IT MIGHT BE A CRAZY LIFE, BUT IT'S OUR LIFE!

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Easter Weekend

Our weekend was filled with fun festivities, but my prayer is that my babies always remember that Easter is all about Jesus...

Church egg hunt...

This year E wanted to paint eggs instead

of dying them, so we went for it...

We also make Resurrection Rolls with Maz & Nana...

The bunny came...

All dressed up...

Sunday School

The reasons she's rotten...

Egg hunt at MawMaw's

(Thanks, Aunt Carrie, for the adorable Easter shirts!)

And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they

went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. Luke 24: 2-3

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Emma played her first t-ball game of the season on Thursday night. She was amazing. She hit good. She fielded good. She ran fast. She did everything a little t-baller should do.

She got a chance to play 2nd base (which she was SUPER excited about). She stopped the ball. She got outs. She even got popped with the ball once but kept on going until she got the out!

Despite her efforts and those of the entire team, we lost the game.

On the ride home she asked the question, "If I played so good and you're so proud of me, why did we lose?"

Which brings me to a pet peeve. In t-ball we "don't keep score." Of course the score is kept in the book, but it's not put on the scoreboard and I guess we're not supposed to tell the kids if we win or lose.

This bothers me. Always has.

We have ALWAYS told Emma whether we won or lost a game.

The greatest things kids can learn from playing ball, in my opinion, are LIFE LESSONS!

And in life, we don't always win.

Sometimes we do our best, try our best, put forth our best effort...but we still don't win or get what we were wanting.

I think it's important for kids to learn how to be good winners AND good losers. It's important to learn to put your best foot forward KNOWING that the outcome may not be what you hoped for.

I'm reminded of one of my favorite Bible verses...In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. John 16:33

And that's exactly what we told Emma.

We did win on Friday night, and she played awesome once again!

Anyway, I'll step off my soap box and share pics of my girl.

Thursday's Game

THE most important lesson...we ALWAYS give thanks to God!

Friday's Game

Notice the tiny #22 in the circle...he's SO READY to be 4 so he can play ball:)

On Saturday, E went on a lunch date with this lady

right here, who has taught me a lot of life lessons.

33 days!

Monday, April 7, 2014

April Showers Bring...

Floods.

They bring floods.

And a 2-hour delay. :)

Nobody did much sleeping at my house last night. The rain poured and the skies lit up and we hoped and prayed for a delay.

FINALLY, at 5:40 I got the text. Thankfully I had already decided it would be a curly hair kind of day, so I hadn't yet rolled out of bed.

At 8AM Elizabeth called and said her road was impassable, so we packed Luke a lunch and he headed to "big school".

Thankfully, Papa agreed to come rescue him (and me;) after his doctor's appointment at 10AM.

In all fairness, though, I must admit that Luke was REALLY good. He watched Franklin on my computer while I taught math, and then he got in line like a big boy and went with us to the lunchroom.

He actually pitched a small fit when it was time to go, because he wanted to stay at "big school".

Soon enough, little guy, soon enough.

Big School