Easter Easter Easter!

How we LOVE Easter!!!!!

This was our 2nd Easter in Maryland (the place we weren't supposed to stay - cough cough), Lily & Aaron's 3rd Easter home with us, Autumn's 5th Easter home, Kya's 6th and mine & Dale's 10th Easter together. Lots to celebrate!

We spent most of it outside enjoying God's creation on His Glorious Resurrection Celebration.




We hope your Easter was AS COOL as ours!

Not Everything is Beautiful

We all wish that every project we did turned out great,
every moment with our kids is sweet,
and nobody ever gets snippy with each other.
Right?

NOT TODAY!

This was officially the worst Easter Egg project EVER. The eggs are ugly and the attitudes were not much better.

BUT, I can say this...near the end, it was so bad, we all just started giggling and couldn't stop laughing at ourselves. We then made the best of it and dug in with both hands, getting messy. We renamed them Dino Eggs.

Wow! Over a month has gone by since I posted anything. So much has happened in a month. Many of you that know us, know that Autumn finally has her palate closed and it was QUITE the ordeal (1 scheduled surgery, 1 emergency surgery and about 15 days in the hospital). She had a vein and muscle from her leg transplanted to her mouth and all areas seem to be healing well.

We celebrated Autumn's 4th Gotcha Day and Dale's 49th birthday both at the hospital.

When we went into the hospital it was Winter. By the time we came out, it was Springtime.

This is our March began...(building snowman mountain at night after the blizzard left about 4 to 6 feet of snow)


And this is how our March ended...(a hike through our forest with Kya, Autumn, Hope, Joel, ChinChin & Angel)


And a 3,500 egg Easter Egg Hunt....





And on March 21st, we celebrated our 1 year anniversary of moving to Maryland. Let me just say, we love Maryland. We love Florida, don't get me wrong and one day maybe I'd like to move back. But this experience of the different season, to experience it all is completely amazing to us.

Cannon Balls

Kya was mentioning how she missed doing cannon balls in our pool at our old Florida home. So.....she made do.....

A Wintery Hike

Fun in Florida & A New Puppy

We had a nice time with our family in Jacksonville, escaping the blizzards in Baltimore.




While we were away, Dale had gotten us all a puppy for Valentines! She is a Mal-Shi (Maltese - Shih Tzu mix). We have named her Angel and she is so sweet. She should grow up to be about 8lbs. THANK YOU SWEETHEART!!!






~more photos of our Florida trip can be found on Facebook.~

Travels! Travels! Travels!

The kids and I made it to Florida and are having a great visit. On Saturday we spent the day with our dear friends from Bits & Pieces. We love you Bella, Krista, Vito and Zsa Zsa! Can't wait 'til next time.



(more pics to come from Jacksonville)
(Tampa photos posted to Facebook)