still catching up - Easter

the Mayor in the background watching his hard work of hiding all those eggs be undone in just a few minutes.

one in hand, crawling for the next one. No more plastic eggs for Carson! He cut his gums on one when he put a whole egg in his mouth and got it stuck there. silly boy!

nice climbing Samantha!

Everyone was even dressed and ready to go to church with the exception of Sam, might as well take a few pics. More to come next week when everyone (hopefully) is dressed in their Easter best.

well, once again the family did not make it to church on Easter Sunday - we are cursed! It's been at least 3-4 years since we have all been to church on Easter Sunday. Someone is always sick, and i jinxed it this year on Saturday night, by telling the Mayor how glad I was that we were all healthy. ugh - Sam woke up super cranky and spent most of the morning in the bathroom. another uti. pawpaw called in a prescription for her, and I was going to stay home with her while the Mayor went to pick it up. but by the time the pharmacy opened and got it filled, we just headed out to Marmar and Pawpaw's for a yummy dinner.

On Friday we had an egghunt at a friend's house and then on Saturday at Marmar's (it was so nice outside!)- the girls had so much fun finding eggs. They got to find almost 100 eggs, all by themselves, well, mostly by them selves - Carson found 3. And we were missing two in the end...maybe Willow will find them.

catching up

he is the cutest little boy ever!!!

he got a ball pit for his bday (needs more balls)

loves to be involved - in everything!

Carson is one! Can you believe it - I can't. He took a couple steps on his own this past Sunday and couple more this week. It won't be long 'til he is running everywhere.

Sharing

a while ago I mentioned my sis-in-law started a new blog - icandy homemade, she has a great give away going on right now. Go check it out, but don't enter cause I want to win!!!! :) just kidding!

in other news - I made Sydney a skirt for easter - she saw a picture of a skirt, but I was too cheap to pay for a pattern when I was sure it wasn't that hard to make. So this is my version of the skirt she saw....the layers should be a little closer together, but over all, it's pretty darn cute if I do say so myself! I made Sam a dress - I'll share that later. Carson will most likely get a bowtie, cause those are easy! :) Just need to find a coordinating fabric for him that isn't too girly!

spring break

she refused to wear the baseball pants - so she selected her black leggings with sparkles - so typically Sam!

Chad and Ben and the little boys

Ashley with the first clam

spring break consisted of playing t-ball in the rain turned sleet turned SNOW! poor Sam, she was so cold! Then the next day we went to Westport with the Lambs to dig razor clams. It was a fun trip!

look out uncle Brandon!

this one is a mean Monopoly player! She wins every time. And no, I don't let her win. And she even knows how to be the banker. And she has an evil laugh when she takes your money. (she's blue and quickly filled the board with blue ticket booths after this pic - just look at all that money next to her! my pile is bottom right of the picture - 1's and 2's - that's it folks!)

lunchtime discussions

the conversation over mac-n-cheese at lunchtime today:
Sam - what are apples made out of?
her friend - what are trees made out of? ms Katie, what are trees made out of?
me - Heavenly Father created them.
her friend - what was Jesus made of?
Sam - bones
her friend - and blood
Sam - but how does the skin stick to the blood to keep it inside?

Thursdays are good.

Lately I have been getting a lot done on Thursdays. Once Sydney leaves for piano at 7:30, I have nothing else on the schedule. Carson has been playing/holding this little scrap of fabric (see the aqua piece) for about an hour now - he's pretty funny to watch.

Today I made this for Sydney - she's been asking me to make a skirt for her for months - I put it off because I wasn't sure what I wanted it to look like. It's hard to see in the picture - but those are little pleats along the bottom. I was inspired by this skirt, Syd didn't want it too twirly, so I didn't make it as wide as I have in the past. I hope she likes it and wears it. :)

I also finished this table runner - inspired by this. I {heart} the mushroom fabric! I used a raw edge binding on it and i love it! Can't wait to wash it.