A Weekend of Family & The Little Mermaid

The weekend after Tax Season was over ended up being a busy one for our family. Cary got April 16th off so he and Campbell had a Daddy/Daughter Doughnut Date that morning while I went to Ladies Class at church. After their date they ran some errands and went to the Elementary School to have lunch with Kaylee. Then when school was out we surprised the girls by taking them to see "How to Train Your Dragon" which was a really cute movie and that was just Friday.

Saturday morning Kaylee went to a Kidquest reunion at the ACU bowling alley and I thought when Cary went to pick her up they were not coming home. Evidently they decided to go tour the ACU library and play with the iPads in the bookstore. Who could blame them for that? Once they returned home it was time to go to a birthday party which happened to be at the bowling alley on the Air Force Base here in town. The girls and Cary had a blast bowling while I I caught up with some friends I had not talked to in a while. That night we played a little Wii as a family and enjoyed a good night's rest.

On Sunday the girls had a date with their Daddy to see The Little Mermaid at a theatre here in town.(Thanks Cary for taking the pictures and being such a big help.) Since I am on the Children's Performing Arts Board, I was helping some friends set things up for the fun after party with the cast so I missed the actual production. Speaking of the cast they were great to work with. Each member of the cast stayed at the after party until each child had a chance to get their picture taken and visit with them personally. There were over 100 people at the party!

The girls had a great time meeting the princess and sharing in the fun with their friends. It looked like all of the children had a great time which is what we had hoped for.

Thank you Lord for a great end to a wonderful weekend!!

May Farm

Over a week ago we were invited to a Birthday Party at May Farm. We never pass up an opportunity to go there since Ms. May is one of our favorite people. She is so wonderful with children and the animals she takes in alike. This woman has a gift. The girls enjoyed feeding the animals, holding the animals, going on a hay ride minus the hay, riding a horse and of course celebrating with Jaxton.

Here are some pictures to re-cap our fun day!

Can you tell she loves horses?

Easter Sunday

Today we have enjoyed a wonderful day celebrating Our Lord with a great church service and some more family time. I am blessed in so many ways because of Our Savior dying on the cross and being risen from the dead all for my sins to be washed away. Thank you Lord for the gift of your Son, the gift of family and the gift of friends. Blessed be Your Name!

Our Family!

Great Papaw with Kaylee and Campbell

Papa, Nana, Oliver, Kaylee & Campbell

Two of my greatest blessings!

Saturday Easter Fun!

Well today has been a fun filled day for all of us except Oliver. He decided to jump out of Kaylee's arms when he heard Papa, Nana, and Papaw enter the house and landed incorrectly. After a trip to the Emergency Veterinary Clinic, he now will be sporting this for the next 8 weeks. Poor boy;-(

I am happy to report that the rest of the day has been accident free. We went to the church Easter Egg Hunt after lunch where Kaylee and Campbell had a blast as usual. Kaylee insisted on wearing her sunglasses and they actually matched her outfit. Haha. My little Miss Hollywood is pictured here.

Campbell also had a lot of fun hunting eggs and playing with all of her friends. We managed to jump in the Jump House, ride the Barrel Train, and see the Easter Bunny all while at the church Eggstravaganza.

My two sweet girls riding the barrel train.

Campbell with Abba

Kaylee with Matthew

Once we had completed all the activities at Eggstravaganza at least twice we went home and play croquet with the new croquet set Papa and Nana bought for us to enjoy. We have had so much fun playing with it too as you can see from the photos.

After Cary got home from the office (it is tax season you know) the girls had another Egg Hunt at the house. Then since we had all worked up such an appetite Cary grilled some delicious hamburgers and we ate a yummy Easter Egg cake for dessert. You would think that would be enough for one day but since we still had not decorated cookies for Easter or dyed eggs so we got that done too before going to sleep. Whew! What a busy but very fun day!

Last YCW Easter Egg Hunt

I am sad to say that yesterday was the last Egg Hunt we will get to experience at YCW. I cannot believe it! Campbell's teachers decided to try to stretch the hunt out this year by placing numbers on each of the eggs and each child just hunted for the eggs with their assigned number on them. Aren't they clever? Campbell got number four which she thought was perfect since she is FOUR. It was so funny to watch them searching for their number. Campbell's friend Ella found almost as many eggs for her as Campbell hunted herself. I thought it was so sweet of her to be looking out for Campbell;-)

Look at all those sweet kids running around hunting those eggs.

I did manage to capture a few pictures of Campbell with some of her sweet friends.

Here is Campbell with Mallory.

Softball through Pictures

I just had to post a few of my favorite shots I captured of Kaylee's first official game of the season.

Kaylee in her hitting stance. She looks like such a pro;-)

Kaylee ready for the ball as her best friend Anna runs to second base. Later in the game Anna hit the ball and Kaylee tagged her out on second base. I asked Kaylee what she said to Anna and she said "I told her I was sorry, I was just doing my job." (hahaha)

I love this picture of Cary giving Kaylee five while he is coaching first base. They get to have great one on one bonding time during softball season and I love watching them!

A quick story: At the end of each game the coaches get the girls together to talk about the game and give a pep talk before snocone time. Last night all the girls were very excited about the snocones and were not focusing on what the coach was saying. I heard Kaylee say "Listen it is not about the snocones people, it is about the game!" I had to chuckle a little inside. That's Cary's girl!