Monday, April 21, 2014

Easter Weekend Fun!

This Easter, Cameron and I had some extra excitement! 4 bundles of energy worth! :) Jamie, Cameron's sister, is running the Boston Marathon today, so Cameron and I have hosted their 4 girls while they've been gone. I'll tell you what, going from one little girl to 5 energetic girls, is quite a leap. But they have been very good and Addy has enjoyed the energy in the house! Here are a few picts of the fun we've enjoyed over the weekend!

We had Cam home for a lot of the time, and he made the time at the pool a blast! :)

     
The 3 girl crazy train! Azzy was with me, already up the stairs :)


Saturday morning, I got to participate in a Color Vibe 5K, thanks to Kara Martin! The girls had a great time having a color throwing contest with Cam waiting for Kara, Kelsey and I to finish the race!
Aren't we a very colorful, studly group! :)

Here are the end results!

Adelaide

Azure

Haven

Eden

& Ocean!
What a group! :)

The most exciting part was that just after doing the Color Vibe race, we headed to an Easter Egg hunt... and we were all just as colorful as the Easter eggs! (Azzy didn't want a picture taken...)



We ended up with lots of eggs and even more sugar at the end with a free ice cream bar from Freddy's!

Post this fun, we emptied Easter eggs!
This had to be done on the pool float... so as to best make things exciting :)
Even with all the candy, Easter eggs, Bun-bun's visit, and pool fun, we did remember the true reason for Easter... the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. We had a little scripture/object lesson about it that was housed in our Easter Tree... framed by the girls' Easter baskets! :)

What a fun weekend! We'll see how our new week ends up cause I'm still 'mom' until late Wed. night... except now I'll be in Austin and without Cam's help! :) A big dog-pile full of love to Jamie and hope she does well!

Sunday, April 6, 2014

Spring has Sprung!!! At least here in TX!

March 22nd, Cameron was busy sanding a little rocking chair for Addy, so I started on a project of my own... Our Garden!

I re-fertilized my little garden boxes, loosened the soil, and gave up on my little greenhouse set that nothing had sprouted in.
My failed 'greenhouse' became Addy's play area. :)
I first planted my transplanted tomato, then started in on the seeds... I put in bean, eggplant, tomato, onion, pepper, lettuce, cabbage, and spinach seeds! Feeling good, I watered everything and waited for the little seeds to sprout.

After a week, I hadn't see any sprouts... but on my birthday, I headed out to water the strawberries and in the very last garden box I found lettuce, spinach and cabbage sprouted and growing!

Cabbage
Spinach
Lettuce
It was a birthday miracle!!! Soon I searched the other boxes and found little green sprouts in the other boxes!
Tiny, green onion sprouts that are barely visible
The two hopeful tomatoes that popped their leaves up!
So my hopes for the garden are started. I'll have to update because since I started this post, my little garden has grown a lot! Plus, I have a new hanging pot with snapdragons...
Cameron doorbell-ditched them for me during lunch on my birthday! :) I love these fun flowers!
and my front porch is colorfully happy!
Add in a cute Addy 'smelling' the flowers and it can't get much more fun! :)