Sunday, April 18, 2010

My Big EIGHT Year Old

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Alli turned eight last Saturday on the 10th of April. I am sure I say this every year, but it is so hard to believe she is eight! She is a great eight year old! She is doing so well in school. In fact, last week she was given an award for citizenship!

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Alli has started taking piano again. We had been on a waiting list for a few months now, but found another teacher. One who comes to our house to teach- so much easier for me! She has started taking a tumbling class and is really enjoying it. Alli is also having some orthodontic work done. She has spacers now and will be getting an expander next month. Braces will follow soon after the expander. Between her piano, tumbling and teeth, she is sure costing us a lot of money at just eight years old!

I am so happy that she transitioned so well from our move. She has made a lot of really great friends at school and in our neighborhood. I am so proud of the little girl she has become!

Alli chose to have a slumber party this year. This was our first slumber party! It went really well. We started off the night with pizza. Then we broke up into two teams and went on a scavenger hunt. Who knew that scavenger hunts were so fun! This was our first one and we had a blast! The teams bombed each other with water balloons and silly string afterwards.

The worst part of a slumber party is trying to get them to go to sleep! If Pete and I can forget about how hard it was to get 10 girls to go to sleep, we might allow Tori and Katie to have a slumber party one day!

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IMG_3253 CRAZY GIRLS!

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Monday, April 5, 2010

Easter 2010

This was the best Easter! It was so nice to be able to wear our nice Spring clothes and not have to cover them up with our Winter coats! Not only did we have great weather, but we really took the time this year to reflect on this very significant holiday. We attended our church's Good Friday service. It was beautiful. A great reminder of the huge sacrifice Jesus made for all man kind. Oh, how thankful I am for His sacrifice.....His amazing grace that saved a wretch like me! The Good Friday service helped prepare our hearts and minds for the Easter service on Sunday.

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Easter morning = Peeps for breakfast

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IMG_2930 Modeling some of their Easter gifts

IMG_2936 A very sad Katie. She was upset that she could not find her sunglasses.

Off to church and the church Easter egg hunt.

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IMG_3046 My three sweet girls!

Friday, April 2, 2010

Good Friday

Today is so much more than just another Friday.

"God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8

Let the Easter celebrations begin.

Have a great Easter weekend!