While I love to see these three riding all around the ballfield. I am so thankful to spend some time off it learning, laughing and loving on each other. These boys seasons are half over and we are all exhausted. Hallelujah for Easter, new creations and redemption in Jesus, He is indeed Risen!
Junior Asparagus
Larry and Bob
SadieJane got a little close to the stage.
Well, we got egged today too. Thanks to the Mann's the kiddos got to go huntin'. We discovered that we might need to teach SayJ HOW to egg hunt. We've been training her in egging, but I think she doesn't have a clue how to hunt. Micah got all of the eggs but one and I surrounded it to keep him from it, while she stood looking at me while I had to shout and point to get her to pick it up. Sweet girl doesn't have her Bubba's instinct on the hunt. Poor child, and I missed her egghunt at school, so no wonder she had three eggs when I arrived. Thanks again Mann's for eggin' us back!
We continued our Eggin' tradition this year. We had to start early this year since Easter seems earlier. We've got a few more sneaky plans up our sleeves this year to share the love of Jesus:) We hit three houses already and this year, we stopped and egged incognito style. Meaning- we hid the eggs quietly then I knocked on the door and ran to our strategically parked car. It was extra fun because we got to see the surprise in our friends eyes. Micah and SayJ loved watching Haydee look for us, and he finally realized we were in the car. Then he jumped in and SadieJane jumped out and the boys went to egg Jaxson and Maxsim. We hit Barrett and Brynnaboo's next, but they weren't home. Still a few more to get and plan to even egg some at the beach if we dare. Sidenote: If you are a boy/man, apparently if you get egged you have to come out with no shirt on, Maxsim was the lone boy not going shirtless, but you can see in his eyes he wanted to trade his shirt for some pants.
Mercy, the eggs, mercy. Quick someone tell my children that Easter is indeed about Jesus' death and resurrection (again!). We go over it, but then we fill eggs or we hunt eggs or we hide eggs and they seem to forget all that and get back to the candy at hand. Today was crazy, we had my class easter egg hunt this morning and then joy o joy Micah and SayJ's parties were at the SAME time. I literally ran from one side of our big SixFlagsoverJesus church to the other. I made it to the very end of SadieJane's hunt, who responded "You NOT here when I find eggs!!!" Ugh. I wanted to remind her that I missed her brother's Thanksgiving party one year altogether because of a time mixup:( So she should've been thankful! Anyways, it marks the start of our Spring Break! Hallelujah. Mick says he is so ready, but I reminded him I am too, except my spring break relieves me of my two part time jobs, but I get no such break from my full time one like he does. He was not amused. Seriously thankful for a break from the rush of life. We are for sure way too busy and we NEED a break. From ball, work, busyness and life in general. Truth be told my worrying self has been praying for this break for months. We have been well for so long and my positive polly nature just knows we will be sick on our only vacation. But, I am trusting Jesus, rain or shine, sickness or not, we will be together, there will be God made water around us, and we will not have a game in sight....so we WILL be happy. (even if we have a fever:))
This weekend was a great family weekend. We spent Saturday together as a family all day. Of course we had to spend a part of it at the ball field where Micah had another game. Then we headed to Alabama to see Maggie, my "penpal" type close friend say I do. Her wedding was beautiful, I mean so beautiful. And for a few years it has been like watching myself get to do other things that God didn't have planned for my life, but allowed me to live vicariously through Maggie as well as be able to encourage her in times when I knew close to exactly how she felt...so it was no surprise that were I to redo our wedding, it would be just like Maggie's. Well, switch the grooms or else that'd be just weird.
Not only was the wedding beautiful, but Maggie loves children so much so that they were invited to the wedding. I am pretty sure Micah and SadieJane had more fun than us, and we had alot of fun. Mick and I always feel like weddings are great dates for us, and it looks like our family is going to carry on that tradition even as a family of four. Which is good, since we've got alot of weddings coming our way!
Mick had not gotten to play with our camera yet, so since alot of my friends were there, he took the opportunity to have a photoshoot. A little embarrassing, especially since most people were taking pictures of THE BRIDE, not their children. But, alas, we got some cute pictures. Sorry Maggie.
We ended the day playing on a playground close to the wedding then driving home with very few fits. It was just a family day with lots of love and laughs. Ahhh. Very few spankins' too. Weddings are especially beautiful as a reminder of what God has called Mick and I to as well. It also helped that a PC Grad married Maggie, small world. Kevin Campbell for the three of you wondering! He preached it and it was a great lesson in love as well. So thankful for a good day. Sorry for all the pictures.
