I love this time of year! All the beautiful spring colors and new growth on our trees and shrubs. My bulbs have popped open; violets, violas and pansies are everywhere; beautiful pink blossoms on our weeping cherry tree -- oh, oh, aaaa-chooo - and itchy, sore eyes and noses!! I love to have the windows open and fill the house with fresh air, but this past weekend we decided it'd be best to shut up the windows since there was a layer of that nasty, yellow pollen on everything. Not to mention temperatures already creeping into the 90's!!
Also with spring comes birthday celebations - Madelyn turned 3 last month and Emily turns ONE today!? I just can't believe it's been a year since the day she made her way into our world. She has changed so much, she loves dogs, loves being outside, loves being RIGHT under my feet, loves anything her sister has that she doesn't, loves waving hi and saying in her sweetest southern belle voice "haaaa".
Last weekend we had our families here to celebrate their birthdays together. It was a great day - even though Em was a little under the weather with a fever...she managed to laugh and enjoy some birthday cake too! Emily had a giant cupcake for her birthday cake, and Madelyn requested a "princess" cake -- the classic doll cake. I remember having one of those as a little girl and I LOVED it.
Our Easter Day was great - acutally the entire weekend was a great one. We spent Friday at Busch Gardens, Saturday at Maymont and Sunday at home hunting for Easter Eggs and planting seeds. I made a ham, spinach salad, grilled veggies and rolls for dinner - doing our best to eat on the "lighter" side - but the lemon pie I made ruined that...with egg yolks, cream, sugar...but it was good. Grandpa made his way down in the afternoon to stay the night - he had an appointment at the veterans hospital the next morning and we figured it would be easier to get there from our house than his. We sure enjoyed his company!
Busy month coming up -- Ben is handling a scheduled outtage at his plant for maintenance so we won't see much of him in April. The girls and I will spend some time at Mimi and Grandpa's house while he's working - and head up to Nana's house since we haven't been up there since LAST fall!!
* pictures coming up SOON!!!
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