Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone!

We've been very busy around here these past few days which explains the lack of updates. The night before Easter we dyed eggs as a family, which Jacob LOVED, and then Jacob and I made sugar cookies using spring and Easter themed cookie cutters. They came out very cute and tasted even better!






We woke up early Easter morning a little later than we wanted. Which meant rushing to get ourselves and the kids ready for church. I swore we would be late and would have no seats, but thankfully I was wrong!

Church went well. We dropped Jacob off for children's church and headed into the sanctuary with Emma. We made it about 15-20 minutes before I had to leave to go to the "Cry Room" with her because she couldn't sit still or be quiet. So Emma and I enjoyed watching the church service on TV alone in the cry room.








After church we headed over to Cracker Barrel with the Wright family and had brunch. Thankfully with 4 little ones 3 and under we made it through pretty uneventful.

Jacob and Emma fell asleep on the way home. Which gave the Easter Bunny plenty of time to finish up some last minute projects. That's right, I've done it again! I am NOTORIOUS for working on things last minute, as you'll remember with Jacob's Halloween costume that was made Halloween day. This last minute project consisted of finishing Jacob's bunny. It was almost done the night before, but I was just too tired to finish.

The bunny was finished and ready with Emma's bunny and both baskets just in time for little Jacob to wake up and see what the Easter Bunny left for him!






And did this little boy even so much as show one tiny little bit of interest for this bunny that I spent so much time on and stressed so much over getting finished? No sir. He did not. But, he did love his Alfie! Oh well, I expected as much. :)

And of course we had an egg hunt to find the eggs that the Easter Bunny hid!








A couple days before Easter, Mandi and I met up at her mom's house to take some Easter pictures of the kids. Um, lets just say it didn't go well. All four little ones ended up crying at one point or another. We had two tiny ones that wanted to nurse and be held and two bigger ones that wanted to run away or go in the house. And to think we even brought outfit changes, hahahaha!

Mohawks

My mom has a couple baby pictures of me uploaded onto the internet and while looking throught them I came across this (check out the inset picture):


Now we know where Emma's mohawk comes from! Looks like I had one too at just about the same age as she is now. Funny!

Easter Egg Hunt: Part 1

I packed up the kids and headed over to Mandi's mom's house today so the kids could go on an Easter egg hunt. Mandi's mom will be out of town during Easter so they invited us over for an early Easter celebration!

This Moment

One photo. No words. A moment I always want to remember...

Twirly Skirty

I finished up Emma's twirly skirty! I created it using the wigglebunz creations pattern.

Now if I can just get these bunnies finished...

Rocky Top Tennessee

This year we’ve finally decided to start a small garden. We’re starting off simple: herbs, organic bell peppers, lettuce, tomatoes, strawberries, and blueberries. We’re also going to do a hummingbird garden right near our tree where the hummingbirds like to hang out.

We’ve been busy, busy, busy trying to get everything together. Since this is our first time at really trying to grow anything (besides trees), Mike bought me this really awesome book called “Grow Vegetables”. Title says it all, right? It’s packed with all kinds of information on growing vegetables and herbs—even if you have no yard!

For now we’re sowing our seeds. Some are being sown in seed starters, others in baking pans. Jacob loved helping and kept asking, “Plants grow”? I can’t wait to see his face when they finally start sprouting up.

For the herb garden we purchased a simple circular raised bed that was pre-made. For the other gardens we’ll be making our own beds and borders with rocks from our own backyard. We have TONS of them scattered throughout our yard. So, with shovel in hand I began to work at digging up just some of the rock…

It was originally Mike’s idea as he used the rocks as border around some of the trees he planted last fall so we would be able to see them and not run the lawn mower over them.

While digging up rock, I also got up a lot of cactus. Believe it or not this stuff is growing all over our yard too. Makes me nervous with the kids out playing so it's a goal this year to get it all up.

And in more yard news: Some of our bulbs are blooming!

This Moment

One photo. No words. A moment I always want to remember.