caught sneezin'...4.12

baby matthew

easter sunday...4.4.10

attempt at a family picture...

such a lovely background...ugh!

sweet drew!

sassy sarah!

mops easter egg hunt...4.3

matthew's first bottle...4.3

sarah's preschool easter egg hunt...4.1

drew's preschool easter egg hunt. APRIL 1st...

fyi...

so, i've been catching some MAJOR slack for my non-bloggy-ness...

and i've had several suggestions from friends and family on how to resume...

the funniest one i've heard was the (repeated) suggestion that i just skip ahead to the present and "forget" about how far behind i am...

ummm...have you MET me?!? am i not a text book case of obsessive compulsive disorder?

that would be like me going to bed without my kids' clothes layed out for the next morning...

or like me not having a constant to do list...

or like me not straightening up the house before we walk out the door...

ALL activities which are as essential to my life as breathing...

SO, i WILL be resuming my blogging from 4 months ago...

(and you can just skip the next few weeks of catch up if you would like!!!)

another visitor!...3.31

aunt susan and alvin buzzed through town to meet baby matthew as well! we were the last stop on their fun trip to arkansas. we were so glad we made the itinerary!!!

a visit from family...3.27-3.30.10

g.g., aunt ann, jacob, and seth all came to memphis to visit in late MARCH and to meet baby matthew!

like any good great aunt, aunt ann arrived with all those contraband items that a mother would never let her children have!!!...silly string fights ensued...

followed by copious amounts of sugar...(i think mimi might have been involved in this breech of code as well)...

can you see the look of crazed sugar high kids in their eyes?!?

and this little guy was in heaven because he was getting to sample the goods too!

g.g. holding baby matthew for the first time...

sweet buddies...

drew LOVES that his cousin jacob is a movie watcher like him...those two could have spent the whole weekend in mimi's bed watching dvds!!!

nicholas's 6th birthday party...MARCH 27th

way long ago...we went to nicholas's birthday party at the spaghetti warehouse...

baby matthew was only 17 days old...

new big brother jake thought the trolley tasted pretty good...(ick!)

big brother drew thought the cake tasted pretty good...

we had a great time celebrating nicholas's big 6th birthday!