Easter & Spring Break

The silly egg hunt at the grocery store.

The egg hunt at the Racine Zoo. Fun to see the animals get Easter treats too.

Easter Morning! He is Risen!

Delicious brunch after service

Egg hunt at Stacy & Greg's

Biggest Strawberry!

Spent Tuesday and Wednesday at Great Wolf Lodge in Gurnee and had a fun time! Definitely wore the kids out with all the stair climbing, but the slides were exciting and fast. They loved running around the fort too. 

Had an amazing dinner at Rainforest Cafe!

 It was their first time and it was nice to see them amazed by it all!

Houston House Hunting Trip

We flew down to Houston for a house hunting trip while Gma Jan stayed with the girls. We looked at a hundred houses online and our realtor, Ginger, showed us 15 different options while we were there, and we went home with this beauty with a pool!

An entrance to the neighborhood

It's good to know exactly where we'll be, as we could find the nearest library:

church: St John's

school: Sampson Elementary

This is the bike path that we can take from the house to the school.

and of course lots of parks.

This park, Cypress Park, has playgrounds, bathrooms, and a lake that will be great for walking Rio around.

Cheering the Bucks on in Houston!

Houston Museum of Natural Science had a cool gem display and will be great to take to when the girls get interested in dinosaurs.

Having a date in The Woodlands-a top-rated master planned community to the north with a great outdoor amphitheater

We're so excited to move in June!

3rd Grade Spring Concert

Lydia learned 3 notes on the recorder this year

I heard a lot of this song from Lydia these past few weeks. A Million Dreams from The Greatest Showman

Beautiful job speaking, singing, playing and dancing!

Unicorn Birthday Party

Abby is ready to have a magical celebration with friends!

As the girls arrived, they discovered their unicorn names and played ring toss on the unicorn.

The themed treat table consisted of: unicorn horns (Bugles), unicorn food ('poop' not allowed per Abby/ rainbow marshmallows), unicorn treats (rainbow rice krispies), and the favorite, baby unicorn fur (cotton candy)!

The girls loved crafting their one of a kind unicorn sleep mask to take home.

Then they played a game of Pin the Horn on the colorful Unicorn. It's always funny to see where your pin lands!

Slime, Squishee, unicorn dress, earrings... :)

* Petrina, Quinn, Abby, Hadley *

All in Mrs. Daily's class...a unique bunch!

Abby had the luck of a magical unicorn and opened the pinata on the first string.

These beauties were delicious!

Magical Seven!

Trying on their sleep masks;

May all their Dreams Come True!

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The next day we had family over for an extensive hot dog bar and more party with an easy unicorn cake.

Levi, Aaliyah, Violet, Abby, Lydia, Audrey, Quincy

Levi is always picking up new words. Today he learned unicorn!

A $26 kit from Amazon made this theme and cake super simple.

(included huge banner, sash, headband, cutlery, straws and paper ware, tablecloth, invites, cake topper!)

Now her birthday is officially over. Till next year of course.

Talent Show

For the church talent show, Lydia will be acting out a makeup tutorial, but she cannot use her arms. Ben will provide the arms. Abby is present to assist as needed.

They did a phenomenal job up on the stage entertaining a full house!

Happy 7th Birthday, Abigail!

HER SPECIAL DAY

Decorated Mirror

Gift wrapped lunch?!

Lunch with visit from Mommy

Bringing treats to school and delivering extra up to her sister's classroom

(Dr Suess Pajama Day too)