Copycat

Meyers is quite the copycat these days. It's really adorable....most of the time:) She always has to "put her deodorant on" like us. At least she won't be the smelly kid:)

Easter Weekend Part 2: Easter Sunday

This is us after church on Sunday. I am so glad we took Easter pictures before Easter because you can tell Meyers wasn't super happy. She might have been in a bad mood because she had a wardrobe malfunction in the nursery at church. I used hem tape to hem her dress. Apparently I didn't do it very well. When I picked her up from the nursery, the back half of her dress was hanging down and the hem tape was dragging the ground. I would have been in a bad mood, too:) **Note to self: ALWAYS have Mimi hem dresses properly in the future!!**

Meyers and Daddy


Me and my girl


What the Easter bunny brought...


Checking everything out...


She loved this magna doodle toy, but it doesn't even erase!! She doesn't realize it's supposed to erase, so she didn't care.


We ate lunch at John's parents'. Gran and Pop gave Meyers a little purse with some "bunny money" in it.


Gran and Meyers reading.


Opening birthday and Easter presents from Aunt Christi, Uncle Darren, and Tanner

We ate dinner at my parents'. The grandkids had a little Easter egg hunt. This was Meyers's 3rd hunt this year, so she's getting pretty good at it:) Meyers collected the most eggs in her age division:), so she won a ball and flashcards.


These cuties each collected the most eggs in their age division, and they won some prizes, too. My mom and dad started this "age division" thing a while back when my nieces and nephews were younger. It's really funny because we come back in after hunting, and they count their eggs. Then my mom and dad announce the winners in each age division. They haven't quite caught on yet that they are the only ones in their age division:)


Meyers and her cousins

I had to include this picture of Meyers from last summer. It makes my heart happy when I can get two years out of an outfit!!! And it's neat to compare the two. What a difference a year makes!!!

Easter Weekend Part 1: Church Easter Egg Hunt

There is a donut shop close by that has yummy donuts. Someone told me about how they have Easter bunny donuts around Easter time. So we stopped by on the way to the church Easter egg hunt. I'm hoping this will be a tradition each year.


Aren't they adorable!!! Meyers really liked the m and m's on the donut, but not much of anything else. That's okay....I took care of it for her:)


There was so much going on! She looks a little lost in this picture:)



She found 4 eggs!


The 2 and under hunt was on the fenced in playground. Only one parent was allowed in with each child. Everyone else could watch from outside the fence. Meyers and Cash had a little fan club going on. They were cheering them on...it was so cute!


Meyers liked her fan club!



Then she saw Mimi and Poppy on the "outside".


She finally made it out to see Poppy!


This was as close as we could get to the Easter bunny. Clearly, she was not a fan. It made me feel better that I didn't take her to get her picture made at the mall:)

Poor thing buried her head on daddy.


Then she was consoled by Mimi. She looks pitiful!


But then she cheered up and had fun sitting on the sidewalk.



Kisses for daddy!


All of us!

Walking with Mimi.

Overall I think she had fun at her first big Easter egg hunt. This was her first year to participate since she was not walking last Easter, so that was special for us!

Happy Easter!

This has been one of my favorite songs for a while. It always brings me to tears thinking about what a big and mighty God that we serve. I am especially loving this Laura Story version. I am so thankful that Jesus conquered the grave. And that he loved me enough to die for me. I am so unworthy, but his unconditional love covers me, and I am so beyond grateful for the greatest sacrifice of all!

Lyrics:

Everyone needs compassion
A love that's never failing
Let mercy fall on me
Everyone needs forgiveness
A kindness of a Savior
The hope of nations

Savior
He can move the mountains
My God is Mighty to save
He is Mighty to save
Forever
Author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave

So take me as You find me
All my fears and failures
Fill my life again
I give my life to follow
Everything I believe in
Now I surrender
Yes I surrender

Easter Pictures

Getting Ready

Oh, how I miss the days when Meyers was entertained and contained by the exersaucer......




And John wonders why I sometimes wait until the afternoon or when he gets home to get take a shower and get ready:)

OMGoodness!!!!!

I knew before we moved that this area was snake country. Not officially or anything. But several of our friends have seen snakes in their yards and one friend found one in their house (ugghhhh!). When we first moved in this past fall, I had my dad put something called snake-away along our back fence line. It's not full proof. I'm sure our neighbors don't have it, but it gave me some peace of mind. I knew, now that it was getting warm, that I needed to get him to do it again.

Well.....apparently I should have gotten him to do it sooner....

WARNING!!! GROSS PICTURES!!! I CAN'T EVEN LOOK AT THEM IN THIS POST WITHOUT FEELING SQUEAMISH!!!!! SCROLL DOWN IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE A SNAKE!!!

....because I saw this as I was walking down the hall facing our front door. It was slithering across our walkway, three feet from the front door. We have a glass storm door, so I usually open our front door and let Meyers look outside. She loves it! I will NOT be doing that anymore!!!

I freaked out!!! I called John, but he is in meetings all day today and couldn't leave. He thought it was a tiny garden snake. I assured him it was not tiny. I told him to tell his boss that it was an emergency. Right? A snake is totally an emergency. John did not think so. He told me to call my dad. My dad couldn't come, so I called my brother (who is now currently my hero). He came over and searched and searched. I just wanted him to find it so badly, so that I would know it was gone. Not that there can't be more, but I just wanted this one found. He finally found it. It had slithered all the way around to the back of the house. My brother beat it to death and put it in a garbage bag where it is now waiting for John to dispose of. My brother HATES snakes, so it was huge of him to come over and kill it. I wasn't about to make him take it with him to put in a dumpster somewhere. He was dying to have to get it in the garbage bag, but he knew I wanted it contained.....just in case it decided to come back to life.

So....it's looking like we will never play outside ever again:) I thought the front yard was safer than the back, but I see that is not so. I am completely freaked out!!!!

Today

This is a picture from my phone that I took in the car today. This girl loves going "bye bye" in the car. I know a lot of kids do, but it's just such difference from when she was a baby. She wasn't a great car-rider then. I'm not sure if it's because she is front facing, or that she gets to watch Baby Signing Time, or that she gets her binky (only in the car and bed), or that she immediately asks for milk as soon as we get in the car, and I enable her by always having a full cup:) (she is kind of like Pavlov's dog....she thinks car = milk), but she *hearts* the car. Meyers decided she didn't want to nap today; she played in her bed for an hour and a half. I needed to run to the post office.......


....and it was Happy Hour at Sonic. So we ran to two of the few places you don't have to get out of your car to go to.

**For anybody (ie Mimi) that is concerned that I was driving and taking pictures, I was not. I was at a stoplight:)