Good Friends and The Easter Bunny!

Hey all! I finally got around to putting a couple of my pictures from our playgroup at the park online! Evie, (who prefers to be called EVELYN now), had a nice time at the park the other day.. Here she is with her best friend, Brynn, then with her "boyfriend" Brayden, eating ice cream, then with her friend, Tyler.. they took turns burying each other in the sand... Tyler did an amazing job covering her feet and legs! We stayed out way too long and she had sunburned arms when we got home, but it wasn't bad enough for her to complain (or even notice it herself).

Then yesterday, we went to see the Easter Bunny! She just LOVES the bunny!

Belly shot 22 weeks

Thought I'd share the changes I have made in 5 weeks time! This first pic was me at 17 weeks...

Now at 22 weeks...

I figured I was slacking in my pics, it's been 5 weeks since I first showed the tummy. (Kylla was brave enough to show her bare belly.. that aint happenin' here!) LOL

Easter/Birthday pics from Picture People

Got some pics done today! I just love my little model!

Sonogram today.. What gender, you ask?

So it's official!
I'm having a boy... I soooo love little girls but am somewhat relieved that it's gonna be a boy. I don't want to have to share my "Princess" affections with another girlie.. I'll love my boy just as much.. but I know it will be different.
I'm at 20 1/2 weeks.. I'm over halfway done!
Hope everyone is enjoying the wonderful weather! It's 80 degrees right now here in Illinois... pretty amazing considering we had one of our worst blizzards two weeks ago. It's supposed to rain and cool back down to the 40's starting tomorrow though.. I knew it wouldn't last :o( But Evie and I enjoyed our day today. We had our doctors appointment, then went to the mall to play for about an hour.. then to "Za's" for Pizza with Daddy.. then to the park to play with all of her friends and THEN (I know.. we were busy), to get ice cream with her friends Brynn and Aidan. Now she's asleep and I'm on my way to do that as well! I'll marinate some steaks first so that they'll be tasty tonight when I toss them on the grill!
What a lovely day!
I'm on the hunt for origional boy names! (Haven't thought of one yet) Joe and I keep jokingly throwing our favorite names out there .. Ones that we would NEVER use.. I keep saying "Joaquin" and he keeps saying "Anakin" LOL Too funny!

Send your names to me !!!!

Enjoy the rest of your day!-Tina

Libby Lu's

We just got back from Aurora, IL last night.. Joe had a meeting in Naperville so we went up Monday night and stayed in a hotel, went swimming, had fun.. yesterday Joe was in conference all day so Evie and I decided to kill time at the Fox Valley Center Mall in Aurora.. (we loved that mall!) Not only did they have a great food court, killer 2 decker carousel, a super fun kids play area, a stylish Motherhood Maternity store (blows Bloomington away).. but there's a store called "Libby Lu" that has cool girl stuff for ages 5-tweens.. (Evie is a little mature so she loved it!) They sell lots of cool hair products, tiaras, stuffed animals, just all girl stuff! They also do makeovers. Evie got the Princess hair style, tiara, makeup.. (very light lip gloss and stickers) her nails painted, glitter in her hair, a t-shirt and a purse with 5 items from the goody bag section that she got to choose, (glitter lip gloss, hair accessories, lip gloss rings, etc) ALL FOR $24 !!! The hair style was amazing! And took less than 15 minutes.. it's a girl's dream come true in that store... they really make them feel like a princess! Plus you can make your own sparkly, scented lotions, makeup, etc.
I snapped a few pics of Evie's hair.. she even slept in her "do" last night and it's still kinda in tact.. (although there are hundreds of bobby pins in there!) LOL
They ahve several locations in Illinois.. one in Scaumburg, and a few more.. (you'd have to check the store locator on their site.. but they do birthday parties as well.. too fun! You must check out their site to see the different hairstyles they offer! http://www.clublibbylu.com/detail.aspx?menu=4&app=126&cat1=385&tp=23&lk=no&title=Get+Styled

Me and Evie's Look alikes

I do these once in a while from My Heritage.com and it's fun to see if the faces have changed.. so far, with every picture that I use for me, Alicia Silverstone is always the top pick.. I'm not complaining! I did Evie's this time, too and thought it was cute.. so here are our look alikes!

Princess Wishes

EDIT: I JUST ADDED FOOTAGE OF THE FINALE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PICTURES! ENJOY THE SHOW!

We just got back from a weekend trip to Chicago where we saw the "Disney Princesses on Ice - Princess Wishes" show. It was very cool and Evie had a great time. She dressed as Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty for those who are not up on their princesses), and she looked so darling.. there were lots of other little princesses there and each time Evie spoke to a little girl dressed up she said, "I made a new friend who's a princess like me!". It was sweet. So it started out with Aladdin and Jasmine.. the stories were changed a little to make time for every Princess to have a skate and their princes came out with them as well.. During Snow White's bit, all of the dwarfs were skating around.. Evie waved frantically at them... At the end, all of the princesses, princes, Tinkerbell (Evie's favorite in the show who comes out in between in princesses intro), Mickey, Minnie and Goofy all came out.. a chariot, fireworks.. it was pure Disney magic at it's finest. Tough to not tear up when you hear your favorite princess love songs when they are skating so gracefully across the ice. (Well.. it was for me anyway.) I think our favorite part was the dragon (Malevocent from Sleeping Beauty), spitting fire onto the ice.. Joe managed to snap a cool picture of that.. Prince Phillip did a nice job of skating through it! The show was pretty long.. I'd say about 2 hours.. with an intermission in the middle.. I recommend this show to anyone who has a little princesses at home!

(By the way.. they are resized for the blog, but if you click on the individual pictures, they are nice and large and full of detail!)

Here's video footage of the finale.. my favorite part!