Bentley went on a little hunt to find her basket. She found one of her eggs in the dishwasher.

Running up the stairs to find her next egg.

She found her basket in the bathtub. She kept saying, "that's so silly Easter bunny put my basket in here."

Checking out her goods.

Putting on her pretty lip gloss.

Drinking milk out of her chocolate bunny.

Bentley in her pretty easter dress.

Our family right before church.

Trying out her scooter that the Easter Bunny brought.

She loves shoes and was running around outside after church with my heels. Such a funny girl.

We had a nice Easter which included: going to church, naps, Easter egg hunts, and a yummy ham dinner.

Bentley had to get tubes put in her ears not too long ago. She has had so many ear infections that the Dr's and us decided to get them done to prevent any more from happening. She did really good other than when they took her from us. She was probably wondering what in the world was going on and why these strange people were taking her away.

Before her surgery the child specialist came in and played some toys with her and let her color a little hospital dolly. I think this helped her to be calm and not afraid.

The surgery was really fast and she did really good coming out of the anesthesia. They told us most kids scream when coming off of it, because they don't know how to handle it, but when they brought her to us she was pretty happy and didn't cry. The nurses said this was pretty uncommon for a kid to come out of it this good. She's such a sweet little girl.

Josh's Birthday/Graduation

Well Josh has graduated from Paramedic school. I can't begin to say how proud of him I am. It has been a hard year not getting to see him much and pretty much feeling like a single mom. We went some weeks without seeing each other at all, but it has all been worth it. Josh has probably studied harder now than any other time in his life and learned so much. The first half of school was spent in a classroom for 9 hours a day 5 days a week which included lots of studying, lots of tests, and lots of stress. The second half of his schooling was spent doing clinicals where they were either at the hospital(in the E.R., labor and delivery, O.R.), and at various Fire Departments. They did 12 hour shifts at the hospitals and 24 or 48 hour shifts at the fire department. Sometimes he would go straight from the hospital to do a 48 hour shift at the Fire Department. It was crazy to say the least, but he did it and I can't believe how much he knows now. His Graduation was really nice, just short and sweet.

Shaking hands with some of the Chiefs of Departments he interned for.

Yay! You are done....

Josh and his dad.

Us.

Josh's Grandparents.

Josh and one of his friends and fellow classmate. They were together so much that a lot of the guys formed such a bond that I am sure will last a long time. Many late nights and hours studying and practicing skills together.

Josh and two of the main Paramedic instructors.

This was a cake I made for Josh. This was my second attempt at making a fondant cake and although it's not perfect I am pretty happy with how it turned out. Bentley gouged out a big chunk in the front, so I decided to make it look like a wound and cover it with a fondant band aid and it actually looked pretty good, thankfully.

The helmet was yellow cake with chocolate chip frosting.

We had a little party for Josh with friends and family. We also celebrated Josh's Birthday, since it was just a few days later.

Josh loved his cake and was very impressed with how it turned out. He took the leftovers to the Fire Station afterward and they were amazed that it was actually a cake. That made me feel pretty good!!

Bentley helping her dad blow out his candles. Wow he's getting old:)

Cutting into the cake. Everyone was dying that I was cutting into it after all that work, but I didn't mind since I got lots of pictures.

Enjoying some cake.

My mom made this cute Fire/Paramedic survival kit for Josh that had all kinds of fun stuff in it. She's so creative...

Easter Party & coloring eggs

We colored some easter eggs. Bentley had fun dipping the eggs in every color and then dipping them again to make different colors.

Bentley's finished eggs.

Bentley has been loving baby dolls lately and will sit like this and feed her baby forever.

We had a fun Easter party for the at the Ludwig's house. We had a good dinner, easter egg hunt for the kids, crafts, and fun goodies from grandma.

Bentley finding her eggs.

Waiting for the "GO" to find their eggs...

Weekend Get Away

Me and Bentley got to take a little trip to stay with one of my very best friends for the weekend. She has a little girl about the same age as Bentley. We had so much fun playing in the warm weather and just hanging out!

We took the girls to a fun park and then came home and played outside!

The day we got there was Brooklyn's birthday, so we got to have a little party with them. Here the girls are enjoying some cake, or maybe just some frosting:)

Cute little Brooklyn and her Rapunzel cake.

After the girls were in bed me and Melinda did our toenails with some cute nail wraps.

Here are our finished toes. They turned out so cute.

Enjoying some lunch together.

Painting a fun Easter craft.

Wiped out after swimming in the pool. We had such a good time and it was so nice to get away for a bit. The girls had so much fun together and Bentley hasn't stopped talking about Brooklyn. Thanks Melinda for having us and thanks to Brian for sharing your wife for the weekend.