Story's Spring Musical.

On the very day that Summer had her spring musical, on the other side of town Story was preparing for hers!  Hoping to make it to Story's, I slipped out of Summer's during the last song and high-tailed it across town, making it in record time I might add to see this sweet thing walk in with her class.  

It's a pure miracle that you're seeing her in blue jeans.  This took a full week of me preparing her and explaining that Miss Audie (her teacher) said that she HAD to wear blue jeans.  Whew!  

And she hasn't worn them since! Her sweet friend, Olly is coming in behind her.  Story adores Olly!  And I adore Olly's momma! Olly's big brother, Logan was in Summer's pre-k class, so I was thrilled when Olly and Story ended up together, too.  I am hoping we have one more year with this sweet family!

Here is STory with a large portion of her class.  

Their program was PRECIOUS! And Story sang every word to every song.  I was so surprised because during the Thanksgiving program she was so very shy and hardly sang at all!  Story, we are so thankful for you and so proud of the sweet way your sang in your program! 

Bubblin' Joy!

Where in the world did May and June go?! Wow!  The end of the school year came with a crazy vengeance, as did June with our whirlwind travels.  Nevertheless. Here I am on my blog that has been so badly neglected, ha! 

I left off with Summer's spring musical at school, Bubblin' Joy! 

Here is her sweet little class! Summer did a wonderful job singing and reciting her part.  Her part was the very part that Carter had last year when he did this very program in Mrs. Pittman's class.  

Summer, you did a wonderful job, and we loved listening to you sing your little heart out! 

Easter Weekend.

We had a great Easter weekend.  It started with a bang.  Literally.  Our oven blew up, yikes!  I was so disappointed because I was looking forward to making our annual resurrection rolls and beginning a new tradition with a bunny cake.  Sigh.  

However, Resurrection Rolls were to be made.  At school.  In Tilly's class.  I felt like the  Lord was winking at me.  You know how he does that?  Then, my sweet co-worker blessed our family with the items needed for our bunny cake.  She even made the two round cakes for us to use!  

So, we had our bunny cake after all, thanks to the thoughtfulness of a sweet friend.  

David was out of town the couple of days leading up to Easter, so the children and I had the most fun decorating our bunny cake.  

Oh, they were so excited!  

And he turned out really cute, too!  Thursday after decorating our cake, Carter had a baseball game, so we all went.  That night, David made it back into town just hours before his parents pulled into our driveway as well.  It was a treat to have Papa and Gigi with us for Easter.  They had not been to visit for quite some time, so the children were beside themselves with joy and excitement! 

Good Friday morning, we didn't have school, and since Papa and Gigi were here I got to go with David to the annual FCA breakfast.  It was such a treat.  The speaker was Jennie Finch, a famous softball player and lover of Jesus.  She was such a great speaker!  

Saturday morning, David, Papa and the children rode out to the hunting land where David and Carter like to hunt.  They were on a mission to plant our persimmon trees.  

David wanted to plant the trees while his dad was in town hoping that this will be something the children will remember in the years to come.  

They all worked together and planted the trees.  

Carter even helped to dig the hole.  

Total, we were able to plant five trees.  Word is that deer love persimmons, so maybe we will increase our chances of getting some deer real soon!

Meanwhile, Gigi and I headed to the salon to get our fingernails painted and went out to lunch for sushi.  We got a gel manicure, which was a first for both of us.  I'm typing this blog a week later, and my nails are still looking great!  I'm a believer in the gel manicures, ha! 

We also ran to the mall to get a few treats for the children.  We got Story a pair of pretend glasses.  She loves them! 

I also picked up their goodies for their baskets.  

Sunday morning before church, I snapped some pictures of the children in their pretty clothes.  

David with the children on Easter Sunday.  

Carter, age 7.  

These two.  Oh, how they love each other! 

Tilly, age 5.  

The big 3 as I call them!

Summer, age 6.  

Story, age 3.  Also, over the picture-taking!

After church we snapped a few quick pictures with Papa and Gigi.  

Take 2 or maybe 10, ha!

I wanted to make sure I got a picture with my little loves, too.  

Sunday morning, the children's choir sang in big church.  It was so sweet!

Sunday afternoon, David and I got to head to New Orleans for the night, what a treat! 

