Easter 2014

We love the Easter Bunny!

 We had our annual egg hunt with our church family, but I didn't get any pics because I was not feeling well and something weird was going on with my camera. 

 The EB always leaves a trail of eggs for the kids to follow down to their baskets :)

 Aylin was equally excited about every little thing she got!

 Hilton's favorite present was this little nerf gun, he runs around saying "pow" all the time.

The EB brought some big treats for Louie that he tried to eat through the wrapper instead of letting me open it first :)

April Awesomeness

These are what our days in April have looked like :) 

  We got a screen door and the box is STILL lying in my living room floor!  The kids LOVE it.  First we traced things on it, Hilton's favorite (bottom left pic in above pic) was when we traced his beloved PupPup :), it has been colored upon almost daily, it has been a ride, a tunnel, a blanket, a wrestling mat, you name it :) 

We play outside as much as possible, I do not know what I am going to do when I am 8 months pregnant and/or have a newborn and it is too hot to go outside…Hilton will drive me crazy banging on the door and windows to get out there.

Hilton got this sweet FREE hand-me-down 4 wheeler!  He is a little to short to reach the pedals but Aylin is enjoying it :)

 Louie loves to be out to and go with us to pick up Aylin from preschool, he does NOT like the tornado sirens though…he howls at them :)

Hilton was released from physical therapy!!  He will miss the fish tank :)

 He and I went to story time again :)

Some shots from Laney Claire's and Reed's 5th birthday parties:

 Family Matinee Movie Date:

We like to rock out in our house:

 Hilton's favorite spot to sit:

Aylin on the way to preschool and this cute little bunny she painted there :)

And finally, we are gearing up for a dual birthday party in about a month.  Aylin wants a pink and purple Sophia princess party and Hilton is all about the construction trucks right now :)  I tried to take some pics for their invitations today :)

AJ:

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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: