Did they wear sneakers back then?

Shek participated in his first play ever this week. Minutemen didn't wear sneakers back in the day, but Shek says they could have been even faster if they did. He was a minute man an actually died on stage. He really loved getting to "croak" on stage...then he had to run back and put on a beard, hat and blue shirt for an Amish man. It was a cute play by the Konos Kids. They all did such a great job.

Tis the season to go to Prom

I am very far behind with blog posts. BUT I think I will start now with a quick post and work my way backwards. I just took some snapshots of Karlie before she went into the Spring Formal/ Prom. I thought she was lovely against the backdrop of the wisteria bush in the parking lot. I think she had her photo snapped several times with the group, but here's this momma's photos of her beautiful girl.

Karlie

A little over seventeen years ago, when I found out I was having a girl. I was excited. I prayed, "Lord let her be beautiful, sweet and petite." And God heard my prayers and she was His answer. HE is good.

Nashville snapshots

We went to Nashville last Saturday to see Zach. It was good treat at the end of Spring Break. We stopped by Loveless Cafe. Jolie always wants to have her photo made in these add your face to the hole in the board things....

Daddy hugs are the best.

Loveless is just around the corner from this bridge on the Natchez Trace. We walked across this very high bridge. It's creepily high to those who might be a little scared of heights.

We enjoyed the park near the pedestrian bridge in the downtown area.

Conquering the big mound near the Titans stadium...or grassy noll as my old college band director would have called it.

On the bridge

Karlie with the Batman building in the background.

Smile and act silly...mom's taking too many photos.

Can you say HAM?

Went to church with Zach at Jutson Baptist in Brentwood. Very friendly church. Loved it.

After church and lunch we talked dad into stopping by Antique Archaeology  Shek loves this show and records them all...so he always begs to stop. So we did. 

It was a quick little trip. We had fun. Now 5 ish more weeks of school and we can say SUMMER vacation. I can't wait.

A little Easter Memories 2013

Easter morning basket check....3 out of 4 kids checked their baskets before breakfast.

The kiddos in their "Easter Frocks" before lunch.

Karl prepares the bbq chicken for the grill.

The Egg Hunt...over the past few years the big kiddos have not wanted to be caught 'dead' doing the egg hunt..so this year, Gam and I decided to add a little 'green' to the eggs...and everyone was more than willing to participate. Pop and Karl hid the 30 eggs very HARD. It took them quite a while to find them all, and in the end we were missing one egg. Karlie, Gam and Pop walked the yard over and over until Karlie found the very last one. I must say, adding some cash inside the eggs was fun. We will have to keep up with the that tradition.

Hunting for those eggs, was difficult business...I think we need to have the hiders of the eggs use a GPS to hide them next time. Opening the door to the yard to hunt...there was not an egg in sight. This was hard core egg hunting...these kids had to actually  HUNT for them, not just scoop them up. ;)

This was the best egg hunt we've had in a long time. It was fun, and I didn't get any of the cash filled eggs.

Pop and Karl try to point the kids in the right direction of where they hid the eggs...but toward the end of the hunt they had to start looking for the missing eggs too.

The kids count their cash. 

Easter2013 was fun. It was great watching the kids check out the Easter baskets, and then heading to church together.  It was awesome coming home for a great Easter lunch, then hiding and finding $$ eggs, but the real treasure of Easter is JESUS!

Thank you Jesus!

John 3:16