Easter Fun!

For Easter this year, we went to church in the morning and then went to Pennsylvania for an Easter brunch and birthday party!  A good time was had by all and Olivia got to play with some of her second cousins that we don't get too see nearly often enough.  :-)  ...AND my dad actually got a picture of all of them sort of looking/smiling at the camera!  (Way to go, Grandpa Bear!)

L to R: Brock, Lila, Jeremy, Sylvia, Stella, Alice, and Olivia :-)

Here are some other pictures... some taken by Grandpa Bear, some by my camera phone, and some by my Uncle Mark.  :-)

Drinking yoohoo and watching Frozen

Preggo momma and Livvie :-)

Happy birthday, Alice!

Egg hunting fun!!!

 

Watching the little ones hunt...

 

Alice and Livvie finding eggs :-) 

 

Liv and Jeremy finding eggs!

My cool, little princess ;-)

Great Grandmom Shirley, Liv, and Me

Trampoline fun!

Passed out on the way home... the sign of a good day!  :-)

Such a BIG Girl

In a month or less, hopefully, we'll have a new little bundle of joy in our midst.  We are busy trying to get things ready, but not TOO ready because then baby really will take his sweet time.  Haha.  

In the meantime, here are some pictures... once baby comes, my posts will probably get less frequent.  (I know, I know, they are already less frequent.)  It's like I get busy or something.  ;-)

Big girl swinging!

Love this pic.  <3  This was right as it started to rain...

Climb, climb, climb!

Exercising with a stretchy band... go, bicep curls!

Feeding sloth a strawberry!  (Coolest puppet from the library!)

"Taking a nap" at the playground... silly girl.

All snuggled up on Daddy's side of the bed!

Liv and her buddy, Jamesy... watching Frosty the Snowman.  :-)

Asleep in the car... it's been a while since that's happened!

A windy picnic in Spring!  

Mommy snuggles!

Cheeeeeeeese!  :-D

I can't believe she can climb on and off of Clifford now.  Such a big girl.

Bluest cupcake ever.  Mmm...

I'll take whatever snuggles I can get... :-)

LOVE this girl!

 More SLOTH fun!

Napping at the playground, yet again!  (She's really just pretending!)

Pigtail BRAIDS!

She's so pretty.  :-)

Sometimes I look at Livvie and wonder where my baby went... she's so big now and it makes me want to just put her in a bubble.  Life seems to speed up when you least expect it and I know that's going to happen soon enough.  I was watching her play on the playground this morning with a few of her buddies and her personality just cracks me up.  She does her own thing most of the time... whether it be sitting in the mulch singing songs, collecting rocks, or climbing and sliding a million times.  She also is a stickler for what she thinks is right... and will tell you so!  Often, she'll watch the other kids play and wait until she's comfortable to go join in with them.  If I encourage her to play too much, it guarantees that she won't!  Lately, she's been a total momma's girl (which I can't say I mind too much - I take any snuggles I can get with her!).  

As frustrating as the toddler phase sometimes is with tantrums and mood swings, I know it's just a phase and I'll look back at these pictures and remember my little lovebug as she was at 2.  ;-)