Happy Easter

What a wonderful day!! We had lots of family over and lots of good food. I am so happy my very first Easter egg hunt went well. When I was a little girl we always went to Oklahoma and colored Easter eggs with our cousins and then the next day we would have a huge egg hunt. I always had such a great time trying to find the winning egg. Well there wasn't a winning egg this year but lots of memories and the first of another of my hopeful family traditions for the babies. Thank you to everyone who helped make this a special first Easter for my precious babies.

Coloring Easter Eggs With Our Cousins

Man, I can't remember the last time I colored Easter eggs. That is one of the fun things about having children, you get to do all the things you did as a kid all over again. So I took an advantage and got in on the egg decorating. Although I do realize my babies are a bit to little to understand or have interest in coloring eggs. But maybe sometimes we just use our kids as our excuse to be kids ourselves. At any rate I enjoyed spending time with my nephews and making dull white eggs into bright, creative pieces of art. Gavin, almost 4, really enjoyed using the little wire egg scooper to transfer the eggs from color to color. I think his fingers were about as colored as most the eggs, but he had a good time and that's what matters most. Here is Gavin and his "most beautiful" egg.

Random

Oh my goodness, I can't believe it has almost been a week since my last post. I hope all my loyal readers haven't given up on me or my dedication to this blog (sorry Mom). I guess it has been a busy week. Unfortunately it was with work instead of fun baby things. There actually isn't anything to exciting happening right now. Carter is still working on his crawl, which he does have the army crawl down. Maybe he decided on the army crawl for his Oma. Hee hee. And Luke, well he's Luke. (See pictures)

Brotherly love

Luke climbed out of his bouncy
(I guess that's what the straps are for)

Carter stretching to do his push ups


1 and 2 and 3, come on Luke


Luke can't quite figure out the push up thing.

Texas Bluebonnets

Friday evening Dixie and I took all the boys to take pictures in the bluebonnets. We did this in dedication to our Oma. I remember when I was a little girl she would get so excited when she would see the first bluebonnet on the side of the road. And of course before they were all gone we were sitting the middle of them smiling for a picture. So since she isn't here this year to see them for herself, we took several pictures of all her sweet grandsons surrounded by the beautiful flowers. Thank you Dixie for such a wonderful job on the pictures and I can't wait for Oma to see them.

Mason, Gavin and Ethan

Meeting the Easter Bunny

To start off with Luke and Carter turned EIGHT months today. Wow-where has the time gone. I know I say something along these lines each month, but I am really seeing big changes in the babies and I can't believe one year is just around the corner. They are really working hard to crawl and are talking up a storm. They are such a joy to be around. They have the sweetest little personality and make me proud to be their mommy.
Now on to the Easter bunny-Our twins group holds an annual Easter egg hunt and this year we attended to meet the Easter bunny, but choose not to hunt eggs. We decided to save that for next year. Although it looks like Carter is almost in tears, they were happy to sit in the bunnies lap and try to pull at his whiskers. Like always it is almost impossible to get a picture were both babies are looking at the camera and smiling, so I get the best I can. Happy Easter to everyone.

Family Picnic and Boat Ride

Today we had a Manning family picnic and our first boat outing. Jeff's parents bought a "fun"toon boat for the family to use for fishing or just relaxing. We were a little concerened it would be to windy to take it out today, but we managed fight the wind and still enjoy the day.

The guys went out early in the morning to give the boat a test ride. It seemed to run well so they spent the morning fishing. I think the "test ride" part was just an excuse to go early and fish, but that's okay cause it was windy and cold and they didn't catch anything. Sorry guys maybe next time.

When we arrrived we had lunch and took a little walk. Havin, our neice, had fun pushing the babies in their stroller. She likes to play with the them like they are little dolls of her own. She is such the mother hen and really does a great job with them.

Can you find Samual in the tree? This is one thing I am not looking forward to in the future. Boys have no fear and I have two of them. I feel we might spend lots of time in the ER.

Luke and Carter did well on the boat ride considering it was time for their nap and they had to wear those huge life jackets. Luke wasn't to sure about the whole thing,but he will get used to it or just learn to love it. All in all a wonderful day with the family and I look forward to spending more time on the lake.

Kisses for Daddy

How sweet!!! They miss their daddy when he's away at work so they both decided to give him big kisses this morning. Of course they didn't have any left for me. Little stinkers!!!