Happy Earth Day!

Well, I realize that by the time you read this, it won't be earth day anymore, but I wanted to post what we did to celebrate...not much so don't get your hopes up! But, I decided to finally take our old newspapers down to the school in our neighborhood to recycle, so the girls got in the wagon, Einstein got on his leash and we took off down the road. I tried to explain to Kayley what day it was today and you could tell it was way over her head in trying to explain what the Earth was. But, she willingly along with Cora had the big pile of papers on top of their feet on our way to the recycle bin. Then, we took an extra long walk and the girls actually got out of the wagon and walked almost the whole way...I was way impressed at how long they walked! But, then I (this may sound silly) officially started a bag for our aluminum cans. When we lived in Columbia I was good about recycling b/c the trash people would pick it up with our other trash...here we have to take it to a recycle place or pay them to pick it up at our house, but Nick told me the other day that if you recycle one aluminum can it can run a tv for 3 hours...well as some of you may know...we like our tv and Nick likes his pop...so put two and two together and in order for us to always be able to watch our tv, we need to be better about recycling his pop cans. So, it's official and we are recycling them now! So, Happy Earth Day to you all and sorry I don't have any pics with the girls on this post...it was kind of hard to juggle the girls, the wagon, and the dog and then to try and balance the camera wasn't going to happen! So you can just imagine the girls walking very cutely and waving to our neighbors on our walk today! :)

Music of the Night

Well, last night Nick and I got to see the show of a lifetime! For Christmas Nick got me some tickets to go see the Phantom of the Opera. I of course was way excited because a) we are not the type of people to spend a lot of money on things like this, b) Nick is not a lover of artsy things as much as I am, and c) I grew up listening to this music as my Mom and Dad saw the play and would often play the soundtrack and I would also listen to my sister Jessica sing and play the music to it...so I went in knowing almost all the words, but contained myself and let the pros sing it instead. It was a great night only with a few bumps in the road. We had it all lined up and ready to go but then we found out that Jessica my sister couldn't babysit as our nephew ended up having strep throat! And our back-up (Nick's sister) had just left earlier that day to go out of town. So after racking our brains to see who could watch them on a school night and figuring out who they would be most comfortable with we asked one of my gracious friends (also Kayley's sunbeam teacher) and she very willingly babysat for us and on a school night for that matter! We were so thankful to her for being so willing so we could still go. And can I just say WOW!!? We loved every minute of it...even Nick! If you ever have the chance to go see this play, you MUST!! And apparently the guy who played the Phantom also played one of the lead roles in Les Miserables...so yes he was very good! It was a night to remember forever! Thanks for the great Christmas present!

Happy Easter!

Well, it's a bit late, but we wanted to wish everyone a Happy Easter! We hope you all had a great one and enjoyed time with family and friends and reflecting time on our Savior and the great sacrifices he has made for each one of us! We had a good Easter spent in Branson/Springfield. We went down to Silver Dollar City again and then went back to Springfield/Willard on Sunday to do church and Easter lunch with Nick's mom. Our dinner consisted of Cashew Chicken so Nick was way excited! But the girls looked so cute in their dresses it just made me melt thinking about how big they have gotten and how much I just love them! Cora had so much fun that she fell asleep on Grandma's couch while we were all visiting...she had a fun-filled and tiring weekend! I also put some pictures of us seeing the Easter Bunny, which was at Petsmart of all places! He was actually there for you to take pictures of your dog/cat with the Easter Bunny, but he was kind enough to let the girls see him and talk to him. Of course as you can see from the pictures that Kayley talked his ear off and Cora wanted almost nothing to do with him! We never got her to sit with him, but that's ok, maybe next year! Anyway we hope you all had a great holiday!