Friday, May 3, 2013

Easter 2013

Easter was March 31st this year, an early year.  Fortunately the rainy weather held off just enough for us to get Easter egg hunts in.

We started the day with Easter baskets and a small egg hunt (6 eggs) in our living room.  Claire loved it!  Her basket was filled with lots of b's - bubble bath, books, bows, and bunny ears!  The Easter bunny also brought a few goodies for mommy and daddy too! 


Easter baskets
Reading a new book with Daddy

Found an egg

Got my ears on!
We headed off for church (where Claire wasn't too terrible).  Then we headed down to Stockbridge for brunch with all the Schulze's.  Mmm, brunch!  We had a great Easter egg hunt and bubble blowing extravaganza outside.  The egg were hidden over a large space, allowing all three granddaughters plenty of opportunity to find eggs without fighting over them.  There was even a bunny spotted hiding in a bush!

Cousins


What's this hiding in the tree?

Still trying to get a good picture of the 3 of them

Love this out take! 

Walking with mama

Sharing??

Bubbles!

Pure childhood joy!

She would NOT let go of her basket

Love this picture of Claire and Grandpa

Balance beam

More swinging fun

After all that fun, we headed over to the Simpson house for even more Easter festivity!  More egg hunting and a delicious dinner.  I think the eggs got hidden a few times since Claire was having such a blast and doing so well at spotting the eggs.

Easter bunny stopped at Grammi's too

Showing Auntie how to find eggs

Got a bucket full already

Ooh, I see one!

Egg hunting with Grammi

Showing Paaps an egg

Exploring the contents of her eggs

Posing with Paaps (and eating!)

Still stuffing her face with Grammi


Claire also had an Easter party at her school.  They hid eggs outside for the kids to find.  They were very smart to keep the eggs empty and allow the kids to turn in their empty eggs for a baggie of candy that would have been in the eggs.  Then the kids chowed down on some food!


Found an egg!
Here's one!


Losing an egg from her basket as she dashes off for more

Food!

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Jeff's 32nd birthday

We celebrated Jeff's 32nd birthday with a few gifts, a visit to a local science museum, and pizza and cake with our families.  We had pizza at Aurelio's, which is originally a Chicago pizza chain that Jeff and his family used to frequent before they moved down here.  Some local folks recently opened a branch down here in Georgia.  All the Schulzes were thrilled!


Claire helps open presents
New watch!

Watching quarters go 'round at the museum
Time for cake!
Claire is a big fan!



Wednesday, May 1, 2013

March 2013


Zoo:
We took our little munchkin to the zoo on a beautiful March day.  It was a good day for seeing all the animals out and about.
Elephants!  (And you can hardly even tell I'm pregnant here!)


Look at those wild animals!

Checking out the gorillas, Mommy's favorite!

Up close with the tiger

Hail

Jeff, Claire, and I drove down to my parents one day for dinner with some family members and Claire and I decided to spend the night while Jeff headed in to work.  Just our luck that mother nature decided to gift the area with a severe storm and giant hail!  Golf ball sized and up!  My mom measured one at 3 inches wide.  And of course it tore up Jeff's mechanical baby, a.k.a. his car.  Busted windshield and dents all over the body.  A few thousand dollars worth of work fixed it up good as new.  Thank goodness for insurance!

Hail covering my parents' yard

Hail next to my hand
One piece of hail in Jeff's hand
Misc photos - A random selection of Claire photos from March 2013

Doesn't everyone wear mom's underwear over PJ's?

Posing' with her new "pack-pack"

Big stick

Little angel

Practicing sneaking out of the house

Trying to eat while still hanging on to her balloon

Our spring flower  :)

Mmmm, pasta!


Cookin' Dada's birthday cake

Daddy just barely fits