Spring and other things

Spring arrived with more snow than we've seen all year it seemed! 

The girls had been disappointed with our few dustings of snow throughout the winter, especially the fact that it melted before it could be played in! They made sure we ate a quick breakfast and got dressed before the great melt happened.

Aubrey liked shaking the tree branches to "make it snow"!  

Tyson is terrible at fetching, unless you are throwing snow balls for him! Then he tried to eat Ella's "snow castle".

Cutest snow bunnies I've seen ;-)

Ella and her imagination never rest. One evening when Amah and G-Daddy came over, Ella was pretending that G-Daddy was her prince and Amah was the invisible queen. What does an invisible queen do you might ask? She sits back and watches the prince and princesses dance ;-)

Aubrey dances in a style all of her own, its a cross between monkeying and swinging!

Ella on the other hand takes her dancing very seriously and pulls out her best dance moves.

A little spin at the end for effect!

Spring has proven to offer us very few dry days for jumping on the trampoline. The girls are such good sports about it though. It just takes a small break in the rain clouds and they head out with beach towels in hand to dry off the trampoline long enough to jump until it rains again.

Last week I was feeling like I really needed to spend some one-on-one time with Ella, especially before the baby comes. With Ella in school, I have been able to get that extra time with Aubrey without much effort. So one day at nap time, I laid Aubrey down then Ella and I headed out to Build-a-bear for a special time together. Although these girls have more stuffed animals than one could possibly need, it is something they both love and its always more fun to make your stuffed animal. Ella, being the thoughtful sister she is, wanted to make sure that Aubrey got to go make her own stuffed animal too =)

Aubrey with Minnie and Ella with Sparkles.
Aubrey loves to do exactly what her big sister does! She wanted nothing to do with any of the stuffed animals that weren't exactly like Ella's ;-)

Ella loving her puppy

Puppies love jumping as much as the girls do.

And that is our spring update for now ;-) Again I am trying really hard to get this ol' blog caught up so stay tuned for Easter pictures and before we know it, another baby girl!