Mother's Day 2012

I am a mom.  I'm happy, sad, grouchy, frustrated, loved, joyful, thankful, a giver, a taker, a yeller, a calm voice.....so many things...but above all, I am BLESSED to be a mom to two of the sweetest, stinkiest, crazy, LOUD, fun, whiney, lovey boys I know.  I pray daily that I will be a good and Godly example to them.

Zoo Trip!

After the fun day in Elgin eating crawdads, we went to the zoo to pet an elephant!  I'm pretty sure this makes me the best Aunt ever!

Wiley and Grant...sweet cousins!
You can also see Kendal with her Uncle Justin!

Wiley, Grant, Van and Kendal....waiting to go see the Elephants!

The Elephants at the OKC Zoo!

Nick giving one of the girls a bath.

Well...I tried to get them all looking while the elephant was doing something cool!

Can you see her foot up on the rail???  Pretty cool!

Kendal giving the Elephant a pet!

Grants turn!

Wiley and Daddy!

The whole crew!

Crawd-N-Rods 2012

We went to Elgin way back in May to go to Crawds-N-Rods.  It is the annual fund raiser for the Elgin Fire Department.  There is a crawdad broil, a car show and they also have a carnival.   It is always a fun time and this year we took along my parents, my niece and nephew.  Here are a few of the fun memories that we had!

Kendal and Grant on the Merry Go Round

Van on the only ride he could go on...bless his short little self!

Grant, Wiley and Kendal on the spin till your sick ride!

Me, Grant and Wiley on another spinning ride!  Wiley loved them!

Van sad that he couldn't go on the big rides!

Wiley and his crawdad

Kendal Ann

Grant

Van

Notice the kids did not eat the crawdads!  They weren't too sure about them!

Just eating a few crawdads!  

Yummy and Spicey!

Grammy and Wiley

My sweet niece Kendal

Carnival rides with my niece!

Justin judging the burnout competition.

Easter 2012

We had a wonderful Easter with our boys.  It was a little unusual because we didn't spend it with any of our extended family, but we still had a great day.  We dyed some easter eggs, hunted some easter eggs, and talked about Our Savior, who we were truly celebrating that day!

THE EASTER EGG COLORING!

Van spilled the dye within about 45 seconds of starting!

The cleanup towel.  There were lots of spills.

Van thought eating the eggs was more fun that coloring them.

Wiley with his masterpiece.

 EASTER MORNING.

Their Easter Baskets.  They each got bible books, bubbles, candy, drawing/coloring toys and some other odds and ends.  

The egg hunting stopped as soon as he figured out their was candy inside.

My little hunter.

AFTER CHURCH PHOTOS AND EGG HUNT!

My favorite!

And we're done!

Bubble blowing with a little marshmallow from the rice krispie treats!

He was so proud of each egg he found!

The prize egg with some money or monies as Wiley likes to call it!

Digging in my flowers!

Checking out his loot!