GLORIOUS Spring! FINALLY!!

FINALLY!  It has arrived!  We are finally having some nice spring time weather in MN!  This has been the longest winter I can ever remember!  The kids enjoyed a weekend playing outside with daddy while mom was stuck inside at work!  Booo!!  But luckily the nice weather stuck around for at least one more day and we are having a beautiful Monday for my day off!  We had lunch at the park with Grandma Nancy and now after naps we are headed back there.  Maybe some CherryBerry and steak on the grill for supper!!

This one smiles and poses for the camera!

I can't get this one to look at the camera or hold still!!

Spring Program

Allie had a big week last week!  On Tuesday she had a little program at preschool for families.  Jesse and I went to watch, she was so excited!  She asked me last Thursday (after preschool) as I was tucking her in bed if dad and I were going to come watch her sing at preschool!  Of course!  They did the "Very Hungry Caterpillar" first and then a few songs and a couple "poems".  It was so fun!!  We have loved having Allison at Children's Corner Preschool.  Kara can hardly wait to go!!  Or so it seems!  She LOVES brining Allie to preschool and washing her hands too!  And now if I am not careful she runs into the little "house" in the room to play babies and has a big fit when I drag her out!  Anyway, here's some pics from the program...

Allie was "the sun", Soren was "the very hungry caterpillar"!

All smiles!

Quick family pic!  Muffins and fruit after the program!

Last Dance of 2013

Allison had her last dance recital for Just for Kix 2013.  She thoroughly enjoyed it!!  Part of the reason we picked JFK vs Colleen's was because I knew at JFK we paid month-to-month and if she didn't like it we could always quit.  But she loved it!!  She was done last Sunday, April 21, and normally she has dance on Monday's and she was asking today if she had dance.  She was bummed to hear she didn't.  It is going to be a long "off" season!  But I know summer will be packed with more fun things to do!  Anyway, here are some pics from the last performance.

So excited to start!!

Found mom and dad!  (Although this "action" was part of the dance, I think they were all looking for mom and dad!)

Ok, once again, it stopped letting me add a caption for whatever reason!  Grrr!!  Time for a new computer?!  Anyway, after dance we had a little party at our house!  Looking forward to next year!!

FRUSTRATION

I finally get on here to blog and I get 1 post done and now it won't let me upload any more pics!!  OMG I am so frustrated!  Well, posts to hopefully come tonight or tomorrow on Allison's last dance recital and her spring program at preschool.  And all this after I spent an unexpected amount of time upgrading to blogger+.  And I am pretty sure I have no idea how to use it!! 

Another year older...

Yup, I am another year older.  Officially a member of the OVER 30 club!  Eeek, that is hard to say!  In typical fashion I had my birthday week.  It included a pedicure with a co-worker and good friend, a free Caribou, free CherryBerry, and a free tan (no lecture required...it has been a LONG winter).  For my birthday all I wanted to do was have some friends over to play "board" games.  That is what we did.  It was GREAT!  We only got to one game, Loaded Question, but it was hilarious fun!  Apples to Apples was next on the agenda, but midnight came too quick and with most of us being in the over 30 club and with children to take care of the next day, we did the responsible thing (much to my dismay) and shut it down.  Here's a few pics from the night...

The girls!  Love these ladies!

Team RJ??

This is how you do it...

It stopped letting me add comments on the pics, but you get the idea!!  Andy and I were a team, not sure what I was doing...trying to look tough!  Lol!!

Easter at Mages's

Pics from Easter #2:

A tired looking Miss Kara and her God mom!

Give it a push!

High five with Grandma!

LOL, she was so excited EVERY time!!

Hurry mom!  This ball is HEAVY!

Cheering section!

Happy Easter!

We had a wonderful Easter weekend.  Easter at my parent's on Saturday, stayed overnight and went to church with them Sunday morning.  I love going to my home-town church for Easter Sunday and seeing so many familiar faces!!  And then we were off to Mages's for Easter with Jesse's fam.  Where after lunch we went bowling in Olivia!  First time for Miss Kara, who proceded to kick her mom's butt!  ;)
Here's pics from Easter at the Berntson's:

This is the sunfish Allie caught last summer!  Mounted and ready for the wall!!

Sneaking some candy??

Miss Emma, all dolled up!

Checking out the loot!

Because we haven't had enough sweets...ice cream before bed at Grandma and Grandpa's!

Easter morning at church!
 

Pretty, Pretty Princess

BOTH my girly girls LOVE make-up.  Here's a few pics of Miss Kara getting beautiful! 

Disney Weekend

This was about a month ago...but we took the girls to Disney on Ice.  I got tickets for Sunday's show through work and we decided to go Saturday to the cities and stay in a hotel overnight.  Our big trip for the winter!!  Yikes!  Anyway, it was a fun night away, minus a few bumps in the road!  First was the crazy packed MOA where I wanted to take the girls for a late lunch at Rainforest cafe before checking into our hotel.  Jesse put it this way...they should have blood pressure checks when you enter the mall!  Anyway we did finally get parked and IN the mall.  Ate at Rainforest (one saving grace, there was no wait time) and Allison even got to go on a few rides.  Then we went to check into our hotel...turns out there are 2 Embassy Suites in Bloomington and of course my phone took us to the wrong one first!!  Got to the RIGHT one and they had mistakenly double booked our room?!  We did get a room (THANK GOD or I think Jesse might have lost it!), and a discount (not as much as I thought we should get, but they said it was the best they could do).  Got to our room, and that was ok.  Finally get to the pool and it was pretty cold, but what was worse, the hot tub was COLD!  On the bright side, Allison liked it because no one else was sitting in it, so she got to swim in it by herself!  A  maintenance man came in and said someon had pushed the emergency shut off button on the hot tub earlier in the day which even when you pull it out again, it doesn't restart the heater.  So that was why the hottub was cold.  Either way, though they had a lot of unhappy people on their hands!  But Sunday was great.  We ate at Macorroni Grill then went to the Disney on Ice show and it was great.  Kids loved it.  Here's a few pics:

Ready to swim!!

A little pizza on the face!