Easter Egg Hunt and Palm Sunday

We had our church Easter egg hunt Saturday morning after Elle's soccer game. Pitty Pat and Grand Joe came for it all and got to participate. They had crafts for the kids to do and then the egg hunt.

They had the children split up into age groups to hunt the eggs and Jay dominated the 2 year olds!


The preschool choir performed in church on Palm Sunday. They were so sweet and cute and it melted my heart!

April

We've had sa busy month with soccer starting for Elle, getting ready for the dance recital, and Elle's birthday coming up in 1 week! The kids have been loving this spring weather and all of the flowers (weeds) in my yard.
Birdie picking me a bouquet of flowers

We had dance recital photos made and Elle is the flounder from Little Mermaid in her tap dancing act.

Friday night a local acting/dance/singing company in Hattiesburg called Stagestruck put on a Dr Suess musical and all of the perfomers in it were children that attend Stagestruck. I bought tickets and suprised Elle and we went. She absolutley loved it! Now she's wanting to start taking classes there. She was wiped out on the way home.

Saturday morning Elle had her first soccer game. They have had 2 pracitces and I was beyond excited for this game. However, Elle HATES it! She sat on the sidelines and ate donuts and didn't want to go in b/c she didn't want to get kicked and hurt! She went in and ran around a little but never would touch the ball.

Shaking hands after the game

March

March has been a pretty busy month for us and it's not over yet. I left Jay at home with his daddy to go to Disney World with my mom and my niece Caroline.

I had Elle an appointment at the Bippity Boppity Boutique in Cinderella's Castle one afternoon to get transformed into a princess. She got to pick her hairstyle, makeup, and nails!

Febuary

Another valentine's day is in the books. Jay got a spiderman action figure and Elle got the doll "Anna" from Frozen and a princess dress just like Anna's. They had a valentine party that day at school so she had to take her new doll and wear her frozen dress. Elle had her first skating birthday party a few weeks ago. She actually got the hang of it pretty well.

I was polishing my toenails and Jaybird thought he needed a pedicure too! Why not?

Elle dressed up for dance and had to have a ballerina bun

We went to Canebrake to eat friday night and turned around to this: Kids ponied up to the bar! The each ordered a bowl of ice cream.

MC came home with us to spend the night. They all played great and minded well and even went to bed when I told them to. The girls even let Jay play babies with them a little.

MC is almost a whole year younger than Elle and so much taller I had to get a picture!

January

Elle has started taking a tennis clinic on Thursday afternoons with her little boyfriend Graham. They are too cute and will be going to kindergarten at the same school next year--Benedict Day School.

We went over to the West house for dinner and to hang the other night and let the all kids take a bath together. They were so cute and silly.

Elle had her first sleepover that night with Mary Clayton. They acted sweet and did great. Meredith cooked them a big breakfast the next morning and I picked them up and took them to church. They were loving life!

Elle at her TOTS perfomance at Sumrall High School

We took a trip with Josh's family to Houston, TX to celebrate Christmas and Memaw's birthday. It was lots of good food and shopping and the kids loved swimming in the hot tub at Aunt Nancy's house.

Sweet Zander getting warmed up to the hot tub

Josh and I took our kids to the Houston zoo one day and it was super cool. They had a petting zoo inside!

Jay and I checking out the seals swimming

We actually got tons of ice and a little snow so just about all of south MS shut down for 3 days! Kids got snowed in at my parents house and had a blast!

Christmas Fun

December was a full month for us and Christmas came and went too quick! The kids had a Christmas party at their school. I was glad my mom could come this day b/c I couldn't be in both of their classes at once so we split up. Here's Jay eating with his buddies.

At Elle's class party

We took the kids on an overnight trip to NOLA to a "Teddy Bear Tea Party" at the Roosevelt hotel with Santa, Mrs. Claus, Rudolf, Elves, the Nutcracker, the Ice Queen, and many other characters. They loved it!

I totally forgot to bring any strollers which is a huge mistake if you are going to NOLA. Thankfully the hotel had one umbrella stroller we could borrow so Elle let Jay ride in her lap and she was suprisingly sweet about it!

The Ice Queen

Leaving out cookies for Santa

The loot

Elle taking her brother for a spin in their new wheels

Santa visit

My mom brought an advent treat to my house for the kids and hung them up in the kitchen. She had 25 bags for Elle and 25 for Jay---one for each day before Christmas. The kids have loved opening up a new present every day.

Santa stopped by our house the other night after school and paid the kids a visit. Elle was loving him. Jay was unsure at first but then he opened up and started talking to ole santa.

They got a gingerbread house kit and movies. Elle got Peter Pan and Jay got Mickey Mouse.

Meredith and I took the kids to historic downtown Hburg to see Christmas lights and go on a carriage ride. It was fun and a pile of crushed goldfish from these 4 angels was just an added bonus in my car!

Elle's dance class had parent observation day where we got to see what they've learned this year so far. They were so cute!