk

After lunch, we headed home. We had SUCH a fun time!!! Josie slept about 45 minutes on the way home...we stopped at Buc-ees again and had a great trip home. So sad that it ended so quickly, but I think everyone was super tired! I think we all woke up after 8am the next morning!

The rest of spring break has been relaxing. The kids have played, we have been working on school projects (so we don't have to do them on the weekend!!), the girls had a play date and Tony and I had a night out too!!

St. Patrick's Day selfie

Josie has enjoyed all the family time!

The twins had 2 friends over. Jillian's little friend was out of town.

Saturday night we had a babysitter come and Tony and I got to eat out at a Steakhouse and just enjoy being out together! 

Sunday after church, the twins had a birthday party to attend at the American Girl Store. 

Can't believe our break is over, but it was sooo much fun!