Easter And More....

Honestly, part of the reason I have not posted pictures of the Princess in her Easter dress is because I am going to take more. She is just all over the place these days and I did not think I got any that were really that great. I thought I would have taken more by now but we have just been busy....so here are a few that turned out "ok".

 It is very hard to get a picture of her sitting or standing still.  I took these before church and hubby was at church already (he was there at 5:00 AM setting up for Sunrise Service).  The Princess and I chose to go to the 9:00 service.  We had 4 services plus the Sunrise Service...and some of those hours there were services going on in the other two venues also.

 As you can tell in the picture above and the one below she was done with the bow....the one below we took after lunch - that is hubby in the picture with her.

 After nap time she got to see what was in her Easter basket..the hat she has on was in her basket...SHE LOVES, LOVES, LOVES hats and caps!!!

 After nap time we went to put new flowers out for Kate at the cemetery.

 The Princess decided to take my tool box (I keep everything in this box I need while at the cemetery to do the flowers) and put it on the marker with her...I could never get her to look at the camera - just the tool box and the ground:).

 Monday we had a playdate!  I did not take a picture though:(.  Most of the Princesses playdates are with little boys but this time we had a playdate with a little girl in her Sunday School class.  It was so much fun....I think I had as much fun if not more than her.  They invited us over to their house - so we went over and played until lunch time!  It was so much fun!!!!  I am looking forward to more playdates with her little friend "L" and her mom.

Monday night I did not get a picture but we had a firetruck at our house - our downstairs carbon monoxide detector started going off.  I did not know what to do...it was sooo loud.  I got the Princess, put Sadie on a least, grabbed my purse and we were walking to our neighbors house around the corner but thankfully our neighbors next door just happen to be outside and took the Princess and Sadie while I was in the house with the firemen.  Hubby was on a plane so I could not even tell him what was going on until he landed!  Everything turned out fine...the firemen did not detect any carbon monoxide - we had power surges the day before so they said that could be what happened. 

Hope you are all having a great Thursday.  Who all is watching the wedding in the morning??  I am looking forward to watching it....even if it is early:).

Good Friday & Saturday

Friday was Good Friday! I hope each person reflected over the weekend of what Easter really is all about. It is not about the eggs and the bunny rabbits that is for sure but about our Lord Jesus Christ and that he died for us and He rose again!!  We sang a song Friday night at Good Friday service that I love....now it is another one of my favorite songs:)

The chorus to the song You Humble Me says:

"I fall on my face

completely undone

confounded by grace, astounded by love

a love so amazing, love so divine

taking my place on a cross that was mine."

And then one of the lines in the song says "How can it be with your final breath You gave me life".   I know that Jesus died for our sins but something about that line in this song really makes you think (or makes me think).  Love, love, love this song!  I can not find who sings this song or who wrote this song to give them credit.  If you know who wrote it or sings it I would love for you to leave a comment and let me know!!!

I took a few pictures of the Princess before we went to church on Friday night.  As you can tell in the picture her dress is long. I think long dresses on little girls are so cute but she must have had trouble playing in it Friday night while in the nursery because when I picked her up one of her teachers told me I really needed to cut her dress off...I feel bad that she was having trouble playing in it...but she looked cute I thought!!!  The picture above is also from Friday night.

Saturday we got up and headed to a local grocery store that had an egg hunt!  I think the princess really had fun at it.  There was a bunny there and she was not scared of him at all.  I got this picture...I should have had hubby hold her so I could have gotten a closer picture but at least I have a picture!!

After the egg hunt...E with her eggs and basket!

And me playing around with the picture:).

 Egg Hunt #2

After we finished the first little egg hunt we met some friends at one of the big egg hunts in our town.

The Princess at the Ring Toss

Before the big egg hunt!

After the hunt!

Can you tell that one of my friends that was there with us was helping the Princess get eggs in her basket! The sad thing was that a few minutes later there were ants all in her basket!    OK, I have got to go to bed....I will try and blog tomorrow about Sunday and Monday....then I can also explain why in the world I am still up this late!

Pure Sweetness...

Sweeter than the sweetest glass of southern sweet tea!!

And if you have had my sweet tea you know that is REALLY sweet...I just love this little girl to pieces...I love her to the moon and back.....she is the sweetest thing in the world:)

A challenge and pictures

A friend of mine on FB recently posted a link to a blog on her FB page. I went over and read the link and was like, wow, I want to do this. So here is the blog I read. I wish I had seen this in early March and could have already been done with my Spring Cleaning! 40 bags in 40 days. 

