This has been a busy but fun weekend. It started Friday night. We took the kids to go see the Easter Bunny at Greenwood mall. Ella, like at Christmas time, still wasn't fond of going and sitting on a strange lap, so instead she sat on her big sisters lap and made out ok. I really like the Easter Bunny in Greenwood, I've seen pictures from other parents with their kids sitting on a scary looking bunny knee. Here's an extreme example lol.

Saturday, Alex and I went to her last skate lesson of the season. She thought it was going to be more of a fun day but they actually made her work. It took a bit of coaxing by the coaches to get her trying her hardest but what worked was them telling her if she didn't try hard they weren't going to give her the badge for completing level 4. That is all she needed so she tried hard and did complete all requirements for level 4. She was very excited.

Today I spent the majority of my morning going through the ridiculous process of registering Alex for swimming lessons. There has to be a better way than how they do it. But I went and waited from 10:30 until 1:00 and got her registered in the right level and at the time we wanted. Some people arrived a little after 8:00 to ensure they got their preference. Oh yeah I should mention that the doors weren't scheduled to open until 11:30 and the actual registration start at 12:30.

This afternoon we went over to my twin nieces first birthday party. It was a good time, all the kids had fun and I think the adults did to :-D

Last Friday was Alex's Spring Skating Carnival. This is where all the kids get to showcase the things they've learned though out the skating year.

Even though this is her first year in the Can-Skate program she has advanced to level four already. Alex's group did their routine to "Dancing in the Rain". They did a fantastic job at remembering the whole routine and skated it very well.

Alex also received one of only three awards given out at the Carnival. It was for most Spirited Skater. She is very proud (and rightly so) of her new Gold Medal.

Wow time really flies. Our youngest baby Ella is two today.

We had a great birthday party for her yesterday. Lots of family and some friends came over to celebrate with her. She was quite excited. She woke up from her nap to find the house decorated with balloons and streamers and just kept saying "wow!"

Ella was very happy with her Max and Ruby birthday cake. Dairy Queen did a great job decorating it for us even though when we called to order it they didn't know who Max and Ruby were. We took in a picture for them and it turned out very nice. Not like some of the scary ones we found online, example 1 and example 2.

Unlike Caile who gets very shy when everyone sings happy birthday to her, Ella was basking in all her attention. She blew her candle out once, but that wasn't good enough for her, so we lit it again for her hahaha.

The party went very smooth even though there were quite a few people in our place, and being smart this time and using disposable dishes make clean up go much quicker. We were in for a small fright when a neighbour knocked on the door saying he might have hit one of the cars that was parked on the side of the road. Luckily it must have been some ice he heard crunching because there didn't appear to be any damage.

The other funny thing was that when we were finally getting everyone ready for bed we went to look for Ella's new Dora tooth brush we bought her for her birthday, but it was no where to be found. We then realized that we forgot to bring out the gifts that Jen and I had bought her, so there were still all wrapped hiding in our closet. Oh well now she will have something to open on her actual birthday.

Happy Birthday Ella!