Easter Weekend

We had a wonderful Easter this year. It was Chad's first Easter and Gibson's 3rd! WOW how time has flown!! Gibson got to dye Easter eggs for the very first time this year it was so much fun seeing his face during the entire process... completely PRICELESS!!Look at the wonder...
Telling Daddy how to do it... or so we think...

He kept dropping the eggs in from so high... he cracked most of the ones he colored. Oh well!

Decorating the eggs

"GREEN!"

We went out to take some Easter pictures in a place with a ton of tulips... it was beautiful!

Gibson enjoyed being outside... he looked so cute in his purple and green, we had Chad in a coordinating purple and green outfit. We found out from Granci and Papaw that Gibson and his cousin Evan had the exact same Easter outfit (minus Gibson's tie)... too funny!

Daddy and Bug

Mommy and Bug

It was so funny when we asked Gibson to give Chad a kiss... he literally tackled him and tried to move his hands so he could give him a smooch. It was adorable. Thankfully Chad is a huge kid so it didn't bother him that his brother, almost 2 years his senior, was completely smothering him.

Brotherly Love

Our Crazy, Wonderful Family

Gibson got some awesome stuff in his Easter basket.

Chad CONKED out after church... we went to check on him and found him like this. :)

Hunting for Easter eggs with Daddy

Gibson loved hunting for eggs. We didn't know how he would do at first, but he had a ton of fun searching the park for the plastic, candy-filled eggs.

He even found the ones I hid up in the trees

After Gibson hunted down all the eggs we let the boys play at the playground. Chad loved the swing! It was the first time he had been on one outside. It was a gorgeous afternoon.

Gibson got to swing on the big kid swing... he did such a good job. Mommy and Daddy were both so proud! He only fell off one time, and he dusted himself off and got right back on. We definitely don't have a scared little boy on our hands... maybe that means trouble?!?

We had a wonderful weekend... Gerod's parents were in town and they put up with me having a garage sale on both Friday and Saturday. The boys loved getting to hang out with their Granci and Papaw and we loved having them! It is always nice to see family since we are so far from them, especially on holidays as special of Easter. Thanks again for coming and visiting us Granci and Papaw. We love you!!

Hope you all had a Happy Easter. We had a wonderful day celebrating the Resurrection of our Lord and Savior. We cant wait for all the memories to come on this wonderful holiday.

ShAdEs!

I am so glad Julie sent me the link to Rita's Coffee Shop blog about all things photography! I have been tinkering with this picture of Gibson during the boys nap and love how it turned out. I cant wait to start trying out some of the other things that her website has to offer as far as tutorials. :) Thanks Julie!

I already want to upgrade my photoshop!

I found out today that there are endless edits that you can do to a picture that I was completely unaware of. Mostly I found a new, more costly, program that can do tons of different kinds of edits on photos. I have officially fallen in love with this program, and am on a mission to buy it!! Hopefully the sooner the better. Another thing on my wish list is a couple more lenses... which are also by no means inexpensive!! Haha!! I better start booking some jewelry parties!!

On the other hand, I did figure out a few new tricks in my current editing program.
Here are a couple pictures of the boys that I took this weekend that I played around with today.

Busy Weekend!

We had a VERY busy weekend. We woke up early Saturday morning to go to a birthday party for one of Gibson's friends. The party was at the Science Museum, and had a robot and dinosaur theme. We got to make our own robots out of marshmallows and pretzels. Mommy and Chad during the party!
Gibson had SO much fun!!

Otto the Robot that came to visit during the party

Look at those bright blue eyes!

For some reason all the kids ended up underneath the table playing with the leftover marshmallows.

Sleepy Bug!

Playing at the Science Museum... Gibson absolutely loved the water table. We were there for the longest time. He kept stacking all the boats up, unstacking them, and then re-stacking them... over... and over... again.

Driving the Tractor!

Apparently he was rockin' out to some kind of silent soundtrack!

Playing on the log See-Saw with Daddy

"Look Mom... No Hands!"

Gibson had so much fun playing in the gymnastics area. Daddy kept helping him roll down the mat. I cant wait till our "Mom & Tot" outing to the gymnastics building!!

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I forget what this thing is called, but Gibson thought it was just about the coolest thing ever! He got to ride around a track they had laid out two times. He thoroughly enjoyed it!On Sunday after church we decided to take the boys outside to play in the front yard because the weather was absolutely beautiful!! Gibson had a blast rolling down the driveway on his motorcycle.

Lookin' stylin' in his shades!

Chad didn't like his shades as much...

but he loved the beautiful weather!

We played in the grass...

And rolled over!

We all hope that the weather continues to cooperate for our trip to the zoo this Thursday! I cant wait to get the boys out in the fresh air again soon!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Palm Sunday! Next weekend is Easter and the celebration of the resurrection of our Savior! I hope everyone has a wonderful week leading up to a wonderful day of celebration!

I am in love...

With digital scrap booking!! I have been having so much fun creating these pages. I have a long way to go on Chad's First Year scrapbook which I have decided to do completely digitally. It is just so much easier to work with the kids around using a computer than having all kinds of paper, and glue and scissors everywhere. Here is a sneak peak of what I have done so far...

I would love your comments... Likes, Dislikes?!? I want this to turn out good!