Thankful Thursday

This morning I have been sitting here

rewatching the final moments in

last nights American Idol.

Watching Scotty McCreery win 

and his humbleness is amazing.

It has just made me think about how very blessed I am.

So today on this beautiful spring day

I am THANKFUL for

God's love

Healthy kids

A Wonderful Husband

My family

Friends (new and old)

Life in general

Sunshine outside finally

Talking with one of my baby brothers today

This picture my grandmother sent me last night 

of me and my great grandmother 

when I was only 1 week old.

Enjoy your day.

I am headed outside.

See you tomorrow bloggy friends!

Wordless Wednesday

 

Nothing says spring like this...

Wordless Wednesday

An afternoon at the park

Our weekend... the extented version :)

Prepare for picture overload

but after all this is a family blog.

However sorry in advance.

We had a great Easter. 

Went to church and had a very good message.

Came home had a great Easter lunch with 

good friends and then an egg hunt.

We dyed eggs Saturday night.

Hulk was totally amazed by dyeing eggs and then getting 

to put them in his basket.

This was his first real Easter.

He was only 5 months old last year.

OK, time for picture overload....

I did warn you!

Dyeing Eggs

The Easter Bunny came..

My handsome hubby hiding eggs

 We hid over 100 eggs for 6 kids to hunt

 Getting ready to hunt the eggs

 My four babies

 My girls

 Getting everyone to look...

Yeah right.

 Again so hard to get little Hulk to sit still

 Me and my hubby.

I know I am a white white girl.

Even self tanners don't help. 

I've grown accustomed to being white. :(

 My little men

I hope you all had just as blessed an Easter as we did!

Happy Easter

I hope you all are having a 

wonderful Easter Sunday.

We are going to be busy busy today.

We'll do the Easter baskets this morning

before heading into church to celebrate that

our Savior is alive!

Once we get home I will

 begin making our Easter dinner.

This year since we are far away from 

family we will once again be

spending the day with friends.

That is one of my favorite things about being military.

Holidays spent with friends.

We will eat, have fun, hunt eggs and make lots of memories. 

To all our family back home we miss and love

you all very much. 

We wish we could be home with you on this 

Easter Sunday. 

To all our readers...

The Boys of Summer

Tuesday morning my hubby calls and asks if

we want to go to a Red Sox game?

Sure why not I tell him. 

When?

Tonight or tomorrow?!

So we choose to go that night since it was Ninja's birthday.

We had a blast getting there and at the game.

Too bad they lost 3-2.

Here is an overload of pictures from the game...

We had a great time.

It really is a good thing that we aren't baseball fans. 

Wordless Wednesday

First subway trip for kiddos and me...

On our way here...

More to come later...

Egg Hunts in the snow?

I am SO ahead of the game this year.

We went on our first Easter egg hunt

on Saturday at the chapel 

here on base.

It was well to be honest

overwhelming!

Since it had snowed just the 

day before and now was

a lovely 45 and gaining

everything was gross and melting.

Which of course meant they had 

moved all of the activities indoors.

So there you had a lot of people 

in a very semi-tiny room.

I was by myself with the kiddos

since DH had to work

and about oh 5 minutes in I was

really contemplating my sanity.

Like really who brings 

4 kids to a place you've never 

been before and by them self no less.

I know I know there are many

a better mom than me that

do it all the time

and normally I am good to go.

But as much fun as it was 

I was SO overwhelmed by the people and the space 

and wait where did Ninja go again? :)

Anyway, I got some really cute pictures

of the kiddos and they seemed to

have a blast so that 1 hour

yes I was only there 1 hour

seemed to be well worth the stress.

Stay tuned there will be
more Easter pictures to come!

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The Joke's On Us!

No it is very much real.

All week I have been hearing about

the northeastern we were supposed to 

be getting today.

I was hoping all week that it was a big 

April Fools joke.

Does this look like a joke

to you?

Come on it is 

April for goodness sake.

Yes, yes I know I wanted snow.

But in normal snow months.

Not April?!?! 

And to top it off it's not even

the kind of snow you can out and play in.

It is a nasty wintery mix

(see how I had to say wintery in April)

of snow, rain and ice. 

GROSS!

That is what it is just

GROSS!

For those of you that are actually enjoying 

the benefits of spring

I am jealous!

Easter Wreath

While walking around Target last
weekend I found their
way too cute Easter egg wreaths
and fell in love.
Then quickly had to break things off
when I saw how much my love
was going to cost me...
$24.99

So instead I went and bought
these...

Ok, so I already had the
styrofoam wreath and glue gun
and I bought the eggs and grass at
Walmart instead.

But for a mere
$1.50 for eggs (I bought 2)
and $1.00 for the grass
I made my own
Easter egg wreath that I love
just as equally as the Target version.

I started a nice little pattern with the colors
and hot glued into they were all in place.

I even think of myself more as a crafter
now since I got my very
first hot glue gun burn.
I know I'm lame.

So to fill in all those gaping
holes I took the Easter grass
and dropped some hot glue
into the cracks and shoved the grass
in with a pencil.
It ended up looking like this...

I took some green and blue
polka dotted ribbon
and hung that thing on my door.

Start to finished and hanging on my front door
20 minutes.
I think it turned out cute.
Plus it only cost me $4.00

Love me some Easter and springy things!
Too bad we are supposed to get a
horrible northeastern Friday
with a possible foot of snow.
I sure hope this is an
April Fool's joke.
:(