Happy Easter

Here are my 2 precious Easter girls! I had to bribe Brooklynn with Easter candy to get her to let me curl her hair...and it's not for the reasons you'd think...not because she doesn't like to get her hair done...but because she then worries about it getting "messed up" all day long!! She gently touches her curls all day and asks if her "curls are still there". She even plays softer at recess so they wont get messy. Can we say "high maintenance"?

They had so much fun discovering new hiding places that the Easter Bunny used this year compared to last year. Everytime Brooklynn would find an egg or a treat she would say something like, "Oh! I just can't believe it! This is the luckiest day of my life!" Truly we are BLESSED!

The next day I stuck my foot in my mouth when I asked the neighbor kids if the Easter Bunny came and visited them...to which the oldest replied "No. Why? Did he come to your house?!" There are 4 boys in their house and they are WILD & ROWDY so I figured maybe the Easter Bunny "skipped" them this year due to bad behavior...but then the oldest boy told me that the Easter Bunny has NEVER visited them...even when they "were little babies and were good!" I felt horrible for even bringing it up!!! After that, Brooklynn and I went through the girl's candy and picked out some treats along with a new box of sidewalk-chalk that we wanted to give them for Easter. It made Brooklynn's day to be able to give them presents and I could tell it made the boys' day, too.


Saturday morning we had breakfast and an egg-hunt at church. This was the first year we attempted to combine the egg-hunt with a branch-social and it went very well. The adults & kids really enjoyed themselves.

After the social/egg-hunt at church, we headed to Oak Ridge for a Easter party with Great-Grandpa Williams. Buster's brother, Russell, came along with his wife, most of their kids and grandkids. It was soooo nice to get together with the "Williams Clan". Especially since we don't get together nearly enough!! Thank you "Pa-Pa Wei-Wei" for being such a sweet and loving patriarch!!

Happy 10th Anniversary!

On April 3rd, Russ and I celebrated our 10th anniversary by spending a couple of days alone in a cabin in the Smokey Mountains. We chopped down branches to use as firewood in our fireplace, we caught fish in a nearby stream and cooked them for dinner and went on a 5 mile hike to the top of the mountain. Aaah! It was great to get back to the basics!

YEAH, RIGHT!!! Can you see me "roughing it" in the woods by choice??!! The cabin part was true, but this cabin had leather couches, jacuzzi tub, pool table, hot-tub on the deck with spectacular views and it even had it's own private, heated pool in the basement!! Now that's what I'm talking about!!! Russ and I almost never do anything for our anniversary or Valentines Day or anything like that...maybe dinner and, if I'm lucky, a movie. So I decided last September to plan us a little weekend get-away. It was alot of fun! Although, just as I suspected, we missed the girls tremendously and were thinking about them almost the whole time. We've decided that we HAVE to go back some day and bring the kids. Having their own pool with their own pool-hours would just be too much fun!!! We decided to save our money so we didnt go see any of the umpteen shows in town and we didnt eat anywhere fancy...we just enjoyed each other's company and swam to our hearts delight.

Truly, I am so very blessed to be married to my best friend! He has made all my little girls dreams come true. I know that sounds cheesey...but it really is true. All the important things I dreamed about when I was a little girl are mine because he is in my life and because he is the GOOD MAN that he is.

*Is he a goof-ball? Yes.

*Do his burps make the windows rattle? Sometimes.

But he makes me laugh and he loves me in spite of my many imperfections. Nobody's perfect...but he's PERFECT for me!!!

Love you Babe!

That's right!! I didn't make the bed!! And...do I feel sorry about it?? DO I??!! Not a bit!!!