Pamela Jean

My cousin Pam came for a quick visit last night. It was so nice to see her after many years apart. We were always buddies growing up, since we are close in age. We had fun reminiscing about some of our childhood memories.

David enjoyed having her visit as well. Pam has a motorcycle endorsement and of course, David loves motorcycles. They ended up enjoying a ride yesterday.

Pam & Angela

Kissing Cousins? (She caught me off guard with this one!)

Before Pam headed home we went to the duck pond so the kids could see the fish and ducks. This guy was so beautiful. I wish my camera had captured him better. His eyes are red, and his colors were so vibrant. He likes saltine crackers too!

In order from left to right we have Noah, Pam, Charlotte, Brooke and Logan.

I can't wait for our next visit! Love ya, Pam!

My Darlings

Cole At Bat

Trevor at Bat

Easter Fun

There were several community Easter egg hunts this year, so we took the kids to find some goodies. This egg hunt was at a local retirement/nursing home. Each one of our kids was in a different age bracket, so we ended up going to four different hunts in this same building. (It was pouring rain that day. It's a good thing they have a nice facility.)

This was Brooke's first time to hunt for the eggs. It took her a while to get started, but she was fun to watch.

Logan raked in the goodies!
Trevor was ready to go!
We colored two dozen eggs. 24 eggs sounds like a lot of eggs, but they go really quickly!


And this is why you hard-boil them first! (We had run out of eggs by that point.)



You can always count on Cole to do something silly!
We attended an egg hunt that had over 5000 eggs! It was supposed to be at a football field, but they got rained out. It was held in the gymnasium of the YMCA. All of the kids got a lot of eggs at this hunt!
They were in line for a turn at the bouncy house.
Easter Sunday also turned out to be David's birthday this year. By the time we got church and lunch taken care of, it was getting pretty late. So I did a little egg hunt in the living room for Brooke. Then she went down for a nap so the boys could have their turn.

Ready? Set! GO!

Family Fun

These photos were taken in March. We were just having a fun time

in the living room as a family.

I was folding laundry and David got a hold of some of it and started messing around. (Does my poor baby girl even stand a chance?!?!) ;-)

(I love David's face in the background of this one!)

We started out swinging the kids in a sheet. Then David decided to do it by himself. Yep! He's macho like that. (And I love it!)

Then it was time for the kids to start climbing on dad.

Brooke wasn't going to be left out of the fun.

Finally, David decided to pick up all the boys. Can you see how thrilled

Logan was with this idea? (Tee-hee!)

I love my family!

Mother-Daughter Banquet

Tonight was our annual Mother-Daughter Banquet at the church. In years past I've always struggled with going to these banquets. My own mom did not live close by to attend with me, and I didn't have a daughter. I'd go alone, or sit with other ladies, but the simple fact is, nobody else can replace my mom.

Well that has changed and my little Brooke and I went to our second banquet together. The theme was tropical and the decorations were nice. But the best part for me was being able to be there with my little girl. I'm so thankful that God has allowed me to be a mother. And I'm especially thankful today that He gave me an adorable little girl to go to banquets with me!

A Nice Day

We had a nice, productive day today. This morning we got the boys' rooms cleaned, reorganized and rearranged. This job is not for the faint of heart, folks! It is such a relief to walk in and see things where they belong. How long this will last, I don't know, but I'm going to enjoy it while it's here!

We went to the city to do a bit of shopping. While we were there David wanted to go to Cici's Pizza for lunch. The kids loved having all-you-can-eat pizza and brownies. While we were there looking at our good, happy children, David said, "I love my family." What a sweet thing to say.

And now the kids are all tucked in and the lights are out. It's supposed to be quiet, but Trevor is in his own room listening to a Patch the Pirate CD and singing along rather loudly, "When sin comes knocking at your door, put on your running shoes, Mate." He's being such a blessing to this momma's heart, I just can't seem to go in there and tell him to be quiet. So I'm going to listen to his serenade while I finish blogging and start putting some more laundry away.

Good night! I hope you have a blessed Lord's day tomorrow!

A Day Outdoors

We had a decent day weather-wise on Thursday. The boys spent some time playing catch and batting baseballs with David. I went walking with Brooke up the hill by our church. It was a bit windy and we needed jackets, but it was nice to be outdoors again after a long winter. When I realized there were going to be a lot of good photo-ops, I went back to the house for my camera. I took some fun pictures of the cutest kids I've ever seen. ;-)

My Three Sons

And here's a bonus photo from the other night. Brooke loves to "hide" behind her hands these days. It's too cute!