Easter 2010

Since we did all the festivities on Saturday, Easter Sunday was a pretty relaxed day for us - just like any other Sunday. We got up, went to church, stopped for our Sunday biscuit and then home to enjoy the day. It was very nice. Elaina got her Easter basket and loved it - here are some pics of us in our Easter attire...

Before church - Elaina posing with her "rescue bar" She calls breakfast bars, "rescue bars"

Such a cute pose - I know, it needs to be censored but hey, it's just a diaper. Before church pose.... so adoreable.
After church poses with me and Elaina

After church poses with daddy....

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this pic - melts my heart.

Elaina's Easter basket

All smiles opening the goodies in her basket

She got a Dora bubble blower in her basket - she's testing it out outside. Again, censorship required :) sorry.

We hope you all had a fabulous Easter celebrating that Jesus lives!!! We are so blessed and which many blessing and lots of love to you and your family!!

Easter Saturday

This year we celebrated Easter with our families on the Saturday before Easter. It turned out that Saturday worked best for both sides of the family. It was a busy day but we enjoyed it very much. We started by going to the park at Norris with Erik's family in the morning. It was SO windy that we had to hurry though lunch and leave to go finish out the celebration at his mom's house. I didn't take any pics at the park because we were not there long. When I say it was windy, I mean it was windy!! The lids to the metal trash cans were flying off and everything. We could not eat lunch very comfortably as we were afraid it would fly away - and some people's lunch did. There was a lot of chasing plates/eggs/napkins/everything going on. It was really unbelievable how windy it was. Anyway, I took lots of pics this day so hang on and bear with me for these....and enjoy :)

Blowing bubbles...

Elaina's second cousins - Liana and Kelsey

Elaina and Liana - say that 3 times over and over

Elaina with her Papaw (and her cake). She loves him.... I think the feeling is mutal :)

Just a cute shot of her walking away - what is it about pics like this that I love so much??

Elaina with her daddy - notice she still holding that cake. I'm not sure she even ate it, just carried it aroundMe and Elaina on the swingFor whatever reason this pic cracks me up... she looks so sad Coloring cookies - yes, I said cookies. I found these cookies that you color with edible ink. They tasted terrible but the kids loved coloring them
Kelsey coloring a cookie
Liana showing off her cookie

Next stop was to my mom's house... we had dinner, colored eggs and did an Easter egg hunt there.... fun times.

Quentin coloring Easter eggs

My cousin, Emily, brought her little girl, Eliza Grace.... Here she is coloring eggsCousin Celia coloring eggs Cousin Sadie coloring her eggsElaina coloring her eggs. She wanted to hold half of it in like the big kids were doing....

A finished egg....

And now on to the Easter egg hunt... loads of fun for the kids

Elaina counting her eggs with her Aunt Nell

All the kids after the hunt - from left: Eliza Grace, Alexandra, Elaina, Quentin, Celia, Sadie

kind of a blurry pic because of the light but this is Alexandra and Nell

Me and my sister, Abby (same blurry issue)

Great Friday!

Good Friday was a GREAT day. We spent the day together as a family at home. Erik tinkered in the garage and outside most of the day. Elaina and I enjoyed all the usual things we do around the house, only we did as many things as we could outside. Here are some shots of the days activities.....

Picnic lunch outside...this was taken with the timer

Then Erik came outside and helped take a shot at a more reasonable angle.

Playdough outside under the swingset at the picnic table.

She convinced me to get under - not very comfortable to lean over the whole time but we had fun. Another pic by Erik.
Then we died Easter eggs... inside. Don't know why, just didn't feel like taking it outside. She painted and stamped eggs and loved that. The finished product - notice there is an egg for Jax. She insisted.

Warm Weather

It's been a while since we've posted... not too much to report other then we've been enjoying the intermittent warm weather. I hope it's here to stay - this Easter weekend should be amazing!!! We went to the park a week or so ago. Here are some pics of Elaina enjoying that...

One of Elaina's favorite past times is playing in the car. Don't judge. It's probably not the safest thing but we let her do it - supervised. She loves it and we roll the windows down and keys are out. It's interesting to see which buttons she has pushed when we turn the car on afterwards...Here are some pics of her crawling around inside.

She loves to buckle her baby dolls into her car seat

Elaina's favorite new "do" and more outside pics

The other day I put Elaina's hair in pigtails (which is not something that new) but in addition to this, I braided each pigtail. Well, she LOVES to wear her hair like this - she asks for it every day now. Here are some pics of the cute new do.... I did not put the pigtails on the side as much as I should have so it's hard to see them from the front so I got some shots from the back and side.

Also, we've been enjoying the warm weather lately.... Here are some pics of outside fun on her swingset...

She is getting really good at swinging on the big girl swing....

All smiles...

Also, you may have noticed I have not put videos on the blog very much lately. Well, that's because the videos I have been taking with the new camera do not upload to my blog at all. I think they are too big. So, I played with my camera and shot some compact videos in an effort to see if that would help... It did help but now the videos are blurry. This video is not anything that exciting except Elaina playing outside with her tee ball set and then swinging. She falls off at the end - oops - so the video gets cut short! I wanted to see if I could get a video to post to the blog. I did! I am excited. Hopefully, I can continue to play with the settings on my camera and get some more videos on the blog soon - less blurry though :)

Lowes

A friend of ours told Erik about this thing that Lowe's does every other Saturday for kids. They do a different project activity for kids at the Lowe's store on Saturday morning - AND, it's free!!! Pretty cool. Erik took Elaina this past Saturday and they had a wonderful time. They made these little wooden race cars so Elaina got a chance to hammer and glue stuff. Erik went with his friend and her daughter so it was a fun outing for all of them. Lowe's even gives each of the kids an apron with their name on it and goggles. After she was done, she got a "race car" patch to put on the apron. We've got the patch on there and will hopefully put more on there soon. Here are some shots Erik took of Elaina enjoying the action from his camera phone.

Putting the stickers on the race car...

Hard at work
Hammering....

And a smile for the camera :) (That's her friend Addie in the background)