Friday, April 27, 2012

Beautiful Girls!

One of the really fun things about Harlow joining our family is how she has really starting interacting with us, especially Olivia.  Harlow loves her big sister Olivia and whenever Harlow hears Olivia, she gets really excited and starts kicking and smiling. Olivia loves Harlow, but we can tell that Harlow thinks Olivia is one of the best things about life so far!




Our little ballerina in the making...


Cute, big eyed baby Harlow!






Crazy Olivia, never failing to show off her style!







The girls!!

Nonna and Papa Tu;s Visit to Meet Baby Harlow!

We started April out with a visit from Nonna and Papa Tu!  It was a great way to bring in Spring!  We had lots of time for playing and laughing....


Swinging and enjoying the sun...



Posing for pictures...


Snuggling up...


Posing for more pictures...



Visiting the railroad museum (wow - lots of trains!)...

  And checking out the aquarium...





O's Photo Skills

Olivia loves taking pictures and she's getting pretty good at it.  These pictures are all onces that she took and she can actually get people in the frame now...here are here best pictures yet!





Sunday, April 15, 2012

Confetti Mayhem!!

Nothing beats our Easter tradition...the all out crazy confetti egg event!  Every year, before you realize what is happening, confetti eggs are getting smashed on any head in sight!  Even the babies...and we all love it! 

GrandMag actually looks pretty with confetti on her head! 


Even the 3 month old is not spared (i.e. her aunt used her as a shield!)


And here is our annual Easter family photo.  This year, we had a few extra Varda's in the picture (Nonna and Papa Tu!)...look closely this is the "make a funny face" photo - and it's pretty hilarious!


Followed by our "set up the camera on a hill" photo - but everyone is actually looking forward, hopefully making up for the off-centered picture!

Beautiful Easter People









One Heck of a Fun Easter 2012!

Easter came and went, but the day was long and fun!  This was O's first time really getting what we were doing and she loved it.  Here she is finding her Easter basket - we didn't really hide it but it still took her a while to figure out where it was.  Hilarious!


 We dyed eggs, a lot of eggs (because Mommy and Daddy both ending up buying eggs!), so we did 32 eggs this year!  But one week later and we only have 4 left - we are egged out! Nonna was here for a visit and she helped mastermind the egg coloring party.  Fun!


We made some "bacon and eggs" - prezel sticks with white chocolate and a yellow M&M.  We added a few "green eggs and bacon" in there for fun.


Harlow met the Easter bunny for the first time...O wouldn't go near him (her actually!).


Harlow was also subjected to this kind of Easter nonsense - and she was the CUTEST little flower in the land!


Easter morning is not Easter morning without a chocolate bunny...O was pretty happy!


Olivia had a few Easter egg hunts this year...our backyard, school, the neighbors on Easter afternoon, and her cousin's house on late Easter afternoon.  While at first she was pretty surprised by all the eggs, she is pretty good at it now - can't get an egg past her.



Try as we might, we cannot get Olivia to look at the camera half the time...but she has no problem hamming it up for the camera!



O's twin cousins had their first real hunt (they can walk this year!).  Brie tried to eat her first egg - it was funny!