MUDD Run...Let's Get Dirty

Houston MUDD Run...Let's Get Dirty!!

We had a blast...I can't wait to do it again:)

Bruce, Me and Kane before the race!!

Us ladies...Andrea, Cathy, Miriam, and I before the race!! We are missing Maria in this picture:(
Kane and I after the race...alittle on the dirty side!

Bruce and Kane!

Bruce, Me and Kane

Us Ladies afterwards!!

Lily and I after the race!!

We had a great time running the race!!! I can't wait to do it again:) The best part was running it with my wonderful husband who helped through the obstacles and some fantastic ladies that I teach with!! It will defiantly be something I will do again!!!

Snails

So our big event for the year is Nature Trails and Snails. The kids LOVE the snails!! Each of them wanted to hold it and play with...they really enjoyed this activity. Here is our snail activity in pictures....

One of the snails!!

Measuring how long the snail is...

Our Snail Book where we tool ALL our notes!!

What does the Snail prefer to eat? Grass, Carrot, or Lettuce...they went for the Carrot!!

One of my students with a snail crawling up her arm!!

The kids had a wonderful time with our Snail adventure!!!

HECK YEAH!!

Kane got the Job!!! All he has to do is get through the Conroe Police Academy!!! Have a Wonderful Day:)

4th Birthday

My cousin Callie's oldest son Noah turned 4 years old this April. I still remember when her mom, my Aunt Vicky told me she was pregnant. Here are some pictures from his birthday party.

Lily jumping in the jump house.

Going down the slide.

Baby George. Noah's baby brother.

The Birthday Boy with his Superhero Birthday Cake!!

My Crazy Daughter!!

All the kiddos in their super hero capes. My Aunt Vicky, Noah's grandma, made all the capes!!

My super hero daughter!!

We had a great time. I can't believe Noah will be 5 next year...time flies when you are a "Super Hero"!!

Easter Egg Hunt

We have taken Lily the last three years to the church Easter Egg hunt. Her first easter she was only two weeks old, so no easter egg hunting for her!! The second year she didn't really understand the concpet of an easter egg hunt. She had more fun picking the eggs up and throwing them back out of the basket!! The last two years she really has had alot of fun hunting easter eggs. I am looking forwarded to many more years of hunting easter eggs with Lily.

Lily her first Easter-Two weeks old March 2008

2nd Easter-April 2009, 13 months old
3rd Easter-April 2010, 2 years old
4th Easter-April 24th, 3 years old

Hunting for the Easter Eggs

Posing with her Easter Eggs

Look at ALL those Easter Eggs:)

It was a great Easter.

NO Easter Eggs HERE-Part 2

This year instead of making hard-bolied Easter Eggs I decide to make Resurrection Easter Cookies with Lily. I found the idea from Lauren at Modern Day Knights. When I would make the traditional Easter Eggs I would be the only one who would eat them afterwards, so I figured instead of wasting the eggs this year I will teach Lily the reason WHY we have Easter. This will be a tradition that I do every year with Lily and eventually our other children:)

These are the ingredients you will need to make the cookies!!

Lily beating the pecans just the way Jesus was beaten.

Add the egg to show how Jesus gave up his life for our life. Between this step we added the vingear to show how the soldiers gave him vingear to drink instead of water and the salt for his salty tears that Jesus and his followers shed.

Adding the sugar to show the sweetest part about this is that Jesus loved us!!

Getting ready to mix it all up.

Using tape to seal up the tomb. (oven)

The cookies in the tomb.

You leave the cookies in the oven all night. The next day you unseal the oven and pull out the cookies.

Lily opening the oven to get the cookies out.

They are supposed to be hollow on the inside. I don't think I made the peaks stiff enough. They still turned out somewhat hollow.

Finished cookies!!

Lily had a great time making the cookies. I am so glad I found the post Lauren wrote about these cookies. I think it is a great way to teach young children that Easter is not just all about the candy, eggs and easter bunny. That Jesus gave his life so that we could have ours!!! I can't wait to do this again with Lily:)

Stay tuned to Part 3!!

Easter 2011-Part 1

I am going to make three separate post about our Easter Weekend. If I make one post it will be picture overload!!! To start with I always try to take some sort of Easter Pictures every year!!! This is what we got this year....

My little Easter Bunny

Our Family Picture on Easter Morning before church.

Lily took mine and Kane's picture. She is getting better at taking pictures:)

Kane and Lily!!

Lily and I!!!

We had a great Easter Sunday!!! Stay tuned for Part 2!!