Easter 2012

We headed out a day early for the kids' spring break and headed to Florida to visit Grandma Jenny and Grandpa Bill. We had not seen them since Christmas! We had a great 12 day vacation!

Once we had a couple days in the pool and we bid Daddy farewell, as he went to THE MASTERS, we headed to the Easter Egg Hunt at Grandma and Grandpa's church in Pt. St. Lucie


Easter morning - sleepy, happy eyes because the "real" Easter Bunny, not a "Costume Easter Bunny" as Jack calls them, found us in Florida!


This is how we found the kids each night as they "watched a movie" and the adults played cards. Each of the kids passed a "swimming test" - Jack swam the entire pool to the end and back (without taking a breath on the initial length of the pool!!), Will swam the length of the pool and Brooke learned how to swim. Ice Cream for everyone!

Easter Morning Mass


The always sad Departure Photo....and here we go for 16 hours in a car!


We have a huge framed map in our kitchen that displays all the places we have been as a family. Each trip we stop somewhere new so we have a fresh "pin" for the map. This usually involves a college football stadium. This trip we saw the 4th largest football stadium in the country, The Tennessee Volunteers.


We love Peyton!

Happy to have sun, happy to have Grandparents that let us visit....HAPPY to be home!

Friends...

Are the family you pick for yourself.

We love our Markarian Family. We especially love them at our first trip to Dave & Buster's - FUN!

Smarty Pants

Brooke loves to wear these fake glasses around the house and then put them up in her hair like her Mommy does. This is how we went to the gym last week....

Lil Miss Smarty Pants. Love this girl.

So Thankful...

For this Grandma (and Grandpa, too!) that allow me to leave home for days at a time and KNOW my kids are so loved and cared for.

Thanks Peg - I am so thankful for you!

Just a Funny...

I was taking a shower the other night and Jack ran in - thinking it was his Dad - and when he saw me he said "WHOA!"

I said "Is my bare butt that bad?"

Jack's response, "Well...it is pretty white. It looks like it has not seen the sun for awhile."

Thanks, Jack.

LOVE

Love is leaving home to work to help your family.

Love is taking care of the kids for 5 days while Mommy is away.

Love is pouring gallons of water on the driveway so your kids can sled on the ice.

Love is making them wear helmets so they don't have a brain injury.

Love is Will with all 4 front teeth missing at the same time.

Love is knowing although Jack is trying to act like a cool 7 yr old, he is still our lovable boy.

Love is Brooke's toboggan.

Love is how I feel for my family.

Like Father, Like Son

We had our family night at church last night and the boys were asked in class what they wanted to be when they grew up.

Each, separate from the other, responded:

"I want to be a DAD."

I would say you can't get a compliment much better than that.

We love our Dad!