Spring Break

This spring break was pretty easy going. We stayed at home for Monday and Tuesday. The weather felt like summertime. The girls were in their bathing suits all day long. They played in the water, jumped on the trampoline, ate popsicles and just played. I planted some flower seeds too. It seemed like summer with them running in and out, flies in the kitchen, water/dirt on the kitchen floor and me putting sunscreen on them.

Then on Wednesday we went to Rockport. We took Elye with us and Julie and Easton were there too. We just hung out at Mimi and Papoo's house. The girls played and played, like they usually do. Papaw Gardner took them fishing one day too. They loved that! The weather got really cold though, which was a drastic difference than what it was at the beginning of the week. Here are some pictures. I didn't take many pictures at mom and dad's because it was too cold to go outside much.

Relaxing on the trampoline

The girls were enjoying the new trampoline on this spring day. They were in swimsuits and running between the baby pool we have and the trampoline. One of the times Grace ran in the house she said, "life can't get any better than this"! I wish we were all so easy to please. I love how kids can get enjoyment from the smallest things.

Easter Morning 2010

Easter morning...it wasn't very eventful. They found baskets of goodies from the Easter Bunny. They had some art supplies, a chocolate bunny, bubble gum and a little stuffed dog with bunny ears. They liked the stuffed dog the best. I had a nice yellow shirt for Lyla to wear that would match Grace's yellow and white dress. She approved it earlier but when the time came that morning she decided she was not going to wear it. I wasn't very happy about that. I think I'm pretty tolerant about Lyla's clothes but it frustrates me when she won't give in a little for special occasions. Anyway, that was the most eventful thing on Easter.

big flood!!!

House directly across street from us standing in my driveway looking down the street, 1036 is our mailbox
another shot down our street, 1st mailbox you see on the right side of street is ours

our front yard

our front yard, last night it reached the big tree

down the street again

house across the street and 1 down from us!

from my front porch

Honeysuckle Hill Farm

On Good Friday, Joni and I took the girls to Honeysuckle Hill farm north of Nashville. They have lots of activities for kids. There is a lot of playground type equipment, a big "corn popper" that is some kind of big bouncy thing, tractors to race, animals to see, a "train" to ride, water to pump and race little ducks with, a hay maze to navigate, and a nice place to sit and eat a picnic lunch. They have different activities throughout the year. They were having an Easter egg hunt when we were there. The girls were so excited they kept dashing from one thing to another. The bouncy thing was Reesi's favorite. Poor little Elye missed her regular nap due to our adventure. She did eventually give it up and take a little cat nap in the stroller at one point. It was fun and it wore the girls out. We knew it was time to go when they started getting cranky! We'll definitely have to make that little trip again!

This is so typical...

I'm having trouble with the blogger server. It won't upload my pictures for some reason. I've tried for 3 days now to make a new post but it won't upload the pictures. Anyway, I found this post that was in draft form that never was actually posted. This is from Lyla's preschool spring program right before Easter. Lyla did not want me to show these pictures at the time and that's why I didn't post them. But they're such a representation of life with Grace and Lyla that I decided she'll just have to forgive me one day when she sees these in the photo album.

So, this was after the program was over. Each student was given a little lollipop on a long flexible stick. It probably weighed about half of an ounce. Lyla was playing with her sucker. I was trying to get a nice after-program picture of the the girls together, but, she wasn't cooperating. She kept putting her sucker behind Grace's head, like bunny ears. Grace was trying to comply with my request but was getting annoyed at Lyla. She tried to move Lyla's hand from behind her head and somehow, the long, flimsy stick with a sucker on the end hit Lyla on the head with the sucker. Of course, by the cry you see in the picture you would think Lyla had been hit with a brick. Lyla is a tough kid. She doesn't cry when she gets hurt by something she has done to herself, like, falling off her bike. But she cries a lot when her feelings get hurt or she gets in trouble or someone makes her made. That's what these tears are really saying. She's mad at Grace.

This kind of situation happens every day with us. Do other moms deal with this every day too or is it just my kids???

Our Last Spring Program

We had our spring program at preschool last Thursday. Lyla will graduate from preschool in May so this was her last preschool program. They did a great job. They sang some very cute songs! Lyla won't ever tell me what songs their going to sing in their programs because she says it's supposed to be a surprise. Here are a few pictures. We had to get a picture with her best friend, Fordie, of course!