Mother's day and Easter pictures

In the last post I promised some pictures and well--life happened. I have been taking pictures just not faithful to post them. I thinking trying to keep the house spotless--while it is on the market--is taking its toll on so many other areas of my life. I really feel like I am on a hamster wheel or something. I do the same thing every evening and never get ahead. I guess I should be thankful I go to bed at night with clean floors, folded laundry and put away dishes!

Anyway we had a nice Mothers day. My mom came into town for a visit. We had fun--and we didn't have much of an agenda! The weather was beautiful so we spent most of our time outside enjoying the sunshine. We planted the front flower bed-which has been on my to-do list for several weeks.

As I was working in the yard--up pulls a florist delivery truck. And--you guess it--Adam sent me flowers. It was so sweet of him to find a way to make my day so special. White tulips were in my "going away" bouquet at our wedding. I love them--they say fresh, new, and lovely. My mom was also speechless when the man pulled out two vases--one for me and one for her. It was nice to be pampered!

It is officially summer here in the deep south. We have been to the pool twice, busted out the sun block, and made strawberry short cake! Mariemma gets really excited when she sees the plate--she says lick it! I think she would be happy with just the whip cream. Last year Adam built a deck with a picnic table and bench. I just could not have imagined that now both children would sit side by side and eat dinner together. Mariemma has to be right beside Reece--she loves her big brother. I love seeing their sweet face laughing together.

The flowers--how beautiful!

Reece looks so big to me. He is no longer a toddler--we are officially a little boy.

Lick it!

Easter Sunday morning--oh what a wonderful morning it is!

I just love this picture of Chase--he dumped all the eggs out and didn't really seem to mind!

Every body look left--at least they all looked the same direction!

PJ dance party at Grams house--these three really love on another.

Spring pics

Spring is here--and I am behind on posting pics. I have been hit by the deployment blues over the past few weeks. Which means a real lose of motivation. I feel like I maybe starting to see the other side of the slump. After much prayer and a few new summer plants, I am starting to feel more like myself. Here are a few pictures from our last few weeks.
I love pots. This big green one is new to my collection. I learned a few tricks after last year. I am hopeful to have better luck this time around. Reece has been learning about plants at school. Here is his plant project from last week. We have both been amazed at how fast plants grow!



Here is one of my pots in the back yard--lots of sun. I pray they make it through our hot Alabama summer!
Reece helped me plant today--well he at least kept me company.

Mariemma never keeps her glasses on--but today she learned they really do help on sunny days. She just looks so cute.

On Saturday we went to an Easter egg hunt with cousins Evie and Jonas. Here are the boys eating a cookie

We had to pull them out of the air bounce. They could have played all day.

Oh the joys of finding eggs. I just love how this picture turned out!

This is another cool pic--I kinda like the overexposed look. This was really fun to both kids. Reece rode the pony and Mariemma made horse nosies while she watched.

Ok so this was Mariemma's first egg hunt. I asked Reece to teach her how to find eggs. Well at first he just grabbed them all but by the end he really started to delight in watching ME discover them for herself. Reece really wanted ME to find this one hidden in the tree.

My mom was so sweet to give the kids these egg grabbers--for lack of a better word. They pick the eggs up out of the dye. Well ME had no idea what they were used for but she really liked playing with them!

Yes I have to say this was the cleanest egg dying experience ever! But he did such a good job.