All the Easter Pictures ;)

I know Easter has come and gone. I have been nesting as of late and have neglected my blogging. Hopefully I can get caught up soon. :) 

Saturday before Easter, we set out to our traditional Easter carnival & hunt over at Town Square here in KW but discovered upon arrival it had been canceled for some strange reason. So thanks to the power of the iphone, we barely caught the only other Easter egg hunt in the area at the Porter VA center. The boys made out pretty good with stuffed animals and lots of eggs. 

After the egg hunts we came home and dyed Easter eggs.

If you look closely you can see a special Easter egg for the baby...can you find his name?

Some Yummy Easter treats I made for the boys and friends here in TX. 

 Easter morning our bunny was really tricky. He left baskets to enjoy before 9am church but didn't come back to hide the eggs until we were at church. The boys were excited to come home with a yard filled with fun. :)

Thanks to Grandma, their baskets were extra packed this year with all kinds of treats and fun stuff. :) 

A little spring in our step...

I am still catching up from all the trips and have fallin behind in my posts. So here is a little Spring rewind & recap.....

The Saturday before Easter we hunted eggs at Town Center here in Kingwood. They always have great Easter festivities and it has become a tradition of ours to go each year.

We also attended a charity benefit for a young Kingwood mother name Katy Hayes who contracted a common form of Strep A delivering her last baby. Subsequently, she had to have both her arms and legs amputated. Such a sad story but it was a wonderful event and it was inspiring to see so many in the community come together to rally for her. To learn more about Katy click here:

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Parenting/flesh-eating-bacteria-costs-mom-arms-legs/story?id=10646649

We had our friends Zach and Dulca over for Conference and Easter dinner. Weston has been teaching them with the missionaries for several months. They are great. :)

Here is a little peak of my first garden! I can't say enough how much I am loving it. I did plant one last fall (a little late in the season) and I was hopeful but it froze too early and therefore never amounted to much. I planted this garden in March (from seeds) and it has been doing well so far. My peppers, tomatoes and strawberries have been doing the best. More to come here, later. :)

This is random but I thought I would post it. When I was fifteen years old I got into quilting and I made two patch work quilts. This one was completely crafted, assembled and tied. It just needed binding but I didn't know how to do it and I never took the time to learn. Well, for the past 17 years this quilt has been sitting in a plastic bag in a box. At our last Stake Conference a sister (whom I didn't know before sitting by her at the meeting) introduced herself and randomly asked me afterward if I had any patch work quilts I could display at the Stake Quilt Exhibit & Picnic. Well, hot dang! I had two. I explained the predicament with this one.

Sister Goodman was so sweet. She drove to my house with her quilting book, gave me a little tutorial and wah-lah! 17 years later my 15 year old ambitions were made complete. As I sewed this old quilt, so many memories came flooding back about all that was going on in my life at the time. Long story short- it turned out to be a tender mercy for me to see this quilt be complete. Even if it was 17 years later! Sister Goodman insisted she take my picture with them. So, here you have it! The top one is called an "Around the World" quilt.

Here is the other one.....still wrinkled from being packed in a box for so long. They didn't hold a candle to all the other fancy schmancy ones done by the "professional" quilters but she still wanted them displayed. This one is called a "Log Cabin" quilt. :D

We have been to several Astro's games but they have usually been date nights with Warren or Weston. This time we went as a family. It was also Ben's first Astro's game. He was mezmerized by the lights, the music, the train aka "choo choo!" Here you see him pointing to it.

If you look just below the lights you will see the full size train that drives around the track around Minute Maid stadium. When they hit a home run....the conductor blows the whistle. The boys LOVE it!

All my boys. :D How'd I get so lucky?

Mothers Day. Warren's preschool hosted a "Mothers Day Tea" where all the moms came and our kids pampered us. It was so sweet. He made me the cutest corsage and served me chocolate covered straberries, short bread cookies, cheese, crackers and lemonade. They read us books and also sang us some great mothers day songs. As featured in the video below. :) Thank you to Warren who made my Mother's Day so special. I love you buddy.

We celebrated dad's birthday! His cake was lovingly decorated by Warren with a various assortment of candles, a lolly-pop, a HEB buddy buck 20 point sticker and some Wall-E paraphernalia. :) Of course, dad loved it!

Warren has been taking swimming lessons and has been learning so fast. He has always loved swimming but stayed true to his cautious Warren self. I am so proud of him. He's so willing to do everything she asks. His biggest hurdle is just feeling confident in the water without hanging onto her/my neck! He is very determined and I think he will be swimming in just a few more lessons!

Doing Bobs!

Last but not least. Our friend Dulca got baptized! She is the sweetest person. I just love the strong spirit at baptisms. It's always amazing to me how it envelops us and confirms the truthfulness of the Gospel. She asked Weston and I to give the talks. He spoke on Baptism and I spoke on the Holy Ghost. We felt honored to be part of their special day!

Easter Fun!

Easter was a very busy yet wonderful day! I sang with the choir in Sunday Morning, taught YW, came home and made Easter "lunch" and chauffeured Warren around to two Easter egg hunts! We were exhausted by days end!

After church Uncle Steve and Aunt Julie invited us over for dinner and Easter egg hunt! All the kids had so much fun!

Uncle Steve & Benny Boo. Always smiling!

Aunt Julie & me.

Everyone got a bucket full of treats!

Our friends the Jones' also invited us over for an egg hunt at dusk & yummy Easter dessert!!

Snips, snails & hunting.

Janelle's classic Easter bunny cake & THE most delicious lemon cake EVER. Oh. Yea.

Easter Fun

Easter Sunday-The bunny visited our house while we were at church. It was a fun filled day. After we hunted Warren's loot we made Easter Cookies, ate dinner and visited some of our good friends.
Saturday we took Warren to the Easter Egg Hunt at Towne Center Park in Kingwood. It was such a gorgeous day. It was about 68 degrees and sunny.

After the hunt they had a carnival all set up for the kids and Warren had a blast. He got to ride the train, hold some real bunnies, baby chicks & ducklings, and feed some reptiles. A man from the Houston Chronicle took our picture to pulish in Sunday's paper.