Rainy Day

Friday brought rain & chilly temperatures, so Lily & I made the best of the bad weather.

Luckily Thursday's mail had brought the perfect solution...Kate & Lauren sent Lily a fabulous 'Pink Princess' cookbook, so we started baking right away.

THANK YOU KATE & LAUREN!!
(As soon as she opened the package & saw what it was she ran straight outside to show her neighborhood friends what her cousins sent her. She was wildly excited to receive something from them!)


Cookie time!!

After we made cookies we decided it was time to relax & watch a movie snuggled up on the couch. We rented Cinderella III, which was really cute.What movie is complete without popcorn?!

Even the dogs stayed dry & relaxed together! These are some spoiled puppy dogs!

A Perfect Mother's Day

This year, Mother's Day was a perfect day for the whole family. The weather couldn't have been nicer & Mom got to take the day off :o)

I woke up to chocolate chip pancakes being made for me (my favorite!), and then after church, we were off to Maymont.

We had a beautiful picnic (packed by Daddy) & then went to visit the animals at the petting zoo. After we visited with the farm animals, we went to see the wild animals & then walked around the beautiful gardens & grounds at Maymont.

(Every time I went to take a picture, Lily would strike a pose...this was all her idea & if you look carefully she is doing it in almost every picture. What a ham!!!)

Kings Dominion

Brian's unit sponsored a "Spring Fling" at a local amusement park, Kings Dominion, this weekend.

Before we got there, all Lily could talk about was riding the roller coasters. That was the first thing she wanted to do as soon as we got there.

First ride with Daddy!

We rode every roller coaster at least twice & then we rode them again.

Once we rode all the roller coasters & were considerably shaken up, we were finally "allowed" (by Lily) to do some other fun things...

We got to meet Dora the Explorer & her cousin Diego!

And Blue too!

Warm Weather...Finally!

Paige & Lexi came over to enjoy some much needed warm weather today. The girls were so excited to be able to play in the sprinkler & pool. Hopefully this warm weather will stick around!

Import Nationals

This weekend we went to the Import Nationals. There was a lot of car & motorcycle drag racing, a car show & a motorcycle stunt show. Lily was a little unsure at first of the loud, fast cars, but soon her & Paige were jumping around cheering for every race.

Poser

Lately Lily has been dressing up in different outfits & asking me to take pictures of her. Here are a couple of her ensembles...

The ballerina cowgirl??

New Addition to Our Family

Brian, Lily & I have some exciting news...we have a new addition to our family!!

We are pleased to introduce you to Zoey!

We found her at the local shelter & just knew she belonged with us.

She is super sweet & her & Vader are already good friends.

An Eggs-tra Special Easter

Lily & Daddy decorating Easter Eggs

The finished product

The Easter Bunny left Lily some special stuff!

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL!!

Chilly Easter Fun

We had some fun activities planned for the day before Easter, but we woke up to snow on the ground!! Luckily none of the fun was cancelled, but it was pretty chilly!!

Lily with the loot from the Easter egg hunt

The egg race!

Ready

SET

GO!!!

Face painting by Daddy

The Easter Bunny joined in the fun!

Our neighbors also had an Easter egg hunt for the neighborhood kids

Swimming with the Seahorse

WHEEE!!!