InstaFriday (a couple days late)

Ready for her first soccer game!

Grace got her first soccer injury at her first game...knocked in the head with another head. 

We had a girls shopping trip and these girls needed a little snack.

Grace was infatuated by this mannequin and her eyelashes. 

still shoppin'

The weekends are going by way too quickly...there should be a day between Saturday and Sunday!

Target has some pretty awesome things right now.  I may of gone back later and bought one of these things...it was haunting my dreams!

These little boys had fun picking some flowers while waiting for soccer practice to end.

Spring came out to play.

I thought I would try out this here contraption this week.  It's been way too long since I cooked dinner.  Pitiful.

"NO! No, bed! Play!"  He is stubborn.

Me and my favorite Drew boy at the Opening Eyes to Autism 5K.

Balloon sword fights while cheering on Team Crew!

Go Team Crew!!!

Carter does not like anyone singing along with the iPod 'cause it is HIS song!  (We are in trouble!!!)

It is not easy being this cool!

Donuts at church...mmm!

We prayer walked our church property.  We love our church and are so excited to begin building!

Hope you have a great week!!!

her soccer debut

Grace had her very first soccer game.

She played hard.

Carter cheered her on!

She even scored a goal!!!  As soon as the ball rolled in the goal, she turned around and looked at us with the best smile ever.  LOVE!!!

The best part of playing soccer is the gatorade!

Good game.  Good game.  Good game.

a trike-a-thon

A couple of weeks ago, Grace participated in the St. Jude Trike-a-thon at school.  She has been very interested in the hospital and she enjoyed learning about bike safety again. 

Of course, doing anything special at school is one of the greatest things ever!

I got to hang out with my little biker girl and she wowed me with her cycling skills.

f u n  t i m e s

Easter {2013}

Our Easter began early and with way too much sugar.  These kiddos began poppin' jellybeans at the same time that the sun came up.

The Easter Bunny was rather generous this year.  He brought Grace a hula hoop and Carter a giant dump truck.

He was very pleased with himself once he figured out that he could fit inside it.

We took a break from the sugary madness and made resurrection rolls.  I guess we didn't technically take a break from the sugar; we just changed the form of the sugar. 

During breakfast, we gave Grace and Carter a verse inside an egg.  We are going to pray the verse over them for the next year.

For Awana, Grace had memorized Matthew 28:6 "He is not here; he has risen, just as he said."  And Carter memorized, "He not here!"  When we opened our roll, there was the shout that we had been hearing all week.  "He not here!"

After church, we had lunch at my parents' house.

These are my two favorite kids in the whole wide world!

He's such a mess and I love it!

She is growing up to be such a pretty and sweet girl.

Lily and Grace being silly girls!

Charlie and Carter on matching stools with matching puppies and getting along for a second or two.

Poppa photo bombed the kids pic before the egg hunt.

We had a super fun Easter egg hunt!

This is what Carter looked like most of the day.  This had to be the best day of his life.  He ate candy. All. Day.

These two are such cuties.  They have the best blue eyes!

It's so much fun to check out your Easter egg candy with your bestie!

Our next stop was Easter egg hunt #2 at Grandma Great's house.

Grace practicing her new pose that she learned from none other than Lily!

Aubrey, Grace, and Tripp had so much fun playing together and eating more candy!

We had a great, busy day!

instafriday

these are my phone pics from the past week or two...

On Palm Sunday, Grace and Carter walked through big church with their palm branches.  Hosanna!!!

It has been so cold...this was our snow day.  It had literally been snowing for a few hours when I took this.  We had the smallest and most sporadic snowflakes.  Worst snow day ever.  But, I guess that's ok since it is SPRING!

Conversations with this two year old are pretty awesome.

We made peeps s'mores.

a yummy Easter egg lunch hunt!

This little Easter bunny left me all kinds of things.

Cuties going to church.

Grace came to the service with us and these were her sermon notes...Jesus on the cross with a happy face turned sad face and Jesus rising from the tomb with an angel wearing a bow.

I got my April charm.

For teacher appreciation week, we get to bring home a yummy dinner for our family.  We had slap yo' momma chocolate pie...mmm!

Our PTA does a fantastic job making us feel appreciated!

Surprise!  We got to hang out with the Taylor's from Texas!  It was so nice to get to see them on a random night!

I hope you get to play in the sunshine this weekend!