Easter 2013 - Part 1

I love Easter.  I love blessing my children with small tokens of our love on Easter.  They don't quite grasp the concept of why we celebrate Easter; therefore, we do the whole Easter Bunny thing.  We do make a concious effort to explain to them in ways they can understand about the true meaning of Easter, but when you have a six year old that thinks death is a final thing and is scared of "ghosts", it's hard telling her about the resurrection without her telling me that I'm lying about ghosts (don't you just love that extremely long run-on sentence?).  I tell her that Jesus isn't a ghost, that he really came back, but then she asks why she can't see him.  It's a little frustrating for us both, but she'll come to the realization when she's ready.

Easter morning.  Kinsley is posing while Katie is wiping the sleep from her eyes.

Excitement!

So sweet!  She got Wreck It Ralph.  So loves that movie.  It was her first movie theatre experience.  She has watched it a hundred times since we got it on DVD.

She has been asking for Lego Friends for some time now.  She was thrilled to finally get some.

She got Annie from the big bunny.  She looked at it and said, "What in the world is this?"  Time to educate the youth of today about a "hard-knock life."

I had to break out my Lego building skills. 

Never again will I pay $10 for a box of Legos.  This is what you get with the Lego Friends. 

That is not $10 worth of product.  Wow!

They were ready to take off!

And they're off!

"Um, Momma.  My feet are so dirty!"

Sisterly love.

This picture will not post correctly, but I wanted to share it anyway.  We sat outside on the back steps and I read the story while the girls ate their eggs.

After all of our early morning Easter activities, we get dressed and head to church.

See Part 2 for the rest

MIA Post - October 2012

I love October!  It's my favorite time of the year.  Bring on the holidays!!! 

Kinsley came home from daycare.  She said, "I eat dirt!"

It's October and this is the first time all year that we saw an icecream truck in our neighborhood.

Our annual Character Parade Day.  I'm Raggedy Ann and she's a very mad Lalaloopsie.

My dad and stepmother like to take the girls once a month.  They went to Pleasure Island and watched sharks!  I got a call the next morning that Kinsley had been throwing up all night.  They kept Katie for me while I took care of Kinsley.

Sick baby.

Grammy always does fun things with them.

Katie came home the next day.  We thought we kept her away long enough, but she got hit with the bug as well.  Guess who has to stay up with two pukey babies all night.  ME!

A teacher friend of mine's daughter had her 6th birthday the following weekend.  Everyone was better so we made our way over to Mrs. Arabie's house for Caroline's Minnie Mouse themed birthday party.

This is one of my favorite pictures of Katie.  I wish the lighting had been better.

When Kinsley was sick, Grammy and Maw Maw split some time with Katie.  Katie, Lily, and Breanna got to go to the pumpkin patch.

We had our first field trip of the school year in October.  It was also camo day at school for Red Ribbon Week.  We went to the fire station and to the park.

I really do not like when Halloween falls during the week.  Makes it hard for us to get home and get ready, plus everything ends so late so we're really pressed for time.

My two Lalaloopsies.

Grammy and Sarge came by to see the girls all dressed up.  They make it a point to stop by every year.  Love them bunches!

Me and my sister with our girls.

Family photo.

We went to our church's block party for Halloween.  They had a band playing, puppet shows, petting zoo, bounce houses, and lots of games.  As well as hot dogs and soft drinks, popcorn, and cotton candy.  It was a great time.

Ready for November!