Shutterfly

Hello friends and family! I wanted to write a post about something I love. Shutterfly! I love to use Shutterfly for all my photo needs. They have something for everyone on your list, their website is easy to navigate and quickly uploads photos, and their design options and editting capabilities are unmatched. When I start thinking about Christmas cards I always think of Shutterfly. This year I think I may use this design for our family Christmas cards but they have hundreds of different designs and multiple sizes to order. If you've never checked them out I encourage you to go here and do so! In the past, besides having photos printed, I have also made beautiful photo calendars like this and thank you cards like this but they also have photo mugs, mouse pads, and much more! Everything I have printed has always been on nice card stock and has a beautiful finish. My favorite things about ordering prints from them is that the date the picture was taken is stamped on the back of each photo. Since I have 3 little kiddos, who look a lot alike and am never caught up on my scrapbooking it's so nice to have the dates on the back when I go to use them. I can easily put them in order within just a few minutes! And the best part about ordering your Christmas Cards from Shuttefly is that they will even mail them out for you which is really nice when you don't have a lot of time to address envelopes! :) So if your still looking for Christmas Cards check them out and if you a blogger they also have a great promotion right now that enables you to get 50 Holiday Cards for free! Go here to find out the details.

Hawaii (condensed version)

I have tons of pictures from our busy but FUN summer and am working on a post about that but first I wanted to show you some pictures from our trip to Hawaii in May.

Daddy and his big boy. Levi being silly on our snorkel cruise. Pool time :) The boys could have done this all day!!!

Daddy and his girl. Makayla rockin' the shades. Playing in the ocean at Baby Beach.

Mommy and baby. Parker posing like Levi in the same outfit at about the same age in Hawaii. Grandpa holding Parker for nap time at the beach.

My three absolutely stunning and sweet children. (maybe I'm biased)

Hawaii just makes my kids happy. Even in the car :)

Grandpa and Grandma with all 5 of their gandkids! SO MUCH FUN!

Easter

Easter was a lot of fun this year. We actually started on Saturday by getting together with my side of the family. We had an Easter egg hunt at Grandpa and Grandma's house and then went to lunch together. Unfortunately Makayla fell asleep and missed the egg hunt.


Then on Sunday we went to church and had a wonderful time celebrating Jesus' Resurrection. Since I had the kids all dressed up I decided I wanted to get a picture of all three kids. That's not to much to ask right?

Obviously not really what I was looking for but what could I do.

Then we went to Mike's Uncle Frank and Aunt Carol's house. They put together a delicious lunch and the kids had a great time with the egg hunt.

Levi started out excited about any egg but quickly found out from the older kids that only fake eggs had treats and money inside. From then on he would pick up the real eggs, look at them and put them back.

Makayla didn't care so she benefited nicely from this arrangement. She is by far the youngest of the group and if the older kids hadn't kept putting the real eggs back she wouldn't have had any to find. Can you see the determination in her eyes as she stares down her next find while picking up the egg at her feet. She had no idea she was cleaning up the leftovers :)

What a fun day with family and friends!

...the rest of April

another day another attempt.

Super cheesy. Uncontrollable laughter.

Makayla is quite the character.

So sweet and cute.

So silly.
Such a stinker.

And undeniably in love with her brothers!

(The one on the left is what I see first thing in the morning. Makes my heart smile!)

Parker is moving more and has mastered sitting up.

We had a little photo shoot one day after church. Again trying to get a good shot of all three.

This was the best I got. Not to bad.

Then it turned into a kid train and then the train crashed.

We also FINALLY were able to plant grass in our backyard. We have a couple of little things left to do back there but it is almost completely done and we are so excited to put it to good use this summer.

Makayla and "Uncle" Jonathan

Parker loves to be on the floor now that he can sit up and roll where we wants to go!