This Wonderful Thing Called Life: April 2015

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Easter Fun

I really do love Pinterest, that is where I got the ideas to do these 2 crafts. Aylin's painted egg was from last year, it is the shaving cream and paint marbled technique (I loved it so much I kept it) and then this year we did footprints of the boys, which I think turned out cute :) Some other decor:

My mom came over to dye easter eggs this year. We changed it up and bought plastic eggs to dye and we gave the fingernail polish technique a try. My observations: the smell is SUPER strong (as in lasts for days), it takes A LOT of fingernail polish, and the really cheap polish didn't work as well as the more expensive brands.

Our contribution to the egg hunt with our church family (also ideas from Pinterest):

Annual egg hunt with the Southaven church of Christ:

Easter morning:

We are so blessed!

Annual Spring Cousins' Pictures

This year we used Southern Style Photography again and GiGi, Julianna's MIL, made them coordinating outfits that I love! The big kids did great, Weston smiled huge the WHOLE time and Ryder pretty much cried the whole time :)

Macey (4) Weston (9 mos) Aylin (5 1/2) Hilton (2 1/2) Payton (6) Ryder (10 mos)

A little cousins' spring pictures history:

My favorites of my nieces and nephew:

My favorites of my loves:

Louie, the Boxer

Buster is 4

Our 2nd little blessing, Hilton Isaiah, was born 3 weeks early via an emergency c-section also because of preeclampsia. He was already 8lbs8oz and spent 9 days in the NICU because of a spontaneous pneumothorax (popped right lung); he also had a heart murmur and had to have a blood transfusion his very 1st night. Poor guy suffers from febrile seizures, and also took physical therapy for about a year b/c of delayed gross motor skills. We are so thankful to have this little man blessing our lives.

Puppy is 2

Our 3rd blessing, Weston Julian, was born 5 weeks early via another C-section because of preeclampsia. This pregnancy was a rough one: at 24 weeks I started having severe stomach pains and at 28 weeks had an emergency umbilical hernia surgery, and have been on bed rest ever since because of preeclampsia. At 32 weeks I started having daily headaches and frequent migraines (at least 2 a week). At 33 weeks our ultrasound technician discovered my amniotic fluid was decreasing and he was not showing much growth, so now we started twice a week visits and at least 1 ultrasound each week to keep a closer eye on him. We are incredibly thankful that our last little blessing arrived safely and weighed 5lbs 13oz and did not have to go to the NICU.