March 2011 random pics and Melissa's visit

Melissa, Avery, and Jane came to visit us in March. Davis could NOT get enough of "beebee jane". She was the first thing he wanted in the morning ("I hold beebee jane?") and all day long("where's beebee jane?"). Jane was a good sport even when she didn't love all the attention from Davis.

Hallie and Megan had "Crazy hair day" so we got them looking crazy.

These 3 kiddos had a ball together. They came up with lots of "fun" ideas. Trouble...

Speaking of trouble, Melissa found this note taped to my back one night. It says "I'm the one who gives Megan gross food."

We took a few pictures of Jane. She is a little angel baby.

We had a great time with Melis and the girls (as always). The time went WAY too fast!!!!

Melissa's visit and our trip to Washington

April was quite the busy month.

We flew Melissa out to Kentucky to watch our kiddos while Trevor and I went house hunting in Washington. We planned on taking Davis with us but Melis was so generous (or just plain crazy) enough to insist we leave Davis too (bless you Melissa).

She kept all 5 (that includes her little Avery) alive and happy while Trev and I searched through 40 HOMES in Richland and Kennewick.

We thought a week without kids would be a great vacation but we were so busy we didn't even make it to the hot tub in the hotel.

I'll share more of our experience in WA in another post.

We missed our kiddos and were happy to come home.

Melissa stayed another week and we got to do some crafting but mostly we chased these two around the house (and neighborhood) and counted the minutes until their nap times so we could pull the crafts out again or take a much needed nap ourselves.

Look at these cuties (oh, and look at my tulips... I love tulips).
Avery was so cute with Davis. She was his little mommy. She would call him "Baby" and pat his head or give him loves... Davis would push her away and look at her like she was crazy.

As always it was so nice to have Melissa and Avery here.

Melissa is due with baby #2 (another little girl) in August. I'm so excited for her and Jeff but 2 babies means a very busy momma so I fear our visits from Melissa every 6 months may be a thing of the past :( but we sure enjoyed it while it lasted.

Thanks for all your help...we love you Melis!

Crying was inevitable

My eyes are red and swollen and my nose is stuffy.

I just dropped my sister off at the airport. She extended her stay with us and she and her baby have been here for almost a month.

You'd think we would be sick of each other but it was just the opposite, having her here for so long made it so much harder to say good-bye.

How blessed I am to have a sister who is also my dearest friend (apart from Trev, luv ya honey ;)).

Melissa and I basically spent the last 3 weeks sitting around the house taking care of babies, crafting, cooking, nursing, and talking about life, about motherhood, about faith, about our families, about ... everything.

Melissa, I will treasure the memories of these past few weeks forever. I don't know what I'd do without you in my life... I just love you so much.

P.S. Jeff, you are my hero. Thanks for sharing your wonderful wife and sweet baby with us for such a long time. We enjoyed them more than you will ever know and I know you must have missed them dearly. :)

Melissa and Jeff come to visit

What a great present to have my sis and her hubby here for my birthday! Melissa and I are due ONE DAY apart, we couldn't have planned it better (and we definitely didn't plan it !). She is having a baby girl (it's their 1st child) and I am having a little boy (if you've lost count this is our 4TH!!!).
How fun to be pregnant together and have our babies so close in age.

We really enjoyed their visit! Here are some highlights:

Yummy birthday lunch at the Olive Garden.

Melissa and Jeff went to the Slugger Museum where Jeff got his own genuine Louisville Slugger bat (his name engraved and all).

I love this pic of my girls snuggling with Melissa. They love their aunt Melissa so much.

Jeff got tickets to the Ryder Cup and had a great time watching his favorite sport just feet away from his golf idols. Unfortunately he couldn't take a camera in but Melissa has a fun post about his experience here.

We visited the Louisville Temple (just a few miles down the road from our house) for a photo opportunity.
We love to head out to the Ohio River to play at the park and eat at the family friendly restaurant on the river.

We played lot's of games. Ticket to Ride is a favorite. I even won...twice! (You are only impressed with that if you have actually played Ticket to Ride with Melissa and Jeff, they are insane!)

Operation (without the batteries because it gives my girls an anxiety attack if the little buzzer goes off) and Othello where the favorites of Hallie and Megan.

No trip to Kentucky is complete without a drive up to Cinci to visit the GAP clearance center... oh, I love that place.

Melissa and I love to be crafty and we did some fun projects (I will post them on my creative blog soon) we also re-did her blog template, made "thank-you" cards, visited some fun fabric/craft stores, and created baby shower invites on photoshop... so fun.

We also went to the Balloon Glow... that experience deserves it's own post so I'll get to that soon.

Finally posting the scrapbook pages

I promised some of you (awhile ago... sorry it's taken so long) that I would post a few of the scrap book pages I did for my sister and sister-in-law for Christmas. I made a 8x8 scrapbook for each of them with the bridals/ wedding pics I took. These were really fun to do because I kept them really simple. I didn't use a lot of embellishments mostly just beautiful paper I found and a lot of sewing. The best part of these pages are the women in the pictures. Melissa and Julie are two of my very favorite people in this world. I'm not just saying that. They brighten my life and I feel so blessed to call them my sisters.