Can anyone tell that I have really started to let my blogging slip? I had some legitimate reasons before why I hadn't posted much, but now I really don't. I haven't been doing anything big or exciting. I actually haven't been doing much at all. It just seems like every time I should go and blog, I just don't have the desire, at all. Oh well. I wish I had some exciting things to post but I don't .
Back over President's Day weekend we drove down to Wichita and met up with my brother Austin his wife Kris and their cute kids. It was so much fun to see them while we still could. They lived about six hours away for about six months while he was being trained on his plane, but at the beginning of March they moved to Tacoma, where he got stationed. I am sad. Now they are so far away and we have so much fun whenever we are together. I wish so bad that I could live close to my family, it has been really hard these past three years to only see them a couple times a year.
The kids had so much fun together. Kris took this picture, I just love it!
At the beginning of March I helped Kris drive up to Tacoma. It was so nice to spend time with Kris and the kids. Kris is such an amazing person and the kid of wife and mom that I want to be. I miss Kelly and Logan and Sara, it was so fun for me to get to spend some time with them because I haven't gotten to spend much time with them in their lives. So I was gone for six days, I missed the girls like crazy, I had never left Nellie for more than overnight so I was really worried that she was not going to like me when I got back, but as soon as she saw me at the airport she came running up and just hugged me forever. I am glad to say she is still just as attached as ever. When we drove home we had to drop Kevin off at his class in Salina, so it was just me and the girls. I think for the first time I really didn't want them to go to bed, so they stayed up and we hung out, and went and got ice cream cones. It was Nellie's first and when I handed it to her she grabbed it by the ice cream part. So silly.
On St. Patrick's Day the library in town had a preschool Leprechaun party. Lizzy had fun playing games doing crafts and decorating cookies. Lizzy put about an inch of green sugar sprinkles on her cookie so that is why she has green lips. It sure is nice to live in a place that is a little bit bigger so that there are actually events and thing that we can go do.
Nellie was too little to participate, but I sneaked her a cookie and she was good to go.
We had our Primary party that no one came to, but the kids did have a lot of fun decorating eggs and making baskets and having an egg hunt.
Nellie especially loved coloring eggs, she wanted to color everyone else's too.
Later that day there was a giant Egg hunt in town, There were 20,000 eggs to be found, they had a petting zoo and booths and a carnival and toys and all kinds of fun stuff, but it was FREEZING that day,( gotta love that darn Kansas wind) so we only stayed for the egg hunt and saw the baby animals and left. Nellie did love the baby animals, she kept squealing and laughing when they would lick her hand. Of course my camera wasn't working very well and only this picture turned out.
Nellie discovered her old swing down in the basement and will go sit in it and swing and swing. I'll come downstairs looking for her and she will just be sitting in the swing having a blast.
My Lizzy has gotten so grownup lately. I can't believe she is three and a half, where does all the time go. Someone told me lately that they days may drag but the years fly by. That is so true, Some days when I am having a rough day I feel like they day just drags on, but I look back and can't believe how fast the time has gone by. I am absolutely loving this time with my girls right now, it is so perfect, Nellie has gotten so much easier, and so much fun. Lizzy is just the sweetest little girl who always has a smile on her face. They love each other so much and are both lost without the other. When Nellie takes a nap, Lizzy is just counting down the time until she wakes up. When she hears Nellie cry, she gets this big grin on her face and shouts "Nellie's awake!" Nellie just loves it when we go and pick up Lizzy from school. What a treasure it is for me to see my girls love each other so much, It is what I always wanted for them. I am so glad I have two little girls.
This was her at her dance recital. I will post about that another day, but she was so dang cute up there performing. Afterward she got some roses from us and she thought that was the neatest thing. She kept smelling them and smelling them and she told me one smelled really good like chocolate. 
We have a neighbor who is an elderly retired guy who lives by himself, his name is Bill and everyday when we go outside Lizzy runs over to the fence and starts yelling "Bill Bill! Where are you?" until he comes out and then she starts telling him about her day and what we are doing and then she asks him what he is doing and carries on a huge conversation with him. It is hilarious. 
She loves to pick "beautiful" flowers for me. She has such a kind heart and is always giving compliments and cares so much about people. She is always saying "Are you okay Mom?, how are you are you okay?" She always make me smile and laugh, she is just one of those people that you meet that is ALWAYS happy. The past few weeks I have been painting my house and with Nellie around that meant I had to do it when she was napping or asleep at night. So there would always be a lot done when Lizzy would wake up in the morning and she would always say "Thank you so much for painting Mom it is so beautiful!" One day we were out in the garden raking and she was helping me and she said "What a lovely day it is!" She always says stuff with so much enthusiasm. I love it!
Wasn't she just the cutest little dancer you ever saw? I love this girl to pieces. She is such a light in my life!
