spring family photos

{all photos are copyright of Inspire Photography and were reposted with permission in accordance with the copyright release}

on st patrick's day, we had some family photos taken by the lovely Kathy Wickey of Inspire Photography. if you're in northern indiana or southern michigan i highly recommend her!

i cant believe how big my kids are getting! moosie is nearly walking on his own now, and isaiah's vocabulary is increasing at such a rapid rate! i've been teaching the kids some simple sign language, and eleanor signs all the time now! it's so wonderful!

the hunt

saturday evening i stuffed over 150 plastic easter eggs. i "hid" them outside on sunday morning and brought the kids out to find them. Zay and Nona went wild collecting eggs, boxes of raisins, boxes of nerds, smarties...

i set moosie down by a tree that i had piled a bunch of eggs around and he right away started putting eggs in his basket. he didn't stop until his basket was full. afterwards, we went inside, cleaned up and ate a snack.

 Mike took the kids to his uncle dan's for easter dinner. i drove up to portage and stopped at Brann's Steakhouse for a burger. they had the tigers game on the big screen (they were playing boston...and WON) after that i hit up Barnes and Noble, bought an ASL dictionary, and some coffee.

the kids had just got back to the house when i got home, so i cuddled them and we did puzzles on the floor until they went to bed.

i hope your Easter was wonderful, loves!



sketched!

{sketched by jonathan barker 4/1/2012}

i seriously have the coolest friends ever.

thank you jonny! <3

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weekend highlights

1. putting on makeup and going out with my BFF jenn saturday. we went thrifting, stopped for coffee twice, stopped at Sephora (where i snagged a free sample of Taylor Swift's "wonderstruck". OMG y'all. you HAVE TO GET SOME!)
2. wearing my yellow heels out in the snow
3. jenn and i stopped for lunch at Pancheros where i had the most delicious gigantic burrito ever.
4. having a mommy date friday at pizza hut with Isaiah for lunch
5. having Isaiah show me this awesome stick person he drew on the inside of a gift box (it even has eyebrows! how awesome is that?!)
6. Isaiah's latest progress report from preschool (they send one home every day, he's never gotten any red!) it's amazing to see how far he's come since we put him in a smaller class that is designed to meet his needs!

happy monday. (:

happiness is...

Christmas lights.

have a lovely day!