Easter! (and now I am finally caught up for the moment)

Mylie's new Easter dress! She looks so big! No time for a backdrop today. I was running late for church. I will have to try again later!

Ethan's new shirt and tie! Does anybody have any tricks to get your kid to do natural looking smiles for pictures. I'm in obvious need of help! Let me know!

The kids at the big Ward Easter breakfast and Easter egg hunt! It was freezing but lots of people showed up and it seemed to be a great success!

Easter morning! E was so excited to see what the Easter Bunny brought him!

Dyeing Easter eggs with Grandma Frazier! The kids had a lot of fun! Thanks for the great idea!

Jeff and the kids trying to stay warm and the Easter breakfast.

Mylie zonked in her high chair after a busy easter day! Ethan only fell asleep in his chair once and I caught it on film so I thought I would have a matching one of My!

Beautiful picture although a little fuzzy! Jeff took this one. Way to go dad!

Easter Egg hunt at Grandma Fraziers! Ethan and his cousin Hunter had a great time! Look at all those eggs! Thanks Grandma!

Fun in the pool!

Mylie, not so sure about this experience!

What a cutie! I love the suit! This was last years and I was shocked that it still fit her!

She loved to sit in the shallow part and splash around!

Happy girl!

Cute kiddos!

What a handsome boy! And he is actually doing a cute facial expression. Those are not easy to come by these days!

What a cute group of kids! We just need London! I still think you all should just move back!

E just learned how to skip and thinks that it's the greatest way to travel! I had to get an action shot as he showed up to swim lessons!

The kids waiting for their fabulous teacher! We won't mention any names, but she is heavily pierced and named after a state!

I can't believe he fits in there. E and Mason like to hide from each other in the lockers after swim lessons!

Joyce in town!

My friend Joyce lives in London and I think it has been about two years since we saw her last. Well, she came in town and was able to meet Jill and I for lunch. I love walking into a restaurant and requesting a table for 3 adults and 6 kids! They always look at me as if they don't think that I am serious! I love it!

Some of the kids playing around! I didn't get a lot of pictures so sorry to you all that couldn't make it. We missed everybody that wasn't there! (I got in trouble in an earlier post so I won't list names:)

Ethan's Birthday! (the big 4)

Here's my cute little E! He turned 4 on March 19th. He is so big! Whenever I ask him now if he can do something or if I doubt that he can do something he just says, "mom look at me (while pointing form his head to his toes) I'm four now." And then he laughs like it's weird for me not to remember that he is now 4 and perfectly capable of taking on the world! I am sooooo thankful to have him in our family! He is such a great little guy. He is so sweet to his little sister and is always looking out for her. Even when she is poking him in the eye while he is trying to watch a cartoon he will stop and smile at her or give her a kiss. I love him so much. I couldn't imagine life without him and I am so glad that he joined our family this day 4 years ago! Happy Birthday my little man!

Ethan and cousin Tasha having fun in the deflated bounce house!

My attempt at an army tank cake! Hey the 3 and 4 year olds were impressed and that's all I care about!

Cute pic of Grandma, Tay and My at the kids table!

My sad attempt at a grenade pinata. Again, the kids were impressed! Ethan has been talking about his army party ever since the night of his 3rd birthday!

After a very long day and two very fun birthday parties Ethan jumped into bed and cuddled up to his overall favorite present of the day. (a light saber that lights up and makes noise!) I went to put Mylie to bed and came back to check on him and found him like this! Hilarious. Also, when I was tucking him in he said, "army parties are for a 4rth birthday huh mom." I said yes that's what you wanted. Then he said, "do you know what a 5 birthday is." And I said what. He jumped up on his bed and assumed a fighting pose and said, "power rangers!" Wahoo for me. I better start planning! (I don't think he has ever even seen a power ranger before) Oh well! What a cutie. Good night my sweet boy!

Catching up with random pictures!