We opted to fore go lunch and head on to the city.  With it being Easter Sunday, so many places were closed.  

We ended up at Byblos on Magazine Street for some Mediterranean food.  It was delicious!  

And just down the street, we enjoyed our first sno-ball of the season.  

So delicious! After our trek down Magazine, we headed over to check into our hotel before wandering into the French Quarter.  We stumbled onto a parade in the quarter that was something to behold, wow!  

For supper we headed to the Chartres House, so good! 

We had shrimp remoulade as an appetizer, and for supper I had a craw fish poboy, and David enjoyed red beans and rice.  

For dessert, we enjoyed some beignets from Cafe du Monde.  You can't come to the Big Easy without stopping for a beignet.  We went to bed really early and enjoyed 10 uninterrupted hours of sleep!  That has not happened in over a year! Glorious!  Thank you, Papa and Gigi for the gift of a night away in one of our favorite places.  

Happy Easter!  

Spring Festival

Last weekend was a whirlwind blur, beginning Friday with the Wheel-A-Thon and Carter's baseball game.  Saturday was no joke either!

Carter and Summer ran their very first 5K on Saturday.  It was hosted by our church and all proceeds will benefit our world mission's offering.  So great!  Their official time was 55:45.  Not too shabby for no training at all!  After the 5K, Carter also participated in the 1 mile fun run!  Somebody needs to sign this boy up for track! 

After the race, our crew headed over to the zoo for some fun and an egg hunt.  I adore this picture of Story and one of her very favorite friends, Mallory.  Thanks, Kelly, for the sweet picture!

I was too busy yapping to take many pictures, but I did manage to get this one of Summer feeding the goats.  

One of the highlights of my day was taking one of my favorite friends and co-workers, Rebecca, come for the egg hunt with her three girls.  Here are Bela and Blaire with Story.  It was such a treat to spend the morning with these girls!

After the egg hunt, our church hosted a crawfish boil at the park.  So yum and so fun!  I enjoyed spending lots of time with this pretty girl.  

Sunday was another full day, too.  After church, Tilly went to a birthday party at the movies.  Carter went with David to a finance meeting.  Summer and Story went with me to a bridal shower I was helping to host!  Such a fun weekend!  

Our weekend in pictures.

We had a wonderfully busy weekend.  Friday, I took the day off from school to spend some time with David.  We started our morning off with a Starbucks and locking our keys in the car at the gas station.  Awesome.  And On-Star kept getting an error when they tried to get it unlocked for us.  Double awesome.  Finally, about an hour later, we got back into our car.  That's what I get for playing hooky from school anyway!  We did enjoy a great lunch date before picking up our littlest love from school.  

I have really missed being at home with this sweet thing.  

She loves to wear my shoes.  I had to help her a little with these.  

We finally got them on! 

Carter had a play date and a birthday party, so we got the girls all dolled up for their very first piano recital.  They were so excited!  

The azaleas are in full bloom, so we took the opportunity to take a few pictures of our little beauties.  This girl is growing up and maturing into such a beautiful young lady with the most thoughtful heart.  

And this girl, I cannot believe she is almost done with kindergarten!  She keeps us in stitches with her witty self and infectious personality.  

And our dimpled darling.  She's just not a baby anymore!  She will be four in a month, wow!  

The recital was for Miss Patience, Carter's piano teacher.  It was her junior piano recital, and she nailed it!  We were honored to hear her play!  

Saturday was opening day for baseball!  And it lasted all. day. long. Ha!  It was a work day at church, so David and I divided and conquered with a little help from our friends.  Carter and I spent the day at the fields, and we had so much fun.  That morning was the opening ceremonies followed by pictures.  Then, his team had a practice.  The moms shagged balls in the outfield while the boys and girls took batting practice.  So fun!  

On opening day, every team in the league plays one game.  Carter's team had their game early in the afternoon, lucky us!  Carter got to play lots of different positions.  He has been playing center field like a boss!  This game, he enjoyed catcher, pitcher, and outfield.  Sadly, his team didn't have the most points when the game was over, but they sure played their little hearts out.  

David had a revival in Jackson that night, so he had to leave before the game was over, but not without giving our favorite little fella a quick pep talk!  Such a fun weekend!