Progress

The ceiling in the family room.

The kitchen.

Well, the house is almost done! All the tile is in, the trim is up and the paint is on. They just need to do the yard, the carpet and stain the hardwoods and we are good to go. Now if we could just sell our current house, life would be perfect!

Easter

Braxton and Hailey looking for eggs the Easter bunny hid for them.

Braxton and Hailey in their new easter digs.

Our little family. (why am I the only one in black? I'm mourning our warm weather.)

Easter was a beautiful, sunny day! Only one problem, the temp was a record LOW! It was soooo cold. You didn't even want to leave the house. I went back and forth about whether or not to have the kids wear their Easter clothes, since Hailey's dress was a sleeveless sundress. But I decided to just have her wear a sweater and call it good. Mike's Dad and Step-Mom came down for the weekend, so we had fun spending time with them. I think Braxton wore them out on the board, and card games. (Sound familiar Mom?)

Saturday night, Mike, his dad and stepmom and I were up late watching a movie, so when Mike and I were on our way up to bed, I luckily remembered that we needed to set everything up for the kids. It took us about 30 min to get everything ready. Whew, that was a close one!

When Braxton and Hailey woke up Sunday morning, they found that the Easter Bunny had left them some Easter Baskets and had hidden a bunch of eggs to find. They had a lot of fun finding them and we all had fun eating the candy. After church we had a yummy dinner with Honey Baked Ham, (my favorite) funeral potatoes, rolls and broccoli salad. Even though the weather was "winter-like", it was still a great day.

Spring Break

Braxton waiting in line for Pirates of the Carribean.

Hailey in front of Cinderella's Castle

Mike, Braxton and Hailey on "It's a Small World"

Hailey, Braxton and myself at Sea World

Well, another year, another Spring Break come and gone. Where does the time go? This was our first trip, as a family, by ourselves, since Braxton was 8 months old. We are either going with family or friends. It was strange for Braxton to not have any other kids to play with. But, we had a great time. We stayed in a very nice resort just outside of Orlando, about 20 minutes away from all of the parks. Our place was a 3 bedroom townhouse with a full kitchen, family room, study and 3 pools, plus a waterpark. We spent two days at the waterpark and 2 days doing theme parks.

The first park we went to was Sea World. I haven't been there since I was young and it's changed a lot. They now have roller coaster rides there and more animal shows. It was a fun day. We of course went to the "Magic Kingdom". (I'm from the West coast, and DisneyLand is over there so it's been hard for me to not call it Disney Land.) Anyway, we were there from 9am until almost midnight! The funny thing is, we added up all of the rides we went on and it only came up to about 12! That took ALL DAY LONG! Hailey had a great time on the rides, which we were pleasantly surprised she could do everything except the big rollercoasters. Her favorite was "It's a Small World".

Braxton had gotten sunburned the day before and wasn't at his "best" so pretty much complained the entire day! Who complains about going on rollercoasters. We had to make him go. But when we got home he was glad we did.

It was a nice relaxing vacation, very much needed after the month we've had.