May: Peach Harvest 2014

We picked over 80 lbs. of peaches from just one of our trees! It was a fantastic harvest. Luckily Grandma was in town to help us put them up. They were just delicious!

May: The Chicken-Hearted Fox

Emma participated in Drama Kids last year after school, and in May was her big play, "The Chicken-Hearted Fox." Emma played a chicken, but she also did one of the opening monologues.

April: The Obligatory Bluebonnet Photos

We almost missed the bluebonnets this year, but we ventured out one Tuesday afternoon for the obligatory pictures. I love them!

Easter 2014

The kids loved getting their baskets in the morning:

The requisite pictures in Easter Sunday attire:

We spent a lovely morning at Church, and in the late afternoon we headed to our friends for Easter dinner. Andrew was excited to carry the chocolate eggs for our Easter egg hunt:

April: Coloring Easter Eggs

We spent an hour on Good Friday coloring Easter eggs. It is not my favorite holiday tradition, but luckily the kids are getting big enough to do it themselves.

April: Town Easter Egg Hunt

Every year our town does an Easter egg hunt the week before Easter. The weather is usually mild, and the hunt is usually over in 2 minutes, but the bounce houses and petting zoo add to the fun. We always run into friends when we go, whether we plan it or not!

March 2014

Here are a bunch of random pictures from things we did in March.

Another edition of "what's in the box."

Andrew did great at the dentist!

Lovely park weather. My friend Eileen pushing all these cute girls.

Grandpoppy came to visit for exactly 6 hours before his meeting in Dallas. Of course the band got back together!

I tried to have a garden this year.

"Spring" Break!

For Spring Break in March, we went up to Chicago to visit Poppa, where we found Winter! Grandma and Grandpa came over from Michigan to see us too.

Despite traveling alone with 3 kids, electronics made it an easy flight!

We celebrated Poppa's birthday a couple of weeks early...

He was surprised! 

On our last morning there, we woke up to snow! Luckily it ended early, so we had plenty of time to play and clear it before we had to fly out that night!

And of course, the requisite picture on the couch before we left! 

From March: Hats! The Musical!

Emma had a small solo in the 1st grade musical "Hats!" It was a smash!

March: What's in the box??

As we started to get ready for the arrival of baby #4, we cleaned out his room, which was basically being used as storage. We found 8 boxes of Dave's stuff that had been packed since 2005! Whoops. So once a week for a month or two we'd play "what's in the box" and see what was lurking in there. Mostly it was more like "this is your life" with memorabilia from high school and college.

The Rest of Feburary 2014

Dinner at Babe's Chicken Dinner House is always a fun time

Spirit night at Chick-Fil-A!

Within a week of our ice storm, it's warm again!

Valentines 2014

Sometimes he likes to "nap" where we are

Emma made me a ring for Valentine's Day

Haircuts for all!

Warmer weather=park weather

Warmer weather also = zoo weather!

We took the girls to see "The Little Mermaid" musical

 We went to a spirit night at Joe Willy's, and Andrew was especially excited about dessert.

Spontaneous hand holding on the way to pick Emma up from school