Happy Easter and Happy Spring!

Wishing all of my family and friends a very Blessed Easter!  (I learned Easter lasts 50 days!!)  We have been blessed with beautiful weather here in Bellingham which adds to this glorious time of year.  I'm pretty excited today because my spring break started and I am having so much fun playing already.  We also have a friend from school spending the week with us too, while her parents work.  I'm sure mama has some fun adventures planned for us!

Here are some of the spring events that have been keeping us busy...

Morning snuggles with my baby brother before school last week

Dying Easter Eggs!

Having an Easter egg hunt out at my grandma's and papa's

And Auntie Joanie was here to play games with us.  She made us an obstacle course which we both enjoyed.

Easter Morning at Mass

And then we had a great family day hanging out in the back yard and spending time at the beach by our house.

Someone built a fun swing on the tree down there.

I had fun climbing up all these rocks.  All in my bare feet!!

Soccer

This past Saturday was my very first soccer game.  When we arrived I saw all the people, cars, goals, fields, oh I could go on and on.....I was so overwhelmed!!  I told my mama that I did not want to play or be there but once my team arrived and I settled in the feeling went away.  We had only once practice prior to this game and it was in about 30 degree hailing, raining, freezing weather and basically I kicked a ball so when the game began you can imagine how it went.  Daddy was amazed how well I learned just over the course of the one day (we played 4 -12 minute games and took turns so it was 3 on 3.)  I even scored a goal!!  Although I scored, I don't remember when it was or even that I scored ;)  I ended up having fun and am looking forward to more practices and games this Spring!

Before the game!

Sam and Nick trying to stay warm

March Madness!

Here I am again, running behind.  Whew, this school thing takes up a lot of time, blogging has been at the back of my mind ;)  This March has started with a bang.  We had a beautiful weekend last weekend and were busy enjoying the beautiful place we live.  This past week we had a great visit with my Grandma Bonnie who came to celebrate Sam's birthday with us and see the family.  I am doing great in school and wanted to share some pictures from the "Fun Run" this past week.  It definitely lived up to its name and I had a blast.  Happy March friends and family!

This is what happens when we have a nice, warm, sunny day in March.

Boulevard Park, a wonderful place!

Who taught me these poses?  (How do girls automatically know how to do this? Oh my!)

And then we came home for dress up time

Fun times!

Princess Lily

Me and my favorite cousin!  I love her!!

Sharing my purse contents with her as we wait at the restaurant 

Nice work Maggie!

Fairy Lily is ready to run laps and raise money for the school

And she is off....

I love this!! My brother wanted to run too so I let him run with me a lap while holding hands.  He then rested and I grabbed him for a second time around.  (So sweet!)

Me and my friend Emmy

I won a prize for all my green!

This was taken at the St. Patrick's Day parade.  We had a good day and even did our annual scavenger hunt at home.

This is my whole class after the run.  The next morning I told my mama I needed a cane, I was so sore.  I ran over 2 miles!!

Cousins and Fairies

Two of my favorite things!!  Last weekend I had 4 days off, they called it Mid-Winter Break.  After a busy week with our friends visiting, Ash Wednesday, and Valentine's Day it was sure nice to relax and hang out with my family.  I got to see Maggie and have a very night.  We played, ate dinner, performed, sang, and even had ice cream sundaes!!  On Monday I went up to Lynden to see some friends and Nick's Godmommy!  It was so nice to play with them because I don't get to see them often being in school all day long.  Speaking of, school is going well.  I enjoy being there, just getting up in the morning and getting there can be challenging for me!  

We hope your Lent is going well.  Please pray for little Nicholas G. a young friend with SMA and is very sick in the hospital with RSV.  Many of you have followed his story with the link on the side of the blog. 

Cousin Maggie enjoying her ice cream sundae!

Choosing my toppings (Yes, we know it is Lent.  We had the sundae fixings for Fat Tuesday and never got around to eating them then.)

Yummy!

Playing outside.  We all had light up shoes, headlamps, and flashlights to play and jump on the trampoline. 

There was a fairy event at the local indoor play area, Perch and Play.  Mama took me there for a special date with just her and I.  It was so fun!

Getting a special treasure from one of the fairies

She had neat balloon animals, fairy kisses and pixie dust too!

Being super silly!

I'm flying with my pixie dust

An Awesome Visit!

Last weekend we had the pleasure of having my Godfamily come visit.  They are our dear friends who moved down to northern California last year.  They even stayed at our house, which was so fun!  I immediately attached to my best friend Ava and we began where we left off!  Everyone had such a great visit, got along so well, and we are looking forward to our trip down for Maddie's First Communion in June.  Here are a few quick snapshots...

Auntie Becca with Nick and their little baby Gianna.  They are 5 months apart.

Ava and I at the pizza restaurant

All three of us

Sam and Ben.  Those crazy boys ;)

Snuggling with Ava

The boys played so well together

The girls went on an adventure with Auntie Becca and mama made Mardi Gras masks with the boys

We were blessed with cooperative weather and were able to play outside too

Cheese

Sam and Ben with their masks

Ben is being so silly just like Sam.  We had matching shirts so mama had to snap a picture

Baby central!  A friend brought her baby that is the same age as Nicholas.  Three babies all playing, so fun!

A treat, night time show!

Ava and I making up Valentine songs and dancing with the Valentines we made each other