Easter

What a crazy-busy day!! We started off the morning finding the Easter basket that the  Easter Bunny left! It had sidewalk chalk, a princess memory game, Minnie PJs, and princess undies ...along with egg filled with jelly beans, starburst, and Prince and Princess "Little People".

 We then headed out the door to hunt the egg that the Easter Bunny left!

 The Easter bunny left sooo many eggs that her basket was over-flowing!

 We then got ready for church to celebrate the Resurrection of OUR LORD!!! We decided to let Brooklyn stay with us during the church service. We brought an iphone and coloring books. Neither of which kept her entertained very long. Half-way through the service, she loudly proclaimed "Ok, time to go home!". What a stinker!

 After church we went to Richard's Parents for Easter lunch!

 

 We hunted eggs and then played the traditional confetti eggs.

Yes, Vanessa some how had confetti in her teeth!

 

After a quick trip home to take a MUCH NEEDED nap, we went to my parent's house for Easter dinner. Brooklyn gave Harley an Easter basket filled with Easter books, Elmo soap, PJs, and sidewalk chalk.

 Unfortunately, bad weather had set in and it was pouring outside. So, we hunted Easter eggs inside the house.

 Bella even tried to sneak off with an egg! But she got caught just in time!

 

We had such a great Easter DAY. Brooklyn had a few melt-downs during the day, enough to make me want to pull my hair out! But when it was ALL OVER, we had a great day spending time with family and having fun!

 

Right before it was time to go home, Brooklyn told baby Addison that they would be having fun next Easter finding Easter eggs and she gave her a kiss. What a good big sister! Now if  we can get Brooklyn to understand that Addison is a girl 100% of the time and not say she is a brother, THEN we will be perfect!

 

 

We are definitely THANKFUL that we serve a RISEN LORD and can celebrate HIS sacrifice in a joyous way with our family!

HAPPY EASTER to ALL of our family!

Easter Bunny

Today we went to see the Easter Bunny! I had a half-day at school, so when I got home we all went to see the Easter Bunny!!

 

 

Swimming Lessons

Brooklyn had her first swimming lessons today at the Y. Her instructor is Mr. Kyle and he is teaching her to "make a pizza and cut it in half", do the "monkey, airplane, rocketship", float on her back, and go under water to retrieve a ring on the second step!

 

 

 

What a cutie!!!

Brazos Bend

To celebrate Spring Break, we took our annual trip to Brazos Bend State Park to see the Alligators. We ate lunch and then walked around the lake.

The weather was beautiful, but every was exhausted after walking a mile and 1/2.

 

 

Gender Reveal

We went to the doctor to find out what our 2nd child would be. Brooklyn wanted a brother and mommy and daddy weren't partial towards a boy or girl.

 

It took a while for the nurse to final get a good picture, but we found out we were having a GIRL!!!

Brooklyn pouted and said that it was a brother. She crossed her arms and told us to take her back and exchange her cause she wanted a brother. Oh, the sisterly love is beginning!!!!

 

We decided to share the news with our family all at once during a gender reveal party at our house. We kept trying to bribe Brooklyn not to tell anyone, but she couldn't hold it and she told Jarod.

 

 Right before we were about to make the announcement, Brooklyn came out of her room dressed as Merida! Of course, she would have to make a costume change!!!

 

Thank you, to our family and friends for sharing this joyous moment with us! We are so excited to introduce Addison Grace sometime in late June or early July.

Trip to the Park

Today took a family trip to our neighborhood park!

 

 Brooklyn wanted to walk Bo, but he kept pulling her so hard that she had to run to keep up. The faster she ran, she faster he walked... Makes for a bad combination!!! Eventually, somebody's going to get hurt!

 

When we got to the park, Brooklyn kept trying to walk up the slide. She would make it about 3/4 of the way and then give-up and slide back down.

When got back home to tried to blow bubbles, but the wind was blowing so hard that we all had a hard time making bubbles before they would be blown out of the bubble wand!