March Madness

No, this post has nothing to do with basketball, although I have to say this NCAA basketball tournament has been crazy!  This is just a here's some pics from my phone from the rest of this month kind of post.

It is birthday party season!  We almost average 1 party every Saturday from about mid March until Aylin's party in May.  Here we have John Stephen's 4th birthday and then Claire's 5th birthday :)

 Aylin has had a couple of Tball practices.  We were able to work it where we are playing with friends from church again and I am so excited for that.  :) This will be our last year to get to choose our team members and coaches though :(

 Aylin and I finally got around to REbuilding her lego sets…her brother likes to destroy them :(

Poor Hilton had the stomach virus, he only had symptoms for about 7 hours, throwing up 6 times, but it took him a day or 2 to get back to normal and stop sleeping all the time.

 Thankfully, he is all back to normal now :)

 He and I went back to story time with some friends and he made this fish bowl…with LOTS of help from me - ;)

 He has also been quite the little cuddle bug lately.

 and he loves FRUIT!

 I just wanted to throw this in there.  The first 5 years of our cousins' spring pictures:

2014 Spring Cousins Pics

Every year since Aylin and Payton were born we have done cousins' pictures in the springtime, this year we used Southern Style Photography in Olive Branch.  Hilton loved the ducks as you can see in this shot:

and here are the rest of his pics:

And Aylin's individual pics turned out great:

And the sibling shots:

we struggle getting a good cousins' picture every year:

 and just think there will be 2 more next yr - lol

And finally here are my favorite shots of my nieces:

Spring Break 2014

I know my kids are not big enough to "really" appreciate Spring Break,

 but we decided to make it a week of everyday extra fun anyway!

SUNDAY

We spent the majority of the day at the church building, it was daddy's day to preach :) followed by our little friend John Stephen's birthday lunch at a Mexican restaurant where he got pie slammed in his face, a baby shower for another friend, and a fellowship meal after the evening worship services.  Now, the pie in the face at lunch is the 2nd Aylin has witnessed (the first being our little friend Landrey) and Aylin has been traumatized by these 2 events.  She randomly talks about "NOT EVER having a birthday lunch at Mexican like L and JS, but Hilton can!"-lol

MONDAY

After my 2 woke up EARLY and woke up everyone else, we spent the entire day outside.  IT WAS GREAT!  Aylin only came inside to eat and take a quick shower before we headed out to the weekly youth devotional.  Hilton did come inside to take a nap :)

TUESDAY

We went with some of our church family and friends to the zoo.  I think we have done this every year since we have been at Southaven :) 

 Hilton started feeding Annie during lunch and it took me back to the top picture when Aylin fed Reed, so before going to bed I had to search through my files and find the old pic :)  Both pics were taken during lunch at the Memphis Zoo and the kids are all about the same age.

Hilton passed out in the stroller right at the end of our trip, so Aylin had to also pretend to be asleep.  

WEDNESDAY

A cold front came through putting us under a wind advisory, so we stayed inside all day.  We decided to have a paint morning and after the kids slept in (THANKFULLY) we ate and then spread out the paint supplies.  Hilton enjoyed it for a few minutes, but after eating the paint he decided he was done :)

 (Bottom left painting by Aylin: Remember the Story about lunch Sunday? - LOL - and the tornado picture is because we just read the Wizard of Oz book)

I can't wait to finish this last pic!

THURSDAY
We almost went to the Children's Museum today, but we backed out.  I just didn't want to fight Hilton and the Spring Break crowd and Bobby didn't want to take the chance of the kids getting sick (Aylin has been to the CMoM 3 or 4 times and has come down with strep throat twice after leaving there).  So, instead we spent the morning cleaning!  I know, that does not sound like fun but it was greatly needed, you couldn't even see the floor in Aylin's room and that is not an exaggeration!  Here it is now, minus a walmart bag of misc stuff I snuck to the garbage can.

Hilton's room and the playroom were not that bad and don't normally get too bad, but Aylin said I had to take pics of those rooms to since we spent "ALL DAY" cleaning.  In reality, we were finished by 11:30, ate lunch, and went outside for an hour before putting Hilton down for nap.

And then went back out for a couple of hours when Hilton woke up from nap and broke out some of daddy's old construction trucks!

FRIDAY

Aylin had been begging for a picnic at the park so she could play and feed the ducks, so today was the day.  We had a few friends meet us there too :)

SATURDAY

Unfortunately, I woke up with some version of the stomach virus that has been going around some of our friends at church :(  I stayed in the bed most of the day, only getting up when Bobby had to leave to go out of town.  He is holding a gospel meeting in AR this week.  We also had our annual spring cousins pictures scheduled for today.  I dragged myself out there, b/c they are mini sessions that you can't make up.  I hope we got some good shots of the kids but I was really too out of it to know for sure - lol - I did manage to get this shot of the baby lamb on my cell phone, there were also baby ducks and baby bunnies :) All super cute and some super cute sets!  I think we will use this photographer for our newborn shoot when little MR gets here.