Birthday celebrations continue....

We had the wonderful opportunity this year to celebrate Chris and Paul's birthdays together. They've been best friends their whole lives......here's to 33!! :) (And to Catherine who's willing to sit between them!)

Happy birthday, Luke!

Chris, Caleb, and I went to Luke's class with this bat-cake today.

Luke wished to "live happily ever after" with his family. What a guy!

It was quite a task getting all that blue icing off of everyone (but certainly worth it)!

Then we came home and Luke opened presents from Caleb, Paul, Chris, and me.

Happy birthday to our sweet, smart, chatty, energetic, fun Luke!!

Welcome to the gang, Paul...

The Batcave hangs out just on the edge of the rug you see in the back of this photo. To start, Luke and Caleb were happily playing there, and Paul was just out of reach on the rug itself. I kept hearing, "No, don't eat that. No, don't pull that. Caleb, let's slide over." I went to check on them and sure enough, our baby is crawling----or more specifically, commando crawling----and "chasing" them across the floor til they ended up in the doorway. When I got there, the big guys said, "He's following us!!"

Luke's birthday party...

We had Luke's 5th birthday party today at Chris' and my old elementary school. Despite a tornado warning and incredibly ominous clouds, we had a good time. We're so thankful the rain held off just long enough to eat some cake!!

We love our 9 neices, AND......

......our new nephew!!!
Here is Owen on his birthday, April 18.

Some random pictures...

More Easter pictures...

Easter...

Easter weekend was very full.......
We had Aunt Sandy, Megan & Cammie's fun suckers and egg decorating kit. (the first 2 pictures) Then Sunday morning we went to church and I got a few shots of the boys in the grass.
The Easter bunny visited while we were at church and thus, the last shot.......such excitement when we arrived home!
I'm waiting for pictures of the boys with their cousin, Reese, and will add those in soon.....

Getting ready for Easter....

Here, the boys are trying on various clothes from Sweetie trying to decide what they'll wear for Easter. Notice the 2-year old who wouldn't change clothes more than once!

Our little Buc...

Luke is playing tee-ball in the Joy League. That means we have practice each Monday night and a game each Saturday morning. Here was Luke, number 23, at his first game.

A normal Sunday night...

Not that there's anything "normal" about this year, but here we are at our most calm sort of moment.