Sunday, March 31, 2013

Happy Easter 2013

Happy Easter

Trying to pose with your 9 month old brother is almost impossible!  Nice try, May! 

Bear's First Easter!  

May Bug 

Easter Bunny left all kind of goodies! 

This stuff is for me???  :) 

We hope you all had a wonderful Easter Sunday.  We started the day at a great church service at DeSoto Hills.  Bro. James preached a wonderful Easter message.  Bear went to the "crawlers" class for the first time.  He loved playing with his new friends.  We spent the rest of the day visiting with our sweet family.

Grandpa Hunter & Bear playing!

Grandmamma and Bear playing.... He LOVES his bucket!

Jalyn & Maylee chalking!

Grandmamma sugar!


Here are some more random pictures that I found when I was downloading our Easter pics.  I rarely remember my camera these days, so I rely on my phone.  It was nice actually using my camera today!  

May built Bear a pillow wall when he was learning to sit up.   
Three Generations of Samples Men having a very serious conversation!   
Oh my Goodness - melt my heart!  

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Not a Still Moment

I am finally getting a second to sit down and blog.  I am way behind on posting.  We have a 9 month old baby that is now into everything!  With three girls running around and one little boy trying to explore the world, we do not have many still moments.

Jack is now army crawling at top speed, opening every cabinet and drawer he can reach, pulling on any and every object he can get.  He is still saying "dada, dada" all the time along with some other syllables that I cannot quite understand just yet.

We were all on Spring Break last week and it was great!  Emma and Maylee got new bikes.  They are learning to use their hand brakes now.  Becca mastered riding without training wheels, so she has a new basket on her bike.  Bigger bike to come soon!  :)  GiGi came into town for a couple of nights.  They all went to the zoo and enjoyed the spring weather.

Dan and I had such spring fever in the yard!  We (well "I" but I am dragging him along...) decided to plant a small garden this year!  I am SO excited.

Today we took the kids skating.  Dan and the girls went while Bear was napping.  He and I joined them after his nap.  The girls had a great time.  They will be pro skaters before long!  Dan was a skating champ as usual.  :)  Bear and I watched from the side bench, but he had a great time watching and "dancing" to the music.  Sunday Funday!













Sunday, March 10, 2013

It is Almost Moving Day

Grandmamma & Popie are getting closer and closer to the BIG moving day!  We are so excited and I know they are too!  Saturday we ran over for the kiddos to carve their names in their drive way!  They LOVED putting their little marks in a place it will last forever!





How sweet is this!  Grandmamma and Popie celebrated their 40th anniversary Saturday!  


Friday, March 8, 2013

Counting Down to Spring Break

Let the count down begin.....it is almost Spring time and Spring Break.  We are looking forward to springing our clocks forward and enjoying a week of no schedules and chilling out!  We hope all of you have a fabulous Spring Break too!

Here is to hoping for flip flop weather because this Mama is out of her boot!  Now the doctor did tell me to remember the "cooler" the shoe, the more risk I will have to feel pain.  Was he reading my mind?

This has been a fun filled week at school with each day having a theme to celebrate Read Across America and to promote literacy!  I love my job! 

Maylee rocking her "Pink-i-licious" outfit for Favorite Book Character Day!

GiGi sent Emma a check for her birthday, so she could endorse it herself.  GiGi says she remembers me loving to do this, so she wanted to send it in her name. :)

Bedhead.....This is what happens to Bear's hair if you try to part it in an opposite direction!