EASTER!!

Here are a few pictures from Easter! I'll post a few more later but, on this dial up connection it takes FOREVER to load these pictures! We had a pretty good Easter. The kids were w/ their Dad part of the day and then came home that afternoon. We had the usual egg hunt w/ the plastic eggs filled with candy and any spare change I have lying around. Grandma made and brought over the whole feast including that cute lamb cake in the last picture. Only my Mom would stay up all night cooking and making a lamb cake to feed her family! She's the best! We also colored the Easter eggs that afternoon since the kids had been gone most of the week. Gracie is on this new kick where she always wants to do the dishes. She would not stop bugging me when we were coloring the eggs ,"Can't I do the dishes now?" Jeesh! Fine! Do the dishes if you must! I think I've got it made! One kid who likes to cook and one that likes to clean up after him! Hmmmm.. Now if I could just get one of them to do the laundry... Well I'm off to bed.. the kids have been spiked up on Easter candy since Sunday! They are wearing me out!!

Aunt Sarah's Birthday Party!

Jesus (Sarah's fiancee), Grandma, and Aunt Sarah

Batter Up!! Go Gracie!

Auntie, Cousin Matt, and Miss Mattie

Grandma and the Kiddos

Aunt Sarah

Sarah and the Kiddos

Yesterday we finally celebrated Aunt Sarah's birthday! Her actual birthday is Febrary 28th but, this was the first weekend we could all sync up. Grandma has been working a lot of weekends and the kids have had a weird schedule between playoff games and going to their Dad's. We had a fun time! Sarah wanted to have a bbq and play some softball so we all met at a park not far from Grandma's house. We had kind of a Hawaiian theme going on. Grandma had just returned the day before from Hawaii. Ahh the glamorous life of a flight attendant! She brought us all shirts from Hawaii and puka shell necklaces! She brought Sarah a beautiful fresh flower lei. Aunt Shirley, Auntie, Matthew and Mattie came and of course Jesus was there with some of his friends. We bbq'd hot dogs, hamburgers, and sausage. She had two huge sheet cakes one chocolate and one vanilla. (Grandma has always gone above and beyond) :). Aunt Sarah, Aunt Shirley, Mattie, Mason, Kaylee, Gracie and I all played softball. It was all in all a good day! Since today is Easter I imagine there will be yet another entry before this day is through! HAPPY EASTER !! And much love to all!

Randomness

Just some random pics.. The kids t-shirts that make me laugh.. Duke the dog.. Spike the bearded dragon.. Me and my little sister Sarah.. Papa Larry.. Grandma and the kids.. and the rest are me and the kids just being silly

Missin' the Kiddos

I am so missing the kids this week! They are at their Dad's for spring break. It's too quiet! It's funny how the things that usually drive me nuts about the kids suddenly become much more charming with they aren't here! And **gasp**! Could it be those are the things I miss most when they are gone!?! For instance Gracie does not speak, she sings, loudly ALL DAY long. We'll be sitting at the dinner table talking about the days happenings and she will suddenly burst into song. I'll ask her a couple times to please lower her voice and she'll keep right on singing loudly lost in her own world of song. She'll just keep singing louder and louder and more dramatically until finally Mason Kaylee and I will shout "Gracie!!!!" all together. "What !?!?!" is her very annoyed response. How dare we interrupt the artist mid-song!! Or Kaylee how she is not lacking in self-esteem department. Ex: This past Christmas we went to Walmart to get Kaylee some supplies for a school project. Well Gracie and I saw some candy canes and turned on the isle to go look at them. Kaylee grabs the cart and steers it toward the supplies " No Momma me first". Teasing her I said " Why is it always all about Kaylee, Kaylee, Kaylee?". She did not miss a beat. She flashed a smile and answered,"Because I'm fabulous." I laughed so hard I almost dropped the candy canes! And Mason! What can I say about him? The boy can cook! Hand him a recipe and he is good to go! Oh and he is too funny sometimes. He has a quick wit with a hint of sarcasm. One day I was trying to replace a toilet seat and was having some trouble so, he offered to help. He goes into the bathroom and says "Hang on I have to assume the position", so he proceeds to kneel down in front off the toilet and pull his jeans down just enough so the top of his butt crack was showing.He smiled and me a said "Ok, now I can work on the plumbing". Whatta goofball! *Sigh* I gotta go clean house so it will be decent when they come home!

Snow in Texas!?!

A couple weeks ago the Texas weathermen predicted a major snow storm. I laughed when I heard. It was almost 80 degrees for heaven sakes! Sure enough a couple days later it snowed! Not Texas snow either- REAL snow! In my 21 years :) I have never seen snow like that in Texas!! I had to share some pictures because for us Texans it was truly nothing short of miracle. Seeing the kids faces was soo worth the hour (normally 15 minutes) to get home from work!

GO BULLS!!

Whatta weekend! Mason's basketball team (The Bulls) made it to state this year! So, we packed up and headed for College Station early yesterday morning. Mason went with his dad, stepmom and stepbrothers. One of his brothers,Tristan, is on Mason's team and the other, A.C., was also on a team that made it to state. My little sister kindly went with me to keep me company. We won the first two games we played and then went on to play for the title. To the boys disappointment we didn't win. But, if you ask me 2nd place in the state isn't too shabby! It ROCKS!!

GO BULLS!!!