A Year in Playschool Pictures

Well, our first year of Playschool has come to an end and we have had such a WONDERFUL year! I thought that we could share our FIRSTS at Playschool with you all through our pictures! Above is Julia's FIRST day of school and she was so excited to be going to her "daddy's school!"

Our FIRST Christmas program (with Santa and Gracie, of course) at Playschool! Julia loves performing and we got to hear LOTS of songs that Ryan remembered from his days so long ago! :)

And our FIRST Spring Program day which was also our last day of school for the year! Julia has made LOTS of friends at Playschool, but the friend that we hear about the most is Katy who is pictured with her above. They are going to be in the same class again next year so we hope to hear many more stories! Thanks to all of Julia's teachers for a wonderful FIRST year of Playschool and we look forward to two more!

More Easter Egg Hunts!

More pictures from our Easter egg hunts last weekend! Gracie definitely figured out the basket concept and claimed everyone else's as her own-especially if they were full of goodies!

We got to decorate cookies-Julia's favorite part was the icing and the sprinkles!

Julia tried out the big jumper slide and was a PRO at it! She has had lots of practice with it lately!

Ready to hunt-just checking out the lay of the land!

Playschool Easter Egg Hunt

Well, it's our weekend of egg hunts starting with Julia's Playschool Easter party and egg hunt. She was so cute hunting for the eggs! Here is a shot of her "in action".

Her favorite-the pink "princess" egg! I looked down at her basket at one point and it was full of pink eggs! We had to get her to give all colors a chance!

Enjoying some play time on the playground after the egg hunt!

Egg Hunt Training!

We have THREE Easter egg hunts to go to next weekend including our 3rd Annual Northwood Egg Hunt. So, we decided to do a little bit of training today with the girls. They are EXCELLENT egg hunters and we had a wonderful time! Julia loves modeling with her Easter basket!

Gracie was a champ at finding the eggs and then putting them in her basket! She loved walking around with her basket looking for the next egg!

Julia with her stash! Don't you just love the purse on the other arm as she is carrying around her Easter basket full of eggs?

So excited to find eggs and put them in the basket!!!! Hope they will do as well next weekend as they did with their practice today!

Sesame Street Friends!

We went on a boat ride one morning with Elmo and Zoe - great family pics with both of our friends!

Julia loved meeting all the Sesame Street friends, especially Abby Cadabby!

We even got to make cookies with Cookie Monster one afternoon! She made one for herself and one for Cookie Monster!

Beach and Water Pics

Ryan and Julia had a great time on the waterslide!

The girls loved playing on the beach and in the sand and water!

Check out our cute sundresses that Granny got for us!

Look how happy that baby is on the beach!

Turks and Caicos

We may have to have multiple posts for all our pictures, but here's a GREAT start! The girls got to smile for the camera one afternoon walking around the resort and at the beach!

The beautiful beach at sunset!

They both LOVED the pool! We spent lots of time between the beach and the HUGE heated pool right outside our door!

Julia Pics from Gracie's Party

When can we get into the cake, mommy and daddy?

Oh yay, LOTS of icing!

Sisterly love-how cute are the cupcake dresses?

Julia was is so excited to be a big sister to a ONE year old! We had a GREAT party!

Gracie's Birthday Party

The birthday girl waiting on the party to get started!

Okay, I've got my bib on-bring on the cake!

Hmmm...let me try this out!

Yep, it's pretty good!

Gracie's FIRST Birthday!

Happy FIRST birthday Gracie! She was so excited this morning as she was having her morning waffle and smiled SO big for us!

On our way to Red Robin for our birthday supper! Of course, we ALWAYS have a baby doll with us-thanks Libby and Elise for our birthday dolly!

The BEST part of all-ICE CREAM after supper! She LOVED it!

Blowing kisses to everyone as we left! She had such a good birthday and can't wait for her PARTY on Saturday!

Trip to the Carousel

We went on a mystery trip Saturday afternoon - to the Carousel in Memphis! The girls had SO much fun and got to ride it 4 different times!

We then went to Huey's for supper and re-introduced the girls to one of our FAVORITE Memphis restaurants! Julia had so much fun deciding what she would get from the legendary menus! She of course decided on chicken strips and fries - the girls even got a surprise ice cream cup for dessert! What a great time we had!

Gracie enjoying her french fries!!!! She can almost eat as much as her sister! :)