Last Easter Post

On Easter Sunday we went to church and then spent the day at Grom and Grandpa's house for a full day of fun!  First dinner, then hunting eggs (over 300 eggs!!), and then riding go karts.  My nieces, Lucy and Ivy, were there and I absolutely LOVE that they still hunt eggs.  Lucy will be 16 in July (oh my goodness, typing it just makes me want to cry!) and Ivy just turned 13.  Wow, time flies!  Lucy is getting ready to be the same age I was when she was born - crazy!

Every year I try to get family pictures for Easter, usually at church, but I didn't have my camera with me.  I had my mom take a picture, but I don't have it.  I tried getting pics of the kids when we did get home, but they were exhausted.  I got a few cute ones, but nothing "perfect."  But who am I kidding?  There is no such thing as perfect when photographing 3 kids ages 4 and under! 

Lucy, Ivy, and Mallory hunting eggs

 Grandpa, Emma my cousin Megan's little girl and Eric her husband

 My Granny who just celebrated her 80th birthday!

I wish I knew what he was saying!  But he LOVES hunting eggs!!

Emma - so precious!  

Megan and me with our big girls

Ugh, look how gorgeous!!!!!!!  So beautiful and so grown up!!  I can't handle it!

The best picture of the kiddo's in their Easter outfits.  

I don't know why, but I love this one.  :)

Easter at Mee-Maws

I LOVE EASTER!!  Easter is such a wonderful holiday.  It always humbles me and refreshes my relationship with Jesus.  Not to mention it's always lovely to spend time with family!!

Here we are at Mee-Maw's house hunting eggs!

Coloring Eggs

 It's a tradition for Mee-Maw to come over a few days before Easter and color eggs with us.  We had a great time this year and Great Grandma Rauch got to join us! 

I Love My Kids!

Sometimes the best thing about being a mom are the simple, small things that my kids do that melt my heart! It's so fun to see Levi grow into a little boy and for us as parents to move into new territory and then for us to see our little girls growing with anticipation for what's coming next.

Levi has become quite the little photographer. Here are a few of the pictures he has taken, all while I am not even paying attention!

His recent artwork that he is very proud of!

Mallory's artwork

Not sure what I was doing here in the garage, but he felt the need to document it! lol

This is nothing special, but I just think it's a neat reminder of what the world looks like from the perspective of a child! The kitchen looks so different!

And I took this picture of the kiddo's playing with play doh!

All About Harper

My little darling, Harper Louise, is SIX MONTHS OLD! Isn't that crazy? And the poor thing hasn't had much attention on this blog the first six months of life like her two older siblings did. So, I have a lot of catching up to do!

Harper is such a delightful baby. She smiles ALL THE TIME. She is rarely fussy and is pretty easy going (just about everyone says that about the 3rd child, not sure they have a choice!). She has this little moany type sound that she makes to get my attention and tell me when she's tired or hungry, and it's pretty cute. Once I make eye contact with her, she will immediately smile. Makes me smile. :)

She started rolling over about a month and a half ago, and now she is rolling everywhere. It's almost like it's a type of crawling because she will roll anywhere in the room just to get to a toy. I suspect she'll be crawling soon. She enjoys being on the floor and I can't get her to stay in one spot. And somehow she always finds her way to the dog toy, yuck. She isn't sitting up all the way by herself yet, but she's working on it. She can sit up unassisted for about 10 seconds before falling over.

We got her ears pierced two months ago. That was fun. She started crying way before the pierced her ears. She didn't like me holding her down so they could mark the ears. And they take so long to do it because they have to check it and make sure their dots are perfect, which I appreciate. It was funny because they had to use hair clips to clip back her hair! They said they have never had to do that with a baby before! That girl seriously has a TON of hair! :) Anyway, once the guns went off she screamed and cried for about 2 minutes and then was fine!

Harper started rice cereal about a month ago and is now eating baby food. Mainly just carrots and pears, but she's also tried squash and banana's. She absolutely LOVES food!! She goes crazy when I am feeding her. Neither Levi nor Mallory ever acted so enthusiastically over baby food. Maybe she'll be a good eater! One can only hope! But I enjoy mealtimes with her and I am excited to try more foods with her.

Her laugh is so sweet. It's even sweeter when it's her big brother or sister that is making her laugh. I love to watch them play with her and do silly things to try to get her to laugh. They are amazing siblings and I pray that they will all grow up to be friends and get along well. She loves bouncing in her jumperoo and Levi and Mallory love to bounce her around in it and make silly faces at her. Oh, I just love my kids! They truly make life worth while.

Harper has been such a wonderful addition to our family. Her smile and laid back personality fits right in and she will laugh at anything! I love having another baby in the house and it makes me really sad to see her grow up! It really does make me want to have another one! However, with that being said, I will say that having three kids is no picnic!!! I have just realized too, in going through my pictures, I haven't had the time to take very many of Harper! I'm going to have to get better at it! Here are some pictures from the last few months. She is just too precious!!! Love her!!!

With Great Grandma Rauch, her namesake! :)

Oh how I love this smile!! It seriously melts my heart!

Big sister Mallory holding Harper

Big girl sitting in her bumbo seat!

Big brother Levi holding Harper

Monster Jam

Scott took Levi to the Monster Jam monster truck show in March. I didn't go, so I can't share much about it, but it was extremely obvious that Levi had an AWESOME time! That is all he talked about for WEEKS. He had a blast and he was cheering and yelling for the trucks. Scott said he did get tired toward the end, but the show didn't start until 7:00 and by 9:30 he was spent.

Levi got special earmuffs to protect his ears and he liked wearing them. In fact, I think he wore them from the time they bought them on the way to Monster Jam until it was over. Scott told me that they stopped in at The Tractor Supply store and were looking for the earmuffs. Scott was going to look through the store and Levi walked right up to someone who worked there and said, "Where are the earmuffs? We are going to Monster Jam." Oh that boy cracks me up! He is growing up so fast. I can't believe some of the things he says these days. He's way too grown up. I know I'm going to miss my baby boy one day. I cherish every moment with him that I can.

For My Family

I am posting on here for my beautiful family who doesn't give up on us even when I don't blog for months!! With that being said, I have no idea what to say! :)

Life in the McInerny home is busy, sometimes chaotic (ok, usually chaotic), but always full of love! We've been busy doing so many fun things that it will take a few posts to catch up with everything...which is a goal of mine, I promise!

Mallory and I got to go see the Disney Princesses on Ice with some friends and it was so much fun!! It was heart melting to see the expression on Mallory's face. Disney always knows how to put on a good show and it was amazing. They featured the stories from the movies The Princess and the Frog, Cinderella, and Tangled. Mallory loves them all, but Cinderella is a consistent favorite. The Tangled portion of the show was the main event and they did a lot of really neat stunts and effects so it was really entertaining. She could not keep her eyes off of the show and when I tried to take a picture and the camera was in front of her she would tell me to stop or to move because she couldn't see! I tried to get good pictures to capture the fun moments, but of course in those arena's it's hard to get good shots. Here's a few pictures from our fun night!

Mallory wiping her face from the goodies we sneaked in. (I was trying to use the word "snuck" in here, and low and behold it's not a word! Oops, I've always used that word!)

Cinderella's carriage taking her to the ball!

Mommy and Mallory, one of my favorites of us.

Mallory and her friends, Brooke, Emme, and Isabelle

Finishing the show with Rapunzel from Tangled

Coming soon...Levi's trip to Monster Jam!!