Happy Easter!

Well, we've had a busy and eventful last week and a half! It started out with the start of Mommy's spring break beginning with a major bout of the flu. Luckily, Grandma Julie was on her spring break already and was staying at our house. Thankfully, she stayed with Finley while Mommy battled the fever and aches for 24 hours or so. Then, Auntie Hannah came in from D.C. and was able to play with Finley while Mommy continued re-couping. We went to Grandma and Grandpa Bernhardt's for the weekend and drove a LONG way to Great Grandma Joyce's and Grandpa Bud's for the actual holiday. Finley and Sadie looked so beautiful in their special outfits and they had a blast looking for their eggs from the Easter Bunny. Can you believe the shot of those two Easter princesses?! It's better than a professional shot, if I do say so myself. Well, Mommy and Finley got to spend the whole last week of March at home and Mommy got lots of home improvement projects done. While Finley napped, I put a new floor in the laundry room and painted and decorated Dale's bathroom (his girlfriend! is very happy about it!). I also got a new bedspread for my birthday from Grandma Brenda, so I painted a new green in the bedroom to match it. The house looks pretty darn good! We also got a new fridge, washer and dryer from craigslist and a guy at Cam's work so we are slowly moving up in the world - out of the 70s and into the 2000s! I went back to work on Monday and had planned to stay at Megan's since we were going to celebrate one of our friend's 30th birthday. We went to Sadie's swimming lessons (she's a fish!) and then met the gang at Bonfire. We had a busy blast and went home to bed in the late March snowstorm. Finley woke me up at about 12:30 with a yelp and she had puked all over! I ran up to Megan to see what I should do. We bathed Finners and she threw up a few more times. We were up for 3 hours and did 3 loads of laundry until Finley started to drink some water and seemed to feel better. She finally went back to sleep. I took the morning off while Cam made his way to Savage. By the time he got there, Finley was completely back her to her normal self, so we took her to daycare and went back to work. I know it was just a minor bout of illness, but it was so exhausting and made me terribly sad for all the parents in the world who have chronically and/or severely ill children. It's hard being a parent! I'm definitely looking forward to Cam's and my mini-vacation next weekend to San Fran!