Prayers

One of my best friends & her family needs your prayers.  Ashley's Mom is in the CCU and not doing very well.  Mrs. Greaver was very much like a 2nd Mom to all of us growing up.  My Mom always jokes around and tells the story of when people used to call me in high school and ask where I was she would say, "I don't know, try Greaver's house".  We were all over there at least 3-7 times a week...seriously...almost everyday. She is a young 64 and needs all the prayers she can get.  Please pray for Ashley & Tom, Aaron, and Mr. Greaver as well...they face a long road ahead no matter what the outcome.  

Ashley,

 I love you more than words can express and we are all thinking and praying for you non-stop.  

Love,

Chellbell

Buddies!

We had a great time watching Liam play t-ball :) Jackson said he can't wait to play!

Pollen...

This is one of our favorite times of the year.  John and I have enjoyed watching the leaves come in for the last 8 yrs.  It's only 2nd to the fall in our neighborhood.  And every year we promise to take pictures of how beautiful Mother Nature is and we FINALLY remembered this year!!  It happens in about a 2 week period and the leaves really do seem to appear in the blink of an eye!  If you look across the lake you can see our neighbors house just disappear through the leaves :) So while everyone hates pollen, I don't seem to mind it much.  We (especially John) LOVE trees!

Spring Break

We hung out with the Kunkel's on spring break this week and had a blast!  We took the kids to Rome, GA for a Braves baseball game.  For those that are from Philly reading this, its a minor league team.  This was both kids first baseball game ever.  Lets just say that Jackson had a fit when I told him it was time to leave and we had won after 9 innings.  They LOVED it!

 Oh, and I potty trained Bailey this week.  Yep, I am crazy and on her 2nd day took her downtown to the Center for Puppetry Arts for a show and then to a baseball game on her 3rd day! hahaha.  Short story is that she has been BEGGING me to sit on the potty constantly and I figured this might fade out so I just better go ahead and bite the bullet.  Sure enough, by the 3rd day...no accidents and only 4 between the 1st & 2nd day.  It was RIDICULOUSLY easy.  Praise God that he gave me a break on her b/c he knows what I am still dealing with with Jackson!  I would never have done it if she hadn't begged me to.  I am just glad it's all done and am very proud of her!

She had a few meltdowns, nothing a lolly pop didn't solve ;)  I think I got an amazing workout b/c I went up and down the steps a million times b/c she had to go potty :)

It was HOT!  We all were sweating like crazy (no one as much as Jackson of course!)

And below was my only pic from the Center of Puppetry Arts.  I HIGHLY recommend it if you have never been.  We all had a blast (besides spending 1/2 the time in the bathroom with Bailey!). What a fun day!

Field Trip!

Jackson had his first field trip with school and it was to Brusters.  I was a driver and chaperon, funny b/c it was really walking distance from his school! Of course it was awesome and actually interesting to us adults too.  It was cool to watch them make ice cream and let me tell you...it was FABULOUS testing the fresh batch :)

Easter 2013

To say we had a busy weekend is an understatement! HA!  We got new carpet on Friday-short story is that I have lived with UGLY green carpet for 8 loooong years!  The first thing I said when we saw the house on the market was, "well, that carpet has GOT TO GO!"...fast forward 8 years and it's just left.  John tilled the yard in hopes to have grass out front instead of moss...fingers crossed.  Jackson, sweet boy, put his had on the muffler of the tiller and got a burn on his palm, but he is a trooper and didn't let that stop him from all the Easter fun!!  I was in charge of the Easter Egg hunt this year at church, and I won't bore you with details, but it just went ok...next year will be better!

It looks like John is giving him strategy ;)  Liam came to hunt too!

Not sure who got the bright idea to stuff the eggs with bouncy balls....but yep, that is a bouncy ball.  Ugh...only Bailey ;)

And he's off....

Sweet BFF hugs :)

Grandma and Pop Pop came to our hunt and then brought eggs for the kids to dye.  They LOVED it!  Then we went out to eat for Grandma's b-day.


The Easter Bunny seemed to be a hit this year :)



On Easter Sunday Mimi, Diddy, and Grandmother came out and brought a LOT of yummy food with them! We had a great time and are soooo thankful they made the trip out!


Here is Bailey in her big girl bed!!  AND my new carpet!!  Look how tiny she looks in that bed! HA!  That was our old bed before we got our king (I just painted it white).  And before that it was Nana and Opa's, so they definitely got their money's worth out of it! hahaha

Above is a LOT of hard work.  So thankful we had a bunch of neighbors stop over to help us, we are so lucky!  Fingers crossed it grows!!

And that is the latest boy toy.  A new remote control boat.  John is such a good daddy, words can't describe.