Happy birthday Brooklyn Resse

Our sweet little Brooklyn turned 5.
It is so crazy to think that this many years has already gone by.
We had her party at the park this year. Her birthday fell on the same day as one of Blake's games so we did it at the same time.

We had pizza

the kids played

Everyone came to be part of the fun...

We did a cupcake cake this years. She picked a Hello kitty theme
and we were lucky enough to find a matching cake.

We put all of the soda and juice in a tot this year. For some reason Bayleigh really liked playing in the ice. Maybe it was because it was 90 degrees in April.
She wouldn't stop playing so I just let her alone.
Someone made the comment that she would probably end up in
the container sooner or later.

Well it happened! of course it was when my hands were covered in frosting and I was the closest one to grab her out of freezing cold ice water that she fell head first into. She was so unhappy about falling in, but was right back to playing in it after she got over the embarrassment.

Brooklyn was so excited about all the great gifts everyone got her!
Thank you to everyone.

Bayleigh decided that these were really her's
and not Brooklyn's.

This was the first time we did a pinata.
It turned out to be so much fun.
All the kids got some much candy!

Happy birthday Brooklyn.
You're such a great big girl now and we love you so much!
Thank you to everyone who came to be apart of celebrating Brooklyn turning five.
She really appreciates everyone for being there with her on her special day.

Easter Day

My Mom made Easter dinner over at her house this year.

It was such a warm day so after a great dinner we all we went over to the school right across the street from her house and went on an Easter egg hunt.

First Camey, Ben and I went over and hid all of the eggs.

Then Mom and Kevin brought over all the kids.

The race was on to see who could find the most.

Everyone found so many of them.

Everywhere they looked they could see one.

Some were harder to get then others

In the end everyone had a blast

their baskets were full

and it was a job well done!

After they found all the eggs,
we hung out at the park to play.

Happy Easter to everyone!

Happy Easter (Sorry, I'm a bit behind)

What a great Easter morning we had this year.
We started the morning off with the kids finding the (plastic) eggs
the Easter bunny hid around our apartment.
They couldn't wait to get to their Easter
basket that was left for them.

Right away Bella went for the chocolate...

This year they got a lot of coloring stuff.

Bayleigh is a big fan of Mickey Mouse Club house,
isn't it crazy how much that Bunny knows!

She couldn't wait to color in her giant Little Einstein coloring book.

This is Blake's mouth full of blue gum.
(We don't give our kids gum very often so they
were really excited about it being in their eggs).

It took her no time to move onto the ring pops.

After realizing that there were actually things to eat in these eggs,
she decided to a look at them.

Hope everyone had a great Easter morning!

What color was your egg?

Every year I get so excited about coloring Easter eggs.
Then when it comes time to do it I get super nervous about all the kids,
the dye and some sort of craziness to happen.

Then as we start to dye the eggs each kids does a great job.
They had very little to no mess and took their time with each egg they did!

This year we had a few friends over as well as Dallas
to join us in our egg dying adventures.

We did it in shifts this time,
starting with the little kids first..

Then we brought the big kids in for some fun!

All in we dyed 58 eggs.

Ben ate two of them to make sure they were actually hard boiled.

Hope everyone enjoyed their egg dying experiences this year.