Tuesday, April 6, 2021

March Activities and Easter Fun

 Here is what we have been up to in March...

We took a family picture to send to our sponsor kids in the DR Congo

Ella gave me a spa night and it was relaxling

Caleb had some cash saved up so we headed to the bank so he could put it in the bank and then invest it - He plans to buy some stock.
First trip to Pelicans this year
WOW Wednesday night service
Ella's face while they were playing games
Ella and Luke racing to get the wet T-shirts on
Chubby Bunny contest - Caleb won!
String man made by Caleb at school for a project
Enjoying the sun
Audrey pied Crawford one night
Blake's 1st Birthday
The birthday boy and his little mamas
Playing games
Dad's spot
Cousins
Ready for church
Celebrating Nora's birthday at school
Caleb's name was published for scholastic honors
Trying out ice cream at Cups of Joy
The rest of the crew
The crew ready to dig in to Mary Ann's chex mix
MeMa and part of her crew
The girls and Greg, the birthday boy
At Greg's Birthday Party
The boys
Celebrating turning 70!
We saw the rocket launch coming home
Oreo's 3rd Birthday
The girls exercising
With my new highlights
Ready for his Toga party at school
In Rome for the day 
At the Roman feast
Breakfast buddies
These girls loved a sleepover
We ordered new furniture
Caleb and some of his New Hope buddies
Shopping for new guitars
He picked one out!  He is doing so well playing guitar and needed one that plugged in for school praise band - he got a Taylor!
Playing pie face
Ready to play
Making resurrection rolls
The tomb is empty
This is a great visual lesson and they are yummy!
Ella at school working on her favorite author poster

Ice Skating
Mama Ella helping Carter
Ready for the Church Easter Egg Hunt
The older crew ready to hunt
The middle schoolers who were helping
It was too wet outside so they just spread them out in the activity building
Ready to go!
Ella and LK
Ella, Catherine and Leah with their bags of eggs
Swinging at Aunt Kayes
It was a beautiful day after Uncle Jimmy's funeral to hang with family
Ella's class ready to hunt eggs
Ready for spring break
Trying out the new place - Sunset Slushy
Decorating Eggs at Mammys
Caleb's finished product
Owen working hard
The girls ready to decorate
Ella's Eggs - she had so much fun doing this
With the finished products
Ready for the neighborhood Easter Egg hunt
The whole crew
The older kids
Younger girls - just missing Catherine
The younger kids stayed in our yard
and the older kids had to go a few houses down!
It was chilly!
Checking out their candy
Decorating more eggs
All the kids enjoyed it!
Claire invited us over for dinner and a flashlight Easter Egg hunt
The kids asked us to hide the eggs hard
More candy!
Having fun with friends
Ella decorated her mirror all by herself  - I was so proud!
Leaving sunrise service
Easter baskets when we got back home
Ready for church - so grown up!
Kent and Melanie hosted a lunch and Easter Egg hunt after church
Ella helping Mila find eggs
Mila loved her baby shark toy from Mammy
Mammy and her sweet darlings on Easter
Sweet cousins
Mila was a happy girl!
Raynor cousins
Melanie ordered some cute cupcakes and Ella said they were good too!
Easter - 6 years apart
Not sure how they grew up so fast!

A few pictures from the photo booth at church..