Sunday, April 13, 2008

Our Wittle Bunny Wabbit

Our little bunny.
"Where are you, you wittle wascally wabbit?"
The bunny behind the workbench.
This is Jeff using a stick that has nails in it, don't worry though, no bunnies were injured during the rescue mission.

Friday morning Joseph wanted in the backyard to play. I was going to let him out, but realized I had one of his pools full of water in the back yard. So, I proceeded over to the pool to drain it so my child wouldn't fall in. First, I spotted this nasty lime green frog in the water. I screamed because it went swooshing by my hand when I went to pull the drain. After I started draining the pool, I picked it up to empty the rest of the water out and out ran this little rabbit. Scared me to death! It stopped and sat in the grass so I called Joe over to look at it and he walked right over and scooped him up. I freaked and was like, "put it down." I didn't know what it would do, so Joe did as I said and threw it down and then threw his ball that he was holding at it.

Fast forward to arriving home after our YMCA workout and the bunny was in our front yard just chillin. We all went over there to look at him and off he ran. Joe followed him trying to snatch him up again. Eventually, the bunny ran into the garage and behind the work bench. So, this is how we spent about 45 minutes of our Friday morning...trying to rescue this bunny. We tried blowing the blower on it(hoping it would freak him out and he would run out), but it just blew the bunny under the workbench more. The successful tool...a golf club.
Then Saturday I was doing yard work and two more bunnies scurried from behind the air conditioning unit. I think there was a nest around our house somewhere. And what's really funny about these cute wittle bunnies, is last week I noticed my flowerbeds were being dug up...around the bushes. My interesting neighbor has a chicken, yes, a nasty lookin' chicken, so I thought it might be that animal and was going to shoot it with the pellet gun if I saw it in my yard again. Glad it didn't come to that.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Happy Birthday

MMMMMMMMMMAWWWWWW! Happy Birthday Grammy! Hope your day is wonderful and congrats on 5* wonderful years. You are the best mom and Grammy and we love you so much.


Sunday, April 6, 2008

Wonderful Weekend

This was such a beautiful weekend. We began the weekend with a wonderful farewell party for the BruCrew. Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of them or anyone else. I had my camera out and ready and just didn't get it done. So, here are some snapshots of Joe at the park to end our weekend.


Taking in some mist.

This was a huge slide and Jeff wanted to send him down all by himself. This was the only way I would let him do it.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Hallelujah

I am finished painting!!! This stressful journey began after Christmas when my parents gave us a gift to do this project. I have learned a lot about myself through this painting process. I am a control freak!! I realized I like things done certain ways and would almost rather do it myself than have the help. Kudos to Jeff for allowing my to make a mess, have furniture and painting supplies everywhere, and for putting up with my bossiness. Now that I think about it, maybe it's not being a control freak, but just wanting to do everything right the first time and not having to go and do extra steps and spend extra money. Either way, I have the best husband! And thanks to my mom and dad for allowing all this to be done!

Kitchen

In livingroom looking into kitchen.



Livingroom

This is the entry way.

Notice the crown moulding in the bedroom and livingroom? My husband did all of it. We had some help from the McGinns at first, but by the end, we were experts.


Bedroom

This isn't my favorite view, but it is the only one that came out good. Our next step is to get stuff to fill up the wall space. Oh, the t.v. ...a nice little christmas gift from my hubby.


Bathroom



Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Hey C

I couldn't add a message to your entry about you and Kyle, you guys have so much fun together!!! (I am pretty confident you won ;-) ) Oh, I did give credit to the right person on the 50 toes, right? If not, let me know.

Just thought...

Just thought I would let everyone know I am almost finished painting!! Hallelujah!! I will post pics at the end of this week. I just wanted to post this because I am so giddy about being almost done.

Cousin Pictures Take 2

Last week we attempted cousin pictures with our new addition, Tilly. We were getting pictures taken for Marnie's 50th birthday. It was a challenge and if you want the layout of the day, read McGinns web page. (The only thing she didn't mention was that Joe got really mad, so he scratched his mouth and started bleeding and bled on his white shirt....grrrr).

This is a picture I have been wanting for a long time...all the boys! Aren't they adorable?

This was a wonderful idea by Lindsay H. 50 toes for Marnie's 50th birthday.


Monday, March 24, 2008

No more babies jumping on the bed

I am one of those mom's. I left Joe on the bed for 5 seconds to get a tissue and he tried to stand up and lost his balance. He fell off and fractured his left arm. It is a small fracture on the radius ( bone aligned with the thumb). They didn't put a cast on it because of his age, the Doctor said he would heal really fast. However, we just have to watch him like a hawk and 'try' to keep him from falling on it. Try and keep a 15 month old from falling?!?! This is going to be a stressful two weeks. We go in Friday for his 15 month shots and he said if we think he needs a cast just to protect it, he will put one on... I have a feeling he is going to have a cast on his arm this weekend. Prayyyyy that he doesn't hurt it anymore or break his other arm because he can't use his left one.

Huntin' Eggs

Cleaning out the Easter basket so we can go Easter Egg huntin'
Have to taste the grass first.
Huntin'
Huntin'
Good Job Joe!


My little bunny

Getting the basket ready before we take pictures.

Me and my baby
Just walking around.


Hopppy Easter

I wish every holiday could be like this one. We arrived back in Dallas (from sking) Friday..well, 12am Saturday and spent the most wonderful day in Dallas with my family. Woke up and went to Easter service with Grammy and Papaw. It was wonderful. Joseph got some great thinks from G-n-P...some really cute books that he has fallen in love with and other great toys. After the service, we made our way back to Houston to spend Easter evening with Marnie and Poppy and co.
Here Joe is with G-n-P.
Marnie made this "Easter basket" for Mark's first Easter. Look how it has filled up. We had to take some of the big eggs out to fit all of them in there. Hopefully next year we will have another baby in there. Mark (in yellow), holding Tilly, Jack (in green), June in a beautiful bee dress, and Lil man, Joe.
Fading...
Fading...
Done!