Catch-up!

Okay, okay... so it's been more than a few days. Forgive me. Life just was a little busy!

Easter:

Hoppy Easter! The day before Easter, while we were eating lunch, a little bunny rabbit decided to join us on our porch! The girls enjoyed seeing the bunny so close.

Easter was a lot of fun. We all traveled down to Casa Grande to spend the day at Roger's parents house along with Colette's family. The girls loved this because then they got to do two Easter egg hunts (and a little roller blading and scooter riding - of course).

Rebecca with her favorite bears

Chloe on the hunt for eggs


The girls hunting for eggs with (a headless) Grandpa Moore

Rebecca, Chloe, and Cooper enjoying the beautiful Easter weather

Grandma Johnson with a sleepy Evelyn

The after dinner walk/ride/roller blade


More after dinner fun

Baptism:
Evelyn was baptized on Sunday, April 19th. What a fun and special day. We had an open house following the church service and had quite the full house - over 50 people attended the church service and/or open house. Thanks to all that could make it! Especially one of Evelyn's NICU nurses and her speech therapist (no - she's not talking, but they help with bottle feeding issues).

We have surprisingly few pictures! Here is one from the church - none from the party. How did that happen!

Then we decided to redo all of the floors in our house. And I mean all of them! Thankfully, we were able to plan it for when Roger's parents were on vacation - so we basically moved out of our house for a little over a week and down to Casa Grande! It was a lot of work, but I can't imagine trying to live in the house while all the work was being done. Here are some before and after pics. We just LOVE our new floors. (We never took true "before" pictures, so the best I could find is one with Rebecca pretending to be a pirate - she doesn't know about Somalia! ;-) You can see the small amount of tile we had in our entryway and the carpeting in our playroom - that we also had throughout the rest of the house)

It was good timing to get tile throughout our entire downstairs because Chloe recently went to an allergist and was told that she's allergic to peanuts and....dogs! Thankfully, it's not too bad. The Dr. just recommended keeping the dogs out of the kids room (we already did that) and since we now have tile downstairs where we spend the majority of our time, it's much easier to keep clean.

The biggest Evelyn (8 months old already!) news lately is that she's now sitting up on her own. She started sitting a couple weeks ago and loves to sit there and play with her toys.

Rebecca is currently in swim class and loving it. She also went to vacation Bible school at our church and will be attending another VBS at a different church later in the summer. She really enjoyed it. But most of all, she seems to be looking forward to starting Preschool in the fall.

Chloe is a pretty typical 2-year old. Her bright moments are a lot of fun, and her down moments are quite a challenge. ;-) Thankfully she is in a good mood most of the time and enjoys being the center of attention.

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