Easter!

Easter this year was so much fun!! Brooklyn was old enough to participate on all of the activities and traditions, and she loved every minute of it!!

She loved coloring Easter Eggs!

She thought the dye was the coolest thing ever, she couldn't keep her hands off of it!Brooklyn had to hold every single egg as we took it out of the dye! She would get so excited to when she saw all the different colors and yell "oooh oohh ve'ee pree!"She loved all of the eggs and got so mad when we were finished!

The final product Easter morning we hid candy eggs and a few other things around the house for her to find! This was her first egg; if you look closely you can see her cheeks stuffed with the candy!

She got so excited every time she would see a new egg!

She was a little bit scared to reach this one, but she eventually let go of Greg and reached out to get it!Brooklyn and Dad!Finding the traditional chocolate bunny!Showing off the goods!

Later on in the afternoon we watched conference with a bunch of friends, and had a group Easter egg hunt!

She found soo many eggs!It was so fun watching her run around and stop to pick all of the eggs!

Mom and Brooklyn after we found all the eggs

She couldn't resist staying out of her Easter Basket

Gotta love sticky blue suckers!

Taking a nap with her Easter Duck

Showing off her pretty Easter dress from Grandma and Grandpa Merritt!

She loved wearing this dress, and everyone at church called her a little princess!

Everything is going great for us in Florida! The weather has been so nice and warm the last month!! It is definitely wierd to not be freezing and still have snow outside, but we are quickly getting used to it!

Greg only has a few more weeks left of school and Kacey has started working at 1-800 Flowers twice a week! Brooklyn is growing up so fast and is learning something new everyday!! She loves animals, reading, swimiming, climbing up on everything, playing with her stuffed animals, coloring, playing outside, and soo many other fun things!! She is definitely not a baby anymore!!

Catching Up!

It has been another month since our last post!! Here are a bunch of pictures to help illustrate what we have been up to!!

We pet and kissed dogs...
Got some shades for the Florida sun!

Brooklyn and Mommy

Daddy and Brooklyn

Hung out at the beach!

Built some sand castles...

Hit up our swimming pools!

Our complex at the end of March!

We've gone down some slides....and flown some kites....

Greg has become the master kite flyer!

A few weeks ago we went on a walk and picked up some pinecones on the way! We spread Peanut Butter all over them and dipped them in birdseed and hung them on the balcony!

Brooklyn was more interested in eating the Peanut Butter

The final product...

and finally...

proof that our homemade birdfeeders work!

Brooklyn loved standing at the window and watching all of the birds that came to eat!!

Painting with Pudding!

The other day while Greg was at school, Brooklyn and I decided to get creative and bust out the pudding to do some finger-painting! Brooklyn was sooo excited, she loves to color and draw on everything! We had tons of fun and got a lot of funny pictures along the way! Brooklyn is not a timid little girl so her personality definitely comes through in pictures! I know there are a lot of pictures here, but there were too many to choose from!!

Getting ready to paint!

She gets really serious and likes to concentrate when she colors and paints~
Like I said...her personality always comes through!

Brooklyn definitely enjoyed making a mess!

She was all about her pictures..until she figured out the paint tasted good!This is a girl of many many faces...And when we were about finished, she decided the pudding was hot and needed to blow on it to cool it off!Her "Say Cheese" smile Our finished product..one very messy and sticky little girl!

And for an extra bonus, here are a few videos that I took along the way!

One of Brooklyn's many Boyfriends & First Day of Nursery

Since we have moved to Florida Brooklyn has made sooo many cute little friends that she has to play with and they are all within 6 months of each other! Brooklyn is the only girl her age with 3 other boys!! They are all best friends and have so much fun together!


A week ago we had one of her friends Nicolas and his parents over for dinner! These two get along so well, it is so fun to watch them interact! Brooklyn loves him! She will sit and feed him goldfish crackers in between playing with the toys! After we had eaten dinner we were all talking and all the sudden these two were silent... We all turned around to look at them and they were kissing! After they saw us looking at them they both burst out laughing and smiling like crazy! Then just to get cute pictures...we kept cheering them on! They thought it was hilarious!

Brooklyn also had her very first day of Nursery on the 7th! She did such a good job being a brave girl, and only cried for a couple of minutes! It is crazy to think that our little girl is old enough for Nursery already! Time has really flown by! Here are just a few pics of her after church showing off her first picture she colored in Nursery!