Easter/Grandma & Grandpa Visit

At the beginning of April, my parents came to visit. We went to the park, decorated Easter eggs, took a little weekend trip to Hershey, PA (we were planning on going to Hershey park, but once we did the chocolate tour and Brooklyn was already sick of walking we decided to just go to a nearby park and relax for the rest of the day) shopped, ate and celebrated Easter. It was a great visit and the girls were in heaven the whole time.

Acting out the scene from tangled when she leaves the tower for the first time. ;)

Chocolate World

Sierra wasn't too pleased when I took a picture of her standing in front of the Easter bunny instead of on his lap.

A very successful group shot

Beta Gamma Sigma

That's right folks. My cute hubby received the highest recognition a business student can receive. I am so proud of him! He had his last day of class on Monday and we are both SO HAPPY that he is done. We attended the induction ceremony on April 14th (It only took me a month to post!) Graduation is next Saturday.

The Loyola University campus is beautiful

Brooklyn at 16 months

I meant to do a 15 month post, but I didn't have any good pictures of Brooklyn so I was going to wait until I got some. But now it's a month later and I still don't really have any good ones. Curse you i phone for being so easy to snap pictures so I never get my real camera out!

SO at her 15 mo appt. Brooklyn was 17 lbs 6oz. 28 1/4 inches tall. Still miniature and not on the charts but she is staying on her own little curve.

Brooklyn has just gotten too funny. She gets so proud of herself whenever she does something she thinks is cool. She tilts her head up with the most hilarious little grin on her face.

She isn't saying as much as Sierra was at this age. But LOVES imitating sounds.

The main words she says are momma, dada, ball, hi, and uh oh. She understands pretty much everything we tell her or ask her, but doesn't have much interest in saying anything.

She loves giving hugs and kisses, especially to my in-laws dog Apollo. She will wrap her arms around him and kiss him on the mouth over and over. It is out of control!

She has 6 teeth on top and 4 on the bottom.

She LOVES to look through books, mostly the paper (not board book) ones. Lets just say I've been doing a lot of taping of pages lately.

She's still really good about eating a lot and sleeping and taking her naps (usually 2 but can do pretty good on one when we have a busy day)

She is still such a mommy's girl. If I'm not in sight she's fine, but as soon as she sees me, it's all over.

We love our little brookalee so much. She cracks us up everyday!

she crawled up in there all by herself

proud face

she knows she's not supposed to get my decorations haha

With her favorite doggy Apollo and Uncle Kye

St. Patrick's Day

7 Years

We celebrated our 7 year anniversary this weekend. We left the girls with grandma and grandpa for the weekend and took off to Virginia for some shopping, eating, hot tubbing and movie watching. It was bliss.

taking a break from shopping

A really good quality picture taken at Texas Roadhouse. hah I seriously love that place. The atmosphere, the rolls, the cinnamon butter, the salad, the steak. The only thing they're missing is a good dessert.

Frozen chocolate cream from Sheetz. SO yummy.

just a little shoe shine...

Balentine's Day

Christmas

We took the girls to see Santa and they actually did surprisingly well! I thought they'd both freak out once they got on his lap but they were fine! Sierra was too shy to tell him what she wanted. She told me she'd tell him next time. haha

We spent Christmas with my family in Canada this year.

My mom digging for more presents. haha

Brooklyn and Auntie Amber

The cheery parents

Sisters

Christmas eve we spent at my grandma's.

Brooklyn was the entertainment for most of the night. I guess that's what happens when you're the only baby there ;)

Sierra loved playing dress up. It brings back so many memories. We used to put on fashion shows all the time with the same things when we were little. 

We went to my Aunt Diane's for boxing day. Sierra and Katrina loved playing with Vanessa's barbies.

Our visit went by way too fast, but we had a great time while we were there!