Fun Day at the Zoo

Mom and I decided to take the kids to the zoo over Spring Break for a treat. We have never been before and the kids were so excited to go. It was a great day as well not to hot thank goodness!!! The kids really loved seeing all of the animals. There favorite thing to do by far was feeding the parakeets!! They give you this little stick with birdseed on the end and you walk into a room filled with parakeets and they will land right in your hand to eat. Of course the trick is doing this first because you can imagine that they get pretty full by the end of the day. We did this twice and the kids would have done it over and over if Mommy would have let them!!! I think our second favorite thing was the Panda's they were so beautiful. As we were waiting in line to see them I was holding Camden and talking to the other two and noticed that Camden has his arm elbow deep into the ladies purse in front of us!!! I hope this is not a sign of things to come!! Ha!Ha! Sweet baby boy!!!

A Blue Willow Inn Easter

Little Baby still has his Bop Bop!!

This year the family went to Blue Willow Inn to eat for Easter.... What a great idea!!! We had a great meal, quality family time and best of all NO CLEAN UP!!! All joking aside this really was a great place to go and eat we really got a chance to visit with one another and not have to worry about all of the cooking. Plus, they have great places to take pictures. The Bunny always come around with Candy for the kids (Carsen is the only one of mine that will go near the bunny though!!). Plus they have a big yard for the kids to play in while we are waiting to get seated. I do love having family gathering at my house but there is something to be said for having a holiday that is this stress free and fun for everyone. I hope that this is one of those family traditions that continues on for years to come!!!

Coloring Easter Eggs...What a great tradition

We color Easter eggs every year on the Sunday before Easter. All of the Mommies get together with the children and we order Pizza and let the kids color the eggs however they want. We all have our favorites that we like to do.. I always color on pink and green polka dot, Carsen always makes one with the Yankees and Miami, Sissy always makes one with a cross..... And then you have Ommie who always makes one with her famous bunny!!! If that is what you want to call it.... It actually looks like a cross between a dog and a fox!!! We all get to laughing so hard that we almost cry!!! Easter just wouldn't be the same without Ommie and her bunny egg!!! You know that we love you Ommie!!

Sissy's Easter Egg Hunt at School

Look at those little gaps from loosing sweet little teeth!!!

That is such a little Presley Face!!!

What a fun little treat for the little ones. All of the kids for the whole Kindergarten sent in 12 eggs per child and they had one BIG Easter egg hunt. The kids had a blast collecting their eggs they were only allowed to get 12 eggs each but they were all filled with goodies!! What Fun!! Look at how cute their little bunny bags are that their teachers made out of brown paper bags!!!

Camden has fun outside and gets a new toy!!

Camden is in love with Cars..... Any kind of Cars! So when I saw this at the store I knew that he would LOVE it!! I was right! As soon as he came down from his nap he started playing with it and didn't stop until bedtime. I love to see it when there face just lights up over something like this. Now if I can just keep Carsen and Presley out of it we will be doing good. It is just like anything else if it is in the house it is fair game!!! Hopefully Camden will be able to stand his ground so that it doesn't get broken!! (Something tells me he will be just fine at doing that!!) This is going to be another fun toy for outside. All of them love to be outside with bubbles sidewalk chalk or anything else they can find to do!! Needless to say we live outside most of the time so this will just add some extra fun!!!

Carsen Playing Baseball

Here are more pictures of Carsen doing what he loves most in the world BASEBALL!!!! What a good season he had this year and something fun that the ballpark offered was shirts for the family that had your players number on the back. So of course, being the corny family that we are (at least that is what Daddy says!!) we all had shirts with Carsen's number on the back and different sayings!!! Even little Camden got in on the fun and his said Carsen's biggest fan!! There is not even a question of whether or not we wore them for every game!! You know that we did!!! I can tell that we are all going to have great memories of being at the ballpark... Way to go Carsen we love you!!!

Presley's big Solo at Church!!!

Her big moment......you never know what will happen with Sissy!!!

Well it finally happened..... I have been waiting for a while and finally one of my children got a solo at church. Let me clarify it was a bible verse not a singing solo.... Still to Mommy this is big stuff. As many of you probably know I have always wanted a solo myself (even though I am clearly not good enough for one!!!) As you can tell it was a pj party for the choir so all of the boys and girls had to wear there pj's. Presley's big bible verse was Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. Jeremiah 29:12 She did it perfect we were so proud of her. What a wonderful choir program we have for our children at the church we attend. It is such a blessing for our kids to be a part of it!!!

Let the Baseball Season Begin

Look at my Boy Pitching....His Daddy couldn't be more proud!!!!

Well my little baseball player is back on the field. Carsen loves this game more than anything I have seen. Over the years he has turned into the little baseball player. He has also taken his love for the game to a whole new level by watching it on ESPN and collecting baseball cards! He can pretty much give you the stats for all of the Yankee Players since that is his favorite team. I love watching him and Tom enjoying the games so much!! Believe me Tom could give you all of Carsen's stats as well but I am not on top of that like his Daddy.... All I know is that I am so proud of the little player that he has grown into and I am proud of how hard he works and enjoys playing the game ( I know that couldn't sound more like a Mommy!!) This is the first year that he has been a pitcher and he loves that so much plus he also plays first base. It is so much fun for the whole family to go to the ballpark and watch him play. I am glad that he is enjoying the game and learning such a wonderful team sport!!! Who knows he might even be a Yankee himself one day....You never know!!!

Valentines Day at Build a Bear....

We always take the kids out to eat and to Build A Bear on Valentines Day!!! This year Carsen and Presley just got outfits for their bears and Camden got to pick a bear (or froggy!!) He had such a good time stuffing it and giving it a bath!! The older kids had a blast helping him make is new little froggy!! Hopefully this will be a stuffed animal that he sleeps with but I wouldn't count on it!! So far he only attached to his paci....as you can tell by the picture. Happy Valentine's Day Mommies little ones!!!