Happy 3rd Birthday, Princess Claire!!

On Monday, we celebrated our baby turning 3 years old. She had a pink princess party and was loving the whole thing. I guess there's no doubt she's not a baby anymore. Here she is enjoying her party. :) How sweet is this picture???
Here are the crazy siblings along with the birthday girl. I have no idea what Ethan is doing. I guess this is his new smile.

Claire LOVED opening her gifts...especially when she got to this princess dress. As you probably have guessed, she now wears it every day and you know I'm not kidding. I've laid down the law and will not allow her to ride her bike in it but other than that - it's pretty much always on.

Birthday girl and her daddy. :)

This is how excited Ethan and Anna were during the gift opening.

More posting to come.....stay tuned for piano recital pictures, Field day at school and other completely exciting things along those lines. :)

Some Tulip Time Fun.....

Last weekend, while Joel was turkey hunting, we ventured to Holland on Sunday to check out the tulips. Here I am with Claire at Windmill Island. Anna took this lovely picture. :)Anna also took this beautiful picture.

Here are the three munchkins (+ an old woman) in front of the huge working windmill. They loved running around in this huge tulip garden.

Ethan was very cooperative posing for his mom in the pink tulips.

Sweet baby Claire - not really a baby anymore.

We also went into downtown Holland to see the tulip gardens there and the dutch dancers. Ethan had to bring his Webkin Benji along for the ride. Ethan loved the red tulips so he had to have his picture taken by them.

Miracle....All three children smiling at once!!!

Anna was photographer again - this time for me and Ethan.

Claire smelling the tulips....not much to smell but she didn't care.

Back to Miss Claire again....Anna didn't want to be in many pictures here. She was way to busy checking out other things and wasn't in the mood. Claire found this spot and posed all by herself and demanded to have her picture taken. :)

Goodbye Sweet Violet.......

We had to say Goodbye to our sweet baby cousin Violet this week. She is now living in Denver with her mom and dad. We will miss them so much! We got to spend alot of time with her the few days before she left which was so great.

Everyone had to have a little trampoline time. We think Violet liked it. :)

This was our last day together. Grandma spent the day with us too and Guy was over several times as well. We had alot of fun entertaining Violet although Claire was not always so excited with the fact that she was no longer the queen of the house.

Here are Grandma and the girls hanging out together.

Anna and Violet playing some sort of silly game at snack time...

We'll miss you Violet!! We can't wait to see you in June!