A sweet moment..

Most afternoons now when RDC gets home MWC has her shoes on and is ready to go outside with her Daddy. Which is good for them to have some good Daddy/daughter time and I can get supper ready. Well the other day I was looking out the kitchen window and this picture is what I saw!! It was too sweet. They were looking for birds and airplanes. I just stood there and was overwhelmed with thankfulness and appreciation of what our Heavenly Father has blessed me with. So today I have a challenge: take notice of something that God has blessed you with and express your appreciation to Him.

See elephants, see elephants...

That is all we heard last Saturday at the zoo until we saw them. Last weekend, we went to the Memphis Zoo with some other families. I knew she LOVED elephants, but I did not realized how OBSESSED she was. :) Every time we got to an animal, she seemed unimpressed since they were not elephants. And the comment we would get was, "See elephants, Mommy, Daddy, see elephants!" Of course when we did get there, she said, "Oh." (Not the reaction I was expecting!!) However, she did want to stand there and watch them more than other animals. And she thought one of the elephants was playing hide and seek since he moved to the other side. So she covered eyes and started counting!!! It was tooooo cute!!! She also rode the Merry Go Round for the first time. Well--let me rephrase that....first time she rode it happily!!! The other two times she has ridden, it has been with RDC or I on the bench. She would act like she wanted to ride and then flip out and cry. So we would just sit with her. And other times we have been around one and ask if she wanted to ride, we would get an definite "NO!" But on Saturday we had lunch next to it, and she told RDC, "I wanna ride." So they got in line and she almost did not want to get on her bear, but RDC got her on it. And she LOVED it! He said she grinned the whole time. In fact when it was over she wanted to "ride it 'gin!!" So it was a positive, fun day all around!!!! Unfortunately, she did get tired, as all the kids did, and we only saw about half of the zoo. So we are definitely going to have to take a trip back!!!

Waving to the animals!!

Talking with Mrs. TP about the ELEPHANTS!! (Everyone else knew how much she wanted to see them!!!)

Elephants, are you?!?!!?! (that is her shortened version of "where are you??)

Sorry so fuzzy but trying to get a shot of her enjoying the ride!!

Who can resist taking of their shoes and splashing in the water fountain?? :)

Things you get to do.....

.....only when Grandaddy is in town!!

Eat a snickers bar before lunch......

Decorate our legs with a pen......

(and my personal favorite!!) Drink from the hose outside and spit!!! :)

All kidding aside, we all had a great time while Grandaddy was in town. I am not sure who was more worn out MWC or Grandaddy, The only time they stopped was to sleep!!! We love you Grandaddy and miss you!!!

YEAH KAY KAY!!!!

We are proud to announce that KayKay has completed and passed all 4 semesters of nursing school!!! All she has left to do is pass her board exam. MWC says, "yeah KayKay--I am SO proud of you!!!" (I am also excited because now she does not have to study and can now come play more!!!!) We are very proud of you and we LOVE you very much!!!!!!

Could you not.....

....just eat her up?!?!?!?! I mean I know she is ours and all....so I guess we are a little biased. :)But we did want to share our newest favorite photo of her.

Dyen', Huntin', Eatin'

We had a very good Easter weekend. RDC was off for Good Friday so we started our weekend by dyeing some Easter Eggs. MWC loved it, but only lasted so long until she was ready to move on to something else. Her favorite part was decorating them with stickers. Saturday we went to our church and she hunted eggs with friends. Since it was too cold to hunt outside, they hid some in the preschool rooms. She was more interested in playing with they toys in the room than finding any eggs. But she did get the hang of it and found PLENTY!!! And of course once she realized there was candy in them.......that is where her attention went. (In fact that is how I bribed her to sit still for a picture. :) And then Sunday we had a great service at church celebrating the reason we have Easter Sunday!! After church family came to our house and we ate, and ate, and ate. Unfortunately not everyone was able to come home and celebrate and we missed them being here!!!!!! But RDC hid some eggs again for MWC to hunt. And since there were not near the distractions, she found them all in a reasonable amount to time. We hope you and your family had a wonderful Easter Day celebrating our Risen Savior!! **I would love to post all the pictures we took, but there is only so much room!! :)

See my eggs!!!!

Found another one!! Pop did not want to miss A THING!! Do you think he is a proud Pop?!?!?! (Yes those are all his cameras!! :)

The best "unmade" plans...

We had the best Saturday!! RDC had been gone every night last week so we were looking forward to Saturday and spending lots of time together. RDC wanted us to go to the park and have lunch and feed the ducks. However, when we woke up it was cloudy. So we had a great day just hanging around the house doing NOTHING!! And I wasn't sure if MWC was more excited that Daddy was home or if RDC was excited to be home. We played, watched videos, snuggled, and all took naps!! It was a great day. (Kinda wish we had more of those!!)

Snuggling with Mama...... and Daddy!!!!

Walkin' in Mama's boots!!