Resurrection Rolls

SWEET JESUS IS RISEN!

God bless,

M

Easter 'eve' A.K.A. Holy Saturday pics

Drawing and coloring Easter Eggs!!!

And 3 dozen eggs later...



Lots of pink eggs!!!

With 3 cracked eggs, that left us 33 eggs for the kids to find that the Easter Bunny hid.  WOWEE!

Lots of pretty flowers blooming...

THEN ON EASTER DAY...

 Easter this year...we did bring out the hose and water and little pool to cool off!  It really was that H*OT*!  90*!!!

This is the first Easter that we clebrated by getting in our bathing suits and a pool!!! :)  It was a sure way to make it a different Easter since we did not have any family or friends to celebrate with ;(

So, we made the best of it and had fun anyway :)



God bless,
M



Totally lovin' this moment

My 4 yr old little man ran to my oldest daughter and said, very giggly:

"I thought I married Momma, but I didn't!  (insert heee heee giggle giggle)  I just married 'little lady'!"

You see, just moments before I was nursing little lady and 4 yr old little man came over...

"Oh, Momma, I just have to give her a kiss." 

(Btw, this is nothing new...4 yr old little man adores and I mean, ADORES, his baby sister and is so sweet w/her.)

So I propped her up and just then she turned her head to see him and BOOM-he smooched her right on her lips! :)  The giggles and smirks arose from within him!  Oh if you could have seen his face! 

Now, according to my kids, if a man and woman kiss on the lips, that equals marriage. 

(Not a bad indicator, wouldn't you say???)

He tells me that he just married little lady and I have tried to convince him that he did not.  How do I explain that one to a 4 yr old?  Who knows...but  right now, it is awfully cute!!! :)

4 yr old kids ROCK!  I LOVE LOVE LOVE this age!!!
Thank you God for this moment...

God bless,
M

Two Tornado Turtles

Tornado central? 

Yes (1- 10 miles away, and 1-15 miles away--ugh..Soooo not a fan of these).

31 cent SCOOP baskin-n-robbins ice cream?  Definite Yes (last night).

Rain?  Yes, off and on.

Sun?  Yes, off and on.

Humid?  Oh yes.

TURTLES? 

YES YES YES

Let me introduce you to:

"Storm" and "Chaser"!!!

(Thanks, K, for the names! LOL.  These are the boys name for them)

A.K.A

"Henry" and "Hannah" (what the girls have named them)

here is a video:

God bless,
M

Brothers Rule

B/c early morning reading w/brothers on the stairs is so much more fun than reading alone...

God bless,
M

It's still Easter!

So, all those things that I forgot to do actually ON Easter, we still get to do....

Things like the Resurrection Rolls.  Do you know about those?  Crescent Rolls (tomb), marshmallows (Jesus) , cinnamon, sugar, and melted butter (oils and scents to annoint 'Jesus')-bake and taaadaaa-the marshmallow is gone-Jesus is Risen!

And those Lenten Pretzels that I never once got around to making with the kids.  All those Fridays!  whoops! We'll try to make them this week :)

And our annual Easter Egg Rolling Contest-usually done on Easter-my family is known for  this little game.  (maybe yours too?)

And since it is Easter, my kids are asking for yet another egg hunt.  I think I can manage that too!

I like to think that God made these big feasts of Octave of Easter (and Christmas too), just for big families that can't get to everything in one day-haa haa!!! LOL

God is so good.  All glory to God :)

God bless,
M



Easter Egg Hunt and the Pope mobile

I know, that is a wierd post title, but it is what it is! :)

On Palm Sunday, we went to a Palm Sunday celebration including an early but very happily received Easter egg hunt, carnival games and a fun time had by lots of families and most were our homeschooling families! 

It was so lovely out-yes, some of my kids even wore shorts and short sleeved shirts!!! :)

As always there is some funny or odd happening whenever or wherever we go. 

This funny thing is that I thought that the lady said we had 5 mins for our young children to gather as many eggs as possible.  So, I told another dad that and we were having a little competition. 

But little did I know, that ....whoops!...she actually said that each child was to get 5 EGGS only!!! haa!!!

It was quite commical since my kids ended up throwing a whole bunch of eggs back on the lawn again.  The other kids were running after those eggs and my kids felt like they were 'king of the hill'!!! funnnnnnny :)

Pope John Paul the Great, pray for us!God bless,
M