Berry Picking

Spending time at my parents house always brings some kind of outdoor adventure! This time it was picking and eating black berries! This was Kensli's first time to experience picking and eating the fruits of her labor!

Kaitlyn got into the berry picking, too! She didn't have to be asked twice if she wanted to help, because she likes to eat them with cream and sugar!

The girls watched with anxious anticipation as Mam-maw washed some in a bowl!

Nicholas was to busy playing to help pick, but he wasn't to busy to eat some!

Life According to Kensli

Snuggling Conversation

Me: "Kensli, you make my heart smile! You are my sweet heart!!!!"

Kensli (with a look of adoring love): "Mommy, you are my poopsie-whoopsie!!!!"

I'll be her poopsie-whoopsie anytime!!! :)

Early Morning Conversation

Kensli: "Mommy, are your eyes awake?"

Me: "No, they are not!"

Kensli: "Mine aren't either, but my belly button is!!!!"

Doctor Kensli Making House Calls

Kensli(with doctor kit wanting to doctor Kaitlyn): "Kaitlyn, do you feel good?"

Kaitlyn: "Yes!"

Kensli(after whacking her sister very hard on the arm): "Now you don't!!!!!!"

Drumming up business on a whole new level! :)

SCREAMING FOR ICE CREAM

Kensli has a new obsession......ice cream! In the past she was never fond of anything cold, even milk! Then we introduced her to T*BY and the rest is history! She asks her daddy daily for a kiddie cup of "shorebret", and usually he makes sure she is not disappointed! The other day she discovered chocolate and decided that she liked this flavor, too!

Can you tell?

THE GREAT CAT RESCUE

Our cat is CRAZY! She will get up in a tree and can't or won't come down by herself! On Saturday that is exactly what happened. The dog chased her up the tree and she stayed there ALL day! She would cry and beg for us to get her down, but would not come down by herself. We coaxed her every way we knew how, but nothing seemed to work! In the end, it took Kaitlyn and Toby's Great Climbing Act to get the cat out of the tree!

KAITLYN'S RESCUE ATTEMPT

When Kaitlyn heard us talking about getting the cat down, she was very quick to volunteer! She was so happy to be climbing up in the tree, that I really began to question her motives! :)

Her grin for ear to ear, shows how proud she was to be up in that tree!

We soon realized that she was not tall enough to reach Ellie!

TOBY'S RESCUE ATTEMPT

Once Toby got up the tree (I failed to get pictures of the assent, because I was holding the ladder), he could just reach her!

Her ears tell how she feels about being rescued!

How ungrateful can a cat be?

VERY!!!!!!!!!

TOBY

the

GREAT TREE CLIMBING, CAT RESCUING MAN!!!!!!

Easter Happenings

I was so unprepared for Easter this year! I did manage to buy the "perfect" outfits, but somehow I just couldn't get the baskets together! The fast threw me off, I guess! After it was all over, they didn't miss any of the CANDY!!!!!!!! Seems like at Easter, candy just magically appears!!!!!

We went to my parents for Easter Sunday service! They were having an Easter drama and both my parents were in the performance. This is the 1st play of any kind that I can remember my parents being a part of since I was around 10 or 11. The kids were impressed that they were watching their grandparents in something, instead of the other way around! :) I failed to get any pictures though! :( Another one of those unprepared moments!

The church did have an egg hunt after service for the all the kids. My 3 youngest really enjoyed themselves. Ricky did not participate, because according to him he is just too old for that sort of thing!

After lunch with my parents and grandmother, we went to see Toby's family! Toby's mom had baked cup cakes and cookies! It was so sweet and thoughtful! Toby's oldest sister, brother-in-law, nephew, his wife, and great nephew were all there and we had a great visit.

The kids were so tired when we got home that night, they went straight to bed and slept late the next morning!

Ricky ready for Easter and tolerating the camera!

My little egg hunters!

All dressed up!

A Trip to the Dr. and Some VERY GOOD NEWS

Ricky has VERY bad allergies! They have always been bad, but this year he has a rougher time than usual! He has had to take two rounds of antibiotics for sinus infections since February! About a month ago, Ricky came to me and told me that he had found some knots on his neck! I checked and sure enough, they were quite large and sore! I took him to the Dr. M. and he checked him out thoroughly and put him on his second round of antibiotics. Dr. M. said that he wanted to see him again in 3 weeks to see if they had changed in any way. Depending on what they looked like on the follow up visit would determine if more testing would be needed. I was concerned, but tried to put the possibilities of different outcomes out of my mind. During our fast, I prayed for him several times and had the Spanish ministry pray for him. A few days ago he told me that he could feel more knots now. He has been really fatigued this past week, too, which caused me to be really concerned. Sunday morning I had him prayed for again and felt peace about the visit this week. Today, we had our doctor visit and Dr. M. couldn't feel any knots. Thank the Lord!!!!!! What huge relief on Ricky's part! I am so glad we know a healing God!!!! The doctor did leave him on allergy medicine for the rest of the spring, but that is fine! God can totally take care of the allergies, too.

Once Upon a Time and Pink Nail Polish

Once upon a time there was a little girl that loved all things girly! She loved, loved, loved everything that belonged to her big sister!!!!

One day her mother found her in the sun room with her big sisters nail polish! Her mother inquired if she had obtained permission from her big sister and she replied, "She said I could all by myself!" Without further hesitation the mother grabbed her camera and took some precious shots!

The little girl knew just how to dip the brush in the polish!

Dip brush, dip brush, dip brush, dip brush,
check amount on brush, and
REPEAT!!!!!!!


Apply liberally to each nail!

Her patience was amazing as she applied the polish!

Getting that last nail covered just right took a lot of work!

After she was through, she blew each nail until it was dried to her satisfaction and off she went feeling beautiful!!!!!

THE END