Easter 2012

Yes, I know I'm a  little late.  It's not like I've been packing up a house and going on vacation or anything!  I'll talk more about the big move later because I'll have a few days where I'll just be sitting here...no cleaning, no picking up, just sitting here.  Can I say I'm excited about that?!  So I'll save that big post and the story of our houses until I have so much time to spare at the beginning of next week.  I'm sure that won't totally be true, but in my head I'm imagining a mini-vacation in our empty house!

Easter was a whirl-wind.  Daddy T and I sent the kids to the farm with the grandparents so we could go to Secret Church on Good Friday and learn about the cross and suffering for over 7 hours.  We got home about 3:00 in the morning and it was so incredibly worth it.  That's another post too.  After we slept in, we got up and packed a few boxes, ran a few errands, did laundry and headed to the farm to pick up the kids and to do Easter on the farm.  We got to see Uncle J and Aunt Molls, along with Ma.  We got home really late that night and got up really early for church.  After church, we had Easter dinner at Nanny Ruth and Papaw's house.  It was a lot of fun to see Uncle M and Aunt L and their kiddos and get caught up on all that has happened lately.

We came home about 5p.m. and packed our bags, dropped the dogs off at the kennel, and finally was on the road headed to Florida about 8:00 that night.  We got to Macon close to 12 and called it a night.  It was a long weekend, but it was fun and it was so good to see and spend so much time with our families.

Mad at me for making her look at the camera!

I can see this pose again for many years.  I think it's her sassy pose.

So much fun

What were we doing

in these silly poses

that could possibly

lead

to

this?

If your answer was playing the Kinect, then you'd be correct.

We did the track and field one and it was awesome!

I did fear for Daddy T's life after he raced my brother, though.

25 days of Family

Last year, I put together a little Christmas calendar that was full of family activities for us to do.  It was a good way to get us in the habit to make sure that we do something together as a family everyday.  It doesn't always happen that way, but I find that Christmas is a good time for us to focus on being together as a family and being very purposeful about it. 

So, along with our focus on Advent, we are also going to be doing the following things.  I love the chance we have to be together as family and to make memories, even if they are just playing duck, duck goose!

25 Days of Family

1-Watch a VeggieTales Christmas movie.

2-Play Duck Duck Goose.

3-Bake cookies and take some to neighbors.

4-Put together a puzzle.

5-Game night!  Pick a game to play.

6-Color a Christmas picture.

7-Watch a VeggieTales Christmas movie.

8-Drive to see Christmas lights.

9-Bake cookies and take some to neighbors.

10-Put together a puzzle.

11-Play Duck Duck Goose.

12-Make a foam Gingerbread house.

13-Make a Christmas place mat.

14-Movie night!  Pick out a Christmas movie to watch and pop popcorn.

15-Break out the crayons and color a picture.

16-Write a letter to Santa.

17-Bubble bath!

18-Roll up some socks and have a "snowball" fight.

19-Puzzle time!

20-Movie night!  Pick out a Christmas movie to watch and pop popcorn.

21-Bake cookies and take some to neighbors.

22-Play miniature golf!

23-Write a Christmas story.

24-Movie and game night!  Oh, don't forget to feed Santa and Rudolph and bake Jesus a cake!

25-Christmas Day!  Read the Christmas story together in Luke 1-2.

Happy 4th on the 18th!

I know it's a tad bit late, but cut me some slack!  We've been on vacation and I just couldn't muster up the strength to blog much while at the beach.  The beach definitely came before the blog.  Sorry!

We spent the 3rd of July outside with my mother-in-law, my parents, most of our Sunday School Class, and some dear friends from orchestra who all came out to listen to me play in the orchestra.  It was great, but extremely hot!  I had to keep wiping my face with one hand during all rests.  Playing during the fireworks display was so awesome.  There's something so special and moving when you pair live patriotic music with fireworks.  It can't help but remind you of our freedom and those that are fighting or have fought for our freedoms that we tend to take for granted now.  I got to catch the last few fireworks.  I had to wait for the fireworks to light up the sky so I could take a few steps to make my way through the crowd to our family and friends, so that took a little bit of time.  B loved it this year and wanted to watch more.  Baby M stayed awake all during the music and they both would clap, but when the fireworks started, she fell asleep.  Seriously.  The girl can't sleep if you sneeze, but she can muster up a snooze with fireworks. 



Watching the fireworks

We love animals!

I know Easter was a couple months ago, but I kept meaning to post these pictures and I forgot!  Our church has an annual Easter egg hunt for the preschool and children's departments.  This year, to allow everyone to get to the church before all of the eggs were hunted, they decided to have a petting zoo to keep the interest of all the kids.  It was definitely a great idea and all the kids loved it.

The softest hair!



Baby M kept smiling and petting this little lamb.  It was so cute!

 

This was right after he tried to take the pig for a ride in the wagon...I got to him before he got rolling!

Finding those eggs.  He knew more of what to do this year but wanted to open up EVERY egg and eat the candy BEFORE finding another one.