My Birthday Girl

Tomorrow is the BIG day!!  Liv and I spent the morning out doing her 3 year-old photo shoot.  For the most part we had lots of fun, until the tears and tantrums came.  We brought lots of clothes, shoes, and headbands, and some pretty pink lip gloss.  Now I need to go and make a birthday cake, make a birthday crown, and get the presents wrapped.  More pictures to follow tomorrow after our celebration!!  

Utah Easter

The kids and I spent the past nine days in Utah.  One last trip before we head out to Milwaukee.  By the time Easter was over the kids participated in 4 easter egg hunts, ate lots of candy, watched lots of soccer games, played with cousins and friends, played with the new puppy, celebrated birthdays, and we even woke up to a beautiful spring morning covered in snow.  Here a some random pictures from the past few days.

My brothers cute puppy, Milo, was a hit with my kids.  I just might end up being a dog owner sooner than I thought.

Grandma Rudd's Barn

This picture makes me laugh. During this week home we brought a nasty cough with us.  This is COle and Liv mid cough, but it was the best picture I could get :)

another egg hunt

Ethan even scored the $10 egg at Grandma Jo's egg hunt.  

And I have two new nephews, aren't they cute!!

Almost 3

At times I wasn't sure we would survive Liv being 2, but her birthday is coming up and she is still alive.  She really does look rather sweet and innocent, but she is crazy!!

I have videos of when I was a child and recently (in my attempt to get organized for packing AGAIN) I came across these videos.  I laughed and was so embarrassed when I watched them because really I was such a dork :)  I rave about my florescent fingernail polish and Milli Vanilli tapes.  Watching the old tapes made me want to record my kids more often so that when they are adults they can look back and laugh.  So, I am going to be making more videos, and to start all of my kids have birthdays coming up so I wanted to do a birthday video for each kid of some of their favorite things.  Since Liv's birthday is first here is her 3 year video.  Hopefully I can continue to add later, but this is what we got this morning.

Untitled from Jenn Reese on Vimeo.

Easter Egg Hunt

Saturday was the first Easter Egg Hunt of the season and Ward annual Breakfast. Liv wasn't sure at first about the eggs and was very selective in choosing only the pink ones. Cole and Ethan caught on quickly and scored lots of eggs.  We are currently munching on the treasures hidden in the eggs.

If you look close enough in the picture below you can see the thousands of easter eggs.  There were eggs everywhere!!

Emotions

Ice cream makes us HAPPY!!!

(taken by Ethan)

Track Break

Ethan's off track from school, so we haven't been doing much.  While Shawn gets up by 5 every morning we are busy sleeping in, eating breakfast at 10, playing the Wii all day, and stuff like that.  Sometimes I even say in my jammies until right before Shawn comes home :)  I know, my job is hard work sometimes.

Just a few pictures to show you how seriously we take our computers, even Liv loves to play :)