Just a Few More Recent Pictures

Ayla loves tub time!
Here's Lara in her recital costume on picture night.
Her recital is coming up next month already! I'm going to be sad when dance is over for the year!
Ayla running around in one of my favorite little outfits of her's.

Here she is in her vest. Lara has a pink matching one, but she kept sticking her face down in it for the pictures.

Spending Time at the Parks

We've been going to a lot of different parks lately. One afternoon the girls and I went to meet a couple friends and their little girls in Eau Claire/Chippewa. We took the kids to Irvine Park. There are also a few parks around my brother's house that we have been going to on nice days. Here are some pictures.... This is my friend April's daughter Autumn. She is 2 1/2 months younger than Ayla.
Ayla at Irvine, with a determined look on her face.
Autumn and Ayla playing in the sand. Or I guess it was almost like gravel. : )
Ayla with Uncle Jon at one of the parks around here.
Here he is just being a kid.
Helping Ayla get across the bridge.
Josh and Lara after playing hard in the park.
Having a freezie after the park.

Easter Weekend

We went up to Siren for Easter weekend and Lara's birthday. We had really nice weather so the kids got to play outside quite a bit. It's about time!!
Here we all are dying Easter eggs. We had some really pretty one's, and some goofy looking one's. Lara got ahold of the stickers and plastered just about ALL of them all over about 3 of the eggs.Here is Ayla in her cute little dress. This was her first time in these sandals, and she was a little confused. : ) We all went to church (well just all of us girls) for the Easter service, and Ayla spent most of the time in the nursery.
After church the whole family went over to Tim and Donna's for Easter dinner, some playing outside, and then we all headed over to the nursing home to visit and play games with my grandma, and have dessert.
Lara got this doctor kit for her birthday and spent a lot of time fixing us up. She plans on being a doctor when she grows up. Hopefully she sticks with it!

Changes....

We've had some big changes in the last month or 2. Things haven't been working out for Mike and I for a while now, and I just couldn't deal with it anymore, so we are going our separate ways. Right now Mike is living in the house, and the girls and I are staying with my brother in the cities, which has been kind of rough, but Mike is looking for an apartment, and we will move back into the house after he moves out, until we can find a place of our own. I know it's not really something to blog about, but it can't really be ignored if I'm going to continue writing on here. I have a bunch of pictures to go through, and once I get them in order, I'll post them. That's it for now, I'll be back soon!