Easter 2014

Dying Easter eggs is always lots of fun!  Little Miss Independent did most all of the work this year and made some beautiful colored eggs and completed them with Easter stickers!  Such artwork!

Addison had her Easter party at school on Good Friday.  Toward the end of the day, parents were invited to come and watch the hunt for Easter eggs outside.  It was so fun to see her interacting with all of her little friends at school!  The Easter Bunny himself even showed up!

Lyndi and Randy had their annual Easter Egg Hunt at their house.  As always, it was lots of fun and the kids had fun hunting for over 500 candy-filled eggs!

Easter morning came and Addi was so excited once she woke up and realized that it was Easter.  We spent about an hour sitting in her room going through her Easter basket!  So fun!

We went to church with the Vahle's and then had a wonderful Easter lunch at my sister's with all of our family.  That evening we had Easter dinner at Craig's mom's house.

It was a wonderful Easter.

Kyle Randel!

I have a precious new nephew!!!  Kyle Randel Mastin was born on Tuesday, April 15th.  He weighed 8 lbs and 6 ozs and looks so much like his big brother Connor!!  We are so thankful that he is here and healthy!

As you can tell, the kids adore him and just can't get enough!

Great Weekend!

The weather this past weekend was perfect in every way.  We tried to spend as much time outside as we possibly could!  We took walks, rode bikes with friends, played with cousins, and did lots of yard work and got lots of new landscaping bushes planted.

There is a little girl who lives two houses down from us named Abby who has become a dear friend of Addi’s—they are only a few months apart in age.  It’s so cute to see them riding bikes and playing together.   Abby has a motorized Escalade and they cruised around in that for a while—it was funny thinking that in 13-14 years, the could be cruising around together for real!  YIKES!

Stitches!

It was a Thursday night and we were very excited to head over to Rosenwald Elementary to watch the 5th graders perform a play of "Annie" which was student-directed by Austin.  Addison loves the movie Annie and so she was very excited--we even took Katie Belle with us to watch.

As we were walking up the stairs of the bleachers to take our seats, it happened.  Somehow Addi missed a step and went head first into the corner of one of the steps.  It was bad.  Blood everywhere.

Anyone who knows me well, knows that I am not the best person to have around in an emergency and for me to see my baby with blood streaming down her face was not good.

We get her cleaned up and she is insistent that we stay to watch the play even though we knew that we really needed to get her to the ER for stitches.  After talking to several people there at the school, we agree that the stitches can wait an hour so that we can watch the play that the kids and Austin have worked so hard on. 

Just a few minutes into the show though, Addi starts crying again and is begging us to go home.  The real problem was anxiety over knowing that once we left the play that we would be going for stitches.  After shushing her several times, we decided that we just needed to go.  We loaded up, dropped Katie Belle off, and I called UTC to see if they did stitches.  We decided that we didn't want to deal with the all-night-adventure or the expense of the ER if we could prevent it.  The UTC told us to come on and so we did.

I'm so glad that we chose UTC, because they were WONDERFUL.  Addi got 4 stitches and did great once the shots in the head were over.  She laid there very still while getting her UK BLUE stitches and was so proud!

She was so worn out and the shots made her so tired that she actually fell asleep while getting the stitches--sweet baby!

The doctor told us to come back in 5 days to get the stitches out so she went back on April Fool's Day to get them removed and she did great!  Such a brave girl!

She should be good as new!  It is healing great and we will continue to keep Vitamin E on it in hopes that the scar will completely disappear!