What We've Been Up To

                                          Pretending to be Daddy!

Studying the art of the Mexican Dance!

Spending as much time as possible with

our neighbor and great friend Houston!!

Playing in water every chance we get!

They are both soaked.

Caterpillars have been a huge hit around here!

ROAD TRIP with our best buddies

Case & Keeton!!

We took the boys to Memphis one Friday

to see Elmo Super Heroes!

A meet and greet with Cookie Monster!!

So excited about this show!!

And as always, hanging out with Woody and

His Round-Up Gang!!!

Easter Morning

I have many, many posts to catch up on. I decided to work my way backwards and start with Easter Morning. Jack only asked for two things from the Easter Bunny this year - a fishing pole and a chocolate bunny rabbit (so he could bite it's ears off). As you can see, the Easter Bunny must have thought he was a very sweet boy, because he brought a lot more than two things.

And here he is, moments after waking up, biting the ears off of his chocolate bunny. Mission Accomplished!! The Easter Bunny was fun, but we made sure that we talked to Jack and explained to him the true meaning of Easter. And if you ask, he will tell you "Jesus on the Cross"! Such a sweet, sweet heart for Jesus.

We were able to get a few, QUICK, shots before church. You will notice a common "theme" throughout this and future posts - Jack's Woody Cowboy Hat! He wears it EVERYWHERE, ALL OF THE TIME!! Yes, he wears it to church. He knows he can't wear it IN church. He wears from the house until right before we walk into church, he takes it off, holds on to it during church, and puts it back on as soon as we step outside of church. He wears it in Wal-Mart and every other store we go to. We wears it around the house all day and hangs it on the back of his chair when he comes to the table to eat. I knew it would cause a HUGE uproar if we tired to get Easter pictures without it on, so after we had taken a few, he was nice enough to let us get one or two without it. But after one or two, he wanted it back on. The hat doesn't bother me. I think him wearing it all of the time bothers others more. I think it's cute, he loves it and I have learned to pick my battles. This sweet hat is not a battle.

He's not the best picture poser. He likes to be silly. So we have to take what we can get.

Finally one without the hat. The only thing that remains is hat hair! He puts it back on as soon as he gets out of the bath tub. He puts it on his wet head. So, he always has hat hair.

After church, we went over to John's parent's house for lunch. Jack posed for more pictures. By this time he was getting into it.

I don't know what you call this pose! Easter morning was perfect and lunch was delicious! After lunch, we took Jack fishing to try out his new fishing pole. More pictures to come!!

Valentine's Day

Every morning Jack eats his breakfast in our bedroom. He sits in his blue bean bag, I put his food on his blue tray and he watches his programs. He is such a creature of habit. So his Valentine Love Bug knew exactly where to be waiting this morning.

We only see our Love Bug when he thinks we need a happy, and ALWAYS on Valentine's Day.

He was full of all sorts of goodies. Needless to say, Jack had a little candy with his breakfast.

And best of all - He brought Jack the Lady and the Tramp DVD. As you can tell, Jack was very excited. He's been asking for it ever since they started advertising it on TV a month or two ago. (And maybe our Love Bug knew I would enjoy it too.)

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

Feburary 2012

While Jack and John are watching Peter Pan, I thought it would be a good time to update our blog. Love is in the air and we have, literally, been counting down the days to the 14th!!


This was my mom's idea. She found me this cute metal plaque and the hearts. I had exactly 14 hearts and I glued a magnet to the back of each one. I made the vinyl letters and stuck them on. It has been such a cute way for Jack to count down the days until Valentine's Day. I hung it at his level and every morning he gets up and removes a heart, sticks it on the frig, then counts the hearts that are left. I'm trying to come up with another cute way for him to count down to Easter. Something with little crosses would be cute. I'm working on it.


I always get stuck on what to do on my table for the holidays. This year an idea hit me when I saw these cute red 5x7 frames at the Dollar Tree. I bought 2 pieces of white poster board and cut out the letters L - O - V - E. I couldn't find red poster board, so I had to paint the letters red myself. I took Jack's picture with each letter and framed each one. I lined them up down the center of a red wooden mirror and spread several cute, SCENTED Valentine cards around the bottom. The pictures are my favorite and will be used every year. I'm not sure I'll have the heart to put them away with my Valentine decorations at the end of the month. (The mirror worked out really well. At meal time I just had to move the mirror and not each object.)

Flowers from my parent's yard.

Our "Tree of Love". When I think about love, the first thing that comes to my mind is 1 Corinthians 13. So I thought the verses of this chapter would be the perfect statements for our tree. I started with the word "LOVE" crafted and hung at the top of the tree. Then I cut out several hearts, typed and printed the main words from each verse, glued them together, and there you have it!! It's been a great way to teach Jack what the Bible says about love.

The banner my mom made for me a couple of years ago. I LOVE it and look forward to hanging it up every year.

Our buffet. At Christmas, I bought a box of red tree lights for the purpose of using them this month. I'm so glad I did. We've enjoyed having them light up the back of our buffet. Very festive!!

My mom found this mail box for me. It's made out of card board and had to be painted. It came out exactly the way I wanted.

We have two Scrabble games at our house, so I used the tiles from one to make a couple of projects.

A picture of Jack taken on his first Valentine's Day. It's so hard to believe he was ever that small.

The side board as you come in the carport door. Pretty much the same decorations I use here every year.

I picked this frame up at Wal-Mart for 97 cents, painted it and glued on the Scrabble tiles. I really like it and can use it all year.

Jack's Valentine basket. It started filling up over the weekend.

Last week, we had a few of Jack's friends over for a Valentine's lunch. I forgot to take pictures of the actual lunch food. It was just fun heart shaped sandwiches, Butter Finger Pie and these yummy pretzel, chocolate, M&M treats Natalie made for us. I did manage pictures of the "Before Lunch" snacks. I don't know who enjoys our playdates more, the moms or the kids.

There's nothing kids like more than getting to eat a lot of candy before lunch.

A new recipe I tried for the occasion - Apple Nachos! They are soooo good. Apples, caramel sauce, coconut, pecans and chocolate chips. Thank you Pinterest!!

Our group of sweet friends.

Wishing you a Valentine's Day full of ...

From us to you!!