Her last dance

Nora performed her final Faithful Feet dance this morning at church.

She was, as always, a sight!





It was also Palm Sunday, so daddy and Livi paraded down the sanctuary with the Sunday School kids in the "Palm Parade"!


And after church, Tessa enjoyed the slide for a bit.


And on another note, this one's new favorite past time is "Colors!" [coloring]. She IS quite the artist- reminds us of Olivia! My mom would say those two are just like I was as a little girl....always a crayon in hand! :)

A night out!

Last night, some of our friends from church, Nevada and Danielle, and their kids (Rigley- 2 and Boston-5 from Nora's class) invited us out to an Indianapolis ICE hockey game. The Ice played the Waterloo Blackhawks and won 6 to 3.

Took this one myself :) (I love it when I get both heads in the picture when I'm not even behind the camera!)
This one LOVED it (especially when the players started to fight and push one another)!
This one partied till about 8:15 (the game started at 7) before falling asleep on mama!
This little guy was c-u-t-e...hit his head about 20 times on that bar there in front of him though.
Tessa and him got along well.
Here they are having a conversation about.............???? We weren't sure-something!
Boston and Nora ran, and tickled, and giggled, and danced the whole time!


Had a GREAT time! Would definitely go to another one!
And on a different note, here are Big Terry, Ruthann, and my Terry's condos that they are building in Saratoga in Plainfield.
They sure did go up fast, and are coming right along!
And our beautiful little model advertising them!
Who wouldn't want to live in a condo with one of these out front!?!

A walk in the park...

On Sunday afternoon the weather was beautiful. And although I was terribly sore in the arms and legs from working out (over did it at the gym on Saturday big time!), we couldn't pass up the chance to get outside for a bit. So we met the Williams at Washington Township park and walked some of the trails and down to the creek.

Olivia was in her element, along with her good buddy Mady! (Nora was hot and wondering when someone was bringing the car to get her so she didn't have to walk any further) :)
There were some BIG obstacles for some little legs.

But that didn't stop my Tessa (no nap and all!).

The bigger girls took part in a little rock-skipping.

Tess tried that too.
And then mommy made her pose for a picture!
Ready for some more warm weather! Bring on the sunshine!!! :)

Let the good times roll!

This evening Nora invited 6 friends over to celebrate turning 5 this coming Monday. Everyone enjoyed some pizza...

a movie and popcorn..
decorating flip-flops...
painting fingers and toes...
posing for pictures...




and having some good 'ol fashion girl-fun!
During the second-half of our spring break, we bought a family membership to the Plainfield Aquatic Center. Terry and I have been working out in the gym there this week. More importantly, the Williams family joined us as last night as we enjoyed their indoor pool for the 3rd time since we joined.
The girls absolutely LOVE it there!



And finally, the girls have been enjoying going on individual "dates" with different family members on both my side and daddy's side of the family to celebrate their spring birthdays. There are more "date" pictures to come, but here are some fun ones from Olivia's date last weekend with Aunt Val.

And Val got her a pig-cake...
took her to hold some baby chicks...
and to pet some animals...
out to Wendy's for dinner...
and bowling.
And after playing some video games...
it was time for a sleepover with Aunt Val (and her dog, Max)!