Summer Ball!!!!

 Summer ball has begun and we have two boys well into the swing of it!!!!   Karson plays T-Ball, Kaden-- coaches pitch.

 Ready......

SWING,  Kaden!!

Seems like those Sonic drinks make practice sooo much more enjoyable!!! :-)

Karson:  up to bat!!!

After practicing for about 4 weeks now, they are ready to begin their games. Karson has his first game tomorrow and Kaden will play for the first time on Tuesday!! So glad that the last day of school is tomorrow!!!  Welcome Summertime!!!

New Adventure

 A couple of months ago we thought it would be fun to introduce our children to the world of baby chicks.  What fun it has been!!!!  We ordered them from a local store and anxiously awaited the arrival day!  Karson and I went to pick them up and the fun began. 

 A few supplies and we were ready to begin.

 Poor chicks got quite the squeezing those first few days!!

 After several days of living in a box, then being moved to a big tote, they were ready for a new home.  Mark used his wonderful handyman skills and built this ever so handy chicken coop. 

 

 Enjoying their new home!!

Now we are just anxiously awaiting for the first eggs to appear in a couple of months.  Fun, Fun!! :-)

Kaden's Easter Party

Last Thursday was Kaden's 1st grade class Easter party. I was so happy to be "Room Mom"for it. I enjoyed spending an afternoon dyeing eggs, decorating Easter baskets, and just having fun with some pretty special 6 and 7 year-olds. I boiled more eggs and cut more craft foam that week than I have in a loooong time, but LOVED doing it!!!! Brings back so many wonderful memories of my classroom days!!!

I emptied out my apron drawer and let these little ones wear them while they dipped eggs. So adorable.

Karson joins in with the best of them!!


Cut, cut, cut... glue, glue, glue!!

Having their Easter Egg Hunt!


Kaden's 1st grade class with their baskets. What an enjoyable afternoon!!!

Easter 2012

What a great Easter weekend we had!! I think we crammed more Easter activities into Easter this year than ever before. What a beautiful time of year!!

Local hospital Easter Egg hunt.

Karson ran into this cute, cuddly critter. :-)


Easter sugar cookies. Karson saw that his cousins Clayton and Addy had made cookies, so he thought he needed to make some, too. His siblings were very glad he did. :-)

Finished product, oh so yummy!!!!

Community Easter egg hunt. Khara was great to help out w/ Kaden or Karson since she is now to old to participate. :-( Thankfully, she has some very sharing siblings!!! Not sure where Kesley was when I took this pic. so I had to get one of her--


Kelsey with her basket. This was her last year to be able to participate. She'll turn 10 this summer.

A trip to Wal-Mart and... another Easter Bunny!!!

We went to a farm store's Easter Egg hunt this year and... wow.... they had a lot of eggs!!! Karson is standing in front of the starting line. Check out those eggs!!!!!

Grandma helping Karson open his eggs to check for prize slips. Yep, those eggs were the ones HE picked up and they were still working on them.

Khara, Kelsey, and Kaden each won prizes. Karson had so much candy he hardly thought twice about prizes. ;-)

Yeah, Karson thought we had a LOT of candy!!!! :-)

Dyeing eggs-- our Easter tradition.

I think Kelsey and Karson had about as much dye on their fingers as their eggs. :-)


Sunday Morning Easter baskets!!!! SO MUCH FUN!!!!! They were up EARLY that morning to check out the surprises.

Sunday Morning Easter Services-- the true reason we celebrate!!!

Hope your Easter was a special one!!! We are so blessed!!!!

Happy 4th Birthday, Karson!!!!

February 22, 2012 my baby boy turned 4!!!! (gulp, gulp...) Being our caboose, each of his milestones seem to hit me just a little harder. :-) What a privilege to be a parent!!


I like to let my kids choose what kind of cake they would like. He has been telling me for several weeks that he wanted a monkey cake. Thanks to pinterest, that request was granted!!Every monkey needs a few bananas.

Karson brings so much joy and happiness to our family!!! He loves to keep things very neat and organized; loves to help out around the house with laundry, dishes, cleaning; is his brothers biggest fan; loves popsicles and icecream sandwiches; loves his BB gun; and is just such a sweet little fellow!!
Khara, Kelsey, and Kaden were out of school on Monday, the day we had his party, so they had fun making some cute birthday banners.

Oh, and the air compressor in our dining room?? :-) Well, Mark is working on putting new tile in two of our bathrooms. He volunteered to move his equipment to the garage but I figured the least I could do was encourage him to keep his tools close and handy while the project is being completed. ;-)

The sign Kaden made for Karson.


Karson is at a great age for gifts. I think every gift he opened was met with a very enthusiastic, "AWESOME"!!! :-)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KARSON!!!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

I just love Valentine's Day; always have-- hopefully, always will!!! :-) So many sweet, fun little things to celebrate!!!

Addressing those Valentine cards!!

Karson really was enjoying it, he just looks like he wasn't. ;-)


Kelsey wanted to make a special treat for her classmates. We made rice krispie treats: cut them out in heart shapes, drizzled them with choc., added a few sprinkles and she had a cute snack.


Kelsey's class party.

Makin' another batch of sugar cookies. Again, Karson LOVES those sprinkles. :-)


Balloons, lots and lots of balloons. These for the church Valentine party,


These, for four extra special children!!!!!

A succulent supper of crab legs, twice baked potatoes, brown sugared green beans, and garlic cheese biscuits cooked with my daughter at my side and shared with the most incredible spouse and children EVER made for a very---

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!!!