Judah's First Egg Hunt

Every year, the town of Lexington puts on a HUGE Easter Egg hunt for the families and it keeps getting bigger and better!  This year I think they scattered 100,000 eggs!  WOW!!  They had lots of carnival games all over the fields with prizes - our jackpot was the game run by Bojangles - they were giving away coupons for free BoFreezes and BoBerry Biscuits when you played!!  We cleaned up on that one!

Anways, this was Judah's first egg hunt - I didn't know if he would know what to do but he LOVED it!  They had a hunt just for those two and under, and he just kept pointing around saying "EGG!! EGG!"  It was hilarious to watch him!

Waiting for the official start...he was losing patience fast :)

GO!  He hardly even had to move before he got his basket all filled up!

And THEN he discovered there were TREATS inside!  Talk about jackpot!

The older kids had flashlight hunts once it was dark.  No pictures of the big boys - they were over on a different field and I stayed with the younger two.  We had a BLAST!  :)

Babysitters in Training

We got to watch my friend's little boy, Walker, for a few hours today.  My boys LOVED having him!  Walker had fun with them too...except he did NOT like when Judah would scream or squeal!!  Walker has one older sister who is 8...so he doesn't have to listen to much squealing or screaming!  He's kind of used to things nice and quiet during the day...which is not usually what my house is like!  We LOVED having a baby for the morning!

Best Buds

Caleb's best bud, Max lives just a few houses down, but is getting ready to move to another neighborhood down the street.  To say we are going to MISS them is an understatement!!!  Good thing they aren't far away!!

Happy Birthday Callie!

 This sweet little girl came into our family 7 years ago...and it hasn't been the same since!!  She is such a fun girl to celebrate!!

We started the day with some birthday donuts of course!

Her birthday fell on a Wednesday (not ideal for this family), so we let her open her presents in the morning before school when Daddy was still there.  And of course, she wanted to wear her new outfit to school!

Was going to bring her Firehouse Subs for lunch (her free birthday sub), but then realized they aren't open at 10:30 am when I needed to pick it up!  Had to change plans at the last minute and grab Chick-fil-A...which made me a few minutes late for her lunch.  She KNEW I was coming, and I called my friend who works in the office to let her know.  I didn't want them to make her buy school lunch when I was ON my way!  They held her off and I finally got there!  Phew!

 We brought cupcakes for her class - blue cotton candy frosting with little "ice crystals" on top....the Frozen theme, remember?

I LOVE this little Callie girl.  She brings so much life and excitement to our family.  She is growing up right before my eyes.  I have been reminded lately that she is smack in the middle of all these boys and needs a little extra TLC...

 She also got the movie "Frozen"...which I informed Josiah we were going to sit and watch together after school.  Judah didn't get a nap because of all the lunch drama, but he sat down with Josiah to watch the movie and fell right to sleep :).  Even stayed asleep while I took him up to his bed - yay!  And we LOVED the movie!!  :)

Someone's Turning 7 Tomorrow!!

Curlers

She wanted to give it a try, so we did....but her hair is really too thin to hold much curl for long.  She got a kick out of it though!  :)

A Fun Little Project

 David had this awesome idea for a lighting effect on our stage...but it required about 2000 styrofoam balls to be glued to some black boards....I encouraged him to make it a party and invite some volunteers from W&A to join us and get it done MUCH faster!  :)

 We had some GREAT friends come and help us!

 This was about half of the completed boards.

 The life of a PK - Spending a Friday night at church in one of the Life Group rooms watching a movie while mom and dad work on the staging project :)

 Sleeping in a different room...

...and the big boys in yet another room. Success!  :)

Happy Momma

Driving tonight and I look over and see this - Josiah singing to the Newsboys with the CD liner in his hand.  LOVE it!!!  :)

Enjoy it while it lasts boys...

While out on a walk this morning, we found "Cooper" roaming around.  He had a tag on with his name, address, and phone number, but no one was home.  We called and left a message with his owner and then took him home to play with until his family could come get him.  Caleb was BEYOND excited!

We took MANY more walks...

Cooper was a very sweet, friendly little dog...Judah just LOVED him!

I was fine to see him go when his family got off the school bus later on, but these little boys would have been HAPPY to keep him!  :)

Music Education Week Continues

This morning was Josiah's turn - the band played a few of their songs before school.  Josiah has REALLY enjoyed the trombone this year and is excited to continue in middle school!