Happy Easter!

Well, that was a long break.  Sorry about that.  I tried to cut back on my electronics for Lent, but I'm back now.  Happy Easter!  Let's start at the beginning.

This pic makes Logan look so tall probably because he is!

I told Mars that she looks so much older with her hair up like this.

St. Patrick's Day at school, and these two were looking so much alike I had to take a pic.  

We were trying to get a headshot of this beaut.

Mars is so excited about this dress!  She wants to have a lemonade stand sometime this summer.

Dyeing eggs, but I didn't get a pic of what they looked like after.  Sorry!

My mom got us movie ticket giftcards ages ago, but we hoard them until we find something worth using them on.  A new christian movie came out, so we went to see it.  The tickets were cheap, and we thought the movie theater would be a dive like a dollar theater or something.  Were we wrong!  Each seat was leather and reclined.  There were only two other people in the whole theater!  Unfortunately, the movie wasn't great, but it was still good and we got to get out together.

This one got his hair officially cut instead of me doing it myself.  I think he looks so different without the brooding swoop.

For my birthday we went hiking!  It was a quick short one, but lots of people had been telling us about this particular one and we finally did it.  It was pretty overcast and chilly with the wind blowing, but we braved it.  It was worth it.

This is the view from the overlook.

We missed K'lyn, but she says she'll be coming out here soon to go hiking with me!

A friend sent me these beautiful yellow flowers for my birthday.  They match our dining room colors!

Rory stained, wood-burned, and painted this sign for me.  I'm beyond impressed.  She asked what my favorite quote from the show was so far, and I told her this one because in the episode, Jesus says it so non-chalantly like it's the easiest thing in the world to do.  

Do I need to talk more about The Chosen?  If you haven't seen it, I don't know what you're waiting for.  Season 2 is out, and we're still obsessed.  Come and see.  

Logan loves his Eureka crates!  This is his latest coolest contraption.  

I don't know why this picture separated from the others up top, but this is where I decided to place my new sign.  I love it here because I see it every time I walk in the door.

Happy Easter!

Happenings

 Well, have you been checking out the new bloggers?  Miss Makin' Lemonade and Teen Angst?  Just kidding, The Mind of a Teen Boy?  They're making me look bad with how often they blog, but let's be real, they just want to be on the computer.  ;)  There's been a lot happening here, so I figured I'd catch you up with pictures.

He looks so different here, no?

The kids steal my phone more often than not these days.

They went to the father/daughter dance a couple weeks ago.  They had a good time.  They got there kind of late, so Marz didn't get any Chick-Fil-A nuggets.  She was scorned.

Marz wanted to try to make macarons.  It wasn't a complete success.

The directions said that you should be able to hold the meringue over your head without it falling out.  I'm glad she was the guinea pig.

Alas, they didn't turn out.  We tried.  I'm sure we'll try again later after I've recovered.

The kids got so many Monopoly games for Christmas.  We finally got around to playing Bibleopoly.  It was interesting especially when you had to tell something about the biblical city on the board.  

Again with my phone

On Fat Tuesday when we were trying to eat all the food, someone put a Samoa into the sugar cookie container.  We all thought it was funny and denied doing it.

I can't remember why I took this picture, but it's funny to me.  I'm pretty sure I sent it to Kevin and captioned it with, "Yours."

And taking my phone again

For the macarons, there was a buttercream icing recipe.  For Valentine's Day, Marz made a strawberry cake, and we tried to make homemade buttercream icing.  I heard it was good since I didn't try any.

Do you see what I mean?!?!?

Our friends gave the kids Marvel temporary tattoos.  I saw Marz putting on one, and then I turned around to this!  

And this!

Meanwhile in Relic land...

I made a new corner in my bedroom to pray or sit and talk on the phone.  There was no other place to sit but the bed or the stairs.  That pink pillowcase is from when I was a kid.  I love it!  And the "Nora" blanket my mom got me goes perfectly.

Speaking of the dog, this is me doing my workout on the treadmill.  We were the only two downstairs.  Apparently, Kevin had put one of Relic's beds here for when he was on the treadmill.  

In other news, the kids have been on a kick redoing their rooms.  Rory started it, but I don't have pics of hers yet cuz she's still changing some things.  This is Marz's room before.

This is her room after.  She changed the bed to go up against the wall instead of under the window.  Rory did the same thing, and Logan's thinking about it too.  It just gives the room a more spacious feel.  I'll post pics of Rory's when she's done.

New Bloggers Coming Your Way

 Apparently, my spawn has caught the blogger bug.  They are using their school snow day to create their own blogs.  I'll link them here when they are done.  For now, I'm hoping this will light a fire under my blogging, so I post more.  School was canceled today (YAY!), so the kids are playing in the snow.  I made Logan shovel the driveway with me this morning, and Marz came out to make a snowman.  Here are some things we've been up to.

Since the March for Life was virtual (stupid), we went on a Mini March at a neighboring church.  It was great.  We went to Mass, and then we marched to the courthouse in the middle of town.  Father stood on the corner, and we prayed a Rosary.  Some bystanders were nice about it, others were not.

Taking my glove off to get a pic.

That weekend we went traveling back to our old house because Rory accidentally had some things shipped there.  The guy who bought our old house set them outside for us to pick up.  While we were out, we went to our old neighborhood BK because the kids are convinced no other BK has pink lemonade like our old one.

We've got a daddy/daughter dance coming up this weekend, and the decorators are asking for dads in pics with their daughters as place settings.  Of course, K'lyn won't be going to the dance, so she didn't have to be in the pic.  I tried so hard to get Jesus and Mary photo-bombing in the background.  I did get it in one pic, but Marz was making a face, so I couldn't use that one.  

Here's the snowman Marz made.  His name is Xavier Bert IV.  I don't know where the first three Xavier Berts are, but I've never met them.