Collier Party of 5: April 2016

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Phone Dump

I'm catching up! Here are a few pictures from the last couple weeks.

April 8

Sitting on the table... She was pretty proud.

April 9

Ethan- all geared up for his first soccer game at 18 degrees!

April 11

My Cardinal fans watching the home opener!

April 15

Not the most quality photo, but they love to dance together!

April 16

Such a good big brother pulling his sisters after his soccer game. (Also, note the difference in attire from last week- it was almost 80 degrees by the end of this game!)

The first weekend in April we celebrated Ethan's best friend, Zach's (and our next door neighbor) birthday. We headed down early on Saturday morning and spent the whole day at the City Museum. It was so much fun! (And exhausting!) We so enjoy spending time with this family. I can't believe how blessed we are that they moved in next door! We spent the night and went to the zoo the next day. What a great weekend! Enjoy some pictures from our fun weekend!

Nora- climbing all over!

Showdown with the sumo man!

Zach, Ethan, Nora, Liz

Atley LOVED the ball pit!

They loved this area of the museum!

That was a fast slide! Ha!

And, Nora's turn!

Nora- outside fun!

Atley did great while we climbed around outside (and my thighs were burning!!!)

Ethan and Zach

My favorite picture from the whole weekend!

Lock them up!!

Watching shoelaces being made :)

I took a turn climbing around with Nora. We're bumping into the ceiling here!

Our family of 5, exhausted after a fun filled day at the City Museum!

And this is why we were exhausted!

The zoo was a lot of fun too and the weather was perfect!

Atley was very interested by the penguins!

The polar bear was so fun to watch!

Not exactly ready for this pic ;)!

Nora and Ethan- hanging out with the giraffe!

Pool Fun!

On Ethan's last day of his Easter break, I decided to take the kids to the Taylorville YMCA about 30 minutes from our house. It has a great pool for kids! They loved it. There's a lazy river that we did about 98 times! I got my workout in that day for sure, walking all those laps! And I think Ethan and Nora liked this whirlpool thing the best! The water had a whirlpool current that took them around and around in circles. I had to literally drag them out :)! It was hard to get a lot of pictures since I was in the water with Atley the whole time, but I managed to get a couple!

Excited to get in the water!!

Snack time!

Nora and Ethan working the tire swing!

She loved splashing!

3 happy kids :)!

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Easter Sunday

We spent Easter at home this year and had a great weekend! We started the morning with hidden Easter baskets for each kid. The Easter bunny must have been in a silly mood ;).

Excited about her new octopus!

Easter eggs and owls for Ethan!

Atley went straight for the reese's pieces!

After baskets were emptied, we got ready and headed to church for a wonderful Easter Sunday service! Ethan and Nora joined us in service and I loved having them and praising our risen Jesus! Family pictures followed on the church lawn :)!

Happy Easter!

Handsome (almost 7) Ethan

Sweet Nora girl

My baby girl, Atley

Bradford Pear blooms! Spring is here!

My favorite 3 kids in the whole world!

Nora, Ethan, Atley

For lunch we went to our good friends, the Talty's house. It was a delicious lunch and amazing time with friends! The kids even got one more Easter egg hunt in!

Just waiting to go!

Anything for an egg ;)

Atley found some starbursts!

Keep looking!

Callynn and Case helping out Atley :)

Nora and Callynn checking out their eggs!

Happy Atley with a Kit Kat :).

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Dying and Hunting Eggs

We dyed eggs on March 25.

Right before she dropped the egg and splashed dye everywhere ;)

Silly Ethan!

Excited about the final product :)

On March 26 we were invited to an Easter egg hunt in our old neighborhood (we moved 1 month before Nora was born). It was so fun to see some of the old neighbors and the kids had a blast running through the woods and yards looking for eggs and fun toys they had put out!