Easter Weekend

The hubby isn't off of work on the weekends very often and since we knew he'd have a 3 day weekend because of Good Friday we decided to load up and go to White Oak for the weekend.  We love to camp, but it's not something we get to do a lot of because of his work schedule.  We hope to change that this year.  Austin loves camping as much as his Daddy and I do and he played so hard and had so much fun.  He wanted to stay 10 days he kept telling us, but it wasn't happening this time around.

We got up Saturday morning early and Brandon cooked breakfast (one of my favorite things about camping, Brandon does 99% of the cooking!).  After that we loaded up the boat and headed out to do some fishing.

I think he was calling the fish here, but it's not like they know it!

We fished for a little while, but the wind just kept getting worse and worse until we finally just had to head back to the camp.

Heading back... 

and telling daddy all about it...and then, well then we hit a stump in the lake and we were stuck!  So Brandon rocked us around for a while and we tried and tried to get off that stump, but it was hung up right in the middle of the boat.  So for a last ditch effort, Brandon litterally had to ditch his clothes except for his pants and jump into the lake to pick the boat up off of the stump.  In just a couple of minutes he had us loose and then frantically fussed at me to hurry and crank the motor up and move before we got stuck again, but he got us going and we went on back to the camp.  I really wanted to get a pic of him all wet and give out from being in the lake, but I saw no need in adding to his misery!  Needless to say the fishing wasn't good that day!

On Saturday afternoon they had a big egg hunt at the park.  The hid several hundred eggs all stuffed with candy.  My dad came up and brought Scooter to hunt eggs.

And of course another Easter Bunny!  Austin kept asking her who she was under that disguise!  They weren't outsmarting him!

After they got all the age groups separated and said go Austin was off like a bolt of lightening.  They had eggs just scattered everywhere for the little kids and it was wild.  He was grabbing eggs like they were going out of style.

You can see that they just had eggs laid everywhere on the ground.  There was no reason they couldn't all get plenty.

You can see his bucket was already stuffed.

but he was still looking

Here he is after he finished getting his share.  He kept telling me that he thinks he won!

I would definately say he got enough.

All in all it was a wonderful weekend despite the wind and the stump.  Austin had a ball and wasn't ready to come home.  He already wants to know when we will go again!

Hippity Hoppity...

Easter is on it's way! On Thursday we had Austin's Easter Party at pre-school and as usual I didn't get many pictures because it's hard to take care of everything and take pics too. We were originally going to hunt eggs outside, but we woke that morning to pouring down rain which continued throughout the day. So it was on to Plan B...and I was hoping our Wal Mart had something we could use for a Plan B. I ran to WM before going to the party and luckily they had some foam egg shapes with all the the little pieces to decorate them. So that's what we did instead of hunting eggs. They were fine with it. So despite the rain the party went well and the kids had a good time.

Austin's Easter basket from his party

Austin and Ian enjoying the cookies that Miss Julie brought.  They were the cutest little sugar cookie rabbits decorated with marshmallows.

The class.

Austin enjoying his cookie.

And then the Easter Bunny showed up and they were ALL excited.  Everyone got to get a pic with the bunny!  There were a few that weren't too sure though.

But not Austin, he couldn't get enough of the bunny.

So another year of pre-school parties is in the book and we are done until Halloween.  That will give me a good little break until we do it all over again!

Squad Up

On Saturday we had Austin's 4th Birthday party.  His actual birthday is on the 27th!  I can't believe that my baby is now 4 years old.  It has flown by so fast and he is growing up to be such a big boy.  He had an awesome party and had so much fun. 

Super Hero Squad Cake

 Anna & Austin.  They say they're gonna get married when they "grow up"!

 Karter & Austin

 Abby & Austin (his other woman)

 Fighting with their balloon swords

 Abby & Anna

 Layton & Austin

 Making his wish

Getting to the best part...Presents

My sweet, sweet little man.

Pinata Time!

Austin

Layton

Abby

and Anna.  Can you tell who the ball player of the group is?

And Scooter took one final swing to break it apart for the little ones.  They were grabbing that candy like there was no tomorrow.  So funny!

The party turned out really well and Austin had a blast.  We are so blessed to have family and friends that love our little man so much.  And thanks to Amanda for some excellent picture taking skills!  It's hard to be a host and take pictures too!

Because Daddy Just Couldn't Wait...

My little boy is gonna be a big 4 year old boy two weeks from today...makes me a little sad in a way!  Anyway back at Christmas Brandon decided that he wanted to get Austin his own 4 wheeler for his birthday and although nervous about it (because that's how us mommas are) I agreed to let him do it.  He looked at several different ones before deciding on what to get.  Mamaw & Papaw insisted on helping to pay for it as their gift to Austin (because he needs absolutely NOTHING) for his b-day.  So I got it ordered and a week later it was here.  Brandon and I met the big truck up at the store on Friday evening and loaded the crate into the back of the truck and then took it to Papaw's shop until time for his birthday.  Fast forward to today...Brandon just couldn't take it anymore so we all loaded up and headed to Papaw's to uncrate the new 4 wheeler.    As Brandon pulled the top off the crate and the 4 wheeler was in there Austin looked up at his daddy and said "now that's what I'm talking about"!  It was hilarious and he was as excited as he could be.  And now this is what we have.

Bringing daddy the seat to put on it.

Filling it up with gas

Getting ready to take his first ride by himself...I must say that I was nervous.

And with good reason because he took off like a lighting bolt out of that shed and up the hill towards the house.  I about flipped out and Brandon was chasing him.  The sad part is it came with a remote control shut off that Brandon was toting around in his pocket...hello pull that sucker out of your pocket and shut it down before this momma has a heart attack!

So now he's getting a little better instructions on how to ride.

And there he goes down the road all own his own...slower and with more caution this time.

He wasn't ready to go home and his daddy wasn't letting him go anywhere.He's mad and that face shows it all.

I can't believe my baby is learning such big boy things and the older he gets the more dangerous the things he's gonna want to do and I don't know if my nerves will be able to hold up to it.  After all whether he's 4 or 24 he will still be my baby.