Sprinker Fun

When the weather starts getting warmer in April each year Katelyn starts itching to get outside in the sprinkler! So one afternoon we did just that and she had a blast. The water is always so cold but she doesn't care one bit!


Interestingly it looks like we tend to get outside in sprinkler around the same time every year. Here is a little flash back from years past. It is so neat to see how much she has grown!

May 2008 - Owen was only 1 week old and it was time for some fresh air! She loved running through the sprinkler but quickly fell in love with the mud puddle as well!


April 2007 - Katelyn would scream every time she would run into the sprinkler. Check out that cute little saggy diaper!




April 2006 - These were the days before the water sprinkler came to our house but we still spent lots of time outside down by the lake. You know looking back at these I never realized how easy life was with only one child to look after! ;)


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FBC Art Show

Each year FBC CDC holds an art show for the kids to show off some of their special art work from the year. This year each of the kids painted a square that was assembled into a display quilt. It was auctioned off to raise money for American Cancer Society's Relay for Life. It was pretty neat!


Katelyn also did a cross painting using a stencil technique.


My favorite was the marshmellow paintings. I think I understood it correctly that they used food coloring and Karo syrup so they could eat the marshmallows afterward!


I couldn't help but throw in this this little flashback from last year at her very first art show in the P2 class. So sweet!


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More from Easter Weekend

Oops! I totally skipped over Easter Sunday afternoon! We left Alex City after church and came home to have lunch at Poppy & Gigi's house with Carmichael side of the family. It was yummy! The cousins enjoyed hunting Easter eggs in the front yard (or is it the backyard when you live at the lake???).






After everyone left Katelyn and Owen found the baskets the Easter Bunny had left for them. He sent a note to Nana & Pop's house that their baskets were so big that he left them at our house instead of hauling them all the way to Alex City. ;)


It was such a nice day we took them outside to see what was inside. They were both so excited!!





Katelyn LOVES to read! She is starting to really sound out the letters and putting words together. It is very exciting!


Owen was fascinated with everything in his basket.


I am so blessed!


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Looking Ahead

About a couple of weeks before Owen's first birthday (I know I should have waited but he is SO BIG!!) after having to switch out car seats in the truck I decided to go ahead and give him a try facing forward. HE LOVES IT! Every since that day he has chattered NON-STOP! Before when we rode he would settle in and usually go to sleep whenever we went somewhere - not anymore! He just talks and reaches for his sister to get her attention constantly. Don't think I haven't considered going back to those quieter days!! ;)


"Enough pictures already - Let's go MOM!!"


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The 7th Anniversary of my 29th Birthday

For someone who doesn't really like to make a big deal over her birthday it ended up being a weekend celebration it seems! My birthday was actually on a Friday but I had to work the Goshen HS prom down in Troy with Barry that night. It is always fun to go back to prom! My how things have changed! ;) What's this "stanky leg" thing anyway?!?

On Saturday we attended a 30th birthday surprise party for our friend Keith Williams (post from his party) and then headed out to Shogun (my FAVORITE birthday dinner spot) for some good 'ole Japanese entertainment. This was the kids' first experience and it was fun to watch their eyes get big over the big flames and the fact that everything was cooked right in front of us. YUMMY!!




The plan was to go bowling afterwards but bedtime was quickly approaching so we decided to put that off until another time.

Bart had given me a Nintendo DS for my birthday (Yeah!!) so we did make a quick stop in the mall to look for games. I had a coupon for Build-A-Bear that was about to expire so Katelyn got a new friend named Fluffy Bunny. It cost me a total of $1.65 after my coupons - SWEET!! Then she pitched a fit to ride the merry-go-round but we were all ready to go so we told her we would have to do that another time. She pitched a fit as usual. I told her I didn't have any money and asked her if she wanted to take her Build-A-Bear back (not thinking she would go for that) and she said "YES!" What?!? Then she threw her new bunny at me and said "I want to ride the Merry-go-round!" UGH!! Time to GO!! WHAT am I going to do with her!!


Then on Sunday our family got together for the annual birthday dinner. These are my favorite! I enjoy the casual atmosphere of being with everyone and always the good grub too!


Thank you everyone for a fabulous birthday!!

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Disney On Ice

On Friday, April 17th (my birthday!) while I was down in Troy, Alabama photographing a prom, Bart and Katelyn trekked off to the Coliseum with our cousins Art and Shana to see the Disney On Ice performance. Owen stayed back at home with Poppy & Gigi. I sent a camera with Katelyn asking her to have someone take pictures of them but when they came back there were no pictures of Daddy. I'm thankful for what they did get! They had a GREAT time!


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Cheap Fun

Recently I found a water hose sprayer on the dollar aisle at Target. I went to attach it to the water hose and Katelyn was very curious about what it did. Before I know it that little stinker was soaking wet!! It was COLD but she didn't care. She entertained herself for quite some time just playing with the water sprayer.




She got a little devilish and I told her not to spray me...this is what she did!


Owen was perfectly happy just hanging out in his wagon staying dry.


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