Easter

We had a quite Easter at home with the family, including church in the morning and a nice dinner at home. Luckily, Katelyn was a good girl and the Easter Bunny brought her a basket full of goodies! Here is our pretty girl modeling her new dress from Grammy & Pappy, including matching headband and purse! She definitely loved getting all dressed up!

So happy!

We spent the afternoon outside, where Daddy had fun playing with Katelyn's new toys too..a little kite flying and eating of some chocolate of course!

Chocolate face....love it!

Happy Easter! We really missed our family this year on Easter. It's one of those holiday's that is hard to make it home for, but especially now that we have Katelyn we sure would have loved to have celebrated with family!

Easter Party & Egg Hunt

On Good Friday, it happened to be my turn to plan our weekly playdate, so we decided to do an Easter Egg Hunt and lunch at our house. We had a great time! Unfortunately the weather was a little gloomy, but we bundled up and headed out to hunt some eggs!

Katelyn really enjoyed the whole process, but she was too excited to get to the candy inside the egg, so she would pick up and egg open it immediately instead of trying to go for more. We'll have to work on that process next year :)


The whole crew, Lex even came home from lunch that day so he could participate!

Checking out all the goods....

Friends & Fun

Althought I haven't been great about posting, we've been having some fun lately...so here are a few pictures to catch up! Here we are the Greenville Zoo with some of the kids from our playdate group...Lily, Katelyn, Logan & Landon!

This past Saturday we went to Janie's 2nd Birthday party. Since it was Easter weekend, they had real live bunnies to play with and an Easter Egg Hunt! So much fun!

Oh...and a bounce house!

Emery, Logan & Katelyn have been destined to be friends since way before they were born! It's so much fun to watch them all grow up together!

Hugs all around!

Mr. & Mrs. Wood

Two weeks ago we headed to Texas for my niece's wedding! I can't believe she is married now and Taylor Wood :) We are very happy for her and Stephen and wish them the best! We had a good time visiting with family and definitely glad we were able to make it.

Katelyn & Drew were the flower girl and ring bearer and the plan was for them to ride down the aisle in this beautifully decorated wagon! Valarie spent a lot of time making this wagon just perfect and Katelyn really didn't want anything to do with it. She typically loves riding in wagon's, but I think sitting in it with Drew she just wasn't feeling. We came a little early on the wedding day to get some practice in and everything was going well...until of course it was time to do it for real. (backing up a little....apparently Katelyn was sacred (?) of Drew when he cried...so everytime he even whimpered for 1/2 a second, she would bust out in a full-out tears rolling cry.) Well, Drew decided that he really wanted to take a Monster truck down the aisle and when he wasn't able too, he started protesting a little...well that triggered Katelyn and so they were pulled down the aisle crying the whole way. It was a disaster!! I feel so bad, but at least it's something (I hope) they can laught about one day :)

Here they are practicing...so sweet! :)

All was better once the reception started! Katelyn and Drew both were busting a move! Katelyn especially loved the attention from the bride!

Here is a brief video, we didn't catch her dancing on video, but this show's a better pic of her dress (and Taylor's too)! So fun!

Congrats Mr. & Mrs. Wood!

DC Trip

Lex and I took our first trip without Katelyn this past week to celebrate our 6th Anniversary. With Southwest Airlines coming to Gville we bought tickets during their first introductory offers out of Greenville, so we got a great deal. My parents graciously offered to come watch Katelyn for us, so we could celebrate. I was imagining a warm, sunny spring break walking the streets of DC and enjoying the Cherry Blossoms...unforuntately the whole time we were there it was rainy and cold, yuck. But we managed to make the best of it and see a lot of great sites & eat a lot of great food! Here are some of the fun things we got to do.

One night we met up with The Sligh's, who are from Pleasanton and have been in DC for the past 2+ years. They met us at the Metro and drove us out to Old Town Alexandria, of which we probably wouldn't have ended up venturing on our own. We ate at the Fish Market and walked the downtown area. It was late, so we didn't get to go in, but the drove us by Mt. Vernon (something I think we may have to do if we ever go back) and their house. We are very greatful they had time to spend with us and really enjoyed seeing them.

We wanted to hit up DC Cupcakes (from the TV show), but didn't make it out to Georgetown, plus we heard the lines are super long, so we stopped at this gourmet cupcake place at Union Station instead...Cherry Cobbler Cupcake, yum!

Arlington Cemetary - We didn't do the full tour here, which we may need to do next time, but definitely a site to see.

Cherry Blossom trees overlooking the Tidal Basin and the Jefferson Memorial.

Lex took some really good pics of the Cherry Blossoms, this one being one of my favorites!

It doesn't just look cold in this pic, it was...burrr!

Washington Memorial

Capital Hill

The White House

Inside Union Station

We heard some loud yelling and petitioning going on across the Capital lawn, we headed over and found Dick Morris speaking at a Tea Party rally. Pretty cool to witness, we felt like we were really in the middle of it all now!

On the steps of the capital. Lex tried to get a security guard to pose for a pic with his huge gun, but none the less, they didn't go for it :o)

We hit up as many of the Smithsonian Museum's as we could, our favorite and seemed to be the most popular was the Air & Space Museum. We also went to American History, Native American, Holocaust, and Smithsonian Castle. Along with all the memorials...WWI, WWII, Korean, Lincoln, Washington, etc....I think we hit all the big stuff, or at least tried too.

On our first day there, we spotted these really pretty trees with this big pink flowers. We took a ton of pictures thinking they were cherry blossoms, we were wrong & therefore a little dissappointed once we saw the real cherry blossoms :)

Happy 6th Anniversary!!