Catching Up With March and April

This is one of those catch up posts where I share pictures from the last month and a half!

 Toward the end of Spring Break, our Momsnext group volunteered with Lunches of Love, an organization in a neighboring town that provides sack lunches for school age kids during holidays, summer break, and weekends.  This is such a fun and meaningful activity that we enjoy taking part in!  Even kids Allie's age can help out!  And speaking of the princess...

 It started with us coloring in her new princess coloring book, then escalated to making a crown, and before I knew it we were crafting a princess dress out of a paper bag!  So much fun!  The gloves were her idea.  And see the tape?  She found out the hard way that this dress wasn't made for bending over.  That meant I had to be at her beck and call for the entire time she wore the dress!

 From princess to bug catcher!  One day I decided to clean up the pile of leaves and acorns I had been sweeping off the back porch all winter.  Under the pile it was nice and moist.  Allie grabbed a bucket and started collecting rolly pollies and worms.  She was pretty upset that she couldn't keep them all.

 Exhibit A in "Evidence that a quiet child is probably up to something."  She was very proud of her work and called to me in the kitchen, "Mommy come see what I did!"  Those are scary words.  So I was relieved to see that it was just stickers.  We actually left them up almost a week!

Here Allie was helping me make homemade cinnamon swirl bread.  Yummy!

 Allie loves the college kids so much that sometimes it's hard to make her go to bed while they are at our house.  This night she fell asleep right between two of the girls.  Precious!

 Easter Sunday we had our neighbor friends and some ladies from church over for lunch.  I just love seeing these kids together!  Gianna is one of Allie's besties! 

The first weekend of April Grandpa visited!  We had a great time with him!  He came down to watch Coleman and Spence play football.  (See the next post for those pictures.)  These pictures were taken outside our church the Sunday Grandpa was here.

 Allie has decided she likes pig tails.  They are really cute, but curly hair is extremely hard to part evenly!  Especially curly hair on a wiggly child!