Planting Sunflowers and Pumpkins

A couple weeks ago, we started some pumpkin and sunflower seeds inside the house after the ones Olivia brought home from school failed to transplant well. This weekend, the weather was nice enough for us to plant them. The kids played outside on the playset and Daddy and Mommy worked on moving rocks and mulch to plant them all. Here are a few pics.

Baby Sunflower

Cute Daddy!

Working hard.

Chillin'.

Daddy's little helper.

What do I do with this stuff?

Yah, this is kind of fun.

Olivia being a good big sister.

Colvin having lots of fun!

American Girls

We decided to visit the American Girl store in Denver to get Olivia a new outfit for her doll, Emily and a matching one for herself. But we walked out of there with a 'friend' for Emily and Olivia. Her name is Lanie (the blonde doll) and Olivia just loves them both. Here are a couple of pictures.

The Mmmmmm Aahhhhhhh Song

One of the therapists that works with Colvin sang a song that Colvin loves! It's the Mmmmmm Aaahhhhh Song. I don't know the real name of it, but Colvin thinks it's the best. Here's Lisa singing it to Cole.

The First Picture - Welcome Baby Boy!

Meet Jackson Trevor Mellish - the newest addition to my sister's family.

Born today, May 12th @ 9:14 a.m. in San Diego, California.

He is 9 lbs 3 oz and is 21 1/2 inches long.

He looks just like his big brother and Mom is doing fine!

Welcome baby boy!

Colvin's new haircut (again)

Shocking to me, Colvin was an angel and didn't shed a tear this time!

SUCCESS!!

We had a monster thunderstorm last night that created 1.25-inch size hail - and we even had a couple tornadoes touch down about 2 hours east of us! We decided to try to shove everything in the garage to the side and squeeze the car inside - of course, that was after grape-sized hail was hitting it. It chipped the paint on my hood and put tiny dents on it. I'm so upset! Here's the funny part - take a look at the pictures and see how tight it was to get the car inside! Gary had to crawl to the back seat and exit on the passenger side and then go out the garage door and run to the front! He couldn't get out any other way!

Driver's Side

Passenger side

The whole enchilada!

Easter Morning

We are so blessed to be together this year - I just had to say Thanks to God for keeping my family safe and allowing us to be together again. We don't want to ignore the real reason for Easter and praise God for sending us his son.

But in the fun of things, Daddy...er, the Easter Bunny stopped by at 5 a.m. to hide the eggs before the kids got up and left a trail of bunny food (candy) to lead the way. Colvin wasn't quite awake, but Olivia just wouldn't wait any longer! Here are a few pics!

Coloring Eggs

Too many things to do in one weekend - after Olivia's party, we came home and colored eggs to help the Easter Bunny out. He has so much work to do so we decided to color some eggs for him. Olivia loved coloring and decorating the eggs, but Colvin could have cared less. Unless he's eating them scrambled, he doesn't like eggs. :)

Eggs for the Easter Bunny to hide in our house. Someone has to help him out!

Olivia loves her Easter eggs.

Happy Easter!

Our pretty eggs.

Painting an egg.

Colvin's egg - with a dinosaur on it.

Cute boy!

What a good Easter Bunny-in-training.

Mommy and Olivia

Daddy showing Colvin the eggs - then he'd throw them at us. Good thing they were hard-boiled.

Funny Daddy.

Coloring eggs makes a big mess!

Getting started.

Birthday Party at Color Me Mine

The Birthday Girl

Yum Yum cupcakes

Marley and Amanda Brown

Painting her butterfly mug

Cheese!

Jenna

Tamia (from school) and Tamekia, her mom.

Alyssa (from Aces)

Britni from school.

Painting our hearts out.

Time to sing Happy Birthday to me!

Make a wish and blow out the candle (she closed her eyes tight and made a serious wish).

Opening gifts.

From Aunt Aly.

Just what the birthday girl wanted!

Olivia's first school performance.

**Don't forget to pause the music**

The performance was called Suki's Kimono.

Singing "Chichipapa".

Singing "Kobuta".

Mrs. Busby and Olivia

Olivia and Marley

Marely as Suki.

Gary and Cole waiting for the performance to start.

Olivia waiting to start too.