Phone Pictures

Time to post a few recent pictures from my cell phone! 

Looking so grown up

Enjoying time on the front porch

 Helping Daddy plant flowers

 

Carter got 2 different water guns for his birthday, and he had a water fight with Eric in the backyard one afternoon. 

 

Some kids play on an iPad at dinner, mine plays with an old school calculator! 

 

We had a picnic at the park on Good Friday..... gorgeous day!! 

My sweet girl at breakfast one morning 

 

Gavin & Lucy came over to play one day and 5 minutes after they got there I found the girls in Ella's room like this :)

 

Time for a movie. Cute while it lasted... a whole 3 minutes.  

I've been washing a lot of baby clothes lately, and while I was folding a load, Ella came and snatched some Christmas jammies and tried to put them on her baby. :) 

 

Ella wanted to ride in Carter's car seat down to the park by our house one day, so I obliged. Look how big she looks!!  

 

Attempting to get a picture of the kids and the birthday card Carter made for Andrew to send to him! HA! These always crack me up!! 

 One of Ella's favorite things to do lately is play with my hair, or give me a "hair cut" as she calls it.

It usually just ends up in a lot of pulling or teeny, tiny doll combs getting yanked through my hair, but I still love that she loves to do this!!

:)

I use coconut oil in my hair occasionally, and Ella wanted some this time. So we had matching oily coconut buns!! 

 

Love Ella playing drive-thru at Sonic!! 

 

Rough Riders Game with FBSA

This past Friday night was FBSA team night at the Rough Rider's Game. About half of Carter's team and their families went, and it was a lot of fun! The boys and their coaches even got to go on the field for the National Anthem!

Ella and Lucy looking cute walking into the ball park. 

 The team lined up about to head out onto the field.

 So excited to be there!

 Gavin & Carter

 During the national anthem.... Carter's team was lined up near the Hooks (blue jerseys) on the field!

 Cutie pie!

Ella cracked us all up shakin' her groove thing! 

And of course, the boys had a game the next day. They had fun, as always, but it was the little sister's that stole the show this week in their cute new shirts. :)

Easter 2014 Celebrations

We had lots of fun this Easter week/weekend! It started on Thursday afternoon with Carter's class Easter egg hunt and party. Ella and I joined them for the fun!

Handsome boy getting ready to hunt!

 Counting eggs with his buddy Dylan

Ella always makes new friends at Carter's class parties. She definitely thinks she belongs in his class, too!

 Carter's whole class!

Back inside, the kids enjoyed a game of jellybean bingo, made a cute little Easter craft, and decorated an Easter cookie for snack.

He's always so sweet to include his little sis.

 snack time!

Later that evening, we went over to my parents' house for our extended family gathering - an easter egg hunt for the kids and a delicious Easter dinner! My cousin and his family were in town all the way from California, so we had a big group, and a great time!! 

Carter and Ella getting ready to hunt eggs again!

 Ella, Carter, Hayden and Zoe (and her little brother Nathan is missing from the picture)

 Zoe, Carter and Hayden off hunting!

 Ella got the hang of it right away!

Love my pretty girl to pieces! 

(She is cooperating more lately with smiling for pictures... yay!!)

 Grandad took all the kids for a ride after the egg hunt!

On Easter morning, we had a wonderful, delicious brunch at Bonnie Ruth's in Frisco with my parents, Andrew and Eric's parents. No pictures from that, but it was so, so good!! Then we headed to our church for a great (but SO packed!) Easter service. When we came home, the Easter bunny had paid the kids a visit with Easter baskets and even left some more eggs to hunt in the backyard!!

Getting into their Easter baskets

I took some pictures with my "real" camera before heading out for the morning, and just look how many smiles I got!! It was so hard to choose a favorite of these two! 

 

 If I HAD to pick a favorite, it might be this one :)

 

.......Or maybe this one :)

 Love this family shot, too! Baby #3 making an appearance, too!

And a few pictures from our egg hunt at home. Ella got so into it!

 So handsome!

 

 So serious.

 All finished up! :)

 Ella said, "Can we go in now?!" She was eager to get inside and get into all those eggs! She knows how this works by now!!

And the rest of our Sunday was spent eating too much candy, relaxing, and watching a movie the Easter bunny brought. Our Easter weekend did also include a lot of baseball, but that'll be in my next post! Wonderful weekend with family celebrating, as always!