Easter 2012

What a glorious Easter weekend we had this year! The girls both really enjoyed all of the activities and it was nice that Maggie was old enough to somewhat participate this year. We started the weekend off with the annual SCC Egg Hunt. This is always so much fun as I get to see every one's little ones and a lot of friends from out of town that we do not get to see often. Kylie was really into it and Maggie enjoyed the marshmallows mostly!
Big Sister tried so hard to show Little Sister how it's done
But Little Sister just wanted to eat!
Big Sister loved seeing all of her friends!
The girls thought it was great o be able to play on the golf course.
Little Sister met the Easter Bunny, she did not like him as much this year!
It took Big Sister a little bit to warm up, but she finally agreed to take a picture.Once we got home, Big Sister also kept pointing out that the Easter Bunny had on tennis shoes. She told me a least a million times that she thought there was a person inside the Easter Bunny! Geez-- I am so not ready for those conversations, I was caught completely off guard. I finally convinced her that he had to wear Nike's in order to hop from house to house to fill up Easter baskets. I never addressed the person inside the costume question! I need to come up with something to justify that for the next holiday. =)
Sunday morning, we woke up to find that the Easter Bunny or according to Kylie, his friend, had come to our house and filled up our baskets with lots of Easter goodies.The girls were thrilled that this Easter Bunny hooked them up for the beach and the pool!
Sporting her new shades!
After all of the Easter Bunny fun, the crew got ready to celebrate a risen Jesus at Church. Lee and I had nursery duty :) Ha! Do you know how packed the nursery is on Easter Sunday? Grandkids, cousins, nieces, nephews, etc -- they are ALL there! We had a lot of fun and Maggie was thrilled that we stayed to play with her and all 30 of her friends in the nursery, hehe. Kylie sat with her friend, Martha Ann, during the service and then attended Children's Church. I hated to miss Easter service, but one of my goals this year is to serve more in the Church and I can't think of a better place in need of serving than a church nursery =)I know I am biased, but my little girlies looked beautiful on Easter!

Hope you all had a wonderful Easter!

Leika's Easter Parade 2012

This morning Kylie participated in the annual Easter parade at her pre-school (Leika's). All of the children wore Easter hats that they made in their class and we all walked around the block of our church.
After the parade, Kylie's class went to Miss Joy for music and then Miss Kathy set up an Easter Egg hunt on the playground. The kids had a blast.

Egg-xellent Egg Hunt

Last Sunday we headed to the Wendland's farm in Autaugaville for the annual CSUMC egg hunt. One of my most favorite things about our church is the children's ministry. We are blessed with so many children at our church and their worship leaders are amazing. Thank you Miss Daneen, Miss Dawn, Miss Teresa, and Miss Paula for everything you do for our little ones!
My crew had a blast at their 1st egg hunt of the year. Although Mags was present at this hunt last year, this is her 1st time to really be able to participate. And that little girl loves candy, so she was in heaven. She was also especially happy that she can now fit in her sister's old pink cowgirl boots! I am happy too -- we have lots of fights about one girl having something and the other one wanting the same thing. Even though they are 2 years apart, it is easiest to just buy 2 of everything. So the Easter Bunny doubled up on stuff this year. Oh and have I mentioned that Baby Sis is now wearing a bow??!?!?! This makes me so happy =)

Kylie bug had a great time. She gets so excited to her friends and that melts my heart. Her theory of egg hunting is to only pick up the colors she likes...pink and purple, maybe an occasional yellow.

Photo Ops

So I have been trying stay on top of this thing in order to prevent another year blog hiatus from happening =) That means we have been taking lots of photos so I will have something to post on here, haha! And let's face it, these precious faces are much more entertaining than reading my rambling thoughts. Here are a few of my favorites!



We have lots of Easter activites this week that we are all excited about! So lots of posts to come. Also -- still looking for a taker on helping me with a new blog template???

Under Construction

Please bear with me as I try to reconfigure/redesign the blog. I need some help with this. My blog has been in process since 2007!!!! Yes, 2007 -- that is crazy. So Google is much different on blogger now. Can some of my new blog friends help me?

Work Weeks

This my friends, is what you call one he$$ of a week :) Sorry for the terminology, but nothing else sums it up as well as the previous sentence! I am beginning to realize that my weeks are beginning to run together and more so than not, have the same ending as this past week, CRAZY! I started my week of here If you know me, you know that this city has a special place in my heart. In fact, if Lee would go along with it, I would actually consider moving there. I would love this exact house nestled right in the middle of the Garden District. Spending 6 years putting together housing after Katrina allowed me to see some many aspects of the Big Easy beyond Bourbon Street. This week was a quick trip, only spending Monday night for a meeting on Tuesday. We dined at Tommy's , which did not disappoint.After a quick meeting on Tuesday, I was back on the road to Montgomery. Time to get ready for the 2nd half of the week. I had a closing scheduled in Jackson, MS on Friday so I needed to get back to the office to prepare before traveling again on Thursday. This was my 1st trip to Jackson. Jackson is one of those places, like Selma that is a true Southern city. The movie the Help was based on the happenings in Jackson back in the day. And while in Jackson, I got to eat lunch at the Mayflower Cafe...one of the oldest restaurants in Jackson. It has been open since 1935, it is also where scenes from The Help were filmed. I learned that Jackson has quite a few jewels. We had dinner at The Parlor and it was fantastic! Quaint, fun and wonderful. The menu was pretty exotic as it featured mostly wild game. I would say this restaurant could hold its own with big city competition. So even though much of the week was a complete blur, it was nice to hit a few highlights.

Am I Back??!

Well, well since it has been almost a year since my last post I figured I need to re-join the blogging world if for nothing else to make me take some current photos of my children!!
So what's been happening since my last post, you ask?
Kylie (a/k/a Butterbean, Kylie bug, snuggle bug)is now 3.5 years old. Time has flown with her, she is such a little girl now and no longer a toddler. Her favorite things are going to Church, playing outside, coloring, and candy! Here she is after her 1st dove hunting adventure with her Daddy, it is safe to say she is an animal lover to. He didn't have the heart to tell her they were dead! Ha!
Maggie (a/k/a Moo, Bruiser, Mags) is now 17 months old. She is beginning to enter the toddler phase. She has mastered getting out of her bed, making a mess and climbing anything and everything. She is such a funny little thing and her red curly hair makes us giggle all the time.
Lee has been doing good also. We are starting to like each other again since hunting season is over, haha. So it is safe to say that I am dreading turkey season!! Here is a pic of Lee and Maggie from Easter last year.
As far as myself, I have been working ALOT lately. I had an amazing project close in November of last year in New Orleans. It is being put up for one of the top ten affordable housing projects in the country. It is fun to see something you have worked on for so long come to life. Here is a rendering of the final product. This is of course after a substantial renovation which will allow more Katrina evacuees to return back home.
Be back soon!