Carter's First School Program

Carter had his first school program today.  He had been practicing for weeks and we were all so excited that the big day was here at last!

He did a wonderful job...singing, paying attention, smiling!!!

He got to play a zookeeper because he "loves all of God's creatures!"

During the awards ceremony, he received "Best Behavior!"  What?!?  I'm so thankful that he knows how to make good choices and wants to please his teacher.

We are always surprised by this guy.  He amazes us every day!!!

And, we are so thankful for this lady.  She has made Carter's first year at school a wonderful one!  He has learned so much and has grown in many different ways this year.  Thank you, Mrs. Boone, for loving our Carter Man!!!

Easter {2015}

Happy Easter morning, chocolate faces!!!

After checking out Easter baskets and consuming all the chocolate, we had our traditional Easter breakfast.

Resurrection Rolls

After church, we ate lunch at Mimi and Poppa's.

I love these people a whole bunch!!!

After lunch, it was time to hunt for eggs!  That is one crazy bunch of kiddos!!!

Mimi made these fun tents for the kids and they loved using them as a place to check out their candy stash!

The time had come for our 2nd annual egg war!!!

The Jacobs' family all lost during round one.  Boo!  But, next year, we plan on dominating with fresh eggs from our backyard chickens!!!

The 2015 Egg War Champion is...LILY!!!

And the kids still had plenty of energy to play!!!

we colored eggs.

stuff

this is what spring break without kids looks like!

i sprung this girl from school.

then, we met mimi at the theater and watched cinderella and ate popcorn!  it was so sweet!!!

this guy decided he could color like a boss!!!

feeling safe?

she made him a grizzlies bracelet and he waited patiently.

crazy hat night at awana

"listen.  i've got a question.  it's very important.  don't eat the last banana 'cause it's for the 'swoothie'  ok?  it's very important."  also, this is his "duh!" face.

one of my favorite sundays...all the kids dress up and wave palm branches and sing "Hosanna!  Hosanna!  He comes in the name of the LORD!!!"

i had dinner with this dynamic duo.

a hunting we will go

we went on an easter egg hunt with the taylor boys and poppa (mimi, we missed you) at the davies manor plantation.  everyone was very eager to start hunting!  they were craving candy filled eggs. 

after every egg was gathered in baskets and buckets, the candy was emptied from eggs and delivered to tummies.  once every kiddo was full of sugar and sticky from head to toe, we toured the nearly 200 year old manor.  it was pretty neat, but we couldn't stay long because sugary kids.