Today is my brother's 29th birthday.
Happy birthday, Ben!!
Unfortunately for him it's raining like crazy today and I just heard from my mom that he's got four feet of water in his basement. Probably not the present he was hoping for.
Brother, here's hoping your last year in your twenties is awesome, because after this, you're ooooooold.
Top 10 Ways T-Ball is Different from Baseball(as demonstrated by my almost-five-year-old nephew)
10. There's always time to wave to mom.
9. Helmets are worn with the bill tilted up instead of down to shade the sun.
8. Sometimes the crowd in the stands is more interesting than the game.
7. Tired? Just sit down and take a break.
6. There's nothing routine about a "routine fly ball."
5. Your coach gets you in position before you bat.
4. It's perfectly fine for you and your teammate to round the bases together.
3. Playing first base means playing ON first base.
2. The female fans are a little bit younger.
1. Reeeeeally gotta go? Just head behind the dugout!
Sunday morning, we put on our new Easter clothes and headed to church.
The service was good. Long, but still good. My mom played "How Great Thou Art" with the handbell choir to start the service and they did a great job! The sanctuary was packed so they had a great big audience for their first performance.
After church the whole crew headed over to my parents' house for a big Easter feast. The babies had a little lunch date together.
(I apologize for the blurriness in some of these pictures. I obviously did not have my focus right.)
A looooves her only girl cousin. She thinks baby B is "so nice."
W had a few card tricks to show my dad.
But it turned out that my dad had a few card tricks up his sleeve too.
After lunch, the kids started going a little crazy waiting for us to get all the eggs hidden.
The big kids had to wait even longer because we decided the little babies would go first. Unfortunately, Baby P was asleep so Baby B had to hunt all by herself. Her older brother and cousins made sure she had plenty of help.
And, then it was FINALLY time for the big kids to hunt. We lined them up at the front door, shouted that they could go, and they were off!
J-bo got lots of eggs, and he managed to find a lady bug too!
The egg hunt was fun, but I thought the confetti was one of the best parts. We bought these eggs at Kroger to smash on top of each others heads. We looked like we had been to a grand party after we were done!
We finished up the afternoon with some yummy dessert....chocolate cups of ice cream and homemade cookies. Yum!
I'd be a very bad aunt if I stopped there. Baby P finally woke up from his nap and had an Easter egg hunt and confetti party all on his own. My mom sent me some iPhone photos so I could see.
Sorry for the really long post. I hope you all had a happy Easter too!
Meet Lala and Poppa.
They are Doc's parents and we were lucky enough to have them join us for the Easter weekend. They arrived on Thursday before the kids joined us on Friday, so we were able to have a nice meal, just the four of us. And we got to use our fancy dishes for the first time ever.
It was nice to be able to sit and catch up with them before the weekend officially got started. Once the kids arrived, things were full steam ahead!
After dinner Friday night, we played a few games of Funglish - boys versus girls. This game is a great way for the kids to get to work on using descriptive words, but its fun for all of us. You just choose different adjectives to try to get your opponents to guess the word you drew. Both teams were pretty good, but I think the boys ultimately came out ahead.
We could not have asked for better weather this weekend. It was so nice! We spent as much time outside as possible, just enjoying the warm sunshine.
Poppa cut back some of our plants...
...while Doc supervised.
Lala finished her book...
...and A jumped rope.
Even though it looks like Minnie's giving me the stink-eye here, I really think she enjoyed hanging out in the sunshine too. You can see she had already spent a little bit of time rolling in the grass. Oh, the life of a dog.
And in case I look a little bit fatter the next time you see me, it's because we made cookies again. And I can't stop eating them.
Sunday was such a great day it deserves a whole post of its own, so check back for it soon!
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die." --John 11:25-26
Happy Easter from our family to yours!