Happy Day After Halloween

With all three kids, and the hubby out for work this Halloween, I was a little bit lazy in our Halloween preparations this year. I didn't sew ANY costumes at all, like I did last year. My oldest wore her parrot costume I made her last year (using THIS tutorial from Burda Style) since it still fit. My middle wore the hand me down monkey jacket we got from Goodwill for our oldest's first Halloween, and my youngest wore a tiger costume my grandma got her from a garage sale for my oldest's first Halloween.

The kids had a lot of fun. It was sunny all afternoon and clear through the evening, but we went to an indoor carnival instead of taking to the streets anyways. My hips are just too sore most of these days to be pushing them all around in a stroller. The carnival was a ton of fun though. The girls got to play lots of games, jump in a bounce house, and we even had our picture taken while we were there! My kids look absolutely NOT thrilled to be there. BUT they did have a good time until it was clearly time for us to be heading home.

Easter Pics Part Two

OK, so the top photo on here I've already put up on this blog, in the post about darling daughter's crazy hair. But these are actually closer to Easter Pics than what I had posted before. These are from a couple days after Easter, when darling daughter number one's rash had pretty much just disappeared. I got them dressed up cute and headed over to my mom's (she has way more widnows than I do) and started snapping away.

Easter Pics Part One

I have a confession to make. I didn't take any pictures of the girls on Easter. Darling daughter number one had a cold sore from earlier in the week. And it turns out cold sores do weird things to little kids. Like make them break out in a huge rash all over their little bodies.

So I went to church with darling daughter number two by myself, and taught our Sunday School class (dear hubby and I teach the 16 year olds) with the baby in this gorgeous ring sling I made for her. 

These pictures were just before her birthday when she turned two. The days aren't very long in February, unfortunately, so the light was a little bit challenging but we made it work. Tomorrow I'll post the baby's photos.