Thursday, April 22, 2010

Mmmmmm......

Somebody LOVES grapes around here! This was round two of grapes this morning for our little hungry hippo. I was checking my email as he finished round 1, and he walked up to me with his empty bowl and said, "Mo ball peese". Everything that looks like a ball is a ball to him!! ha

Have a great weekend! We're so excited for our busy weekend. I am busy with Race for the Cure (please pray for a change in the forecast!!), and it's also Letterman's weekend at UofA and the Spring scrimmage (please pray for a change in the forecast!). But more exciting than that is that Kyle and Lyndsay are in town with us for the weekend. They live in Atlanta. Jerry played ball with Kyle, and Lyndsay is his super-cute preggers with TWINS wife!!!

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Now I lay me down to sleep....

We say prayers each night. Usually Treyson goes to bed before Anniston. So we will all go into Treyson's room as he's getting ready to lay down and we all put our hands on him as we say the night-time prayer. Treyson has also become very good at praying before meals.


Well, Jerry's at a softball game (double header actually) tonight, so I'm solo. I had Treyson in my arms and layed him down. As I was grabbing his blanket, I looked down at his hands and they were folded....he was waiting on me to pray! How sweet is that boy?!!! So of course I prayed for him right then and there, then grabbed Anniston to stage a photo op!!
Anniston and Treyson, we love our prayer time with you two. Anniston, you are so good at saying the blessing before meals. You also say the Night time prayer and Lord's Prayer perfectly. We are so proud of you. Treyson, you fold your chubby little hands whenever it's time to pray and you sit quietly until "AMEN". And you can always rest assured that your Mommy and Dadoo pray every night to God and thank him SO MUCH for you two, the best two little blessings he's ever given us!
We love you,
mommy and dadoo

1.....2.....3.....


Isn't there an episode in Brady Bunch where Marsha brushes her hair 100 times to keep it beautiful? That's all I could think of tonight after I dried Anniston's hair and she wanted to comb it herself over and over. She is such a girly girl! (and I LOVE IT!!!!)

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Easter Egg Hunt III

My Mom took all of the grandkids (except Taylor--we missed her!) to Hardscrabble for the Easter Egg hunt and brunch on Saturday morning. The kids got lots of eggs, and the food was very tasty.

Here's a pic of mom and kids waiting on them to tell us to start hunting!Michael and Anniston being silly in front of the water fountain
Anniston and Treyson waiting patiently for lunch

Anniston spotted the Easter bunny as soon as he walked in the door. She ran up to him to see him....she was SOOOOO excited! Treyson, however, wouldn't go near the thing. If he sensed you were walking that way while holding him, he'd take a death grip on you and then scream if you were within 10 feet or so!


MaMa and PaPa,
Thank you for taking us to the club for Easter egg hunting and lunch. We had such a great time! And Dadoo had fun playing golf in the icky, drizzly weather. We love you!
Love,
Anniston and Treyson



Easter Party at Big Girl School!

Anniston's Easter party at her school was on Friday afternoon. She was so excited, particularly because Mommy signed up to bring cupcakes!

Here she is with her best buddy, Baylor!
The whole class sang their Easter songs for the parents

The kids' craft project at the party was a bunny mask.....then they all suddenly turned into bunnies!!


Isn't that the sweetest bunny you've ever seen??



Hunting at Mrs. Amber's

Mrs. Amber had her Easter Egg hunt at her house last Thursday evening. Mrs. Amber babysat Anniston until she was 2, and now she's Treyson's sitter. The weather was beautiful, and she had hid LOTS of eggs for the kids to find.






This was Treyson's first time to hunt an egg....he was SOOOOOO proud of himself!



Anniston kept looking at me to make sure she didn't get too many. I told her in the car on the way there that she couldn't hunt alot because we needed to leave plenty for the little kids. Her response was, "Ok Mommy, I'll get 5." Well, for 6 kids (one not hunting because she's 4 months old), there were about 50+eggs, so needless to say....she got alot of eggs. The little kids quit hunting so Mrs. Amber told her to keep on going!


About halfway through the hunt, Treyson ditched his basket, eggs, and candy and started to run like a madman....he's such a little boy!
Thank you Mrs. Amber for the fun time at your Easter Egg Hunt 2010! We had a blast!
Love, Anniston and Treyson




sunshine!!!

We are LOVING this weather we've been having! The kiddos got their Gator from Santa, and it's had to sit in the garage for most of the past 4 months. We've had that "truck" (as treyson calls it) out and about every nice day that we've had the past 2 weeks. Anniston does most of the driving now. She's very good at steering and reversing too. The kids are so cute together on this. They'll drive from the garage out to the backyard, and make pit stops along the way (ie: get out to order ice cream, make stops at school, go to the library). I just love the imagination!! And then they'll drive over to me to give me hugs and kisses, then drive off! I have to be careful not to squeeze them too much!! So sweet!

Treyson gets in the drivers seat every once in awhile, but Anniston has to lean over to steer (which she'll do), but she really just prefers to drive!
By the way, after dropping close to $100 on weed/grass killer concentrate and 3 hours of Jerry's time, the yard (thankfully) does not look like this anymore!! haha