Claire's First Haircut

Claire's hair was getting a little I mean a lot crazy.  Grandma came into town to help us move a couple of big suitcases for our summer internship and while she was in town, we took advantage of her sweet hair cutting skills.  Here's the "before" picture:

Here's some "during" pictures.  Claire is so photogenic -- maybe I'm biased.

Here's the after picture (almost done).  Much better, but every once in a while I lean over to Jeff and say, "What a sweet little boy!"

DDR MAX!

We had fun hanging out with our fellow MBA friends, the Lingenbrinks, before moving.  We got together and played the Wii.  The little girls love to play Dance Dance Revolution.  I put it on "workout" mode so that they can't fail and they jump all over the dance pad.

Workout (or no fail) mode really helped the boys out as well.  I'm sure they wouldn't have made it through the song otherwise.  

Hopefully we can have a reunion party when we each get back from our summer internships!

DON"T Let it Snow!

I am so sick of the snow.  I like having 4 seasons, but not when one of the seasons seems to last SIX MONTHS!  It has been regularly snowing in April and I am ready for Spring.  It snowed April fools day (Ha, Ha, good joke) and continued on until Easter (White Christmas or White Easter?).

It has snowed several times between now and then,with a few nice days sprinkled in.  At least Spring is putting up a fight.  But this morning when I woke up and saw snow on the ground again it was that last straw. Its almost MAY!!!!

Baby Blues

Claire has such pretty blue eyes!

And she can make some really funny faces!

School isn't all hard work!

Jeff asked me to help him with his strategy project (at about 10pm on Sunday night).  He then proceeded to dress in absurd costumes and act out customer testimonials.  I don't know what kind of "strategy" this is, but it sure is funny!

Easter

This was a nice Easter.  It was a nice change of pace to have just our family here for Easter this year.  We hid gross candy in the plastic eggs (so I wouldn't be tempted to eat it) for Lily to find.  And then we put a few little presents in Lily and Claire's Easter baskets.  This year they got matching Easter dresses and matching swimsuits. I also made Lily a Belle dress-up costume.

Dyeing Easter Eggs

We had a lot of fun dyeing Easter eggs together as a family.  It was Lily's first time.  Her favorites were the pink ones.  Of course we mad the traditional Butler "mud egg".  You make a mud egg by mixing all of the leftover dye together and let the last egg sit in it for a really long time.  Its different every year.  This year it was a little on the purple side!