easter 2012

hello everyone....jesus is risen!!!!

easter sunday

sissy and poppy with the grand boys...i mean really...look at those cousins holding hands!!!

making dinosaur eggs...

kissing his stegosaurus egg...

hunting for eggs in daddy's garden

finding the cross in the egg

finding the empty white egg...

he is risen indeed!!!! what a wonderful easter weekend we had. it was beautiful weather and tyler is old enough to understand what easter is all about....JESUS!!!!! chad had the idea to do resurrection egg this year---and i had the idea to do dinosaur eggs :) chad hid the eggs (6 with candy and 6 with the symbols that talk about the days leading up to jesus' death and his resurrection. then once tyler found the eggs he opened them one by one and chad explained what each symbol in the egg meant. then when tyler got to the last egg--which was white and empty---tyler opened it and he said "there's nothing in it" and chad said--do you know why tyler? then tyler said in a really loud voice and raised his hands "jesus is risen!!!!" i got tears in my eyes at how the holy spirit is already working on his sweet little heart. god is so good!!!!!!!!!!! praise jesus!!!

new stuff...camping

playing on the blow-up mattress...

tyler sitting in the cozy lounge chair in the big bear camper

i'm not sure...but i think this could have been me 32 years ago....

so excited to take a walk around lake lavon...hum...what kind of animals am i going to see...

helping us put up the tent....really??????

really look at this picture---who is looking at the directions and seem to be figuring this tent thing out...then notice the by-standard

we had all sorts of fun camping...we found a park with a slide

we hung like a monkey on the monkey-bars

we slid down a pole like a fire fighter

we looked at the sky with grand dad

we played soccer with nana

we went fishing

we hiked around the lake...well kind of...

we found dinosaur tracks....t-rex to be specific

we found bugs

we played with bugs

we had so much fun..................

that we fell asleep on nana while eating....

sweet sweet little baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well...i've been kind of busy...obviously since the last time i updated this was fall of last year. i don't even really know where to start but i'll just add some photos. after 9 years....cw has finally talked me into....camping...yes...you heard right. it worked out perfectly because nana and grand dad had their camper at lake lavon and tyler was able to sleep with them, nana and grand dad cooked for us and we had a clean restroom! so mama was happy!!! cw and i just slept in the tent by ourselves which was actually not too bad. kind of cool actually hearing the bugs and seeing the stars. the weather was perfect and it was a really nice time. alert the media because i even acknowledged that i would do it again. thanks nana and grand dad for the use of your camper and for being wonderful babysitters!!!!

fall fun fest 2011

tyler was talking about the animals in the petting zoo.
super excited about the pigs...and i think he was pointing to a chicken.

we loved chasing after the bunnies. and of course the "huge t-rex...grrrrrr" was a hit.

um hot dog...please!

and an entire stick of cotton candy to myself please...

that one was a little messy!!! check out the sunset!last night was the fall fun fest at our church. tyler had so much fun...minus the extremely large gorilla on top of a huge blow-up bounce house/slide thing. we had to walk the opposite way around the back of the church to miss it on the way out because tyler kept saying "no gorilla!" but we walked around just admiring all the activities, played in the petting zoo, danced to the music playing and then ate lots of really bad food!!! so fun!

new boots

while in california, daddy found some new boots for his son. love this picture!

fishing

tyler touched the fish!

we went again the next weekend and caught 3. we are fisher-men!!! ha of like 3" fish:)

daddy had a wonderful idea last weekend when it was beautiful outside. we woke up saturday morning, had breakfast and then went on a walk with tyler's new fishing rod down to the white rock creek behind our house. TYLER CAUGHT 5 FISH!!!!!!!!!!! well you know how that goes, really daddy caught 4 and mommy caught 1....but it was still fun:) tyler loved it. chad had bought live worms for the bait and tyler touched one, kind of. he played in the dirt and leaves and had fun exploring around the creek. chad loved it of course, and i actually enjoyed myself as well :)

san diego trip with hubby

chad and scott

sweet husband

the boys

chad even got to act as captain for a little while :)

scott and his toy

coming back into the harbor during sunset

chad invited me to come join him in california last month before a conference he was going to attend. with a little persuading :) i went out with him early and we had a wonderfully relaxing time together. we just love walking on the beach together, eating, staying in fun cottages where i don't have to clean or make dinner and just chatting about god and life. our highlight of the trip was a ride on a sailboat through the pacific ocean in the afternoon and through sunset. one of chad's friends and clients bought his dream sailboat and asked if we'd like to join him. UM YES!!!! the peacefulness, the grandeur, the vastness, the quietness and powerfulness...the ocean is such an image of god. it was just incredible....and an experience we will remember forever. here are some photos we took.