cousins

my sister G and my niece H have been in town.

my sister makes the cutest tutus for H.

maybe someday she'll make one for my little monkey.

wink wink

the whole cousin crew

something's missing

On Saturday mornings, I am usually gone during breakfast on a long run while I train for a marathon. While I am gone, my husband likes to make crepes with the kids. I came home Saturday from my run and asked how the crepes were. My husband said they tasted weird. Today, I went to heat something up in the microwave and guess what I found...melted butter...for crepes. Oops!!

in love

...with these two...

I Love Flowers...

...but I really love flowers when they are a surprise.

Dolphin loves to go to the grocery store with Dad to get things I have forgotten to pick up from the store earlier in the day for dinner.

Along with the needed groceries, Dolphin likes to sneak in flowers for me.

He'll walk into the house and tell me to close my eyes, then pulls them out from behind his back.

{he makes me smile!}

Easter

We woke up Easter morning to a fresh coat of snow on the ground. I'm surprised the Easter Bunny was able to find out house through all of the snow. We also left the kids Easter baskets at my in-laws the day before after the annual Easter egg hunt. We improvised with "You Are Special" plates. That bunny is a pretty smart fella' and figured it out.

Spring will come, right???

The kids "baskets"

Happy Easter!

"To Infinity...And Beyond!"

Florida

We were fortunate to be able to go with my husband's family to Destin for a week.

It was perfect.

Dolphin, the night we arrived.

I wondered if we would be able to get him inside.

Speaking of dolphins, we were able to watch several swimming right off the beach a couple of times. It was pretty cool.

My two kids.

They really are best friends.

This picture is my favorite from the whole trip.

It says everything about their relationship.

Monkey face-planted it a few times running from the waves.

Dolphin loves to fly. The higher the better.

Hubby and Uncle "O" survived their brave voyage out to sea.

The Family

I found out 5 minutes before we took the picture that I would be taking it. I don't use the timer on my camera very often and didn't have time to figure out how to change it from a 2-second timer to a 10-second timer. I had to run FAST!!! I made it!