happy easter

hope everyone had a great easter! we had a very nice day with family. when we woke up on sunday morning the easter bunny had hidden all of the eggs that we had dyed the night before, and a few plastic eggs. the older kids decided that the plastic eggs must be for shepherd because they were so easy to find. so, we had 40 eggs, and we could only find 22. it is the first time ever that we have had eggs disappear. casey and i even looked, no eggs. we didn't even find any shells. it is an easter mystery.
casey and i have great fun dying easter eggs. im not sure how enjoys it more, the kids or us. we love to soak the eggs. casey had his own colors this year. we only had like 3 orange eggs and 2 pink eggs, because he hogged those colors. i have to confess, i maybe used the green most of the time. we had lots of fun!

spring break!

today is the last day of spring break. i cant say that i am so sad, at least not out loud. we spent monday and tuesday hanging around the house and sleeping late. on wednesday the kids and i left to visit family in the conway area. we spent wednesday night at my granny's house in cabot. on thursday we made our way to conway to stay at my granny & pa burt's house. the kids are loving it! my dad, his wife lisa, and my little sister haley came in from knoxville to stay the weekend too. it is always so much fun for the kids to see their cousins and grandparents. haley is just 9 months older than eleanor, so they are inseparable when they get to see each other. i know, it is CRAZY, eleanor's aunt is the same age as she is.
all the kids are going to dye easter eggs together later. that will be lots of fun! we will have 7 kids dying eggs. my 3, haley, and their 3 cousins. this will be the first time my kids have ever dyed eggs away from home, not that it is such a big deal. but whenever we get home on saturday we will be boiling eggs too. i want to get the kids on video at home. we always video dying eggs, carving pumpkins, and decorating the christmas tree. i know, kinda cheesy, but it is a tradition of ours. so, happy end of spring break!

baseball..baseball...baseball

we spent our weekend in van buren at a baseball tournament. kane played two games on saturday and one on sunday. his positions are catcher, pitcher, and third base. he is the best catcher on his team, so he caught all of the first game. the second game he played third base, and the game on sunday he caught the entire game too. he was so tired! my mom kept shepherd on saturday, thank god! we were left our house at 9:30 and didn't get home until 9 on saturday night. it was such a long day. shepherd went with us on sunday, we didn't have to be down there until 12.

I am always amazed at the drive that kane has to play sports. it takes so much physically, and mentally. he works so hard, and is so serious during the game. i love nothing more than to see him get someone out at the plate, or slide into home.

i made it!

i made it 18 days without my husband! casey is home! well, he isn't home at this very second, but he is back in arkansas. i picked him up at xna at 1:30 this afternoon. he rode the bus route with me to pick up all the kids and now is with eleanor at her fiddle lesson.
eleanor has been taking fiddle lessons for almost a year now. she has her second recital coming up this weekend. casey most always takes eleanor to fiddle and practices with her. while he was away pop filled in, but she didn't get much practice in. she doesn't think that i know what i am talking about when it comes to how she should play.
we have a pancake breakfast on saturday at applebee's in rogers from 8-10 to raise money for kane's baseball team. anyone that wants to come $5 a plate, all you can eat. casey and kane will be there the entire time serving. this is our last free weekend before the baseball tournaments start. between now and july 4th we have only easter weekend off. i should take bets now as to how many hot dogs we will consume while we spend every weekend this summer at the ball park. did i mention that eleanor is playing softball too.

over the next week i will try to post some pictures of casey's travels.

not a week can go by....

only 3 nights

i only have 3 more nights to sleep alone. casey will be coming home thursday! it is hard to believe that it has been 14 days since he left. let me rephrase that, it is hard to believe that i have made it 14 days with him gone. we are on the home stretch now!
everyone at my house is feeling better. we all had a good weekend, the weather helped alot!
kane went on an over night trip with his youth group at fellowship bible church to the new life ranch in colcord, Oklahoma. this was the first over night church trip for him. he had a great time! unfortunately he didn't use his camera at all! i even sent a disposable with a zoom! one of his good friends, matthew mauby(not sure if i spelled that right), went too. i think that helped kanes decision to go. Matthew is a really nice kid. im happy for kane to want to go to church things like that. and im glad that he has a friend that goes too. kane was at the ranch from saturday at 9am until sunday at 230pm.
while kane was gone eleanor and i spent the day together. we went to different strokes and painted pottery. it was nice to have some time one on one with her. after we went to different strokes eleanor went to the razorback basketball game with jim. she loved that, it was a great excuse to wear her razorback cheer leading outfit!