Spring Cleaning

cleaning the pollen from her horse

he was just a cheerleader for all the cleaning!

 As we are preparing to move we are trying to get rid of all the "stuff" that we have that we really don't need. So the other Saturday morning we set out to pick out all the "stuff" we needed to spruce up to put on Craigslist. HJ had fun cleaning her horse while we were cleaning other things. AP was just along for the ride as always and was talking and laughing!

.coffee?.

I have distinct memories of when I was a little girl and would spend the night with my grandparents, my grandma would make me a small cup of coffee with breakfast! It was loaded with milk and equal and was oh so yummy! HattieJo is following in my footsteps of loving coffee. She loves to drink it!

.sibling love and rivalry.

What you looking at mom?

"attack!"-ap...... "no, its MINE."-hj

"fine!"-ap

 Now that AP is ALL OVER the place it is so funny how he wants to be right in the middle of whatever HattieJo is doing. She enjoys it sometimes, but most of the time it is, "mooommmmyyyy..ap is getting my____." haha! Their interactions are PRECIOUS. She does LOVE him and gets the best laughs out of him!

.farm fun.

A couple of weeks ago, some friends of ours invited us out along with some other friends to their family's farm... when i told HJ she began talking about all the animals that she would see...but there was one problem- there were NO animals! There were some porcelain chickens that she took to...there were HUGE puddles, friends, wide open spaces, fishing, and food. It made for a great day!
**i love this picture, i feel like hj is giving Matt a puddle jumping lesson!**

::wordless wednesday: my fellas::

::our porch::

One thing that i am going to miss about our house is our porch---we spend so much time on it--its perfect for those rainy days when you still need fresh air, a place where bobby and andrew have a "man cave", the perfect place to rock and read...i just love it!

.baby eli.

Some of our dear friends bobby and allison, who are going with us to plant Mercy Hill, had a baby back in march! his name is eli and he is ADORABLE! The whole time she was pregnant HJ was very intrigued and would always want to touch her belly, ask what he was doing, etc. So when he was born HJ was really excited! Anytime we are at their house or they are here HJ asks to hold eli and she gets the BIGGEST grin on her face- its precious!

::poppa came to town::

Poppa had spring break a couple of weeks ago, so he packed his bags and came to spend a few days with us! we LOVED the time with him.... gigi we missed you, but know you had to hold down the fort in Florida :) Poppa brought easter baskets from him and gigi... the kids were so excited about their goodies! thank you gigi and poppa!

.eggs, harmonicas, and one sweet girl.

While we were on vacation, we had an easter egg hunt in the hotel room- hj was all about it! then one night we ate at the Cracker Barrel and Andrew bought a harmonica- once hj heard it she caught right on with how to play it. she found a hill in the parking lot outside and began to put on a show!

Happy Easter 2012

Let no one caught in sin remain

Inside the lie of inward shame
We fix our eyes upon the cross
And run to him who showed great love
And bled for us
Freely you bled, for us

Christ is risen from the dead
Trampling over death by death
Come awake, come awake!
Come and rise up from the grave!

Christ is risen from the dead
We are one with him again
Come awake, come awake!
Come and rise up from the grave!

Beneath the weight of all our sin
You bow to none but heavens will
No scheme of hell, no scoffer's crown
No burden great can hold you down
In strength you reign
Forever let your church proclaim

Christ is risen from the dead
Trampling over death by death
Come awake, come awake!
Come and rise up from the grave

Christ is risen from the dead
We are one with him again
Come awake, come awake!
Come and rise up from the grave

Oh death! Where is your sting?
Oh hell! Where is your victory?
Oh Church! Come stand in the light!
The glory of God has defeated the night!

Oh death! Where is your sting?
Oh hell! Where is your victory?
Oh Church! Come stand in the light!
Our God is not dead, he's alive! he's alive!

*LOVE this song!*

Hope everyone has a great Easter!

he's on the move.

this is all new territory for us.. hj never crawled... ap has been acting like he was going to for over a month, then on Tuesday night he took off and hasn't slowed down! he is so stinkin' fast and isn't scared at all...he crawls right over to things and pulls up on them in a split second...crazy boy!

.vacation part2.

So the 2 previous posts are from vacation too... Our vacations with the parents are never complete without eating out and some shopping at the outlets! Andrew driving mom around town!:There was a Disney outlet which HJ loved!
The day before we left Gdaddy and Gmommy gave AP and HJ their easter baskets full of great things!