Easter Baskets

Aren't these Easter Baskets cute? Thanks for asking about them!!!! See below for more information!

The Easter Baskets are from a local business - here is the link to it on Facebook - you can become a fan!!! She will ship it to you!!!! PinkPeepsPlace

Easter 2010

Happy Easter - we had a wonderful weekend, despite Henderson running 105 degree fever Friday and Saturday - he stayed home with my mom Sunday morning, but I still got him dressed up for pictures!!!!

he obviously didn't want to be hugged.

he wanted his "mama"

Wilson's outfit is extra special - it was his daddy's when he was 3!!!!!

sweet little thing

Sunday afternoon we gathered for a huge Easter Egg hunt with all of my side of the family, Will's side and by brother-in-law, Stan's side. 18 adults and 9 children eight and under!!!!!

My mom, Emma Claire and me!!!

MONEY MONEY MONEY!!!!!

brotherly love

gathered to pray before dinner

Henderson is all better - no more fever, it must have been a fever virus, but WOW it was high!!!!

I'm still enjoying Parenting by the Book by John Rosemond and it seems to be working - I'm being more consistent and the children are learning more responsibilites and being held accountable for their actions.

In other news, Emma Claire auditioned for Oliver and made it!!!! My niece, Chandler and her daddy, Stan, are in the play too - so lots of fun is expected!!!! We are so proud of her! If you are local and want to check it out, it's June 4-6 at the Bama Theatre - contact me for tickets!!!!

A Look Back

Easter Picture March 2009...

Easter Picture March 2010

Obviously last year, the pictures were a little more planned. This year, we were walking into dinner at church tonight and I stopped them and said "Stand there and hold hands! Say cheese!!!"

Same outfits - more hair!!!!!

Happy Easter!!!!!

In this next picture, you can see the "lump" on Henderson's head - this happened last March- you can read more about it here. So thankful that God spared him any complications and he has had no adverse side effects.

American Girl Party

On Saturday we had a beautiful day here in Alabama and we spent it outside for the most part! I enjoyed a long run with my friend, Ashley, in the early morning, then Will took Wilson to a 5k sponsored by the company he works for and then on to CHOM's Rubber Duck Derby at the University Outdoor Pool. Meanwhile, I took Henderson and 4 sweet little girls to a birthday party at a gymnastics gym, then onto this sweet, creative "American Girl" Tea party - a 6th birthday party for our sweet frind Marlee!!!! Melissa, Marlee's mom, is one of the most creative "real life" people I know!!!!!

The girls enjoyed scrumptious delights and made hats anad necklaces for themselves and their dolls. Felicity enjoyed the beautiful day!!!!!

Here are a few of Melissa's creations!!!!

Henderson had a great time too!!!!!

Mary Alice and Emma Claire were in matching dresses, much to their delight!!!!!

This picture just portrays their sweet friendship so well!!!!

Marlee is the Birthday girl!!!!!

I made it in a picture!!!!!

Emma Claire just cracks me up! She looks like quite the old lady with her glasses on her nose and her cute little hats!!!! (not to mention the leotard on under the dress!!)

Henderson got into the necklace making!!!!!

THEN he found a baseball - that's my boy!!!!!

Can we talk for a minute about his hair!!??? I have a love/hate relationship with it. The back is typically so pretty and curly, but the front hangs straight down. I was hoping as the front got longer it would start to curl, but no such luck. If he was a girl, I could just pull those bangs back in a pretty little bow and VOILA!!!! But, he's a BOY, and I have sinced trimmed his bangs so he can see, but I just don't know what to do - it was a VERY windy day, so that played a little part. I am definitely a LONG hair boy mom, so don't even mention cutting it!!!!! Any suggestions?

See that hair?????

Here are the cutest girls in town and their little dolls too!!!!!

Happy Spring to you!!!!!

Hosanna!!!!! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!!!!!!

On another note, Will and I are in a Bible study at church called Parenting By the Book by John Rosemond - it is WONDERFUL and I highly recommend this book if you haven't already read it!!!! As one lady in the study said last night, " I am loving this book, my children, not so much!" It is BASIC - Grandmother-type discipline, but it works!!!!!! I need something - the whining and crying and general chaos is driving.me.crazy!!!!!

Here's are a few quick lines from the book: Grandma also understood that when all was said and done, people were fully responsible for the choices they made. Thus, when one of Grandma's kids did something wrong, and tried to mount a defense, she turned her withering look on him and said, "There are no excuses - no ifs, ands or buts." She held her children fully responsible for what they did, and she held them fully responsible from the time they were toddlers.

He also refers to little toddlers as "little criminals" which just CRACKS.ME.UP!!!!

Grandma knew that every child came into the world bearing a nature that was already corrupt, depraved; that each and every child was a natural-born criminal; and that to steer the little criminal in a prosocial direction required a combination of powerful love and powerful discipline.

Another thing, our scripture for the week - yes, my 5 year old AND 3 year old are learning this and my almost 2 year old will hear it often!!!!!

"Do everything without complaining or arguing" Philippians 2:14

I wrote it on an index card for Emma Claire and she took it to school this morning.

Sunset to eternity

Emma Claire came home from school yesterday with this beautiful picture she drew.

It's Mary Alice, Morgan, Emma Claire and Caroline holding hands looking off into the sunset - how sweet is that? And look at that BIG sun - as bright and happy as my Emma Claire!!!! She really loves to draw!!!! And if you know these sweet girls, you'd know that each of those pictures looks exactly like each child!!!!

Soon after she showed me this picture we were in the car on the way to dance and Emma Claire asked me what's the highest number in the whole world. This led to a talk about infinity, which led to eternity, which led to heaven and the trinity.

I'm digging deeper in His Word today!!!!

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the Lord. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."

Isaiah 55:8-9