Colorful

What started as a day for colored bubbles and the pool

turned into a colored pool

My girls just love the water. No matter what color it is.

Bed Head

I'm not sure if this is a sign of a good nights sleep or a restless one but it sure is funny!

Memorial Day Weekend

Yeah, I'm that far behind in my posts... embarrassing. Lillian's birthday will always fall right around Memorial Day. The long weekend makes it easy to invite up the Iowa White's for the weekend.

Gramma and Grampa hosted a nice BBQ for her 2nd birthday.

We invited the local family members to come spend the day. Even Great Gramma made it down from Alexandria. It was a great gathering. It is so nice to get every one together.

Gramma made a zebra cake- notice the stripes- thanks to Pinterest.

Maren provided the entertainment as usual.

Generation photos:

Presents!

Dad picked out a slip and slide for Lillian for her birthday. It was over 90 degrees so cold hose water and a hill made for a big hit.

Lillian got too cold. 

Thank God for Grammas.

Maren couldn't get enough. Great gift, Dad.

After the little ones made it to bed the bigger ones got to paint! So fun to spend time with cousins.

finger paint

Finger painting outside seemed like the cleanest way to contain the mess a two-year-old can make

We got out the sidewalk paint as well

Not to mention that finger painting can turn into toe and foot painting too,

they are, oh, so creative!

big girl hair cut

Look how long Maren's hair has gotten! It's so beautiful but it gets pretty tangled at the ends. I figured she would benefit from a hair cut and not one that I give her standing on the toilet after a bath. I scheduled an appointment for her at Kids Hair in Highland.

She was very brave and quite excited.

It didn't occur to me that Lilly would want her hair cut too. 

(of course she did she wants to do EVERYTHING Maren does)

10 minutes and 20 dollars later she was done. She even had a cute waterfall braid. 

aside: The cut- not happy with, the cost, not for the quality of the cut. A friend told me there's a better stylist there. I'd suggest requesting your stylist...

Road Trip

We took a trip back to Matt's home recently. Matt's twin brother's girlfriend had his first baby shortly after Maren turned 4. We hadn't seen her yet so I took a weekend off of work ( :o I know) and we drove up for a long weekend (we had Monday off too).

Here's a pic of Lilly helping gamma and gampa in the kitchen:

They're making a rub for ribs. Atta girl, lil.

Then out to the farm to stay with Uncle and to meet baby Peyton.

She's such a good baby!

Maren loves to be "mommy"

Lillian has no idea what that thing is that I'm holding but when it cries she "shooshes" it the way we do.

Spring photos

A new floor drawing tablet. 

I love to see my girls sprawled out on the floor working on drawings.

Some outside time as the weather got warm then cold then warm again. Here the girls are making chalk drawings on our bumpy driveway.

Apparently stickers now belong on your face. This is a progression from your shirt.

I won a mom award this day:

Maren had an appointment in Minneapolis which I knew would bring us close to lunch time. Instead of lunch I fed them ice cream sundaes from McDonalds. It was nice, so we ate them outside.