Nebraska or bust

To make a long story short, after leaving my last company in January I started a new job hunt. I accepted a position with a great bank in Nebraska and so we will be moving to the great state within a couple of months.

I am so grateful that Chris was supportive of this decision and know that while I am there and he is here it will be hard with the kids, but he will do great!.

From the first call about this position it was my dream job. I can't say how excited I am to get to go on this new adventure!

We will miss my family and friends, but also look forward to all the new people we will get to meet.

Babies...babies....babies

We took the girls to see Janae's new babies today. Abby said she wanted to hold the girl baby first and so Tori got to hold the boy baby first.
Here is the proud mama with Logan.

Here is another picture of Tori holding Logan, see that cute smile on that little guy, you gotta love him!

Abby just loved holding Lila, she just sat there for a very long time happy as could be.

Of course we had one picture of the two of them together!! Janae and Tom did good they are both so cute!

Vacation in Dillion

We went our our first vacation of 2009 as a family this weekend and had a blast at our time share in Dillon. Of course because we let the kids pick the activities we so we spent almost all of our time in the pool.

Abby was giving us attitude about taking a break.

Abby LOVES her floaty and used it a lot, she has gone really far from hating the water to not being able to get enough of it.

I also spent a ton of time in the water. Tori unfortunately is not afraid of anything so I had to keep a close eye on her so she didn't get hurt!

They had a hot tub and so we did a lot of hot, cold, hot cold. Here Tori is going from the hot back to the cold!

The other activity was getting ready to go to the pool. They really were focused on the pool activity.

Tori took a fall on the way home from the pool one day and stopped her fall with her face, poor thing. Here is her injury...

She took a nap later that day and insisted on a band aid before she sat by Dad for her "movie watching aka nap"
By the end of the time we were all water logged, but enjoyed all of time and are looking forward to our next time together!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!!

The girls could hardly wait to get up and get out to see what the Easter Bunny had brought them. At our house the we stuff all the eggs with candy for the Easter Bunny and put the baskets with filled eggs outside the front door. The Easter Bunny will then take those hide them and put some items in their basket, the Easter Bunny really like this method. It was a little cold so the girls did put their jackets on over the PJ's to get out first thing.

Abby of course provided her pose with her new tiara, which she didn't take off all day!

Tori was on a mission to get as many as she could, she wouldn't even stop for pictures!

Here they are after finding all their eggs!

After Church we headed to Grandma's and Grandpa's and before all the grand kids showed up Grandpa read the girls a story upon their request.

Here are all the kids in waiting. It is like a release of the hounds, we had to release them in small groups to avoid a stampede!

In total there were a couple hundred eggs that were hidden for the kids to find.

Here is Tori sporting her new Easter dress out looking for some of those eggs.

Abby with her finds...can you see one the on the banister behind her?

After all the finds here is what they ended up with.
After all the finding was done we were able to trap them all for a picture before the sugar kicked in...

I so can fit into it!

Tori decided today that she could indeed fit into her teddy bear's jacket...well I guess she was right, she can.

Rachel had a sleep over last night and this morning the girls all played dress up.

Not sure what Abby is sporting here, I am sure it is her individualism!

Blizzard of 2009

Since the weather so was bad yesterday the girls and I stayed home today and PLAYED in the snow!

Abby helped me shovel and then they both made snow angles while Cassie bounded around in the snow.

Tori was not so found of the snow, she kept taking gloves off and then couldn't understand why her hands were cold. She finally had enough so we sent her inside and she watched us from the front door finish the shoveling.

It was perfect snow for a snowman, so Abby and I built one, her first one ever!
She had me put a face on him and wanted lots of pictures.Abby is definitely much more of a snow bunny than her sister. She would have stayed out longer if I was up for it!

All by myself!

Abby gets a treat each night she stays in her bed all night. Last night she picked this 50 piece puzzle as her treat.
Today it started to snow a lot, our first blizzard of 2009, so I went and got the kids around 1PM so I wouldn't get stuck in the crazy weather. They decided to change into their PJ's and play around the house. Abby put together this puzzle all by herself. She was so proud of herself so I had to take a picture of her.
It was really impressive that she could do that, even if I am. not sure why she flashing a peace sign.