HAPPY EASTER

Easter fell on the last weekend of our Spring Break (which we spent in Atlanta and Orange Beach).  We had to be back for church since Matt and I are teaching Cal's class right now.  After church we went to Matt's parents house for Shrimp and Grit's made with shrimp we brought back from the beach.

"the boys"

"the four of us"

"boys with Grandmother and Granddaddy"

 

little plant Cal brought home from school

We did dye eggs, just Easter night.

Better late than never

They are supposed to look like "tie dye"

Always so excited to get a chocolate bunny in his basket

This just made me laugh because he was still 1/2 asleep looking at his basket

Can you bring me my basket over here on the sofa? :)

 

A New Sport

Cal played basketball this winter and he LOVED it!  He is certainly tall enough to be a basketball player, so we are so excited that he found this sport and loves it so much.  He spends any free time he has out playing in the driveway. 

 

 

 

 

This is the last game and he played awesome defense as well as scored 10 points.  Two other little boys also had 10 points this game.  By the last couple of games each boy on the team was able to score.

He puts his arms up and waits for it to go in.

We had the snack for the last game

Cal and our neighbor Carter.  Carter's dad and Matt coached the team together.  They had so much fun!  We were sort of sad for the season to end, but have moved on to baseball season.

 

I'll give Brady a shout out for going to Cal's practices and getting pretty good himself.  I think he had the most points scored one night at practice.

Happy Valentine's Day

Just to let my boys know that they have an awesome mom.  They both ate chocolate for breakfast on Valentine's Day. 

I am not even sure he is awake, but he is eating breakfast!

Brady with his first pick. 

 

I love that Brady still made a Valentine Box.  Cal's class just made bags in class one day.

I love his box

All the boxes.  Check out the Pinterest Robot Box.

It is blurry, but he was actually smiling, so I will post it

Bo, Brady and Perrson.  Brady's favorite buddies

This is Cal trying to get marshmallows from one cup into another with a straw.  The whole class thought this was so fun!

Cal's table

 

They got out on Thursday after their parties for a long 4 day weekend.  I think everyone was ready for a break and it should give us just what we needed to get us to Spring Break.

 

Cal will finish up basketball this week and they both have baseball tryouts on Thursday night.  Once baseball starts we will be living at the ball field until May.

What We Have Been Up To

I am still not doing a great job at getting pictures posted in a timely manner.  Here is a quick glance at what we have been doing since New Year's.

We went to Disney over MLK weekend with my sister and her family.

Brady was in a picture funk the whole weekend and Chip and Dale were the only characters he was interested in getting a picture with.

Brady, Cal and Kendall all painted up at Hollywood Studios

 

We had our first "Science" project.  Cal picked Saturn.  We had to make the mobile at home, but he did all the research at school.

Some of the others in the class.  Look how fun the Sun is.

Matt and I dressed up for a 40th birthday party/"80's Prom"

It was so much fun and the couple did a great job with all the details!

I thought this was funny.  Not sure if one of my boys or one of the neighborhood boys did this, but I'm just thankful the figure didn't fit all the way down in the bottle.

 

Possible ER visit in my future

WWE............plus 2 boys...............equals possible ER visit in my future!

Oldest son now strong enough to lift brother almost over his head.  Younger brother thinks this is awesome!  They watch then practice the moves.  They also think it is funny that it scares their sweet mom!

This is on at my house at all times if the oldest son is in charge of TV.

Santa brought these awesome guys.  I am hoping they will try some moves with these figures and not on each other.  A mom can hope!

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!  We have had a great, relaxing day-perfect way to start 2013. We slept in, went to Matt's parents for lunch, Matt and Cal went hunting and Brady had a friend over.

Last night we had 5 other couples over with children for a fun Mexican bar dinner, drinks and some fireworks.  The children actually made it until 11:30 and Matt actually made it to midnight with me this year!

By the way, fireworks are totally NOT legal in our backyard!

We had 12 kids along with the 12 adults and I can not thank the Lord enough for the weather.  They did not come in the house all night except to fix a plate and go back out and eat around the fire.  I had told the parents to bring flashlight and between the fire and flashlights we did not hear a word from them.  Happy New Year to us!!!!!

Cheers from Matt and I! 

Praying everyone has a wonderful 2013!

Fa La La La Flu

I have to be honest, I stole that from a friends FB post.  Flu is out of control around our parts.  Thank the Lord that the 8 year old was the only one to get it.  Here are the boys decorating our tree.  Little did I know that Cal would go to bed right after decorating and wake up at 4:30 blazing hot with fever!

Normally I do our big tree and the boys do a smaller tree with their ornaments.  I was not wanting to go over the top this year and the boys wanted their ornaments on the real tree.  I seriously did not do a thing to our tree this year other than move a few around to the sides and take a few off the branches that were bogged down with 5 ornaments in a row. 

They were both so cute and LOVED decorating.  I just sat at the table and stuffed Christmas cards. 

I still love these "little" and now stinky feet

 

Thankfully Cal's flu seemed to be a mild case and he only missed Thursday and Friday from school.  I did not give Cal the Tamaflu because he would not ever eat enough to take it.  Brady started Christmas play practice the Monday after Cal came down with flu and started a stomach ache (I checked him out and started the Tamaflu) only to figure out that he had a good ole fashion case of stage fright.  Needless to say I gave him the Tamaflu for 5 days because the sweet Kindergartners were dropping like flies as well as most of school.

My sweet little Shepard

The Shepard's finishing up their Shepard Song.  The Shepard Song is always a hit.  Cal was a Shepard and all Brady wanted to be was a Shepard.  They do not "reveal" the children's parts until the day they go home for Thanksgiving.  He was so happy until he realized they sit at the front of the stage until their song then sing and walk up by the stable. 

This is him on the first day(they do the play 3 times).  Basically as far off the stage as possible.  He is pretty much behind a Christmas Tree and almost back behind the pianist. 

This is only the center section, but they take a Christmas Card picture each year to send out the following year.  Always precious and will bring a tear to your eye.  The sweet dove (in between sheep and camel) was one that went down with flu and only got to preform once.  Now we had a soloist who came with fever the last day.  To each their own.

Here are the boys (minus 1) in Brady's class after the last performance.

He just told me to name them. Shepard, narrator, Shepard, Joseph and narrator. The one missing was a wise man.

 

The boys had their class parties today. They get out tomorrow at 11:30.

I can't believe Christmas is in 5 days!