I am one proud Momma!  (And the end of the video is hilarious, at least to me.  Little Stinker!!)

So....I had originally planned to have Little Darlin's party on Saturday and I had all our little friends' invitations ready and sealed.  The next day, I found out "Family Counts" was ON her birthday, the same Saturday.  We CANNOT miss Family Counts.  It is one of our major events each year and it happens to be right in the backyard (well, almost).  That event is the free family carnival hosted annually by my employer.  Everything is free.  Rides, food, funnel cakes, drinks, popsickles, face painting, games/prizes, pony rides, BBQ, hot dogs, corns dogs, ice cream, hamburgers, cake, what do you want? they have it!!  They have a band on stage with nice music and it's just a really nice time to celebrate time with your family.  It even has "carnies" as my therapist asked (physical therapist, I don't have or need mental help...most days...)  Daniley's favorite part of the entire day was the puppet show.  I admit it was really cute.  It was the story of the 3 little pigs and you'll see the big bad wolf and the house of sticks in one of the images.  Also there was a reptile show and Daniley kissed a snake on the head.  She does know, however, if she sees a snake in the woods she is to run away and get help.  We do try to educate her about things.  :-)

Moving on, as I mentioned, this was Danslen's first birthday so we made sure she had a great time too.  She loved her little play area and every time I'd try to move on to something else, she'd cry to go back.  Since it was her birthday I let her play in her area an extra long time.  :-)  And, for our friends, I had to throw every invitation in the garbage and start all over with the party plans.  However since we had such a big day Saturday I kept Sunday limited to family!  Happy Birthday to my little sweet baby!!!!  Me, Daddy, and sometimes Daniley love you VERY VERY VERY VERY MUCH!!!!!!!  :-)

Easter was wonderful.  First we attended church together as a family (well most always we do that) but today was the first Easter as a family of four!  I made the girls' Easter dresses which made them extra special to me.  After church we dropped by Honey and GPaw's so they could see the girls in their Easter dresses.  We did a quick egg hunt and then headed to Shelby where my Dad hosted the family for lunch.  There we did another egg hunt.  It was a beautiful day.  Thank you God for sending Jesus and all the other blessings in my life!

Sorry I'm just getting around to Easter. When the blog is slow, it's because we're running nonstop. The day before Easter we did Alabaster's Egg Drop. It was crowded, but fun.


 Danslen was trying to have her hair like this little guy.
 It's called an "egg drop" because this helicopter dropped them onto the field.

  

PS.  I'M WALKING EVERYBODY!!!

Okay, I realize I still haven't posted our Easter pictures and story, but I will.  They are on Dan's camera card which I haven't put on here yet.  I'll get around to it soon.
In the meantime, this weekend was wild.  Saturday was crazy.  We did yard sales, then family at Honey and GPaws (Uncle Jerry and Aunt Shelia from Colorado, and Uncle Tom and Aunt Diane from Indiana.)  Uncle Jerry loves margaritas and since I have a new machine, I invited him over for a drink in the bar.  And since I have a new machine, I made Daniley a virgin daquiri, but I don't use the word virgin, because I don't want her screaming that out when we go to the mall.  I could only imagine how she might put a sentence together.  :-O


Afterwards, Dan and I had to split up because each of our friends was having parties.  He and Daniley went to Tegan and Tatum's, and Danslen and I went to my friend Rachel's grill out.  I don't think we have any pictures from the Turners :-( but I snapped only a few from Seth's house, the host of the grill out.  Dan and Daniley eventually met up with us there, and we all had a great time.  I think I'm gonna need a carrying bag for this margarita machine (yes, they make one) because I've been burning the motor up.  LOL.  I took it to the grill out so Rach could enjoy a margarita.  We were celebrating her completion of the PE exam.  Believe me, she deserved about 10 margaritas.  I know because I have been where she is.  Anyway, our kids played and we cracked up at them.  Poor Seth got trapped by Daniley and they played.  Here she is playing his piano and I have to say she looks very professional.



I'm gonna tell you what...I have some great friends in my life! 
After these parties we had tickets to the Baron's baseball game.  Let's see, that's 2 kids up since 5am with less than an hour nap each.  Baseball games starts at 6:30 and then fireworks afterward.  Ummm, ditch that!!  Oh well, maybe I'll have more guts next time.  I'm not sure Danslen would have been happy at the baseball game anyway.  :-)

We died Easter eggs with Honey and GPaw!  Daniley had a great time and the eggs were beautiful.  Honey was just in time to give us some Princess wraps for our eggs.  Why is it that girls love princesses?  I never liked princesses and never wanted to be one.  Of course that COULD be because we didn't own a VCR until I was 12.  Sheltered or Poor.  Your call.
(Wow I got way off track.)  LOL.

I uploaded on YouTube.  The blog doesn't like long videos. 


You should definitely turn your speakers up before clicking the links.
Don't worry, they got their Momma's rhythm.  :-)

"Boogie" Shoes

There's a lot going on in the video.  About the third time I watched, I finally noticed Danson pulling his shirt up...and just how many times DID Lil' Darlin' fall off that couch?  :-)
Jump Jump

This has been one of those weekends where I laid awake Sunday night going through all the fun memories we made.  Saturday night I had a Ladies Only party, a pinterest party in fact, where we had margaritas and I demonstrated my Silhouette.  We had such a blast!  Also I demonstrated my new margarita machine that I bought at a time when I did *not* need to be spending money.  :-|  Oh well, I'm sorry Habenero's I won't be "needing" you anymore...at least not just to quench my thirst.  Haha.  



  Also Daniley and Danslen got to spend time with ALL their cousins this weekend.  Here are the "4 Monkeys." 
Then Sunday night the sweet Bentley visited with us and we had a grill out and dance party.  I have only video.  Why wasn't I thinking to grab my camera?  Maybe because I was too busy dancing on one leg!  :-)  I'll try to post videos, but that's very time consuming....so check back, but give me a couple days! 
On top of all this fun, I had lots of good quality time with my babies this weekend.  And because I was having a party, the house was completely clean, top to bottom, which helps me relax...until things get out of place again.  That's why I don't try to always keep a clean house, because when it starts to get messy again it bothers me.  Might as well just keep it messy all the time, then you don't have to worry!  :-)  Love to everyone!!  Thanks for stopping by.