My M&Ms ... and yes, I have an orange one.

Like Skip says, he actually looks like he knows what he's doing! And he does - he went skiing again by himself in March this spring.

After the one ginormous snowfall, we got a second ... yes, that's 8" of snow. So far it's been a mild spring in terms of violent weather, which makes ME very happy (I HATE tornados).

Katie at the playground.

Katie in motion - as always. :-)

We ended up taking Skip to the ER one night because he got some food stuck - he wasn't choking, he could breathe, but he couldn't get the food moved out. This is from a follow up procedure with the GI doc to make sure all was OK. The GI doc says Skip's esophogus had been inflamed from allergies (he's allergic to nuts). FYI, it's VERY hard to give the Heimlich to someone who is larger than you!

Katie having fun with Daddy's glasses one evening.

Bye-bye crib! We finally got Katie a big girl bed in April - she never really did try to climb out of her crib, she just flat outgrew it. She's adjusted well to the big girl bed.

Katie sleeping in the backseat of the car one weekend. Oh, that hair!

More playground activity ...

... and we come down the slide.

This ended up being my 2010 Mother's Day picture. Skip takes a picture of Katie every year for Mother's Day.

All of that equipment and Katie's fave activity ends up being running the perimeter of the playground.

Yet more playround.

Yes, she's reading a book WHILE she comes down the slide.

On our way home ...

... almost there.

Katie at Rudy's for Daddy's birthday dinner.

Grandma with Baby Ace (poor Ace, he'll be 40 years old and Katie will still call him "Baby Ace").

Our friend Mike and Skip at Rudy's.

More friends at Rudy's - Paul and Mack.

Mommy and Katie in the bluebonnets at Mommy's office. I had NO idea there was such a beautiful field of wildflowers on the grounds until we walked around!

Grandpa with Katie.

Just the bluebonnets!

Grandma laying low, waiting for our photo op to end.

The monument in Holdrege. Turned out very nicely.

The other side of the monument - and you can see the stone alongside for Dick and Lila, Skip's grandparents.

Arbor Day in Nebraska - the little kids are 2nd graders reading a variety of poems.

Katie gives Mrs. Priester (mom of one of Skip's oldest friends) a big SWAK. Mrs. Priester bought a tree in memory of her husband Al.

Skip with the certificate for his mother's tree.

And, the actual tree ... planted in Holdrege's South Park.

More Katie and playground. She now says "STOP MOMMY!" when we are driving around and go past a playground.

Katie with a cool little backhoe thingie at Holdrege's South Park.

Katie on the merry-go-round.

View off of a tee box at the Bertrand, NE, golf course.

Looking down the fairway - the course was beautiful and very well kept.

Skip tries to grip it & rip it.

I just drove the cart, that was my job.

Katie sacked out at the hotel in Council Bluffs when we visited Omaha. Oh, that hair!

Hanging out at Memorial Park after playing on some equipment.

A double rainbow on Katie's birthday.

Katie out in front of our house for a photo shoot - but it didn't go quite as Skip had planned. She kept scratching at her legs and doing the three year old "CHEEEEEEEESE" face.

Katie and Eva at Katie's birthday party.

Eva's birthday is two days before Katie's. Since we missed Eva's big party, we brought Eva's gift to our little pizza party.

Katie opens some gifts.

Mommy attempts to light the really cool little candles on the cupcakes ... but there was a draft! Never could keep the dumb things lit.

AH ... cupcakes!

Note ... black icing for three year olds probably not a great idea.

Eva + Katie = BFFs.