Easter 2012

We spent Easter at home this year! Picture roll begins with the Easter Egg Hunt and party at Pumpkin Shell Preschool. Their favorite P-Shell song: "Here comes Peter Cottontail". Big deal: NO TEARS from the Jankowski twins! First party in 1.5 years where they didn't cry when Mommy or Daddy came!! Yay, they are really growing up!

G&A with G's schoolmate "girlfriend" Halle.


On Saturday, we attended our church's annual Easter Egg Hunt which G&A loved! Hunting eggs with their friends, big indoor inflatables, decorating cookies & picnic lunch...doesn't get much better!

The foursome...Cache, Abigail, George, & Asher

Twin slide!

lunch on the greens...

Dessert, round one!

Daddy & Abs


Big highlight was Miss Abigail waving hi, high 5-ing, hugging, and taking as many pictures as possible with the Easter Bunny! First time in her life!! Her motivation: we told her we would not consider DisneyWorld for her to meet the Princesses until she was consistently not afraid of costumed characters. It worked....guess we have to pony up with that trip...

We attended a gorgeous early morning service at McFarlin MUMC, then returned home for Matt to cook an amazing feast for us, Nana, Pop, and the Pollans. We enjoyed the time with our family & friends and stayed outside the remainder of the day!



George & Asher


The Kids' Table!


The Easter Bunch


The "real" Easter Bunch...


And this is what Matt spent the next five hours doing...when he gets a gumption to do something, watch out! He dug up four 48-year-old holly bushes from our front flowerbed & re-planted on the side of our house. Guess that was his workout for the day!

Awesomely amazing bit of grace: G&A understood Easter this year on a much deeper level. Since our dear friend Mark died recently, they understand death and funerals. They joined us for big church and loved the music. Abigail was caught singing "Christ the Lord is Risen Today" several times yesterday....makes my heart so happy and I know the Lord is pleased with her as well!

Spring Break in H-Town!

Can you see a little bit of sass?

Beautiful irises...


The kiddos and I drove down to Houston to spend Spring Break with the Morris clan. We enjoyed a new park in Dallas en route for our picnic lunch (the irises were as big as G's head!). We loved being with Cliff, Evie & Kirby, and of course Aunt Go-Go and Uncle Kevin too! We also were lucky to see Uncle Brad for a little bit as well. Just a low key week...I snuck in a few runs to prepare for my big race weekend....a big haircut for A...daily trips to local parks and the grocery store...watching Kirby dance and act...and swimming at Aunt Go-Go's gym. I also got to have a Drew & Amy fix...love you two! Relaxing vacay yet busy with 4 year olds in tow!

Last pic with long hair!

Evie's hair stylist helped Miss A acheive her desire of "short hair like Snow White".

The new 'do! She's adorable!!!!


The kiddos loved getting to watch Kirby at ballet class. She is so graceful and poised and has worked very hard to be a fabulous dancer!

Love that ballerina!


Hanging out at the pool with Evie! Lots of smiles!

Reading books with Cliffy...

...and more classical teenage literature with Evie.

Lovin' on their Evie!

Walking Jack...

"Thanks Awfully"...a one act play at Spring Forest Middle School starring our favorite actress Kirby Morris!

The two stars of the show, Kirby and her friend Darwyn.

Kirby & Uncle Braddums

Kirby & Uncle Kevin

One of Kirby's biggest fans!

We then traveled to Spring Branch, Texas to drop G&A at Grammy & Grandpa's which allowed me to continue on to Dallas to run the Rock n' Roll Half Marathon with friends. We had the most BEAUTIFUL drive as the hills were painted with my favorite Texas wildflowers...prettiest I have seen in 10 years! We captured some great shots amongst the bluebonnets.

Of course, G&A HAD to make their funny faces!

My handsome little fella who is normally camera shy WANTED to take more pictures!