Every time I pick E up from preschool we have a little routine that I wanted to make note of so that I would remember how cute he is! All the moms pull up to the curb and make a line and his teacher helps each of them into their cars. As soon as Ethan sees me he gives me a big smile and waves frantically. I wave back and then he starts blowing kisses with one hand and then the other. I do this back to him and then he does this silly face and I happened to have my camera on me to capture it. I do it back to him and he just gives me a big smile. Then he usually turns to one of his friends and says "that's my mom". He is soooo cute! I hope he will always acknowledge that I am his mom. (Yeah right :)

My parents and Jase are in NC right now visiting Kim and fam. I am sooo jealous! I'm glad you all got to go and I'm glad Kim is getting such great visitors! Anyway, while they are gone we having been checking on their cute dog Kye. (I'm not sure how you all spell that) Well, Mylie is obsessed with dogs. Whenever she sees one or hears one or even if you talk about one she purses her lips as if she wanted a kiss and says oooh oooh! (kind of like a dog bark sound) It is sooooo cute. (Especially when our backyard neighbors have a big dog and she wants to be right by it at all times! :) Anyway, she loved taking Kye for walks and just being near her. It was lots of fun!

As I was getting ready for Ethan's Birthday party he was playing with his friend Jada. They were playing so cute together I didn't want to intervene. This is what they did! Ethan has a lot of books and what you can't see in this picture is that they continue on into his bedroom and down the stairs! It took about a half an hour to put them all back! I love when they are so entertained by something and on the same wavelength. Way to go kids!

My two little cuties ready for church! I always try to get them to cooperate for pictures when they are both looking so cute. This is as good as it got this day!

I recently started a new job and one day, while I was there, Jeff took the kids for a bike ride. I love this picture! They had a lot of fun. Thanks Jeffy for sacrificing for my training!

E giving My a ride in his dump truck!

Ethan in his way cute outfit he got from the Roarkies of NC! I love it! He is so stylin! Do you love that he had to wear his army boots with it! I'm sure that is totally what you had in mind when you bought it for him. What can I say..........he has his dad's style sense!

Ethan loves to help feed Mylie! And strange as it may be, no matter how awkward it is for her to get any food in her mouth or how many times she may be gaged, she loves it too!

Mylie assuming her position in the basement. She spends a lot of time here watching the dog Shark run around!

We watched my sisters kiddo Tay the other day and I just love car pictures! I don't know if it's cause they look so cute or if it's because they are all trapped in their car seats and can't get into trouble!

YEAH for Spring!

I absolutely LOVE fall and spring! I can't stand the cold of the winter and the heat of the summer. We have been going outside a lot lately and loving every minute of it! Mylie loves her new swing she got for her birthday and Ethan loves doing just about anything outside!

In addition to the slideshow..........

So I really have been wanting to take pictures of the kids for a long time now. I would much rather take them outside because the lighting is usually better. But due the this horrible winter that will never come to a close that is not really an option. Anyway, after dressing Mylie up in her new, way cute, dress from Chelsea and finally convincing Ethan to wear something besides his "carnival clothes" (This is what he calls his Cardinal shirt and shorts Jeff brought him back from St. Louis) I only got two pictures of Ethan and lots of cute ones of Mylie holding a battery. I was changing the batteries in the camera so that I could take all of these cute pictures and Mylie decided she needed to hold a battery really bad. I decided to let her so that she would not start crying and look sad in her pictures. When I started taking pictures I forgot to take it away from her until after the pictures were done. Lovely eh? I hope this gets easier as they get older! I still love how some of the pictures turned out. I will have to see how hard it is to photo shop the battery out or I will just have to crop the pictures. I love the whole dress and her little legs showing so I will have to try again later.

At the end of the photo shoot Ethan's friends showed up at the back door. They all came bursting through the door saying "Ethan, we need you to come and play with us" I could tell Ethan was really excited but then he said, "hmmmmm let me think about this for a minute" All of his friends just stared at him wondering what he was doing the whole time Ethan has his finger tapping on his cheek while deep in thought. Then he finally said "okay" and went to play. He is so funny sometimes! His friends asked what we were doing and I told them we were taking pictures. They all wanted to get there picture taken and this is the result. I love it! They are all so cute together! What a fun neighborhood! I love having so many good friends for Ethan and for me!