Everytime anyone says anything that ends "in a nutshell" I always laugh because of that scene from the Austin Powers movie where he pretends like he is in a nutshell.
Anyway, here is the rest of April in a nutshell (figuratively, not literally)....starting from the end and moving our way back to the middle (why, you might ask; and the answer is that I uploaded them that way on accident and I am too lazy to correct it)
We love Easter in this house!!! It is the best celebration because our Lord and Savior rose from the dead on Easter morning. Now we are free from the bondage of sin and are declared pure and justified before God. There are countless activities surrounding Easter that we part take in and we have the tradition of ending Easter Sunday with a picnic and egg hunt at Meme's house.
My mom and sister joined us at church on Sunday to watch Shelby and the children's choir sing. After that we all went to Hampton Lake (long before the Easter bunny was scheduled to be there) for lunch. My dad and brother met us up there and we had a truly wonderful time!
The Friday before Easter my neighbor had a super fun egg hunt at her house. It was great fun!! They had egg races, potato sack races, pin the tail on the bunny and tons of other fun things. The children had so much fun.
This picture is post egg hunt...it is amazing how much they have grown over the years. We have a picture of Shelby and Neely propped up on the couch when Shelby was about 2-4 weeks old and Neely was around 5 months.
And this picture is pre-egg hunt...oh my son, you are going to turn me grey so much faster than I want to; but I love you with all my heart:) Katie announced the egg hunt and JP took off running so we had to call him back to the start where we were getting all the children lined up. Well, I think JP got a little embarrassed and thought he was in trouble even though he wasn't and this is where the tantrum took him....it was really hard to not laugh, but I knew if I did it would only make things worse.
The day before the neighborhood egg hunt was the Shakespeare Festival at the school. This is the first year that both of our children would be participating and also the first year it rained (boo). So we made the best of it and Pratt went to JP's room and I went to Shelby's room. Usually it is outside, but they had to go to plan "b" this year. Here are my two Shakespearean actors all ready for the show.
The Tuesday before that we dyed eggs...this is always a fun event in our house and now that the children really, really love eating hard boiled eggs it makes it even more fun because it is kind of like playing with your food.
It is never too late to celebrate a birthday, right??? Just agree with me:) I finally got my act together and brought in a snack for Shelby's birthday (only about 2 months late). It was so bitter sweet!!! This is Shelby's last year in the Jasmine Room. We are going to miss Ms. Diane and Ms. Lori sooo much!!! They were wonderful teachers!
This really doesn't have much to do with April except that we started getting some beautiful roses from our rose bushes, but I had to put this one in here...can you see a little friend hiding among the petals?
The men just chillin on Master's Sunday watching the match...
We are almost to the end so just bear with me:)
Our annual church Easter Egg Hunt was held very early this year due to all the activity in April. Shelby and JP had sooo much fun and really raked in on the eggs; their baskets were literally overflowing!
At the beginning of April we decided we had waited long enough to get on the river, and while the weather still needed to warm up about 10-15 degrees, we had a great afternoon. We went to two different sandbars to explore and Shelby had a great time looking for sharks' teeth. She and Pratt probably found about 20 little teeth!!! JP was the master snail finder as he found about 10 snails. It was a great day and we had so much fun!
JP loving on Gracie
Shelby and JP with their Papa John
So that is April in a rather large nutshell. Hope you all had as much fun as we did!!!
