Daddy's 28th Birthday

Along with Easter, we also celebrated Daddy's 28th Birthday over the break. Our friends, Tommy, Randy, and Brian came over to go to an A's game along with Uncle Chris and Uncle Jake. Jaclyn really enjoyed hanging out with all of them......especially Tommy! During his visit, Tommy taught Jaclyn to say, "Uh Oh," which she says all the time now, and got involved in her favorite game, where she takes all the toys out of the barrell, right after Mommy cleans then up! What do you think? Does she look like she just got caught?

Here's all the boys and Jaclyn, right before the A's game.

Easter

As I'm sure you've noticed with our lack of posting on the blog, that we've been really busy this month. STAR testing began last week and we have been killing ourselves preparing our students for it. Fortunately, I finally got a chance this weekend to post Jaclyn's pictures from Easter. It was a lot more fun this year, as she was able to (sort of) hunt for Easter Eggs. Next year, I'm certain will be even better!

This year, we went to see my family on the Saturday before Easter, and then had John's family over on Sunday to celebrate Easter and John's Birthday. It was a good thing this weekend was the beginning of our Spring Break because it was definitely a busy one!
Jaclyn had a blast playing on her swing with Grandma!

Jaclyn got to experience her first easter egg hunt. She spent more time sitting and crawling in the grass, but it was still cute to watch her try!

She kept trying to put the eggs in her mouth; maybe this year was was too early to actually dye the eggs! They definitely made a mess!Here's a good shot of her Tinkerbell Basket; she didn't exactly grasp to concept of putting things INTO her basket, but she LOVED taking everything out of it!She was still pretty new at walking, so struggled a bit in the grass, but got a hang of it after awhile.Daddy was very happy that the first thing Jaclyn reached for in her basket was the baseball!

Jaclyn liked getting to meet Auntie Erin's new puppy, Porter!

On Sunday, Jaclyn got to open up another basket from Grammie!

She spent the day showing off her new skill of walking.

And had a chance to give lots of love to Grandpa!

These are probably the cutest pictures of the weekend...

She LOVES her Uncle Jake!

Jaclyn's 1st Birthday ~ Professional Pics!

Jaclyn had the BEST birthday, and we were able to recapture the best parts of it at her professional picture shoot this month. We took "before" pictures of her in her Birthday Tutu, and then "after" pictures with another piece of cake that we gave her to try all over again; she made an even bigger mess this time! It was such a cute idea and we were thrilled JCPenney actually let us do it in their studio! Hope you enjoy! Eating the cake started out similarly to the way it did at her party...

...but soon she decided to really dig in!