Tulip Festival 2012

Today we took our annual visit to the Tulip Festival!  It was a beautiful day and a lot of fun.  Derek and Savannah started out the trip with a tractor ride around the festival.  Then we ventured off to see the tulips!  You will notice that most of the pictures are of Madeline.  That's not because she is our favorite child...haha!  Savannah wanted nothing to do with taking pictures today so we took what we could get!  I couldn't narrow down the pictures so here are all of my favorites!

Easter 2012

Happy Easter!  Ours was filled with coloring eggs (32 to be exact), egg hunts, lots of candy, and fun!  The girls had so much fun this year!  Savannah seems to think that the bunny is going to bring her eggs every day....I'm sure she will figure it out soon enough :)  Here are some pictures from our weekend.

Savannah painting her egg...Madeline eating hers!

Ready to go to the Easter egg hunt!

Me and my girls!

My little bunny

Ready, set, go!  Doesn't Madeline look happy?

Savannah found lots of eggs!

Daddy and his girls

Easter morning

Unfortunately Savannah woke up Easter morning with a cold so we didn't get to go to church.  We decided to go on a family bike ride instead!  It's our new found sport/family activity and it's so much fun!  The girls love riding in their little trailer!

Madeline's 1st Birthday!

I can't even believe my baby girl is 1 already.  I have been in a bit of denial about the whole occasion.  Madeline is such a happy baby.  She is always (for the most part) in a good mood and has a smile for everyone.  Her latest things are waving hello and goodbye and giving kisses.  It is way too cute!  Her favorite saying would have to be "uh-oh".  She is definitely a mommy's girl these days but you won't find me complaining!

We had a lot of fun for her birthday.  We spent the day just hanging out as a family and then had a party the following day with our close friends.  I had a hard time choosing which photos to include because of course I think they are all great, so here are a bunch!

Madeline is 1!!!

Ready to celebrate!

The sign I made for the party.

All 52 weeks of Madeline's first year

This is probably one of my favorite pictures ever taken of me and my girl

Present from Mommy & Daddy!

Sisters in their chairs

Yummy!

Do you think she liked it? 

Ready for the party!

Party favors for the kids

Before everyone arrived 

Madeline and her friend Maggie who are 3 days apart.

Singing "Happy Birthday"

Getting cleaned up

All the kids

Madeline with Aunt Jenni

Thank you everyone for my gifts!

Happy Birthday to my sweet baby girl!

Winter Wonderland!

After lots of waiting, we finally got our first snow storm!  Savannah has been asking for it to snow for months and she finally got her wish!  We have been having a blast!!

The girls first sled ride!

Shoveling snow with Daddy

Savannah and I ready to build a snowman

We did our best....Ha!

Madeline in the snow for the first time! 

She enjoyed playing in the snow as well as eating it!

Savannah was excited to play in the snow with Groppy 

Trying to catch snowflakes

Mommy with her snow bunnies

Making a snow angel

We have been having so much fun in the snow and on Wednesday we are supposed to get anywhere from 4-14 inches!