Easter Blessings

We had another great Easter this year, despite more rainy weather! Pierce was excited to wake up and see that the Easter Bunny came for a visit while he was sleeping.  He snacked on his carrots he left out for him and left him some treats in his basket, along with some new pj's!  Can you tell that he picked out the ones he is wearing?!?!

There weren't many pictures made due to the weather and the fact that it was dark in our house which doesn't really set the scene for picture time.  I'm sure my boys were happy with the fact that they didn't have to smile for the camera much!

After church, we headed over to the Baker's house for our annual Easter lunch.  They are one of our friends in town with no family either, so we celebrated togther.  The kids loved it!  We both cooked which made it easy and Jacob and Kathryn always make a fun and yummy bunny cake!

 

 

"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead ... "  1 Peter 1:3

Church Egg Hunt

Last Sunday, despite the rainy day, we headed to church for the annual egg hunt.  None of the kids seemed to mind the cold, yucky weather and enjoyed lots of snacks, crafts, balloon animals, hunting eggs, and a train ride!

No, these three are not trouble...Not.  At. All.

We had to have all of the egg hunts inside due to the cold, rainy weather...the kids didn't seem to mind though!

It was a fun way to kick off the week leading to Easter!  Lots of more Easter fun is in store for the week!!

Texas or Bust!!!

We were WAY overdue on a trip to TX to visit the cousins. Pierce and I skipped out a few days early for spring break and headed to the lone star state! Pierce had been counting down the days for our trip for quite a while...can you tell he was excited to get on the plane?!?!

We toasted marshmallows our first night and made some yummy smores!  Please ignore the fact that half of these pictures were taken with my phone.  I didn't always have my big camera with me.  My phone is much lighter to carry around too!

On Day 2, I kept the kids at home most of the day while Lou and B worked.  These three had lots of fun playing together and for the most part were super sweet the whole time we were there!

Later that afternoon, we headed to the bowling alley.  They boys were showing off their strong muscles!  Pierce was bummed he didn't score the most points...looks like another trait from his daddy!

On Day 3, we took a family trip to Dave & Buster's!  Pierce said it was "super awesome" and rated it higher than our trip to Disney World.  Wish I had known that, it would have saved us a lot of money!  I'm pretty sure it's because his super fun big cousin was with him!

These three were definitely monkeys in the tub every night.  They won't all be able to take a bath together much longer!

I loved reading a book to them every night before bed.  Chapman is a great reader now and read most of our books!

Day 4 was probably one of Pierce's favorites...visiting the 1st grade to see Chapman at school.  He got to go out to the playground to play with his class, eat lunch with him in the lunchroom (he loved getting a tray and choosing his food), going to his classroom and getting a full tour by Chapman, and visiting the gym to meet Jenny the Ginny (guinea pig).

 

Chapman also got pretty lucky because he got to check out of school for the rest of the afternoon since we were in town.  So, I took the boys for a treat to have blizzards!  (Mainly, because I wanted one myself!) 





Pierce also LOVED doing 1st grade homework...spelling words.  I'm not sure he'll think it's so fun when he actually has to do homework himself soon.  I think Chapman was surprised he did it with him!

Our trip went by pretty quick and we were ready to get home to daddy.  Good-bye is always hard but we make them super quick!  How sad is it that I never took a picture with my sister?!?!  Pierce was a good travel buddy during our flights.   We are counting down til the summer to see our fun cousins again!  Thanks for having us Burkhart's, we love you!!!

Friday Fun!

A couple of weeks back, Pierce and I spent Friday afternoon outside since it was such a warm, sunny day!  He dug for treasures in the sandbox, played on the playset, and had a snack on the top level too!

The highlight of this day was definitely making friends with the big kids playing outside at the house behind us!!  I think most of the kids playing live on the cul-de-sac behind us.  Pierce watched them for a while and I encouraged him to go talk to them.  He got their attention and careful crossed the ditch between our houses and played with them for a while.  One of the little girls is in 4K like him so they will be in school together next year!  I really liked the 2nd grader that reminded him to stay close where his mom could see him!!  Pierce closely watched for them all weekend so he could go back and play.  Unfortunately, it's been cold lately and we haven't seen them.  Hopefully, it will warm up soon and his new friends will be ready to play!

We love the cat!

Cat?!?! All things Dr. Seuss of course!! Pierce loves March because it means he gets to celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday. His class celebrated for quite a while. He even took one of our Dr. Seuss books to share with his class.  His sweet teachers had so many fun activities to do in celebration and concluded all of the fun with a crazy dress up day.  We were getting geared up to head out of town soon for our trip to TX so Pierce decided this shirt should make the cut!
 

An apple a day...

 

Thankfully, another dentist visit is in the books!  He probably did the best he has done so far, although that yucky flouride at the end did not go so well.  He tried to spit it out!  All of the apples he eats must be helping!

Illustrated by...

Pierce's teachers at school have been encouraging him to practice his writing. He decided it would be a good idea to make a book for his class. His sweet teachers even put it in their classroom book collection for the kids to read in the reading nook!

Pierce said he was the illustrator and I was the author (although he told me what to write!)