Happy Easter

We got to spend the weekend with all 3 boys until about 3 pm Sunday. We went on egg hunts with Donald, Angela and the girls on Saturday, kept it low key Sunday and just ate a late breakfast and enjoyed the beautiful albeit a little windy/cool weather. But the rain forecast was cancelled and it was a beautiful sunny day!
I have tons of pics but picked some of my favorites.

The White Stuff

1 a.m. nothing. No freezing temps, yet it was cold, the bullfrogs in the pond were singing like it was a nice Spring night.


6 hours later we awoke to this.

My hubby had to literally dig his car out to go to work this afternoon. I am glad I got some pics this morning and later when the sun was out, because he rutted and muddied up the yard but good. ARGH!!

I lost big chunks of both of my Magnolia trees and also my big Blue Cedar that shades our backyard (and more importantly, my bedroom) in the summer. I had tulips starting and hundreds of daffodils whose life was cut short. I also have lots of blooming trees and Forsythia bushes. I hope they made it. We lost a lot last year to a freak frost so we didn't get to see the full effect of what the realtor said "was the most beautiful yard in the county".

If it weren't for those things I could enjoy it more, now I worry about the mess I will have(as if we don't have enough around here). 2 steps forward 3 back it seems since we bought this place. Also have shingles to replace from the tornado a few weeks ago.

Home Sweet Home? Where art thou? LOL I am very appreciative of what we have, is it just too much to ask to enjoy it for a little while without having some kind of disaster? Pretty please? With snow sugar on top?

Ayden-isms

Just documenting so I don't forget. I know I have left out so many. He talks so much and very very well it is hard to keep up with it all.


At 25 months old.




"Nana I wanna hold your hand." Sometimes when he is tired he gets his blanket and sippie cup and just says "Hand".

"Don't tell me no." (no explanation for that one)

"I hold you" (pick me up, recently he said Hold me then went back to I hold you.)

"Get home now!" (told this to Papa last Thursday night on the phone)

"MM's" M&M's there is no and. We bought him some last week and he picked out the yellow and said yellow, orange, red and blue then he picked up a brown one and said "this one chocolate!" So the M&M's all have colors but the brown. It is just chocolate apparently. I haven't the heart to tell him.

He came into the kitchen the other day with a Wal-mart sack full of toys, newspaper, junk mail etc.. I said what is that for? He told me. "Going bye bye in Nana's big truck (my van)."