Easter Pics

Getting ready for Easter Egg Hunt at Egypt Valley

The girlies

Easter Morning Hunt

Kids being kids

Cuties

Off to church to celebrate our Risen Lord!

And yet another hunt at Nona and Papa's house!

Cousins getting ready to hunt for more eggs

Drewster

No walking on this hunt!

Because the goods aren't just candy!

Rowdy game of keep away

Trying to get a pic of all the grandkids

Nona with the baby of the family

BYOL Easter Egg Hunt

My Thursday play date group in the neighborhood had an Easter egg hunt on nice Spring day. It was so much fun for all the kiddos, and we were so thankful to Sarah would organized and stuffed eggs!

The gang before the walk to the trail

Getting ready to go

Charley's on a roll

Good work girls

Full basket

Oh happy day

He is Risen!

Our yearly Easter pic taken my sister-in-law Rachel, who is awesome at everything she does...including taking pictures! Thanks Rach! We are so thankful for another year to celebrate the resurrection of our risen Lord!

Spring Break - Finale

Some shots of the kiddos on our Spring Break trip. Still working on getting a good one of them all together. I really need to just hire someone. :)

Spring Break Part Three - The Beach

Since we were kicked out of the pool, we spent the rest of our days all day at the beach. We had to drive a few blocks to the beach, and then take a luxury golf cart ride...past very large alligators. So we had to plan ahead. We figured out that Charley would fall asleep in a stroller on a walk (thanks mom) and Molly just had to have her ni-ni. Once I even just rocked Charley to sleep, that was awesome. It gave me at least an hour of peace in the sun. Well, maybe 45 minutes, but it was great. :) Kids had a blast, and even though I kept re-applying sunscreen, they all managed to get burned in one spot of another. Even Molly got sunburned around one eye, so much so that it looked like a black eye but in red. Weird. Grant loved swimming. Matt rented a SUP one day and took it out on the gulf and into the mangroves. Heck, I even took a little spin on it. :) Love the beach. Can't wait for summer!

Naples Beach

Charley snoozing on the beach

Mols and her ni-ni

Crazy Kids

Miss Molly the princess

Charley Binks the crazy one...do you see that look?

Nona going for the catch

Building sand castles

Trying to get Matt to take a normal picture...

Like that sunburn? Ouch.

Me and my ma

Charley's got her stuff

Grantster

**I am scared to take my nicer camera to the beach, so please excuse the grainy pics.

Spring Break Part Two - Getting the Hang of It

After a few days on Spring Break, we started to get the hang of it. Dinners out had to be in loud restaurants to muffle Charley's screaming and crying, the girls NEEDED naps, bedtime was going to be later than normal, goggles were an important daily need, and teeth will fall out. Just to name a few...

Grant after he lost another tooth. Good thing the tooth fairy knew where we were.

The munchkins

Charley and the goggles...oh the goggles. She's still carrying them around.

Lounging before bedtime

Grant hitting chips in the yard with dad

Family pic after dinner one night.

Nona and Papa and the kids

Me and my man

And then we had a vacation on our vacation. We were thankful to have had a sitter one night to go out without the chillins to a nice restaurant in Old Naples with my parents. Ahhhh, the peacefulness and good food!

Sitting outdoors listening to music

Being silly

Pati being "artistic". :)

Spring Break Part One - Airplane & Pool Drama

We went to Naples, Florida this Spring Break with my parents and enjoyed some beautiful and HOT weather. It was our first real vacation as a family. I'm so thankful that my parents could put up with my screaming children for a whole week. We had a rough flight with two girls that didn't get naps, sodas spilling in laps, a little boy that threw fits because they couldn't sit by the window, and one little one passing out from exhaustion after crying and crying. We survived...barely. We were THOSE people on the plane. So the beach and the warmth were so nice to enjoy once we got there. The kids had a great time, and we were so blessed to be able to enjoy this vacation. Here are some shots from the pool, before we were told we couldn't go in the pool anymore. Well, just Charley couldn't go in the pool, but we're a compete set. Apparantly, "diapered persons" (young or old) are not allowed in any pools in the county. Awesome. Good thing my kids don't mind swimming in the ocean.

Charley loved her swimmies

Molly did too!

My little fish. He has really improved from last year.

Daddy and his munchkins

Sitting poolside

It's a catch!