Happy Easter!

We had a nice and quiet Easter weekend. 150 or more, from our church went to Nashville for Lads to Leaders, so all of our friends were gone. Sunday evening everyone was back, so I decided to cook Easter dinner - Donnie, Cathy and the boys came over after church for dinner. We had a good time! Ethan really enjoyed Easter this year and asked me Sunday evening if it was still Easter time and if the Easter Bunny was going to leave another candy trail to his Easter basket in the morning....next year he will! Nina just liked playing with her puffy Easter basket (which was a $5 find at the Pottery Barn Outlet) and trying to get Ethan's candy in her mouth. Here are some pictures from the weekend.Dying Easter eggs around 9:30pm Saturday night - nothing like waiting until the last minute! The reach..... Yummy Lindt lambs for breakfast - probably a great Sunday School ahead of us!!!Ethan loves to play on stage after church, so I thought I'd try and get a picture - this was the best I could do. He just wanted to play! It was chilly on Easter, so it was hard to get pictures of them outside on the cold patioEthan was in the middle of asking me if we were done taking pictures and Nina was excited that Mark didn't take her candy out of her hands....this was the last attempt at an Easter picture!

Yes, I expect ridicule from various men in the Georgia area and will accept any comments they might have to say - but I still think this is the way a little boy should be dressed and I'm fine with that!

Springtime is here!

Springtime is here! It's been so pretty and warm lately and we just can't help but stay outside as long as we can! We got back to Memphis this past Tuesday after spending a week in Georgia and Nona and Poppa's house. We had so much fun, as usual. Mark drove in for the weekend with Donnie, Cathy, Hunter and Jackson - our friends from Memphis that we met at church but also live behind us.

Thursday evening we went to Allie's first t-ball game. That was fun and she is so cute out there on the field! We ran into Chris and Heather and their crew at Redneck afterwards. It was a nice evening to be in downtown Newnan!!!

Friday morning we took off into Atlanta and went to the Aquarium and then then we took the kids home for a nap and Donnie, Cathy and the boys stayed to see the World of Coke. We enjoyed seeing that area of Atlanta and were there just hours before the tornado came through. That evening we enjoyed some La Parilla with Chris and Melanie - in case you haven't noticed it's like we did the mediocre culinary tour of Newnan! We also introduced Donnie and Cathy to Partner's, but did not have pizza.... I think they enjoyed what the saw of the city - I know the boys enjoyed playing XBox on my dad's tv! It was their spring break....

Saturday, Ethan and Nina went with my parents to their church Easter Egg Hunt. They had a great time! Ethan is all into the Easter Bunny this year.....probably because he gets something out of it! He was outside one evening with Poppa and he came inside all excited telling Nona that they saw "runny babbits" with Poppa's huge flashlight. So now he loves going outside to look for runny babbits - although it didn't stay that way long, he has corrected himself and now calls them bunny rabbits!

We had a great time visiting everyone in Georgia and enjoyed getting caught up with old friends! Ethan loved seeing Allie and Avery and this visit was a little interesting because the 2 smaller kids are now in the middle of things - chaos!! We have enjoyed being back home - but not for long....we're going to Chattanooga next weekend to see the Ringling Brothers circus and Ethan is sooooo excited! Then in April, Mark and I are going to Nashville because he is in a wedding and his parents are flying in to keep the kids. Sometime in May we'll probably be back in Georgia for a baby shower for my sister - it's a boy!

I had to begin this post with a few more of our snow pictures that I didn't post before we went out of town. This is how crazy our weather has been - 70 one day and 7 inches of snow 2 days later and then back to 70! Hopefully the warm weather is here to stay!

Ethan and Donnie pulling Mark behind the 4-wheeler.....hope our life insurance policy is up to date!!!

Ethan and Daddy going for a ride in the snow
The snowman - before decoration
Of course I wanted ONE picture of the kids in the snow together - and as you can see neither coorporated! I like this pic though because it almost looks like Ethan thinks that he did something to Nina, but he didn't!
Nina chillin in her ride watching the boys roll the snowman
Multiple uses for a 4 -wheeler!!

Nina on Poppa's desk at the bank
Not gonna get any work done while they are here!

Nina doing tricks for ice cream at Chick-fil A - of course, Poppa was more than happy to give it to her!

Playing in the forsythia outside Nona's school

Mommy and Ethan at the Aquarium
Huge fish!
Ethan was trying to show the fish the card about fish - he also tried to give them his apple juice (just by holding it up to the glass)
Nina enjoyed the Aquarium a LOT more than I thought she would - she loved sitting on Cathy's lap and was trying to have a conversation with the fish
A very serious conversation....

We ran into the gift shop at the World of Coke just to get Ethan a bottle of Coke Nina in the tub of eggs at the Easter Egg Hunt
Ethan with his good friend Bo
Nina with the Easter Bunny (Nicholas Wilson)

Checking out what they got at the egg hunt!!

Outside in Poppa and Nona's yard where all the pretty things are blooming

Nobles and Millers - not quite sure why we're all looking at Ethan (except Donnie) but I thought this was a funny picture of us!



Ethan having a ball playing with all his airplanes on the flight back to Memphis

Happy 10 months Nina!

Nina is 10 months old today....and she is officially crawling and into everything. She's been moving around for awhile, but not like this. Mark and I had forgotten what it was like having one mobile. It's interesting! We had a great day in the snow and I'll post more of those pictures after we get the kids in the bathtub and in bed!