Mallory's Baby Shower

I signed up to do the showers for our Sunday school class without the knowledge that everyone was drinking some kind of fertility water! But do not feel sorry for me, I love to throw a good party. Here is our baby shower for Mallory. She is having her first baby. A sweet little baby girl named Lila Jo. Isn't that so sweet - the party was so great she is naming her first born after me! (Just kidding). It was a fun party and I am blessed to have so many sweet friends at church! Congrats Mallory and Chip!

KDO Art Auction

Our Kids Day Out program had an art auction to raise money. It was so fun. The classes made class art projects and some of them sold for a lot of money. They had a jumpy house and food. Decorated tables and awards. I won coordinator of the year and got some great goodies. I share the title with my buddy Renee. It has been such a fun little job. Carter Wayne's class performed two songs and they were awesome. CW was so funny! The first song was Body Boogie and my sweet baby knows how to boogie. I loved it! He just lets the music take over! Ha! Then they sang a song, "Golden Rule" and did sign language. It was so sweet. At the beginning 4 students did the first part in front of the kids. Rodney was filming CW and he yelled, "don't look at me, look at them their singing." Where does he get that bossiness from??? It was a wonderful night and I am so glad my parents got to be here to enjoy it also!

Tee Ball

Well the flood waters finally receded and we got to have a tee ball game! NeeNee and PawPaw actually got to see this one too. Carter Wayne has a great time out there. He loves to bat and get the ball. He was so excited that NeeNee and PawPaw got to see him get the ball and throw it to the picture. He gave us a big thumbs up sign. :) Poor Sawyer wants to be out there so bad. His day will come soon enough!

April Showers...

was the understatement of the year! Floods everywhere and tornadoes! Here we are going a little stir crazy because of the rain. All our weather this year has been so extreme! We are so looking forward to summer, but the way things are going we will have a heat wave the first week in June!

The Spanking Spoon

Well Sawyer knows what the spanking spoon and time out are these days. He really does have a will of his own. even more than Carter Wayne, but I seem to be less stressed out about it this go around. Go figure. But before we even introduced the spoon it was on the floor one day and he picked it up and tried to spank his little bottom.He said "ouwa ouwa". It was so funny and here he is reenacting it for us. Those second borns catch on quick, don't they?

Easter 2011

This Easter we stayed in town and had our friends the Vondwe's over for lunch. The Easter bunny made a visit to our house and gave us lots of candy and some movies. He also left us an Easter pinata! He must have known it had been raining for days and there would be no hiding Easter eggs outside. We went to church and had a wonderful service. I pretty much cry the whole Easter season. Just the reminders of all that Jesus went through and did for ME! "Grace that is greater than all my sin..." My prayer is to keep that in the forefront of my mind everyday. A life saved by the blood is one that is changed by the blood and I want that to be me... all the time. Our friends the Vondwe's joined us at church then we headed to our house for lunch. I made my first ham and it was wonderful! I was worried. We had hashbrown casserole and green beans, rolls and strawberry shortcakes. All the traditional Easter stuff (at least in Rodney's and my family). Then out came the pinata!!! The kids loved it so much. Candy was flying everywhere. As the kids' sugar highs began to fall we headed our separate ways. Nap time. It really was a wonderful Easter - despite the cold and the rain. Happy Easter!

Nee Nee and PawPAw

Our NeeNee and PawPaw came up for a visit in April. They wanted to see Carter Wayne play TBall but it was so cold that the game got canceled. We went to IHOP instead. That afternoon we dyed Easter Eggs and then Rodney, Dad and CW went to the Razorback spring practice. They had a great time and I think we may have a little trouble getting out to the football games next year without our little man. I knew this day would come. :) It was a quick visit, but lots of fun. As you can see the boys love their NeeNee and PawPaw! A few days later Carter Wayne was mad at me about something and told me that I wasn't minding him. Well! I quickly explained that I am the mommy and minding him is not my job. He then said "NeeNee minds me, she does whatever I tell her!" Well said! But you know that is what grandparents are for!