Embracing Spring...

Our spring weather went from freezing hail and snow nearby one day....

to sunshine and sprinklers 2 days later!!

I have been loving the warmer weather because the girls will play for hours in the backyard together! I can watch Eliza through the back windows and actually get the kitchen clean without her "help"! Playing outside keeps them out of mischief like this....

Dipping cookies in milk...(I love how they both look like they just got caught!)

Giving themselves whiskers to be kittens...

and finding pens to do some coloring (at least she brought a page from the coloring book with her!)

Fun with a hat...

Eliza loves to try on hats, shoes, purses, and jewelry these days....she is an accessory girl!

Oops! Hannah pulled the hat off so she could get her picture taken too!
Sister hugs...

Hannah's turn :)

I love how she can go from THIS look....

back to THIS sweet face in half a second!

And a really mad baby to finish off the photo shoot!!

At home...

getting owies...

playing dress-up...

taking care of "baby chicks" in their bins with heat lamps/flashlights :) I LOVE their imaginations...

and getting first haircuts...

I finally gave in and snipped her bangs so that the hair wasn't covering her eyes. I wanted to keep letting it grow out, but she is our third little one to refuse wearing clips and ponytails!

Easter weekend...

Clara and Hannah helped me make a batch of hot cross buns on Good Friday. Clara found out that writing her letters in flour is a lot more fun than on paper!

We ended up with a few dough balls that wouldn't fit on the baking sheet, so the girls did some of their own "cooking". I love the very serious expressions on both of them!
Time for a bath!!

Eliza found a cozy spot to eat her snack while the girls were baking...

This is such a classic "Eliza look"!! She has such a twinkle in her eyes when she gives us this half-smile. It is usually when she is teasing us by pretending to hand something to us, then grabbing it back and running away!

Saturday morning, the girls helped decorate the bunny cake to take with us to visit the Portland cousins

Hannah lovingly pet the little cake bunny!

Easter morning in Portland before church....

The 6 cousins lined up and ready to go hunt for eggs....

They're off!

Eliza LOVED her first egg hunt!! She ran from egg to egg, dropping them into her Elmo basket...

It was hard to get a clear picture because she wouldn't stop moving!

Hannah with her eggs

So proud of all her eggs!!

The cousins deemed Dylan the "winner"! He is so amazingly fast, he probably scooped up half the hidden eggs-way to go, Dylan!!!

Aunt Heathyr's chicken coop is in the background. She built it herself!! The baby chicks are growing up in their garage right now, and the girls LOVED getting to hold them!

One happy little girl :)

Hannah was SO excited to hold a baby chick..

and got very serious about holding it gently....

Eliza would gently touch one chick, and then immediately point into the bin and scream "Mo" for the next one! Aunt Heathyr said that it's good to handle them a lot as babies so that they are used to people when you go to gather their eggs as adults.....these chicks got a LOT of handling this weekend!!

Look at all the hands on this little guy!

All three girls were sound asleep after just a few minutes on the freeway on the way back up to Seattle!! What a fun weekend!!