Movies are always better with a friend

Even if you've both seen it a hundred times.

Playful and quite Pollock-like

To get this:














You've gotta do a little bit of this:



















A little bit of that:





















A little bit of this:















And a whole lot of that:





















Mix in a great friend and you've got yourself quite the masterpiece.

Dress: $21.99 Shoes: $4.99

Looking like an angel for your 8th grade banquet: Utterly priceless.

Stuart Little wasn't so little

Hayden's second grade class read Stuart Little 2 recently. They were assigned a book report that had to contain multiple paragraphs (gasp!) and had to be written in cursive (gasp! gasp!). It was a long week as he and I drudged through the frequent disagreements regarding how long a paragraph truly was (he said two sentences, I said more) and his insistence that having to write an entire book report in cursive is just a cruel trick teachers and mothers like to play on unsuspecting and clearly over-worked second graders.

There were tears involved.

Then there was the visual part of the report. He was assigned the task of creating a mobile that had to display objects that represented characters and/or ideas from the book and each object had to have a written description attached. The problem was, little brothers really like to help.

More tear involvement. *sigh*

But it got done. And not only did it get done, it got done well.

And look, no more tears.

To Too TWO!

This is the first of the next three posts depicting Peyton's big "I'm 2" celebrations. The other two posts are below this one.

This morning her siblings immediately tried to teach her how to show how old she is by using her fingers.

















"Ummmmm, I'm not so great at this. Wanna do something else?"


















"Pleeeeeeease."





















Fine, then I'll just eat my chocolate chip birthday muffin."





















We went on a big-girls-only birthday lunch. "No Peyton, don't eat the lemon."














"Sutton! You're so silly."














"Are all of these mine?!"





















"Okay...fine, I'll just eat the prettiest one. Happy birthday to me!"

More partying

The bumble bee cake and presents.












Mommy and the birthday girl.
















Finger. Licking.

















Good.













After opening lots of presents, one stood alone as a favorite.












...Her Tinkerbell potty seat.















And she promptly used it..TWICE.

















Happy Birthday to Mommy!

More parties

Lots of presents and cake.















Uncle Shawn enjoying the attention.

















Learning how to blow (and not touch.)

















Big sister Sutton explains.

















A teapot and groceries!

















New baby's got a new ride.

















"I'll fix it baby."

First swim of the year

There was flying.











There was jumping.

















Moments of pure delight.

















And lots and lots...

















of prissiness.

Post and run

It's been a big weekend at Naunie and Poppie's house. All 12 cousins were here which made the house seem much smaller but the fun way bigger. The Easter Bunny stole the show with 250 Easter eggs found Saturday night and then a repeat performance complete with baskets filled to the brim with treasures on Easter morning.

Here are a just a few of the many pictures taken. Peyton, Landon, and Hayden worked the whole hunting scene while Sutton, Reagan, and Keaton were the behind-the-scenes talent making sure all ran smoothly. More pics to come soon.































Not sure when I'll be back but I plan to check in periodically. I hope you had a blessed Easter.