Springtime is Here

Can you say SPRING any better than this?

The Grandparents Brunch at FCA. The kids did a program for the grandparents. This is Jonah and Megan performing "Lean on Me". Megan was keeping Jonah in line, it was really cute!
Hannah and Caleb performed "Jesus is My Super Hero" with their class. Here they are in their Super Hero masks.

Caleb got so into this song! He's the only one facing the crowd! He's a definite performer.

Okay, there's lots of picks of Hannah in this blog. It's just so hard not to put all of them of her, because she's just so cute right now. This is her dressed up for the Grandparents Brunch. Don't you love her purse and giant bow!

The other day we went fishing as a family at the State Park. Caleb was really into playing with the worms more than anything. Here's a shot of him kissing the worm and telling it he loves it. Then that was followed by ripping the worm in half. Boys? Go figure?

After ripping the worm in half, he proceeded to do what every brother dreams of....terrorizing his sister. Hannah would run around screaming, but she loved it at the same time!

Jonah was a little too cool for all that "kid stuff". He was busy perfecting his cast. He's growing up so fast...such a good kid.

Intense Easter egg huntin'....now where are those eggs??

Hannah with Papa checkin' out the Disney World book and just lovin'. Priceless.

I think Hannah saw something she liked in this picture. My parents, us, and my brother and sister and their families are all going to Disney World this summer together to celebrate my parents retirement from teaching. My mom should be totally recovered from her knee surgery by then. We're super excited! Caleb woke up every day for a while asking "Is today the day we go to Disney World?". He's so ready to meet Buzz Lightyear.

Just a cute pic.

All the little cousins (Myka was inside). Hannah, Logan, Jonah, Landry, and Caleb

And we got news that my brother and his wife are having a new baby. Can't wait to meet
Baby Lindsey in November!!!

Tootsie's birthday was a couple of weeks ago. We got to go down and go out to eat with her for her birthday. We had a great time with her at Olive Garden and we finished off the night with this cake! The kids specifically requested a "pink" cake for Tootsie, so here it is! Tootsie took a hard fall a couple of weeks before her birthday, so she was not up for pictures that day or else we would've snapped a photo of her too. We love you Tootsie!

Hannah eats everything by herself now - she demands no help!

Playing Outside

Caleb: Hmmmm, a little water - what harm could this do?

A little water turned into a lake of water...

And a giant mudpit - these are not mudclothes by the way. And Hannah had brand new shoes on...Dad was the "innocent" photographer.

Easter Egg Huntin' at church. Caleb is in a "pirate" phase of smiling. If you ask him to smile for the camera, this is what happens. All of his school pictures looked like this. They took like 20 trying to get him to smile regular, but this is what happened each time. I love it, it's a great memory to look back on. What a character. He's my character.

Hannah egg huntin' for the first real time. She picked up on it immediately.

Easter Morning

APRIL FOOL'S Jonah and Caleb were so proud to trick Daddy on April Fool's. If you look closely, he has a black circle around his eye. We put black makeup on the end of a paper towel tube and then Jonah sneakily tricked Dad into looking through the tube. Gotcha! Jonah was so proud. He's his Daddy's son...he loves to have fun!

Daddy's girl

We took a trip to Tyler and got to see Buckshot (Adam's grandfather). Buckshot has Alzheimer's and is living in a private facility. It's really beautiful and he seems to be happy there. It was hard to see him like that, so different than what we used to know. Buckshot was such a big part of Adam's life growing up, he really looked up to him and learned a lot from him. I'm so glad to have such a great picture of the whole family with him.

Here's a picture of family bible time one night. We have a Family Bible Time once a week where we learn and interact with a bible story together as a family. We have so much fun. The kids really look forward to it. This night we studied the story when Elijah calls down fire from heaven to consume the wet wood. Thus the fire....I had another picture, but as a I typed I accidentally deleted it, and I'm way too tired to put it back on there right now!

Adam and I had a night away at a hotel in Rockwall. It was such a restful, romantic weekend - much needed.

Hannah likes to let the Guinea pigs nibble her toes.

Hannah's first hair cut!

Crazy Cousin Day! My sister and her husband went on an overnight retreat, so we all went to stay the night at their house. We had Crazy Cousin Day!!!! As you can see, we did science experiments and even made our own t-shirts.

Here's Hannah and my mad scientist hair! I think I look more like Punky Brewster.

Maaaadddd Scientists!

When we went to Tyler we also met up with Adam's Dad and the family. We rode go-karts. Can you see Caleb's little red head poking up in the car?

Luke and Jonah took the lead!

Pop took a boat ride with Hannah

Luke, Adam and Lee - Adam's brothers have passed him in height!

Nona and Laura Beth were there too, but I didn't get a good picture of them!

Here's my beautiful sister's debut in fame! She tried out and made it on Johnny High's Country Music Review in Arlington. I got to go to the show she was in. This picture was taken after she performed. There were so many talented people singing there - but Michelle was definitely the best! And I'm not just saying that because she is my sister.