Actual Easter

This is how they started out...with Gabe unwilling to even stand!

Finally, some Easter pictures!

Jude's party
Buddy Bryce

LOADS of peeps 42 bags actually

Our buckets and carrots outside waiting for the giant bunny

eggs

lots of eggs

Gabe preferred walking around in boots...he loves rain boots -mine, Ella's, Judes and his own.

before the counters were a rainbow of colors

Well, the start of Easter pictures...every holiday is beginning to be like Christmas! Crafts,

gifts, pictures, parties...wheww!

Happy Easter

A big W

During the NCAA tournament I was trying to teach Ella to cheer on KY. I said Kentucky pulled out a big W last night - Ella's response: "a wedgie"?...I guess that did make more sense.

Big Jude

Every year they take these pictures at Jude's preschool. We usually buy them but this year I didn't. When Jude found out that he was going to have to return "Big Jude" (they are 10x16 pictures) he was sad...SO, I scanned it in for him to look at...don't worry, I won't copy or reproduce it.

Gabe's favorite indoor activity

Let's go fly a kite (or two, or three)

the one we lost - then found again in a neighbor's yard
round 2 with Dora...still not happy Barbie was gone

Happy times with Barbie

I guess it depends on how many get hung up in power lines. Barbie was the only one today but much longer and there would have been more. Ella was devastated when she let go - I mean when the wind pulled Barbie out of her hands! I had forgotten how much fun flying a kite was.

Welcome to the 80s

from left to right (if you need it) - Sweet Breath (and it had some in it - we sprayed it in the sink and it smelled just like 7th grade), a REAL Transformer, a cassette (yeah, we don't know what is on it because we don't have a cassette player), foldable Ferrari sunglasses, as well as glow in the dark Tom Cruise glasses, He man (and all alot of the characters), Rubix cube and Knight Rider
just a few Star Wars figures (these are not the old 70's ones - the kids already have gotten into those, these are the ones from when the movies came out the second time...in the 90's)

Mimi and Pops came this weekend and I had asked for some more Star Wars stuff of Jonathan's for the boys room. They brought very fun things for us...the good ole toys are nothing like the toys today :)

What we did on Spring Break....

bowling

The boys sleeping

zoo

zoo

zoo

It started on Monday with "girl day"...only I was soooo tired (I guess I was excited about Spring Break and stayed up too late) that we had lunch together and picked up the boys comforter then headed home for a nap. Then Ella decided she would rather play with the boys - Lofton, Landon and Jude - than get a manicure, so that is what she did. On Tuesday, I worked in the morning then the boys furniture was delivered and Ella went home with our old neighbors - Emma, Clark, Gwen and Owen - for a few hours while I set the beds up (and ate lunch). Afterwards, we had manicures. Wednesday (St. Pattie's Day) was supposed to be bowling and ice skating. The bowling was fun. Lofton, Carmen and Landon met us there but the ice skating was ditched due to "synthetic ice"...the lady said it was hard to skate on and we needed no casualties. Thursday was another partial work day and then home for a picnic and off the the Melting Pot for dinner (Ella also had a birthday party that afternoon). They had fun there - Ella read the Hooter's sign as we were leaving and they both thought it was funny but had no idea why...Jude also befriended a homeless man. Friday was the prettiest day of all and we hit the zoo. I think everyone had the same idea...it was crowded (and has caused major allergy havoc on our house). After the zoo, we went to pick up tile (not really exciting for Spring Break but we did) and then to the McConnell's for Puh's dinner - chicken, baked potatoes, green beans, corn, brownies and some really good spinach dip that I ate so much of before dinner that I was not as hungry as I should have been. Friday night Lofton slept over - Jude's first sleepover guest. They all had fun, woke up and Wiied it around 1:00 (they said that it "looked" like a 7) but they did make it back to bed!

Spring Break

It all began with Gabe heading off to Nana and Pepaw's for the week. (A side note here I need to add is that my husband so graciously gave up his ticket for the SEC championship game on Sunday so that I could go see UK with my dad, brother, aunt and uncle...what a great game!) Anyway, back to Gabe leaving. Jude asked that we take his picture so he could remember his face.