Andrew's Cub scout trip to Ijam's nature center

On April 11th Andrew's cub scout den went on a trip to Ijam's Nature center. They had a lesson on the Passenger Pigeon and how they are almost now extinct. They also got to go on a short hike on the nature trail.

Easter 2009

The "Special Plate"

My BFF Andrea had a fun "mommy idea". She suggested that we go to Liza' Moz Pottery at West Town mall and make a "special plate" for our kids. We each have 3 kids : 2 boys & 1 girl each. It was such a fun and relaxing time drawing

our kids
on the plate and then Painting them. We made matching plates. (They really turned out sooooo cute.) Whenever one of our kids has a really SPECIAL day, or has a very amazing accomplishment etc, they will earn the privilege of eating dinner on the SPECIAL plate!!



It took about an hour and a half to make the plate and then it took a week to get it back after it was fired.


Look at the picture above of baby Jeremiah taking his bottle. (He didn't make a peep the entire time we were there!)
This is a great place to go to with a girlfriend, by yourself or to take your kids.

Andrew & Emma Grace visit the Easter Bunny

Here are some pictures from the past few years with the Easter bunny. It has been several years since Morgan would "agree" to the easter Bunny... how sad.

Andrew didn't really want to this year, but did it for me. Emma Grace LOVES anything in a costume. I love looking back at these pictures and seeing how much they have changed over the past few years. I wish that I could just freeze time and keep them little forever. That ol' Easter bunny hasn't aged a day! :)

Pre school Easter Egg hunt

Snow in April!!!!

This morning we woke up to a "dusting" of snow on the ground. While I was getting Emma Grace's clothes ready for preschool, she went outside on the deck - barefoot! I guess she just couldn't resist the urge. 

It was really weird seeing all the spring flowers covered with a dusting of the white stuff. And to think, Easter is this Sunday!

Our cat Gracie kills and brings home mice, baby bunnies and baby birds all the time. Yesterday  we looked outside on our deck and saw this baby blue bird  just lying there ~ still just barely alive. Emma Grace ran out to see the bird. I felt so bad for the little bird because there was nothing we could do to save her.  Emma Grace had never been this close to a bird before or had never even touched a bird. She loves to watch them perch on our deck though. Blue birds are her favorite, probably because she has a few of them painted on her bedroom walls and Cinderella also loves and talks to the blue birds. I know that birds carry diseases and all kinds of germs, but something in me told me to let her hold  the bird. She tried her best to comfort the dying bird and even sang to it. It was so so so sad. She fell in love with that little bird in the 30-45 mins before her daddy came home and made us get rid of it. She watched as he dug a hole and we buried it beside our deck. We picked some little yellow dandelions and placed them on the tiny grave. She cried and cried for that little bird, and I cried watching her cry.   I know to most people this is just a silly story - but to my little girl, this was her 1st recognition of Death. I have never had to explain "dying" to her.  All this reminded me of the time  Jesus was talking to his disciples and he was telling them not to worry about their life.  Jesus told them  in Luke  chapter 12 (verses 22-34).  "Therefore i tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.  Life is more than food and the body more than clothes.  Consider the ravens. They do not sow or reap,  they have no storeroom or barn, yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable are you than birds. Who of you by worrying can add a single day to your life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?  This is a beautiful passage of scripture that I needed to be reminded of myself....     ~Luke 12:22-34~