Recitals

In May, the girls had their dance recitals. Abbey took a Jazz class this year and Juliette was in Ballet. They were both super excited for their big performances.

Strike a pose!

Juliette is a Prima Ballerina (which was also the name of the song she danced to!).

Abbey is ready for a Girls Party (name of her song!).

Friends from dance.

Abbey gets into it!

I love this picture - she just looks like she is having so much fun dancing!

Juliette's turn!

They both did awesome!  I love recital day - it is so fun to see them up there really enjoying themselves!  I get a little teary watching them every year.  

Congrats flowers from Daddy

Supportive brothers...Matthew actually really enjoyed watching all the dances (thank you Paul and Ben for going early and getting us great seats up front), but in between performances the whole theater was dark and he did not like that part.  He cried during that time and then immediately stopped once the next music started or the curtain went up.

It was a great afternoon!  I will try to get the videos uploaded because they are so cute!

Easter

When we got back from spring break, it was the week leading up to Easter, so we had a lot of Easter prep to get done! The kids had Good Friday off of school (perk to going to a Catholic school), so we got to work making some Easter crafts.  Abbey helped Matthew make his egg.

And when Daddy got home we got right to work dying the eggs.

This is some classic family fun right here!

Matthew seemed to enjoy it too.

With Daddy's help.

The girls wanted to help Matthew out too.  Can you tell from his blueish lips that he tried to eat the egg right after it came out from being dyed?

I believe we dyed about 4 dozen eggs this year.  Luckily, the girls love eating hard boiled eggs so we didn't mind making that many.  

Easter morning - the kids were up early eager to see if the Easter Bunny came!

Come on Mom, let us go down and look!  Stop taking pictures!!

Oh Boy!  We got some goodies in our baskets!

Mom, I think I am going to like this Easter thing...

I got candy AND chap-stick!!

Cutie pie

The Easter Bunny even remembered Belle this year!

Yum!

Then it was time to begin the egg hunt inside the house....oh look, Matthew found one in his toy!

He got really into looking for eggs once he realized there were jelly beans inside the eggs!

YUM!

Look at all the eggs Juju found!

Dad helped Matthew find another one!

More jelly beans...happy baby...

After the indoor egg hunt, it was time to get ready for Church.  Boy this family cleans up  nicely!

Silly baby :)

 We are a colorful bunch!

Ready for Church!

Love of my life

After Church we had our outdoor egg hunt, which is where the Easter Bunny hides the real eggs.

Good finding Juj!

Sweet sisters holding hands looking for eggs together.

After we found all the eggs (good thing we counted) and had some more candy (it's OK on Easter), we headed over to the Acuff's.  This is the carrot cake we made to bring over.

The annual cousin picture taken on the wall (missing Tim this year).

Our Easter Feast!  It was truly delicious - thank you Aunt Domi and Uncle Brandon for hosting us and making this delicious feast!

Just having some fun together at home.