Ella is 3....... and a princess!

My sweet "Bean" is 3 and tells most everybody that, "she is getting bigger," she is also very much into dress's these days and princess's. She doesn't know the names of the princess's, just anyone in a dress is a princess:) She is learning so quickly and still adores...... for the most part her big brother:) Here are a few pictures of the princess on her birthday

JD's 1dt T-ball game

Later that day as he was waiting for me to make dinner, this is how we found him......... completely out and sitting up, he was sooo tired.

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter, the Easter bunny found our house yesterday morning, (in the rain too!) I had to try to catch a few pictures before we headed to church, we had a good day with a lot of food, more egg hunts, whiffle ball and good fellowship!

earlier that morning.....

the day before Ella and I went to an Easter egg hunt while JD had T-Ball practice

Here is a JD funny!

This is a funny for the moms out there who try on a regular basis to get their kids to eat their greens, fruits and of course other veggies. (in which I'm very fortunate because my kids tend to like most of those foods mentioned)

So, Thursday night I pick up the kids from Jessi's and we need to get home quickly to grab a bite to eat and then head to the food pantry, they had a load of food coming in and needed help unloading. The kids and I get home and Rick had turned on the crock pot to warm a turkey breast I had cooked the previous day, (by the way, oh so yummy, thanks Jamie:). As it ends up we had 15 min's before we needed to leave, so we ended up just grabbing some turkey to snack on before we left thinking we would just come home and finish our dinner. We headed out and ended up standing around talking after we unloaded the truck and finally left around 7:30pm, as we are driving home I mentioned having ice cream for dinner, mind you, ...... I never do that. So we had ice cream for dinner at the "DQ."

The next day we had JD's 5 yr well child visit with Dr Morgan, whom our family just loves. She checked JD out and everything is looking good and of course as she does every visit, she asks JD if he is eating his fruits and veggies and still liking them?? Of course, the only thing I can think of is, how I fed my kids ice cream the night before, and sure enough he says, "Dr Morgan, well I had ice cream last night for dinner." Rick said that he has never seen my face turn soooo red, and not that I could leave it at that, I then tried to explain myself ........... I'm giggling to myself as I share; all I can say is the "ice cream for dinner" truly bit me in the rear:)

The last 6 weeks!

A lot has happened in the last 6 weeks, so I'm going to start with the most recent and work my way backwards...... and it's been a busy one:)

The most recent being my brothers family welcomed home a baby boy. Drew Edward Holtz was born Tuesday March 22, 2011 weighing 7#14 oz. We are so very thankful and happy Katie's pregnancy is over for her, she has struggled for the last 5 months passing kidney stones on a regular basis. So, here are some pictures of the new little peanut, he is soo adorable and reminds me of my brother:)

Congratulations, Andrew and Katie!

The happy sisters and happy cousins. Andrea 7, Claire 5, Berkley 3. JD 5, and Ella, 2 1/2.

The New Holtz family, Congratulations!

With Drew not being the only new addition to our family, we came home from church on the 20th, (March, 2010) with 2 small chicks........... yes baby chicks, and I do need to mention that Rick said no! (with his arms raised:)

So, the childrens story was about choosing life and living it. There were many analogies with this story, choosing a real flower over a fake flower, choosing a basket of real fruit instead of a bowl of fake fruit and finally, choosing baby chicks instead of a basket of eggs. You could just tell all of the parents were filled with thoughts of, "please don't suggest they bring them home" and sure enough they did. All is well the kids have enjoyed watching them grow... daily, we will only be able to keep them a short while longer because they are starting to fly.

Just a week before that we had a very special boy turning 5. I can't believe he is getting so big. He has surprised me with his recent interest and picking up of letters and words/spelling.

JD and Mom spent the day before his birthday at school with some fun "Spidyman" cupcakes and it was his sharing time as well.

The next day we had his birthday party at home with family at our house, but before the party Aunt Rita had let us know that Gus and Zoey's school was doing a fundraising bazaar. The kids had so much fun! Here is JD with Zoey doing "Just Dance" on the WII.

The next day he wanted some pictures of some of his new "stuff" he was so excited. In some of the pix's below he is painting his new airplane that Jamie and Russ got him and as you can see Ella is supervising:)

Rick has also had the opportunity to finish up his latest woodworking project........ well he is actually finishing up another one too, but that is a gift. This one is something for one of Rick's customers clients in which they wanted wine racks for 300 bottles of wine....... WaahhhllaaaH! It turned out so nice, I'm so proud of him, he is so very talented!