May Fun

Hi! Well, we THINK Spring is coming! And we're SOOOO excited for the warmer weather let me tell you! I can't even tell you how much better life is when you can be outside. You should see how happy the girls are...and how happy I am! I feel like I have so much more energy too...fresh air is fabulous! Here's a little of what we've been up to:

The girls are all about having races. Here they are getting ready to run to the swings....

and the SWINGS. We LIVE on this swingset. Best $$ we ever spent! We spend SOOO much time on that thing and I have probably done a world record of "under-dogs" just this spring. They LOVE swinging but only at the highest height....so I pretty much never get a break from pushing! I'm so proud to say that Hailey actually FIGURED OUT HOW TO PUMP all by herself this week...and then Emily figured it out the following day! It's amazing how hard pumping actually is when you try to teach someone how to do it... :) But I'm so glad they're getting it now! And, I continue to be in awe over how different Emily & Hailey are...but how similar they are too. It is so interesting to me that with every gross motor skill, they are literally within a DAY apart of learning it. Emily crawled, next day Hailey. Emily walked, next day Hailey. Hailey pumps, next day Emily. CRAZY TO ME! (EAH)

Then today was BEAUTIFUL outside....so we had a little family game of baseball. It was so fun! They girls would take turns hitting the ball....then whoever was in the outfield would get the ball and then just chase them down...running full speed all over the backyard and into the neighbors' yard. They would've played for hours. But ma and pa got tired....so we sat out and I grabbed my camera...and then the girls played their own little version. Here's Hailey hammin' it up and getting ready to swing...

and here is her cheering section.....

And this pic makes me laugh. They were just sitting like this chatting like little old ladies. They weren't even posing for the pic. I love it that they'll grow up as such good friends!!!!

Does this count as running through the sprinklers if you have to take an umbrella with? :)
Hailey was still unsure about the sprinklers - even WITH the umbrella.

But once Hailey got a hold of the sprinkler, and could squirt other people, then she thought it was a BLAST and got soaked. :)

This is good livin'. :)

So, at the school auction this year, Ryan and I bid on having a group of 20 Something's (including Shane & Jody) :) , come over to our house to help with any project. Well we knew we needed mega help weeding and mulching! So...of course the day we picked to do this happened to be a day of down pouring rain!!! But they were SUCHH troopers and were awesome at helping us. It would have taken Ryan and I FOREVER to do what we did in a few hours...thanks SO much for your help everyone!! Here they are pulling GREAT weeds in the rain... :)

the girls were very helpful too. :) Good job Uncle Shane. :)

Ta da!!

The other day we went to the zoo with Elizabeth and Andrew. The girls LOVE them (and so do I) :) and they're so excited to be flower girls in their wedding in July....

random gorilla at the zoo. :)
Hailey & Elizabeth