fancy guys...

On the way to school today, I pointed out a limo parked on the side of the road..."look at the long stretched car.”

Natalia, “Mommy, that’s a special taxi that FANCY guys ride in!”

Jameson, “No, that’s a lime-o-zine."

Me, “Right, that’s a limousine. Natalia, where did you learn that 'fancy guys' ride in those?”

Natalia, “Spongebob.”

easter

these are all outta order, but blogger is such a PITA to try to rearrange that you'll have to bear with me. sorry.

we celebrated easter at auntie dawn's house. she had some silly hats from the old lady my grandma goes to visit every day. natalia tried on the silly flower hat.

here's natalia striking a pose on the slide behind dawn's house. she's becoming a pro at this...

auntie dawn had some easter eggs scattered/hidden in her back yard. first all the kids had to go gather/hunt them and bring them back to the porch. then, the kids each got to pick equal amounts of them from the pile that was gathered. natalia is counting her share....

then comes mason (my cousin, tina's, little boy)...

then, more silly hat action...sorry...out of order. i warned you! this is my brother jon and my nephew zachary. this may very well be the ONE and ONLY photo i have of my brother with a SMILE on his face. do it more often, jon, it becomes you...

ok, more egg counting...can you tell jameson is patiently waiting???

hunter (another of my cousin tina's boys)...

my beautiful grandma lu. i took one shot of her with a nasty scowl on her face. then i said, "c'mon grandma, look nice for the camera!" so, this was what i got. after this shot, she said, "ok, that's ENOUGH now."

grace (aunt dawn's oldest(3)) picking her eggs...

emma (aunt dawn's youngest (18months))...digging into the findings...

elizabeth, brother jon's oldest, counting her eggs...

all the kids waiting their turn (really patiently)...with my mom and jeff (tina's husband) looking on...

daniel (my sister's step son) counting his eggs. this might be the sweetest little boy i've ever met...

baxton (my sister's little boy) picking out some eggs...

thankfully spring re-arrived for this egg hunt. it had been cold and RAINING about 12 hours prior to this. you never know what you'll get for easter 'round these parts. glad the kids got to enjoy some egg hunting time outside! (and that my aunt didn't have to try to hide this IN her house!)

jameson turns 6 - march 25th

my sweet firstborn turned six on march 25th. he started the celebration with our traditional cupcake-for-breakfast. ;) yeah, mother of the year right here. you're jealous.

don't be fooled too much, his sister really just wanted his cupcake and to be in the shot. she wasn't all too thrilled that it was brother's birthday and NOT hers.


aw! its really hard to believe six years have gone by!


and, c'mon! LOOOOOOK at those eyes. break a mother's heart, why dontcha?


we did something new this year and didn't have a family party. instead, jameson invited some friends from his kindergarten class over. it was quite the dilemma really. first he wanted to invite EVERYONE from his class...except ONE girl. "but, mom! i don't want to invite agnes*, she's MEAN!" (*name changed to protect the innocent.) so, i told him he could invite all the boys. i mean, there are TEN boys in his class (not including him). his birthday happened to fall on a friday. the friday when the school had a half day scheduled because it was the beginning of spring break. i thought SURELY, at least half of the boy's families would be getting ready to head out of town. we'll end up with maybe 4 or 5 kids. right?? right????? nope. SEVEN of them showed. SEVEN. i know. i'm very glad he had a nice turn out for his party. i really am. but, seriously. have you ever had SEVEN additional BOYS WHO ARE SIX to your house!? aye. he had a great time though. and, i hope the boys did too. we had pizza, cake, presents, play...

here's the gang. from top left-back row: brandon, nolan, damian, jack. front row: griffin, jameson, grady, and nathan. cute kids. cute, ENERGETIC kids. ;)

opening gifts. notice a long haired freaky person in the center of the action? yeah, natalia was NOT at all intimidated by the fact that she was the only girl in the mix.

singing! :D i'm so glad jameson had a nice party. he has yet to write the darn thank you notes, however. ok...there goes the mother-of-the-year award. :p