Jade is FOURTEEN

 Jade's birthday started with donuts from Dunkin and a dragonfruit refresher from Starbucks!

Her birthday fell on a Wednesday this year, which happens to be one of our busiest weekday evenings! We took Jemma to her tumbling class and then ate Chic-Fil-A in the car on the way to Jade's soccer practice!

Nate got hung up at work, so after practice Jade opened her present from Jemma and we sang Happy Birthday to her with Nate on Facetime! When he got home around 9:30, she opened the rest of her presents! Her big ask this year was AirPods!

We had the best time celebrating the birthday girl a few weekends later at her family birthday party. Having Uncle Mark in from Atlanta and Nana feeling well enough to come was an added bonus!

Spring Break Part 2 / Meet In The Middle / Easter

 Nate and I both had to work during the girls' spring break week, but on my days off the girls and I managed to squeeze in a little fun!

We drove down to Matthiessen State Park and did the Dells hiking trails. The weather was so beautiful!

On our other free day we went to see the Super Mario Galaxy movie and the girls got manicures!

We wrapped up our spring break week with our annual Meet in the Middle weekend with my parents and my sister's family! We stayed local (to us) this year and did so many fun things, including a photography contest at an antique store, diaper shopping for a local food pantry, making our own deep dish pizza's at Lou Malnati's, celebrating Cruz and Jade's birthday's and lots of good food family time and games!

We stopped home for the girls to open their Easter basket goodies, and then we headed to Nate's mom's house for Easter dinner!

Spring Break - Cocoa Beach, FL

 This year Nate and I got away on a couples spring break trip to Florida! The girls' spring break was the following week, so they had Grammy and Grampy around to hold down the fort while we were gone! Since my girl friends and I are all turning 40 this round of birthday's we thought it would be a perfect way to celebrate! We enjoyed lazy mornings, long days at the beach, fun dinners and early bed times! It was such a fun and relaxing week with my best friends!