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Easter 2012

On Saturday of this past weekend we took a roadtrip to Florence to celebrate Easter and have an Easter Egg hunt with all of our cousins. On Friday I got a call from ST's daycare saying that she woke up from nap with a temperature and not feeling well. I chalked it up to teething and thought she would get better. Ends up, I took her in today and she has some kind of virus. Bless her... no wonder she didn't feel good. I hate the guessing game we all play as mommies, never knowing whether your child is truly sick or if it's something simple like teething. Oh well... lesson learned! Hopefully she's at the tail end of it and will start feeling better soon.

Grammy gave ST an Easter basket and it included lots of fun things and the Weebles set you see in the pic above. She loved all of it!

What I loved, was that my mom got this for $1.50 at a place in Florence called Bargain Hunt! I had never heard of it before, but Trey and I went and I found a Timi and Leslie diaper bag for $45. Needless to say, it will now be my favorite place to stop at when I go home for a visit.

Evidently, a date is given to the item when it enters the store, and the longer it stays in the store the cheaper the item gets. Mom got this fro 80% off!!

On Saturday night we walked across the golf course to Aunt Vick and Uncle Tim's (I love that my mom lives so close to them) and met up with the rest of our family and ate hamburgers and hot dogs. ST was a trooper, and even seemed to feel a little bit better while we were there.

I sure do love my baby. : )

And she loves her Aunt Mamie. : )

Aunt V and Uncle T have a gator for all the grandkids when they come to visit. This was the first time ST was able to ride and she did NOT want to get off. Don't worry, she did not drive this bad boy... only rode as a passenger!

Sweet Macy was her chauffeur.

Marah and Caley came up with a great way to make ST smile. They called it their "ELMO cheer" and it worked like a charm... as you can see.

By the way, I love this picture!

Amy's new dog Bentley was also a big hit with the kiddos!

ST's cousins are so good with her. I love seeing them play and have fun together!

I think she's got her Daddy wrapped around her little finger. : )

The Easter bunny came to visit on Easter morning! She woke up very hot and with a temperature of about 102. At that point, we knew something was wrong and that it was more than just teething. Luckily, the Motrin helped tremendously and we were able to make it to church.

The Easter bunny brought ST Elmo socks, a lift and flap Bible, insulated sippy cups, shovels to dig in the yard with, a Sesame Street book, M&M's, and more!

We tried to snap a few pictures before and after church, but this is the best we could come up with...

I'd say she did pretty well! She also fell out after this and slept for over an hour and a half. She missed the Easter egg hunt with all of her cousins, but it actually worked out really well because the big kids had their turn to hunt and then ST came just in time for pictures and for the big kids to help her hunt eggs. It was too cute!

Here is all of her Easter loot, including what she got from the Easter bunny, her Gran and Grandaddy, her Grammy, and her Aunt Mamie. She's not spoiled at all.

These are some pics from the big kids' egg hunt. Macy was so proud of how many eggs she found!

Bailey counted 30 eggs in all!

Camden didn't want anyone stealing his... : )

Joshua and Macy getting ready to pose for their mom

Caley, ST, and Marah

All of the great grand-kids

We were doing so good on weaning her off of the paci. What is it they say? 1 step forward, 2 steps back...

The Morrow clan

Gran got her this dress from Mustard Seeds. The verse says, "Seek and you will find!"

The Busby's minus Thomas

They were all helping ST find her eggs...

As you can see, we had an awesome Easter weekend. It began with Secret Church on Friday night, my family on Saturday, and back home to visit with Trey's family on Sunday night. We are blessed!

ST at 16 Months

Here are a few highlights from ST's 16 month:

- she loves grapes and strawberries, and lately she doesn't like me cutting things up in little bites. She wants to eat it whole!

- ST has found her nose, and unfortunately likes to explore it...

- When we say "TOUCHDOWN AUBURN," she throws her hands up and grins from ear to ear. It is adorable if I do say so myself.

-Her vocabulary is growing so fast I can barely keeping up. She can now say "uh oh," "cookie," "oh me," "go," and "Hey Dada"

- Her hair is really starting to curl in the back, and it looks so stinkin' cute.

- Her favorite toy these days is my cell phone, which can be really convenient or VERY aggravating (more the latter than the former)

This picture was taken at our cousin Noah's 3rd birthday. ST LOVED the inflatables and giggled the entire time!

Daddy had to join in the fun, of course!

We got out of school early on March 2nd for bad weather which was also Dr. Seuss' birthday. ST and I decided to celebrate by wearing a "cat in the hat" that my friend Mrs. Thornton gave to me. I think she liked it. : )

These boots are made for walkin'... : )

Mom and Amy also came into town that weekend, which was a good thing because Trey woke up that Sunday morning with a kidney stone. We were out the door in less than 5 minutes and it was so nice to leave ST with Mom and Amy knowing she was in good hands. By the time we got back (5 hours later), they had bought us groceries and had the house all nice and tidy. ST never noticed her Daddy wasn't feeling good (On a side note, it took Trey over a week to pass that stubborn thing, and it was only 2mm!).

Her favorite place to park it outside is right in front of the rock bed. Trey laughs when he comes home from softball to find rocks lined up in a neat row along the door frame. This little girl is such a mess! Thankfully, we splurged this month and bought a privacy fence and my sweet in-laws bought her a swing set, so we now have more to play with than just rocks! YAY!

For Hayes Hardy's 3rd birthday, we went to "Pump it Up" and she LOVED sliding down the big slide. The nice worker (Danielle) took her down a few times. She was one happy camper. : )

ST and Cooper

(She is VERY sad he moved to Auburn and took her mommy's best friend with him. :( )

Over Spring Break we went home to Florence for a few days and we had such a good time. We got to visit with Aunt Mamie's new puppy, Bentley, we played with our sweet cousins Marah and Macy (Joshua was at ball practice), we played with Grandmother, shopped around town, and had a GREAT time!

One of my college BFF's, Tara, came down over Spring Break as well and brought her darling daughter, Katherine. We all met over at Jessa's and spent the day eating girly food, catching up, and watching these crazy kiddos go UP and DOWN the stairs. I love seeing them all together!

Addison, Katherine, ST, and Cooper

"...walk out into the fields and look at the wildflowers. They never primp or shop, but have you ever seen color and design quite like it? If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers- most of which are never even seen- don't you think he'll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you?" - Matthew 6 (The Message)

We ended Spring Break by having my mom and sis come and visit here in B'ham. On Saturday we went to Botanical Gardens and enjoyed just walking around and enjoying the beautiful weather... and flowers.

Isn't God awesome??

LOVE.

Silly Daddy.

Our sweet girl cracks us up every single day. We sure do love this little one... to the moon and back. : )