Easter "Maddness"!

We had such a good/ BUSY Easter weekend! It started with making a trip to Fredericksburg on Saturday. I had a high school friend's baby shower to attend, while Brent played golf with the hostesses husband. The shower was great, and fun to see some of my high school friends, however, I also had both kids with me at the shower, so I didn't get to "enjoy" it as much as I could have. After the shower, I loaded up the kiddos, grabbed some lunch and went to my grandma's house to snatch her up. We headed to the Wildseed Farm and had a picnic lunch! It was such a BEAUTIFUL day! After we ate our lunch and walked around the Wildseed Farm, we went into the Butterfly House. It was just a great day! If anyone is ever in the Fredericksburg area, you should go to the Wildseed Farm. All of the wildflowers are in bloom this time of year! After we were done with the Butterfly house, we loaded up in the car, the kids fell asleep and we headed home. Later that evening, we went to church and heard a great message!

in the butterfly house

Gamma and with Ezra and Emersyn

Emersyn's fav spot at the shower (playing with door stopper)

Sunday morning, we woke up bright and early (thank you Ezra) and the hunted eggs that the Easter Bunny left inside the house! He must of known it was going to rain the night before. Ezra and Emersyn had such a fun time finding eggs. Ezra really liked helping sister find her pink eggs. She even found one on her own.

Coloring easter eggs a couple days before

First easter egg he found

first easter egg she found

Around noon, we loaded up the car, again!, and headed to my dad's house for lunch and another round of easter egg hunting. My dad's wife had some of her family in town from California and some other friends in town from California with lots of kids to hunt eggs! We had a good time enjoying the weather and their beautiful backyard.

Sharing pink eggs with sissy

family photo (yes! we match)

After we were done there, we loaded up the car once again and headed to Austin! Brent's family was gathering in Austin at his Aunt's house. It was good seeing his family! We had yet another round of Easter Egg hunting and food! By the time we loaded up in the car again, we were all ready to be home and in our beds! We had a great/blessed Easter and time to celebrate our Risen Lord with family and friends!

cute cousins

laying in the hammock

Opa and Emmy girl

Needless to say, today we are doing NOTHING!

Trial "Camping" run

Last week, Brent had a great idea! He and Ezra were going to camp in the back yard! Brent and Ezra got out the tent, set it all up and even blew up the air mattress to sleep on. Ezra was so excited. He ran upstairs to get his pillow, blanket, books and some toys. They headed outside with flashlights and sleeping bags! I got some cute pictures of them laying on the air mattress reading. So, I head upstairs, put Emersyn to bed and climb into my bed to do my daily bible study. While doing my bible study, I could hear the door open and close every so often and Ezra's little voice saying something. About an hour later, Ezra walks into my room with pillow and blanket in hand and says "I not wanna camp. I want to get in bed with you." It was such a great idea and good try on brent's part. It just didn't last that long. Brent said it may have lasted but he wanted to keep coming inside to get more "things". Those must have been the times I heard his sweet little voice coming inside!

We are going camping the beginning of May at Enchanted Rock with Brent's whole family. I think we will have a good time, but I am curious to see what will happen when it's time to get in the tent and go to sleep!

Ezra

Ezra is getting to be such a big boy! I can't believe that in just a few short months, he will be 3!! I wanted to share some pics of him. He got these soccer goals from our neighbors who were throwing them out and is so excited about them. He sets them up opposite of each other and kicks the soccer ball back and forth making goals. He is actually pretty good. He just loves sports. Well, when were out there kicking the ball one day, he decided he need to put on his Aggie shirt because he "plays for Team Aggies!" as he likes to say. So, I go upstairs get his Aggie shirt to put on and he precedes to play. After a few minutes he decided that he needs his helmet because he is on "Team Aggies". He likes to incorporate football into every sport he is playing. Here are a few fun pictures of him playing soccer with all the gear on!

My handsom little man!

Lately...

Well, our desktop computer CRASHED! I am pretty sure I opened an email with a virus and shortly after, the computer was DEAD! Not good! So, since then we have gotten another computer and Brent loaded the pics from our camera on our new computer, so now I can blog again! Not that we have done a whole lot.

Shamu

Seasame Street Show

Emersyn loved it

Checking out the Dolphins

Dolphins

Sea world is open again so we took the kids to see Shamu and Elmo. We had such a good time and the kids loved it.

Green Eggs

So cute in Green

Getting so big!

My "baby" who will be ONE soon!

 On St. Patricks day I made green eggs for everyone and we all dressed in GREEN.

Ezra went stay with Mimi and Ron in Houston. They took him to the rodeo to see the animals, eat rodeo food and have a good time! By the time Brent picked him up (brent went fishing with some family at Lake Livingston) Ezra did not want Brent out of his sight. He was ready to come home, even though he had a good time with Mimi and Ron.

 The kids and I just came back from Dallas. I had a Continuing Education conference so Shelby watched the kids while I was at the conference and my sister got them Saturday morning! We had a good time seeing everyone, but we were so ready to be home! We headed up to Dallas Wednesday and came back Saturday. Thursday night Emersyn woke up in the middle of the night crying, which is not like her, and would not STOP crying until 4:30 that morning! She was burning up with fever and tugging her ear. I then had to wake up at 6:30 to head to my conference on Friday. Mommy guilt set in deep leaving my sick baby girl with shelby, who is pregnant and had to watch both my kids plus Lincoln, while I went to a conference to SIT! I was done by 3:30 and found an Urgent Care to take her in Fort Worth. Took her to the Urgent Care, saw the doctor (2 hours later), confirmed it was an ear infection, went to Walgreens to get perscription (1 hour later) went to my sisters ate dinner and went to bed. Emersyn woke up again in the middle of the night and was up through out the night, threw up and finally went to bed at 4am. I again had to wake up at 6:30 for my last class of the conference. Needless to say, we ate lunch with my sister and hunter on Saturday, packed up and headed home. Last night she was up again for a good chunck of the night so Brent and I took turns comforting her. She seems to be feeling a little better so hopfully tonight will be a little better!

What a fun day!

Yesterday was such a beautiful day! We stayed outside all afternoon; even ate dinner out on the back porch. Ezra was having a hayday racing Mator and running around in circles. Emersyn of course wanted in on the action, so we put her in Ezra's Little Tyke car with the bottom on so she wouldn't fall out. She LOVED it. She was laughing so hard, honking the horn, turning the key and giving us a wave or two! Ezra thought it was pretty fun too. He has really been into racing, so of course he wanted to race Emersyn in her car against him and mator. We stayed outside past dark and then just turned the lights on. It was a great evening! I thought I would share pics of the evening with you.

She LOVED it

Ezra in the sand box

Racing

Night races!

Pictures of our Finished Bathroom

As most of you know, we got a wild hair a couple months ago to redo our Master Bathroom. It started with a coat of paint, to retiling of the shower, to re-fininshed/painted cabinets complete with new knobs, a framed out mirror, a new vanity pull-out mirror (for me!), complete with new decorations! It has been a slow process, but oh so worth it! Here are some pictures of the completed bathroom.

I have hair!

Lately Emersyn has been wearing bows in her hair with no help from a headband! She is sooo CUTE! So far she hasn't tried to pull them out. However, once she realizes they are there, I am sure she will have them out right after I put them in. For the time, I am LOVING IT!