Just a Couple of Pics

On our way to their Easter Egg Hunt at school and Ellasyn was having her Easter party.
The best I could get of the two of them together

She loves to strike a pose! :) I realize my bunny might not be the best color up against my red front door but I promise it does have dark pinky red polka dots on it. Plus I was a sucker for the amazing bow on it. I will be sad to take it down this week.

Yes, folks she is posing next to an elephant that makes it's home on our front porch. His name is Big Al as in the mascot for the University of Alabama. What can I say other than "Roll Tide!" We think he is pretty fabulous and our Auburn neighbors are secretly jealous.........

A Donkey at Church

Evidently, there is a tradition at our church that we have not known about, the Donkey who pays a visit on Palm Sunday. When we lived in Missouri we usually only made it home for Easter and not Palm Sunday and sometimes we did not even make it home at all and spent Easter all by ourselves so we have never experienced Palm Sunday at our Church with children until this year.
Well this family who has donkeys and other farm animals brings in their donkey for the children to see what Jesus rode. Betsey was sooo excited because they made palms in her Sunday School class and got to wave them at the donkey. All day she was waving that palm yelling out "Hosana, Hosana, Hosana" so sweet. It touches my heart to see her little heart grow and want to know more about Jesus. Even Ellasyn's class went out to see the donkey and she proudly told us that he lived in the farm house i.e. barn that was on her dress!

Betsey added this cowgirl hat on her own, she finished getting dressed and said "wait I will be right back" and showed up with it on her head. I guess it really was quite fitting for visiting with a donkey and all! I so had no idea about the donkey, promise! I know I like to coordinate them for the occasion but this was just a total fluke!

It's Friday but Sunday is a coming! Enjoy this weekend with your family and remember like Betsey told me today "Jesus loves us so much that he died on the cross for us but he is going to come back alive on Easter day!" Out of the mouths babes......

A new month

Old pics of Ellasyn's "baby cakes" Birthday cake she wanted purple ladybugs, her initials, and "3" on the them. Betsey picked out this cake all by herself complete with what color polka dots she wanted.

This month I am going to try and do a post or at least a picture everyday! I realized that I am a little camera happy the other night when I was uploading pictures and realized that I had taken over 3000 pictures since January!!! Imagine if I was using film......WOW! So I want to at least do something with some of the pictures that I take as Betsey and Ellasyn's papparazzi!!!

I am not saying that these are all great pictures and I have a feeling Betsey and Ellasyn are responsible for at least 100 or so of the pictures.

We shall see if I am able to do this but I am going to try!

Happy St. Patrick's Day from the Beach

We are down at our Favorite place this week!!!! The girls are on Spring Break this week so we headed down to the beach! We have not been in FOR-EVE-AH......

Hope everyone wore their green today!

Road Trip

She was just a LITTLE bit bored in the back seat

I guess the new coloring book was not good enough

she felt like she needed to color her face!

So Rusty had to spend a week in Wilmington, North Carolina and so the girls and I decided to jump in the car and head on over to see him. What a road trip it was! Betsey was not feeling like her usual self and ended up puking in all 4 states along the way! Needless to say I could not get there fast enough. At first I only thought that she was being dramatic but after I was holding her on the side of I-20 while she was throwing up for the 3rd time I began to think that maybe there was more to it! The only problem was that by this time we were half way there so it was do I keep going and maybe we will be sick the whole time or turn around and go back home. I decided to keep going and I am so glad that I did because she was perfectly fine the next day and we had an GREAT little trip!

Chuck E. Cheese

Last week we went to Chuck E. Cheese with our friends Maddie and Ben after dance. Their Daddy was out of town, our Daddy was out of town, seemed like a brilliant plan to the Momma's! We had a great time and it was a nice way to pass the evening. I also ran into a girl that I went to college with. We kept looking at each other and finally we both just said "Do I know you?"It was fun to catch up for a while. She told me I should join Facebook, it seems like I keep hearing this from more and more people! I am still being a holdout.....

Back to Chuck E. Cheese, Ellasyn hit the jackpot! She was playing some game where you hit the button to stop on a number and you win that many tickets well she won 75 and got so excited to see them all come out of the machine. Even with her 75 tickets and the other 100 we had, Betsey was not very happy about her choices of a prize. She missed her Steve-O who normally wins her like 1000 tickets and those prizes are WAAAAY better! :)

Snow in Alabama

Making some SNOW cream

We waited a LONG time to get enough snow

part of our backyard in the pretty snow

Looking out our front door

I know it is snowing a LOT in different parts of the country, as a matter of fact on Friday there was snow on the ground in 49 states. How cool is that! Evidently it was a freak thing that there was NOT snow on top some volcanoes in Hawaii. Who knew, NO snow in Hawaii is a freak thing?!?!?

We got about 3 inches here even though none of it stuck to the roads. It was enough for us to make some snow cream though. My children of course had no desire to go outside and play in the snow. Ellasyn just looked at me and said "I don't like it, no go out in the snow today, OK." All of this was said with her little nose turned up and the animation in her face that is oh, so dramatic! So we didn't go outside and instead had a fun stay in our pj's day!