Yes it is true, she is 2 and

She is a big girl now! Sorry about the poor lighting and different angles. I was so excited I was just so happy I caught it on camera. This is my first try at slides and uploading video to Blogger. Hopefully, it will work out alright.

Other excitement for the day?

From Cristina and her BEAUTIFUL daughters. Although she wrote that it was tardy good mail, it wasn't....it was right on time, on a day we needed a boost.

A fun magnetic toy for the fridge for Natalie's birthday. Also, the cutest card ever from her girls.

Then...my oh my, I got some fun good mail. Fun dish towels, double mint soap, some yummy kisses, a sweet letter and Birthday Cake room spray. Ever had birthday cake room spray? No, probably not, cause she MADE the spray herself! AND IT SMELLS LIKE CAKE....no lie. She may have to start an etsy business. (HINT, hint, Cristina). Thanks for thinking of us....she even included See's lollipops for the kids and Charles, so no one felt left out. Thanks so much Cristina for making our Saturday so much better!

You know you want to.

be enjoying a yummy tootsie popoutside on a beautiful spring day
on one of your favorite things, the slide
and wearing 2 of the cutest things ever. Your colorful gumball dress and that gorgeous, gorgeous smile.

You know you want to.

Happy Birthday, Miranda!

Six looks really good on you! Photos courtesy of Stacy...isn't her daughter a cutie?

Not bad for a Wednesday.

Since Michael had no school today, Natalie and I decided to take him to a new park here.

Don't you love the view?

Michael couldn't wait to conquer one of their rock walls.
After he did it, he squealed..."I can't wait to tell Daddy I am just like him!". How's that for cute?Little miss Natalie couldn't be bothered with me or the camera, as is evident in EVERY photo I tried to take. She just had too many things to do.

See what I mean? An open field and she was off!

After the park we headed to Toysrus for play sand and that is all......so how come I ended up with these?

and a few other "necessities"?

Other tidbits going on in our lives...

*Tyler wants to grow his hair out like one of the Jonas Brothers.

*If I have to hear him play Miley Cyrus' song "See you again" one more time, I may explode. I liked it the 1st thousand times I heard it, now I am very over it.

*My biological father is coming to town in a week. Let my over-analyzing begin!

*Charles' 25th high school reunion is in May. Wow, he's old. JK!

*Charles' good friend Danny & his wife Norma, had a beautiful baby girl a week ago. We can't wait to meet her.

Stay tuned for Natalie's birthday post...it's now only 21 days old. Wait til you see the cake Janice made, YUM-MO! Okay may be reading too much Rachael Ray lately.

The dirty dozen.

Have you read this yet? I found it on Tangled and true, one of my favorite blogs to read. It is basically saying that if you can't afford to go totally organic to try to to go organic on the foods that have the most pesticides....you won't believe the list. I mean, there is not one item on that list that isn't a fave of my kids. We need to make some serious changes around here. Here is the link to the complete list and the reasons why. Read it, I think you might be surprised.

Random Miscellaneousness(How is that for a title?)

Lindsey received a letter from her friend, Miranda. Talk about good mail. Her letter is on her way to Miranda as I type.Speaking of good mail....look what I neglected to mention I got from my good friend, Stacy. Cool rub-ons, a Monk and Neagle cd, a canvas to monogram, a WHOLE sheet of stamps, and my favorite...a cover for my planner. Don't you love the color and pattern? Remember to check out her shop at Etsy...I Believe Designs. She has these camera straps that are so great. I have one and always get complimented on it. Check her out.

Michael hamming it up for the camera. What is so significant about the photo with him next to our filthy van? This was his 5th trip to the car! Removing all of his "special things" that he had collected. He was so cute. Huffing and puffing about all the "work" he had to do. Not mad about it, just extremely, extremely busy with it. So cute.

Charles' best friend from high school came into town to visit. While at the park the kids put together and impromptu ball game(out of town visitors and game not pictured, due to chasing 3 little ones away from wayward throws or hits). This pic of Savannah about to hit the ball just makes me smile. She just turned 13. Happy birthday to you!

While at that park we were able to catch a couple of our little lady running to me and running to hug a tree. EVERY time we are at a park, any park, she hugs the trees.

Quality car time.

Beautiful tulips my husband surprised me with.

Our St. Patrick's Day came and went with no pinches, plenty of green and lots of fun. That night our elementary school had a meeting with the school board and Tyler gave his presentation first. Yes, my Tyler stood before 6 people and gave a speech, a very good one that he wrote on his own. He basically asked them not to close the school because he still felt safe there and he was speaking for the autistic children who couldn't speak for themselves. He told them he had autism and how much the school supported him, but I loved his closing line.....Please don't close Rogers, you have so much going on here that is right and good. I still get teary eye when I think of him up there do the best he could. He tried to make eye contact with them several times and he even got a little choked up himself. There was not a dry eye in the place. I was so proud of him. He was really excited when he saw that he made the 10 o'clock news. We have a star among us.

This picture to show you that Lindsey is simply a genius. She made that cube....am I crazy to be impressed that my 5 year old drew a cube?

Caught playing "Castles and things" in his room. It makes my heart happy.

Dancing her heart out. Loving the outfit.





Saturday before Easter we had Lindsey's classmate over for a playdate. We decorated eggs, made books and had to dress-up. Cute, huh? Oh yeah, Batman was on the scene to rescue the princesses. Complete with sound effects,"Nananananananananana, BATMAN".

Have I told you lately, I love these kids of mine?


Stay tuned for Natalie's 2nd birthday post....it's only 16 days overdue.

Easter cont'd.

Natalie wearing her Eb ears that the Easter Bunny left her.....too bad I couldn't have included them in the pic:) She found 2 or 3 eggs and was done with the whole hunting for eggs thing.Lindsey started out strong, but ended up being done with it all after about 8 or 9 eggs.

Michael on the other hand, searched and searched....until every last egg was gone. He even hid them just to find them all over again. He enjoyed it so much.
Tyler found a couple for the sake of playing along with his siblings and then went in his room to check out his loot. I feel bad sometimes that the age gap is so large between them all.....

After the egg hunt, the kids and I made(besides a yummy mess)
Pioneer Woman's carrot cake. Deliciouso! If you haven't went to her site or her cooking site, you need to. The woman is hilarious and has great recipes.
Lindsey was such a patient wittle wabbit waiting for dinner and guests. Have I mentioned that she loves drawing? Every day, all day she is with her basket of art supplies and she is drawing something. I love her creativity.
Our Easter table centerpiece provided by my Aunt Pat and Uncle Rich. So sweet. Thank you.

Our little one after she woke from her nap....how do you like that hair? We were so happy that she was awake for dinner!

After dinner, the kids had fun outside.


Had to include this pic for you.....as she was getting on the playset the static electricity had her hair standing straight up. It was so funny.


Since I never seem to get good photos of our guests at dinner, I have tried to do better. Sunday, my dad and grandmother were cooperative. It was a good day.