time in the exersaucer

Up until she turned one K loved her exersaucer and jumperoo , then she discovered she would rather be out of it and exploring. Well even though it has been months since she has last used it , it sat up in our bedroom. The last few days she has really been into getting in it and playing! Haha!

Happy Easter!

What a wonderful weekend we had celebrating Easter!  Kiley is at such a fun age these days {minus the few temper tantrums and meltdowns.}  She really enjoyed "hunting" for eggs!  We spend the weekend at home {Aunt Katy came down from Chicago to visit} and then finished off the weekend with dinner down in Bloomington at Kyle's parents.  All in all, a GREAT Easter for K!

Enjoy some pictures from the weekend!

 egg hunting!

 reaction to the Easter bunny...NOT GOOD!

 Easter package from Aunt Jenny!

 Filled with lots of treats!

 <3

 goof ball!

 Easter Bunny loot!

 digging in!

 loved her new cups so much she wanted to drink from them!

 just an idea of how difficult it is to photograph a 19 month old!

 there's a little smile!

 OBSESSED with her Minnie Mouse ball from Aunt Katy

hunting for eggs at home

found one! 

 there's our happy little girl!

 Happy Easter!!

 Sucking the syrup off her french toast at brunch!

Thanks for coming to visit Aunt Katy!

Happy Birthday Sammy!

Our beloved dog, Sammy, turned the big 10 on Friday!!  Of course we celebrated with some cake {and ice cream!}

{Kiley giving Sammy birthday hugs!}

 {the b-day boy!}

 {aunt katy made the trip down for the weekend}

1.  {our boys <3}

 {our little family of 5}

{YUM! this cake is good!}

K's first egg hunt!

 With Easter only a week away, we ventured to our first egg hunt for K!   Last year she was too young to do the hiding of the eggs, but we will be doing it this year!    I was a little hesitant when we first arrived at the number of children {especially older than her}  But they had it set up very well.  Every child was divided into different age groups, each age group had their own location.  Then each child was given a number, and 5 of the eggs had their number on it. {after about a minute of searching for our number, the under 4 age group was told to just pick 5 eggs and ignore the number--much easier!}   After they collected their 5 eggs, they took them to the "prize" location and traded the empty eggs for a prize bag!  It was actually very well planned out and very fair, that way everyone walked away with the same things and no fighting over eggs.  

 waiting for the start!

 "can't I go now?!"

 "please!?!"

 had to go on a little walk while we waited for the egg hunt to begin

 

i found an egg!

putting it in her basket!

 more eggs!

the prize at the end!

loving the warm weather!

these pictures are from a few weeks ago, but we were enjoying a beautiful evening of grilling on the patio with daddy!   I should mention that we have been having some wonderfully high temperatures (up to the 80's!)  throughout March, so we have been lucky to have many days to be outside!

 playing!

 checking out her aunt karli angel!

 i love her little shadow in this one!

haha! making silly faces at me from the outside!

walking her puppy

sorting shapes

Kiley loves to play with her shape sorting toys!  She dumps them all over the place and loves to put them in one by one....of course we always manage to find some all over the house but oh well! 

 she can even do it with the coasters!

all back together!