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| Rilyn-From April 2005 |
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| Ella-From April 2006 |
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Asher is really into cars right now. He got some in his Easter basket this year. Do you think he was excited?
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| James is just as excited as he is finally getting into playing with real ‘boy toys’ and not baby toys anymore! James can’t wait to buy Asher a race track for his bday! |
It was so precious to watch Asher play with his little cousin, Caden. Even Caden, who is 8 months old, knew how to zoom the cars around!
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| From April 2010 |
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| From April 2010 |
Gosh, I love this little boy! He will be turning two is just a couple of weeks! He sure knows how to run me out though! I love this picture because this accurately portrays my little man. Just when you think you are posing for a sweet picture, he grabs your dangly earring and yanks! (Ow! That really hurt too!)
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| From April 2010 |
After going through their baskets, the girls wanted to do the egg hunt in Grandpa’s front yard.
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But this year, Grandpa wasn’t satisfied with just a normal egg hunt. This year, he bought a metal detector and thought it would be fun to hunt for coins that he hid throughout the whole lawn! The girls loved it! (Grandpa was secretly hoping that the girls might find his lost wedding ring, but to no avail!) Could this be a new Easter tradition?!?
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| From April 2010 |
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| From April 2010 |
Remember the elusive bunny shot? Well, I finally got one after we watched How to Train a Dragon on Saturday night! (Good movie, but a little scary for my girls)
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| Too bad Asher wasn’t in the picture! It would of been
much funnier to see him scream cuter! |
We always dye Easter eggs the night before too. We never do anything with them, but it’s still a fun activity for the girls!
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| Rilyn was so scared she would drop the eggs! |
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| Wow! We made a pink egg! |
Easter morning we all get ready to go to church. We stayed in Temple at my parent’s house, so we went to church with them.
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| ‘The obligatory color-coordinated Easter morning family shot’ |
After church, the kids got to go through their Easter baskets!
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| Lots of art stuff and movies! Thanks Grandma! |
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| Asher is trying to figure out how to open this bunch of
lollipops! |
More to come tomorrow!
Happy Easter! He is Risen!
Who doesn’t love celebrating spring and Easter with an egg hunt?!? This year, on Saturday morning, The Austin Stone, our church, put on several egg hunts around Austin and one of them was at our neighborhood park! It was so fun to put together with my good friend, Denise. And, I was also privileged to get to share the Easter story from the Jesus Storybook Bible with the many neighborhood kids who came. I busted out my flannel board that I inherited from my mom’s Sunday school teaching days. It is totally 80’s, but the kids love it!
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| Asher wasn’t totally into it this year, but he didn’t know candy was inside the eggs either! |
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| Sweet big sister helping out her little brother! |
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| Go Ella! |
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| This is me with my flannel board reading the Easter story from the Bible! |
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| On your mark, get set, go Rilyn! |
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| Here is Rilyn trying to race Levi. If you know these two, this is the story of their relationship! |
So today, I just knew I would get my Easter bunny pictures. I went to Lakeline mall, which there is no question that this mall is thriving, and a bunny would be there. I also had all three kids with me, which was an added bonus! Color coordinating clothes-check! All set! Well, when we got there I saw the line and I knew there was no way Asher was waiting in that! Foiled again! Grrr…
Oh well, my kids will just have to do with this for now! (Truth be told, my kids could care less about the bunny, they know he isn’t real and I just like doing it for scrapbooking purposes.) 😉
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| check out that line! |
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| we went in for a closer look! |
*And I’m so glad I did not wait in that line! I was talking to a woman in the elevator who waited an hour and a half and said they ran out of photo paper when they got to her kids and then they had the nerve to tell her she couldn’t even take a picture with her cell phone! She had to just let her kids sit on the bunny’s lap and leave!
**Hey, I still have one more day to get a picture with the Easter bunny, so don’t count me out yet!
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| From April 2009 |
By the way, if you haven’t heard of Resurrection Eggs yet, they are an awesome way to teach your children about the Easter story. Here is a website that shows you how to make your own at home! So easy!
If you know me, you know once I have my mind set on something, and my expectations are not met, I am severely disappointed, to the point where it ruins my day (I know it’s bad, but it’s true, and I need Jesus!) So imagine my disappointment when I drove up to the Highland Mall to have Asher visit the Easter bunny only to discover the bunny wasn’t there. Now I know this mall is basically dead, but I thought Santa and Easter bunny’s at the mall were like peanut butter and jelly. Grrrrrr. I even brought my camera so I could capture Asher’s sheer terror when he sat on his lap. Well, what am I, ‘Ms. Don’t Change the Plans on Me’ to do? Expected outcome of the morning: pictures of Asher with bunny. Modified expectations of the morning: pictures of Asher in the bluebonnets! Yeah, that’s it! I will find bluebonnets and I WILL get pictures today of Asher! So, we drove halfway to Taylor and found a patch on the side of the farm road. Asher was not thrilled when I stuck him in the middle of the patch which came up to his waist. I think he had some sort of bluebonnet anxiety and felt trapped. Oh well, I was going to get pictures so he had to deal. Enjoy!
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| get me out!!! |
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| help! |
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| This picture cracks me up, because he sure changed his tune when he saw a car
drive past us! He loves cars! He is saying “Whoa!!! Car!!!!” |
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| watching the car drive down the road |
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| Poor Asher, little does he know he has more bluebonnet pictures coming soon with
his sisters! |
Finally Ella had her first soccer game! She was ready to play and put on her game face!
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Ella is on the WildPfire team with her best friend, Anna Richardson. Aren’t they precious?
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| bffs |
With a little bribe from daddy, (if she doesn’t cry she gets to have ice cream!), our little girl ran the field with gusto!
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| Watch out! Here comes Ella! |
She even took a hard, face-planting tumble!
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But she held in her tears! (And took a break with Uncle Jeff to pick her nose.) 🙂
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| We were so proud of our Ella! |
And poor Asher and Caden, (Anna’s little brother.) It’s torture to hold toddler boys back from running around grassy fields with a ball! But alas, Jeff managed quite nicely!
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| I want down!!!!!!! |
the paquettes 