Mom & Dad's Trip to Italy!

Here are a few pictures of their trip! I have 150 favorites...I won't share them all at once but wait until they tell you all about it! They had a great time! 

Liv loves shoes! Wonder where she gets it?

Liv loves shoes. She loves her shoes and everyone elses. If you take your shoes off and she can get to them she moves them around the house. We can't seem to ever find Ella's shoes because Liv has carried one off somewhere. Kevin has been missing one of his rainbow sandals for a while who knows where it will turn up. Anyway She found Ella's boots and went a walkin!

Matt Gilbert

This is a lost picture I forgot to blog. It was from our Easter picnic where our friend Matt (who loves children) was helping is out with Olivia. You see Matt and Olivia share the same birthday and they have always had a special bond - as do Matt and most children! 

Okay well actually Kevin tossed Liv over to Matt and I took a picture before he dropped her like a hot potato and he will probably never let me live this down that I blogged it! We love you Matt! 

In Italy

Well I just had to post a few pictures of where my parents are at in Italy. They have been gone for 2 weeks on a trip of a lifetime! They are having lots of fun and said we just had to check out this city that they have been in most recently. It is Portifino, Italy. They said the food has been really good except at one nice restaurant mom ordered a pizza with octopus on it. We talked to them on Skype a few days ago and Olivia just wanted my dad to hold her. She was so cute and she kept saying, "mon papa" like come on and hold me and squeezing her hands. Ella was telling me that she wanted to go to Italy with Mimi. Yes, Ella me too! 

a few more easter pics.

Easter part 2

Okay here is part 2 of our day. 

Lunch and Easter egg hunt in the back yard. 

Liv is so proud of herself! 

Ella got some money in one of her eggs and she said, "Can I take this money to church and put it in the bucket?" We loved that she wanted to do that with her money! 

I think she was beginning to zone out a little but I took her picture anyway because she was still. 

right before we were done hunting the eggs liv dropped her basket. When the eggs fell on the ground some of them busted open and the candy came out. She was in shock. She didn't realize they had candy in them and then she was obsessed with opening every single one and eating all the candy. Up until then she was content just finding them and putting them in her basket. 

Easter Sunday

Here is our Easter so far:

Church was really good. We went to first service and came home but Kevin is still there at the 2nd service. Here is a picture of my bunny cake. It's not like the ones my grandmother used to make for the kids its a smaller version. Kevin doesn't like coconut cake so I knew if I made a big one that me & Ella would eat it all.

Here are me and the girls. We dressed like pink easter eggs... Liv's toes kept coming out of her shoes. Her big toe stayed in just fine but all the others kept coming out the top and it hurt her to walk like that so every few minutes she came up whining pointing at her foot. You can see it in this picture. I tried to explain to her that it's not always easy to be pretty. 

She couldn't get the pez out with her hands she tried and tried. I guess you are never to young to know when all else fails...use your teeth!

Daddy met us at church and helped us to class and back to our car. He stayed to drive the bus to additional parking and Ella begged to be his copilot. She thinks it is so cool that her daddy can drive the bus.  

My family looked so good today! 

Here are the girls when they first woke up and took a look at their baskets. Liv just immediately dumped hers out to see what was inside and Ella gently picked her presents out of hers. So funny Liv was trying to see what she could eat first. 

Here are their baskets. Liv had mostly candy and toys but Ella got a new necklace to wear to church with her Easter dress.