Easter 2013

Easter this year was a extra special affair because we had family from all over here. And of course my pictures did not post in order but either way these are pictures from the church Easter party and also from my family party.

Hunting eggs at Grandma's

Coloring eggs at the church party at Mawmaw's house

Hunting eggs at Mawmaw's with all our church family

The grown children started an egg fight at my family party

These two couldn't get enough of each other on Easter.

Attempts at getting family photos since we aren't together that much. The top picture is all 10 of the great- grandchildren.

And of course here are my boys.

Happy Anniversary!

Opening Day of Ball 2013

Josh just missed the cut off to move up to machine pitch baseball so we are still playing teeball this year. This morning the season kicked off with pictures and a game. And then unfortunately he has gotten sick this afternoon so we are again holed up in the house. But he had fun playing ball before the fever set in. Here are a few pictures.

 Miles and Delilah had to go say hey while Josh was sitting on the bench.

 And thank goodness he found the rocks and stayed in one place for the rest of the game.

Of course they are out of order. But it was a good first game. Hopefully I will remember to charge my camera battery before Tuesday so that they camera doesn't die in the second inning.

Wordless Wednesday!

Reading to Your Kids

I've always read to my kids. A little more sporadically as there were more added. And not always the fun stuff once I started homeschooling. But we have come up with an agreement- every night we will read a chapter together passing the book around each reading a page. And the boys got to pick the books. So far we have :
"The Chronicles of Narnia"
The "Percy Jackson" series
And, well that's it. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

"Pitch Perfect"

I loved this movie. And I let my kids watch it not thinking about it because there was less in this movie then in some of the cartoons that their grandparents let them watch  on TV. I will say that the language is not good and that there are innuendos that fortunately they did not get (at least not the younger 3). But I really realized that it was a bad idea when my 2 year old started singing "Let's talk about sex baby, let's talk about you and me". Yep, he sure did. Parent of the year award right here. So while it is a really good movie- it may not be the best idea to let your kids watch it or listen to the entire soundtrack. 

Emmie turns 3

We have spent the last 2 weekends at birthday parties. Alaina's I didn't get any pictures except of Miles' first black eye after a fall from the top bunk. And of course I can't get it to upload here. But this past weekend was my sweet Emalyn's 3rd birthday party. We had a lot of fun even though Josh threw Miles out of the powerwheel truck and proceeded to back up over him. And also the melt down Miles had because he thought he left his shoes at "Emmie's birthday". So here are some pictures. I don't have a lot of Josh but he was driving the truck most of the party.