Play date with Brighton and riding our Bikes

   

   

Hoppy Easters

I know, I’m late.  Story of my life.  But we did have a wonderful Easter so I wanted to blog about it.  The Easter bunny paid us a visit and so we started the morning off with an Easter egg hunt in the back yard.  Then we attended church.  I attempted to get a cute picture of the boys in their church clothes but that failed.  As it always does.  They looked oh so handsome as always.  After church we had my cousin Marci and her sweet family over for dinner.  Then we had a blast playing baseball and enjoying the gorgeous weather.  Did I mention she moved here from Oklahoma?  I am loving having family so close!  And she has two of the sweetest boys ever and it is so fun when we get together!

Attempting after church pictures:

Easter Dinner with Marci, Brent, Emerson and Hudson

A few days before Easter I took Max to a flashlight Easter egg hunt that one of my friends out together at the park.  Talk about FUN!  Max thought it was super awesome.  It didn’t start till 8 so he only lasted about an hour.  Once all the candy was found he turned me and said “Let’s go home Mommy, I’m super tired”.  Alrighty then.  This was such a fun idea that we’ll have to do it again!

       

Max’s Preschool Pictures

Could he BE any more serious?  I still think they are cute.  But check him out in these two group photos.  I can just tell he is thinking “Just take the dang picture already”.  Totally Max.

Life Lately, according to my iphone

Time for some forgotten pictures on my phone.  Notice in this first one, the boys are sipping their yogurt nicely….

 

Then two seconds later…

And that is why we have leather couches.  Although I kinda deserved that one.  They should have been in the kitchen in the first place. d’oh.

 

     

A Child’s Prayer

I wrote this up a few months ago when it happened, then forgot to post it.  Better late than never I guess.

The other day the boys and I were out jogging.  It was chilly so I had the boys in beanies and wrapped up in blankets.  Because they were so bundled up, I didn’t realize that Max had smuggled his doggy in under his blanket.  We jogged 4 miles and as I was pulling into the driveway he told me he couldn’t find his doggy.  We went inside real quick and I ran all over the house looking for doggy.  But I knew he wasn’t in the house.  I knew he had somehow got lost on our jog.  My heart seriously sank.  Good grief, I may as well have lost a child.  I knew Max would be devastated if we couldn’t find him.  So we loaded up in the car and began driving around to find him.  As we were driving, I said a prayer and started scanning the sidewalks for him.  I got even more worried because there was much of the sidewalk that I couldn’t see from the road.  And then I saw him.  About two miles from our house, laying on the sidewalk.  Poor doggy.  I parked the car and ran to his rescue.  Oh my word I was sooo relieved.  I handed Max his beloved dog and gave him a little lecture… “This is why we don’t take doggy on our rides”… etc.  As I was driving back home, I decided we needed to say a prayer to thank Heavenly Father.  Max was so so sweet during that prayer.  It was short and sweet, but he said “Fank you Heavenly Father helping me find my doggy”.  My heart melted.  I was so thankful for the opportunity to teach Max that Heavenly Father is mindful of us and answers our prayers.  The rest of the way home Max just kept squeezing his doggy and saying things like, “I’m so sorry doggy”, “Doggy, are you ok?”  “Were you scared?”, and “I love you so much my doggy”.  Love him.

I took these on our jog before doggy was MIA.  Falling asleep at 10 in the morning?

Faking

Not faking