New dresses and Bloomsday

 My Grandma, the girls' Great Grandma aka Great Grandma Choo, choo, make a bunch of adorable dresses for the girls.  They did a little fashion show for us that night.  It is just really hard to get a good picture of all three of them at the same time.

On the same weekend as my Dad's birthday, Jake and I ran/ walked Bloomsday with another couple this year.  We had a fun time and Jake didn't even get hurt. In fact me and my friend Jen went a little crazy and ended up signing up for a 5k mother's day run the day of Mother's Day.  We managed to run the entire time and made great time.  For not doing any sort of training I was proud of myself.  However, my knees paid for it for the next couple of weeks.

Papa Turns 60yrs old

 OK, I have a good excuse for not blogging for almost a month.  Jake got me a Silhouette Cameo for Mother's Day.  I have been making so many things with this machine.  It makes cards, cuts vinyl for wooden signs, etc.  The sky's the limit on what this machine can create.  

 Papa turned 60yrs old the first weekend in May.  We all went to surprise him at his work on his birthday morning.  The girls that it was sooo cool getting to see where Papa works.  They even got to go into his mail truck.

My mom and I made this amazing lemon blueberry cake for Papa's big day.

Molls- 9mos old stats

 Took Molly to the doctor for her 9mo check up last week:
weight- 19lbs.
height- 28in
4 shots and a toe prick to check for anemia and we were out of there.  No anemia so we are good to go for another 3months till she turns 1.  yikes, how time flys.  The biggest thing we struggle with is Molly's naps and sleeping through the night.  Since she was 8mos old (April 3rd) she has been crawling.  And a day later she was pulling herself up on things.  She climbs stairs and stands on her own for more than 3 seconds.

 We have has such great weather lately so Molly has been getting out enjoying the sunshine lots.  She is wearing an adorable sundress my grandma made her.  Thanks Grandma ( Choo, choo)!

Her and Daddy!!

Rupunzel

 A couple of weekends ago I took the older girls to see Rapunzel at the Children's Theatre.  It wasn't quite the same story of Rapunzel from the movie Tangled but both girls were glued to their seats. 

At the end the girls got to meet the cast.  Here is a picture of them with Rainbow Rapunzel.

Rockin Out

 On two separate occasions now the girls have wanted to dress up like rockstars.  Ok, their own versions of rockstars. And yes that is clean underwear on their heads.
  It is hilarious watching them jump and sing around the house.

Of course we had to include Molly into the band.  She didn't know what to think.

Easter 2013

 As you can tell the Easter Bunny showed up to hide eggs and the girls' Easter baskets.  His paw prints were a big hit.  Here he is hopping into our house.

 Ella found her basket right away.  And YES, the girls wanted to dress up as Princesses to find their   eggs.

 The Easter Bunny left them each a golden egg which contained money.  The rest had candy.

 And here is the Easter Bunny leaving our house.

 He even hid a bunch of eggs outside for the girls to find.

 It was such an unbelievable day on Easter that we decided to spend it at the beach in Edmonds, which is just North of us about 20min or so.

 The girls and their sunglasses.  Lookin' cool!!

 Bridgette was herself, slightly grumpy at first mainly because she was hungry we think.  But after a quick snack she became alive.

 Ella is helping Jake fly one of our kites.

 Here is Ella holding a real starfish that me and Bridgette found under a big rock while the tide was out.  We met this family who had a little boy who had just got back from tide pool hunting.  He had found shrimp, crabs and fish in his bucket.  Me and Bridgette wanted to go and get our own sea creatures so we set out with our bucket and shovel.  Soon the Dad and the little boy who we had met earlier came to help us.  It was really muddy and slippery so that is why Ella and Jake couldn't come out.  They didn't bring the proper shoes.  Plus, we didn't want anything to happen to Molly out there.  Anyway, me and B had a awesome time finding sea creatures under rocks.  We saw two baby eels, crabs, starfish, hermit crabs, clams rooting up water, and shrimp.  Yes, they were all living and yes we put everything back that we took in our buckets.  Next time, Ella is bringing her rain boots so she can go out with us.  After the beach we got ice cream and headed for home.  We can't wait to have another nice day so we can go again!

Vising Great Grandma and cousins

 We drove to Kennowick for our annual get together on the Janosky side of the family on Sat.  It was the most beautiful day we had had in a long while.  The girls were in heaven because at my cousin Jason's house they had a full size trampoline.  It was hard to get the girls off, they were having so much fun.

 Jake and the girls checking out there loot from the Easter egg hunt.  I think Molly is the happiest one and she didn't even get to hunt.
Yes, she has a shiner on the side of her face, it's not food.  She took a small tumble down the driveway on Friday.  My poor baby, she was a trooper though.

 All the cousins except for Molly

 Me and my Grandma

 Molly is doing her soo big trick for the camera.

 The girls enjoying dessert!

 Family picture- Jake isn't in it because he is taking the picture.

The boy cousins saying good- bye.  My girls were to busy to pose for the picture.  They had to get some last minute jumping in before we left.