Thursday, April 12, 2007

Easter 2007!


O.K. I cannot believe I figured out how to do this! I am so excited! That is why it has taken me a few days to get my Easter pictures up because I really wanted to figure out how to do one of these slide shows! Yippee! We had a great Easter weekend. On Saturday, we did our usual Easter Bunny breakfast at the Jelly Belly factory with our favorite Jones' family. Daryle does not care to go there but, Lindsey enjoys it so much, the dancing, singing, all the fun of the clown that is always there. I told Daryle,,"see, she is the reason, we come!" Tyler and Natalie still really enjoy it as well. On Easter Sunday, the kids were up by 7:00 and on the hunt for their baskets! Our Easter bunny is mean-he hides them and every year it gets harder! Natalie's was in the dog food, Lindsey's was in the outside fridge and Tyler's was outside in the back of Daryle's truck! What a crazy bunny!! Afterwards , they got to collect all the eggs from around the house that the bunny had hidden!Later that morning, we had an awesome brunch at the Country club with close family and the kids enjoyed another Easter egg hunt! We always love going to Easter brunch and stuffing our faces! We ended the day with having a nice dinner at home. My mom, Aunt Joan and Daryle's parents joined us for deep fried turkey, twice baked potatos, bread and asparagus-(sp?)!! The kids had 3 more Easter egg hunts! Needless to say, we have a TON of candy~and the kids are that much richer with the money they got in some of the eggs! I just love Easter and what it means to us....these special times with our children and the fun it is to watch them and see their faces light up!

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

5 things you may not know about ME!

My cousin, Marcia, tagged me to do this and I needed a few days to think so, this was really hard but, I came up with a few things some of you may or may not know!
1. I am addicted to Ebay! At first I thought ebay was just a big online garage sale but, then once I figured out NO it wasn't~ that there is actually talented people on ebay who make great scrapbooking things, dresses, handmade items, I was hooked!
2. I need to have my coffee in the morning-(I know, bad thing!) but, I do....there have been a few times that we have ran out of coffee in the house and I didn't know what I was going to do! ugh! I was really addicted to Starbucks a few years ago but, once I had joined Weight watchers (way back when)....and realized how many calories I was drinking, it really helped my addiction to going there everyday! Sometimes twice a day! Shhh,,don't tell Daryle!
3. I hate having my shoes on in the house! I kick them off as soon as I get home. You will either find me barefoot or socks and sometimes maybe slippers!
4. I am like Marcia and hate to be tickled. Daryle will think its funny every once in awhile and I just want to hurt him! :o) When I was little my Dad would hold me down and tickle me, lick me in the eye or give me a whisker kiss. Why do these Pickup men think this is so funny!
5. I would of had a 4th baby if I could of. It was recommeded to me that I not have another baby after Lindsey because of my 3 c-sections and all the scar tissue I had. I told Daryle we could get a 2nd opinion but, after much talk and a lot of tears(on my part.), we were happy & blessed with the 3 beautiful souls we had. (I would of loved to have had another boy!) We decided to cut (Daryle's) plumbing off about 2 years ago.I was really sad at first-it was such a weird feeling but, it is so nice now to not have to worry about it- I highly recommend it when your baby making days are over!

I guess I came up with a few more than 5......

6. I call myself a "scrapbook collector!" I love to scrapbook but, don't have much time with everything else but, I keep buying things like I scrapbook everyday. My front closet and bedroom closet are full of scrapbook supplies, stickers, paper etc....
7. I recently got nominated for a PTA position at school.They called me and asked if I would accept and of course me and my mouth said, "yes" I will be corresponding secretary-I don't even know if I spelled that right?!?!?
8. I love going out for Sushi! I know, it sounded gross to me too, the first time I was invited to go out for sushi-I actually ate dinner before I left because I thought I would be starving! Now, it is my favorite meal to go out for....although its expensive so, we can't go out for it too often!
9. I don't like to be made fun of-I can handle teasing as long as it is mutual and I am not the prime target. I don't care to be picked on. I don't mind it as long as the person doing
it can take it, as well. If you're going to dish it, you'd better be able to take it. I know a few people like this!
10. I am trying to think, if I can think of one more to make it an even # of things. ooh, I always wished that I would of had blue eyes. Anything but, brown. I think its pretty neat now that both my girls have big beautiful eyes, that I always had wanted. Natalie has blue and Lindsey's are green! I would trade with either one of them!

O.k. Lisa,,,,,your turn.....I tag you next! You too.....Malinda! I know Marcia already tagged you but, I thought I would do it again so, you'd better get moving! Tell us some things about yourself that we may not know!

Friday, April 06, 2007

Coloring eggs 2007!

My kids were so excited to color Easter eggs this year! They did a great job and it didn't take us very long to color about 60 eggs. I didn't realize I had bought so many eggs! oops! Guess we will be having egg sandwiches and scrambled eggs for awhile! We went to see the Easter bunny at the mall the other day after school and he wasn't there, wasn't there, so, we waited, waited, waited and Tyler looks up at me and says, "you know, you're really lucky, I will still do this!" I said, "I know, I am~thank you!" My boy is growing up but, still so sweet and innocent! If he does know about the Easter bunny(which I really think he does!) He plays it up really well. Which I really appreciate for his sisters-espically Lindsey. Needless to say, we never saw the Easter bunny! They said he might be another hour-he was at lunch!

Coloring Easter eggs!


We colored about 60 eggs! We color even the "non-boiled" ones since, Daryle & I are the only ones that will eat the boiled ones. Tyler didn't really want to wear the bunny ears but, he is such a good boy, he put them on for me! I told him the pictures were just for me! hehe......