Easter!

We had a wonderful Easter this year! It is one of my favorite holidays to celebrate! We visited Saturday with Cedric's family, Gabriel had a blast playing with his cousin buddies there. On Sunday, we got up early to see what the Easter bunny brought--lots of goodies! My faves were the embroidered bath towels for Gabriel and Elizabeth: MeMe-the bunny needs to bring you one like Miss Izzie's, it is adorable! Gabriel's favorite thing is the Spiderman costume. It is ALL he wants to wear. He wore it for most of the afternoon even though it was VERY hot and we were outside! I think that boy really thinks he is Spiderman!!! We made it to church on time somehow, I still have a hard time getting this crowd all dressed up and out the door! Didn't get a pic of all 4 of us but guess that can wait until next year! Church was a cantata which was just ok. I would have liked to hear our preacher but guess I don't get to make the decisions! The cantata was long and drawn out of course. It makes me mad b/c we (the congregation) never get to sing much at all anymore. We get to sing like 1 verse of each song and that just irritates me for some reason...but enough about that..

After church, we grilled out with mom, dad, grandma Dot, Uncle Mitchell, Aunt Rita, and MeMe (and of course Rocky and Scout were there catching up!)...After that we hung out on the patio enjoying the gorgeous weather. I just love this time of year! It is warm but not too hot like the summer when it gets close to 100 degrees! Next we headed over to Aunt Janie's for pizza and a big egg hunt. The kids all had a blast looking for the eggs and Aunt Janie even had baby ducks! I brought a bunny cake for the 2nd year in a row. Guess it is going to be a yearly thing, because Gabriel had a blast making it with me this year and I am sure he will want to make another next year...If you know me, you know I love a holiday tradition! All in all, a great day! Here are a few pics, the duck pics are on my other camera, I will post them later :)

New Pics

Here are pics we had done on Monday. Elizabeth is in her baptism dress!

Happy Easter!

Week Recap

This has been a good week, I loved being off on Monday (my usual day off) and then being off again today for Good Friday--three day work-weeks ROCK! Then I am off Monday again, so I end up with a four day weekend, yippee! Monday we had to take Gabriel back to the dentist. He went several weeks ago and had 1 of 3 fillings done. Monday he had the other 2, so now we are finished. I really don't understand how the kid has cavities, he is a METICULOUS brusher. I brush him, then he brushes. We weren't flossing before, but now we are nightly and if I forget, he reminds me! He also is now taking a fluoride pill at night. Hopefully the next 6 month check up will be better than this one! He really did a great job at the dentist, I know from expereince that getting a shot in the roof of your mouth hurts like heck. He held it together until after everything was over and then he broke down crying. Oh it was a good moment to be a mommy and just be able to hold and love on my little guy. Of course going to play at Old MacDonalds with an indoor playground and getting 2 new super hero figures made him feel a lot better too I think!

We dyed eggs over at mom and dad's on Sunday afternoon and we did ours here on Tuesday night. Elizabeth was cute sitting at the table with us in her high chair, she will be able to get in on the action next year. She is doing great with eating her cereal, she just loves it and smacks her lips and makes noises to let us know that we are not feeding her fast enough! We tried squash yesterday and today and the verdict is still out on whether or not she likes it. We will try it again tomorrow and then move on to carrots or sweet potatoes. I just love the baby food phase, I think it is fun to buy the cute little jars and packs of baby food! She rolled over almost 2 weeks ago 2 times (enough for me to get it on video!), but has not done it again since, stubborn little girl! She is cooing and smiling and laughing like crazy, she has the cutest little chuckle for her big brother. She just adores him and is constatntly looking for him and wanting him to come over and chat with her, which always cracks her up! I have no idea where this came from, but he says to her "have you ever heard of a speed limit?" and that just gets her going everytime!

We spent a LAZY day home today and it was awesome. Cold and dreary outside so no reason to feel bad for being lazy. I at least did a little laundry. Izzie and I slept in until 7:30 which was great because we are usually up around 6 or so. We made breakfast (turkey sausage, grits and biscuits) and Ceddy even made sausage gravy for the first time, it turned out delish! Then after lunch, Gaby and me napped in the bed and Izzie and Ceddy napped in the recliner. It was a little siesta and we all needed it I guess. We headed to town tonight and splurged at Coldsto(ne Creamery for dinner-hey, nothing wrong with ice cream for dinner every now and then! Gabriel and I just baked our bunny cake and we will decorate it tomorrow. We are headed to KM tomorrow to see the Moore clan, then we will celebrate with my family on Sunday. Fingers crossed that the weather improves so we can get outside and hide eggs!

My Easter Girl!

All Better

Our house is finally all better...Elizabeth is over the ear infection and I am finished with whatever the heck weird virus I had. We have been enjoying the warmer weather and spending a lot of time outside. Our yard was a HUGE mess after all the storms, so we have been picking up what seems like a gazillion sticks and limbs trying to get it looking good again. Elizabeth turned 4 months old! And she has had rice cereal the past few days and loves it. She goes for her 4 month checkup/shots on Thursday. Where has the time gone, I cannot believe it is APRIL already! Ceddy has been very busy with school and has clinicial on the Mother/Baby Unit right now. Man if I could be a fly on the wall, I would love to see him there! We are gearing up for Easter and I still need to take the kiddos to get some springtime pics made, we had to cancel last Monday due to E's ear infection. Work for me has been pretty busy, but I am finally feeling like I am getting back in the swing of things. Dad and Zach have been busy working on a giant fort/clubhouse that they are building in Papaw's backyard. Here are a few pictures, it is going to be awesome.