Happy Birthday Gram!

Gram's 29th birthday was Saturday! Everyone went to dinner at Greenbriar's. After dinner we went back to Gram and Grampie's house to have birthday cake. It was one Gram's favorite kinds... A Publix cake! (who doesn't like a cake from Publix?!) Gram got lots of good stuff for her birthday! Hope she enjoyed the night! We love you lots Gram!

Spring Program

Dylan had his first spring program at school last Thursday. He did such a good job. The theme was "School Days" a review of the holidays celebrated during the school year. His class was dressed as "Thing 1" and "Thing 2" in honor of Dr Seuss week. He saw us when he walked in and never got upset. He just waved and kept walking with his class to the stage. The program was very cute. When it was over we went to Applebees for lunch! It was a fun morning!

Hail! No!

We had some crazy storms pass through Friday. We were lucky that the dangerous storms went past our area, but we did have the worst hail I have ever seen. We have lived here more than 14 years and I have never seen so much hail. It was pounding our roof and windows. I was so afraid it was going to break the windows. It only lasted a few minutes but it was enough to do damage to several cars that were parked outside. Lucky for us my car was in the garage because our neighbors car had damage and also my sister's car. I am hoping there is no damage to the roof.

Fire Pit

Tim has been wanting a fire pit for the backyard for some time, so he finally got one last week with his birthday money. He spent the weekend building up the wall around it to make it look nice and bought some comfy chairs to put around it. Tonight was our first night to use it. It took us a little bit to get the fire going but once we did it was so nice! It was cool outside so the heat from the fire was just enough to warm us up. Good job Tim!

Happy Easter

We celebrated Easter a little different this year. We decided to stay home and celebrate as a family. We figured the kids (and us) would get as much out of family time as we would at church. We had our own Easter story and made crosses and tombs and other spring items out of play doh as we read the story of how our Savior was risen from the dead. The kids even had the idea to use our stamps we were using to mark our feet and hands were Jesus was nailed to the cross. That was a good idea since it reminded us all day of the sacrifice Jesus made for us. We then went outside and used the new kites and bubbles we got from the Easter Bunny. It was a perfect day for kites. Once lunch time came we headed over to Gram's to have lunch with the family. Everyone was there (except Uncle Jason) so it was nice having the entire crew around. Gram and Grampie hid Easter eggs outside for the boys to look for after lunch. The kids had fun looking for all the prize eggs which had candy or money in them. We are so blessed to have such a great family to spend time with and even more blessed that we have been forgiven of our sins for eternity thanks to our awesome Lord and Savior! Happy Easter!

Just 'cause I think they are cute!

When does church end?

Joshua asked me today, "What are we going to do when church is over?" We were out running errands so I reminded him we were not on the way to Church today. "No," he said. " I mean what will we do when church is over for good and we have learned all of the Bible stories?!" He wanted to know when will we be done with going to church since at some point we will have heard every Bible story. I laughed and told him that was a good question, but then explained to him that we will never stop learning about God and Jesus. We will continue to learn how to walk with Jesus and learn the things he wants us to do. I told him he will take his kids to church and their kids and so on. I tried to keep the lesson going but was interrupted when the Frito Lay truck drove past us and Joshua asked me to catch up to the Dorito truck! LOL.