Easter

On Easter our kids don't get to wake up to a filled basket of candy. Instead they have to hunt for their goodies. Normally we do this on Sunday, of course, but this year the family convinced me to let them hunt early because Sunday was supposed to be cold and rainy while Saturday was beautiful and warm. So here are the kids hunting and sorting through their eggs. It was a lot of fun and they all got way too much candy! I've actually always wondered how a day set aside to celebrate Jesus death and resurrection now involves bunnies and eggs. Well this year I actually learned the reason ~ they represent hope and new life.

Spring Break

Make a photobook - it's easy!

Because we've already planned our family vacation for December we decided to stay home this Spring Break, but we still wanted the kids to have fun and really enjoy their time off school. Enjoy!

St. Patrick's Day

I'm not really the sentimental type so we haven't established many family traditions. We pretty much change things from year to year. But this year I decided I wanted to incorporate more tradition especially on holidays so they will be able to pass them on to their kids one day. So here we are decorating homemade sugar cookies with green icing and green sprinkles while wearing green shirts (mine does have green on it). The kids loved it! I let them each decorate five cookies ~ three for tonight and two for tomorrow. They were enjoying themselves so much I decided to let them eat all five! At first they thought I was kidding. And with a little luck I won't be cleaning up sick kids tonight:)

Texas Snow!!

Yesterday we finally got some snow ~ crazy thing is it was 80 degrees on saturday!! The snow started falling around lunchtime while the kids were at school and by the time they got home there was already a few inches of accumulation. I had to convince Jeremy to let the kids go out and play last night because he kept trying to tell them to wait until Friday when they could play all day assuming school would be canceled. Good thing they went out because I had three very sad children this morning when they realized not only was school on it wasn't even delayed! They had a blast building the snowman, but it was too heavy for them to put together without Jeremy's help so yes my husband is outside in the 20 degree weather wearing shorts, a t-shirt and no shoes. Oliver loved the snow too and played outside with the kids for about an hour. He kept running all around and rubbing his face in the snow. While the kids finished up outside we got a fire going and some hot chocolate ready to help warm them up. So today the kids asked if we could move to Colorado:)

Austin Getaway

On Friday I decided it was time for Jeremy and I to get away. I don't usually plan our dates so I wanted to be able to surprise Jeremy with an overnight trip. Well, all didn't go exactly as planned but I was able to get us a sitter and pick a destination spot before letting him in on my secret Saturday morning. I had a little trouble finding a hotel so I let him help me with that. Immediately after Bailey's basketball game we dropped the kids off at my brothers and were on our way. The drive isn't too bad so we were able to do a little walking around and pick up a cup of coffee before dinner. When we go to Austin we always go to The Oasis! The restaurant is right on Lake Travis and is absolutely beautiful at sunset! The weather was so amazing we decided to go for a run at Zilker Park Sunday morning ~ another one of our favorite Austin places. On the way home we did a little outlet shopping then finished our trip with lunch and coffee in downtown Fort Worth before picking up the kids.