Easter Weekend

We had a full, busy, and great Easter weekend!  Get ready for picture overload!!! 

We started our weekend by getting up early to go get our basket from Bountiful Baskets!  I love it! 

 The girls and I headed to Chick-fil-a for a little breakfast on the way to see Paul run in a 5K in Decatur.

 Decatur is a cute little town.  Waiting on P at the finish line...

The courthouse in Decatur is so pretty...

 Paul's cheering section! :)

 My baby and me! :)

 Another view of the courthouse!

 So proud of their Daddy!

 He won 1st in his age category!  Way to go babe!! :)

After the race, we headed to Parker's (my nephew) birthday party.  We enjoyed hot dogs, the jump house, and dying eggs!

My poor, sweet Sydney Hope got jumped on in the jump house and got some free dental work done.  If you look close enough you can see her bleeding gums.  It broke my heart!  But, it made her teeth straighter! :)

That night  we headed to Paul's Granny's for the big egg hunt!  

The girls had a blast!  They literally ran over each other trying to get to the eggs! :)

My sweet girl showing off her new smile the night before Easter morning...

On Easter morning  we woke up, got dressed (thank you Wal-Mart for our really cute and really cheap Easter dresses!) and headed to church!  How cute are my little chicks!

 After church, we headed to my parent's house for Easter dinner!  We, of course, had to get some pictures in...

 Oh, how I love these three!

 Love my hubs... :)

 Gracie Claire did a little posing... :)

 After pictures, we headed inside to eat.  The kids were so ready... :)

 Sydney and Sam love each other so much!

 This has nothing to do with Easter, but how awesome is this!  My sister-in-law, Sandra, made it for my mom for her birthday! 

 Ready for an egg hunt...inside because of the rain...

 Sweet and funny cousins!

And just a couple more pics from our weekend...

The big sister and the littlest sister...how I love them!

Sorting toys for our Reaching The Masses garage sale!  More on that to come!

We had a great Easter weekend and are so thankful and so blessed that our Saviour has risen and gave us the hope of Easter!  He's alive and we WILL live with HIM in heaven one day!  Woot!

It's Only Tuesday?!?

I feel like this week is laughing at me as it slowly inches by.  It has been a crazy week so far.  We had a power outage at school yesterday for the majority of our day and then we had to take cover today because of tornadoes in our area.  We've been joking about what more could possibly happen this week!  We're praying for the next couple of days to be completely normal!

I've been a really bad blogger lately.  It's not that I don't have anything to post about.  It's that I'm beat when I get home and don't feel like doing much more than snuggling with my little ladies.  Speaking of them, they're as awesome as usual.  I love being their Mommy.  It's the best and most fulfilling job ever.

What other random things are going on around here, you ask?

This is too important to be called random...but, we celebrated my Mom's birthday last Friday night with a party at our house.  The whole family was here and we cooked out, laughed, and celebrated my awesome Mom.  The girls were so excited about the party.  They love their Gigi and I love my Momina!

I planted flowers!  Yes.  Me.  I planted flowers!  I've really wanted to do something to perk up our yard and so I bought some geraniums and begonias.  So far, so good!  I've been watering and making sure they are looking alive.  I love the way they brighten up the yard.

I signed the girls up for swimming lessons!  I can't believe it's already that time of year again!  We are almost 8 weeks away from the end of the school year.  It's amazing how fast it has flown by.  It's, as always, so bitter-sweet.  I'm always sad to lose my class, but so excited for their success!  I can't begin to tell you how weepy I can get thinking about Gracie Claire being a 2nd grader and Sydney being a Kindergartner.  It stirs up way too many emotions to even begin to list.  These two are hilarious.  Today they decided to give themselves beards with the soap suds after washing their hands.  Of course, they had to have their pictures taken.

I got some new Toms.  I heart them.  They're the ballerina flats.  I don't think they're as comfy as the originals, but they're not bad!  I've been wanting some leopard print flats for a while, so I was so excited to finally get these! 

We've been working on clearing out and organizing our garage for the last couple of weekends.  I loathe cleaning out the garage.  It's seriously one of the worst jobs ever if you have way too much stuff, but we sifted through it all and have success!  We're selling lots in a garage sale (more on that coming soon) and we've almost finished organizing.  Go us!

I got a new coffee mug from Anthropologie, thanks to my lovely MIL, Janice.  Isn't it cute?!  I love that store...it's just I'm too cheap to shop there.  Cute, cute things at ridonculous prices.  I will NOT pay much more than $20 for a shirt, let alone $98...or more!  But, I will happily drink my coffee in style.  :)

Paul got new glasses after wearing, what we lovingly refer to as "his glass" (glasses whose earpieces have been broken off) for several years.  They look very handsome on him.  We have an inside joke about how glasses fit his face, but he did good with these frames.  Anyways, the girls HAD to try on Daddy's glasses! :)  Sidenote:  Both Paul and I thought that Molly and Sydney look so much alike in this pic.  So crazy!

As Gracie Claire and I were leaving for school the other day, the sky was so cool.  I'm sorry (OK, no I'm not), but this kind of beauty did not just happen out of no where.  The Master Artist created this masterpiece. 

And let me just end this post with these 2.  I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE having Gracie Claire at school with me during the day!  But, I sure do miss these two and love the time I get with them when I get home.  So thankful for silliness and snuggles!  Peace out, friends!