family shot..

i am not sure why i didn't just ask somebody to take our family's picture... instead i set the camera up on the swing and used the timer... so here they are.

a few more photos..

Here is uncle david with elly m. and his sister-in-law lorie with ruthie. uncle david and aunt gittan "mimi" have been incredible fill-in grandparents to our children. they treat them so great and elly m. is in love with them.

easter dresses

here they both are in matching dresses, hard to get good shots of the two of them. my goodness, wonder what it is like with more kids. i guess as they get older it might get easier to direct them,... but maybe not.

easter get up

elly m. in her easter get up. we went to uncle david's brother's house. figure that one out. we had a great time doing a little egg hunt for elly m. she enjoyed it. she fell on the way in on the rocks and lately has been making a really big deal about that. band aid... band aid... i hear that quite often lately.

as you cringe...

I can't help it that ruthie loves to chew on elly m.'s shoes. any pair of her shoes, ruthie wants to chew on. i try and try to keep them away from her, but i always find her chewing on them anyways. sneaky little thing! but isn't she just the cutest. it was fun to put her in a dress, i don't do it very often because she is crawling and it is super hard to make her happy as she trips over her dress often.

egg hunt on the farm

we went to a farm a little farther south and really enjoyed ourselves. there was an easter egg hunt and a petting zoo and a bunny and pony rides. we had fun and the girls had fun. it was a little windy that day, but very enjoyable. the girls got 12 eggs... no more, no less!

another pony ride...

Here is elly m. on her second pony ride.. it was much cheaper this time and the horses were much bigger and nicer looking. i even let elly m. go around by herself once... maybe because the horses were walking around so fast and they refused to let me put ruthie on the back of elly m.'s. the kids working were worried about getting fired. oh my!!! evie also loved riding the horsies......

elly m.'s new phase

she has entered the hitting and telling me what to do phase. a little early i would say.. but nonetheless, that is where we are. i am hoping it is short lived... most of her phases are. so everytime evie would sit with her, she didn't really want her too and she is getting rather possessive of her toys... eek.. i don't like this stage at all, but we will get through it and love her all the more. she is so special... even though she gets pretty mad and sad.. she is still so sweet and such a happy child...she even wants to sleep with us again... i hope you are reading this joan.. you know i couldn't be happier about that.

Easter bunny shots..

the easter bunny was so scary. i can't believe of all the three girls that ruthie was the one that was least scared. she is the one going through stranger anxiety right now. elly m. wouldn't even get in a photo with the bunny... but she talked about it the rest of the day after she didn't want to get near him. so here are a few shots with the easter bunny.

train ride on farm

Here we are on the train ride on the farm in hernando. it was so fun. it was kind of windy that day, but we still had a great time.