I decided I wanted to do this, so starting TOMORROW, Monday, April 18th I will begin working on my Spring Cleaning - one bag at a time. 40 days later will be Friday, May 27th and I will have cleaned out 40 bags worth of stuff! I am so excited about doing this!!  Starting tomorrow and over the next 40 days I will be cleaning and donating and throwing things away! I will start my list tonight and post that hopefully tomorrow but I can already tell you I am probably going to start in my closet and a closet upstairs....I want to clean out all the old clothes first!!

If anyone would like to join me in the challenge let me know!!

So, I was looking through some of the Princesses blue bonnet pictures and decided to play with this one last night and see what changes I could make to it. Ok, there were no bluebonnets in this picture but it was taken the same day.  If you recall from a previous post she was not wanting to smile at the camera that much for us but I think we got some good ones of her anyway!

The first one is the original.

Friday

***If you are wondering why I have decided to start putting a watermark on my pictures it is because there is a blog I read that has had some pictures stolen from her blog. Anyway, I think I use to watermark my pictures and then just got lazy and did not take time to do it when I posted on the blog. Grandparents, I sent you all an email about me doing this. Check your inboxes:)!!!***

What a fun day it has been. The Princess and I had lunch with our friend Gretchen today. While we were talking at lunch we decided that maybe we could all have dinner tonight. It ended up working out we could so we went to a new Brazilian restaurant that I have been wanting to try and it was great! Gretchen's kids even joined us tonight...it is not often their kids go out to dinner with us and if they do it is usually only one of them. So we enjoyed getting to see both of them tonight also. After dinner we all seven headed over to a hunting/fishing store and tried to walk off a few of the calories that we had just eaten.

Not alot of other things going on today. I did take pictures with Hubby's phone tonight but he is already in bed so I will have to get him to send me those pictures tomorrow.

I did enjoy a nice run on the treadmill this morning. I am really hoping my knee gets better soon. I think I will take a break on running until next week. I have been doing really good this week with my working out and running. After running my first 5K last month I took a few weeks off from running and really kind of missed it! That REALLY, REALLY, REALLY surprises me. I never thought I would enjoy it that much. I am hoping that it will help with my weight loss too.

So I have been playing around with some different actions in Photoshop Elements. It is fun to see how you can change your pictures up. Here is a picture of the Princess that I took of her playing and a few ways I changed it up!  Ok, I think the second one was actually the original picture without any changes.

A Change

Tonight I decided to change my blog. For quite some time now I have been wanting to create my own blog header rather than use the ones I download. I know it is not perfect and there are a few more things I want to try and do to finish my new "blog makeover".   I may change the pictures out but these were a few of the pictures the Princess smiled in when we did bluebonnet pictures this weekend. I took over 750 pictures in the bluebonnets if I am not mistaken. Hubby, the Princess and I went out and took pictures Saturday morning and I took over 400 of her. Then Sunday afternoon we went back out with some friends and I took over 300 more and our friends took alot as well. I am slowly converting them all over to jpg files because I shoot all my pictures in RAW format.

Right now I have a ton of pictures of convert and edit. Saturday night we went to a 40th birthday party for a friend and I was the "official party photographer". I took over 300 pictures that night that I have to hurry and get on a disk because I am sure they would like to see all the pictures.

I have gotten really behind on blogging but have lots of cute pictures of the Princess to post. She is growing up so fast and quickly turning into a little girl and not so much a baby anymore. She is always doing the cutest things and making us laugh. I just love her to pieces!!

Her vocabulary is getting larger all the time. Sometimes she will be babbling away and I will stop and think did she just say......I think she is slowly starting to put several words together or that is what it sounds like to me. I may be the only person that understands some of the things but she is quite the little talker sometimes.

Right now she is loving wearing her sunglasses. Last week we were eating lunch with a friend and she would not take them off. She ate her lunch in her sunglasses inside a restaurant. Then one day this week we were at the grocery store and again she wanted them on so we did most of our grocery shopping with her wearing her sunglasses. There is so much to catch up on but it is almost 2am and I really need to go to bed so I can get up early in the morning...or I guess that would now be this morning.

I will leave you with a picture in her sunglasses!

Fruits & Veggies

So, I found out we have a co-op in our area. I know several people that participate in it and decided to try it out. I went this morning and picked up my basket. It was very cold!! What happened to the nice warm weather we have been having?

You do not know what you are going to get before you get there. So, today in the fruit basket there were 3 mango's, 6 bananas, 5 apples, 4 grapefruit, 1 kiwi and 1 pineapple. In the vegetable basket there was 1 head leafy green lettuce, 1 head of cauliflower, broccoli, 3 turnips, 1 cucumber, cauliflower and celery. Now, I don't eat turnips and I think even if I tried to make a really cool turnip recipe my hubby would not eat it so my turnips will be going to a friend. There was also an add on this week and I got a case of pineapple that I will be splitting with two friends. So, I am really excited about this. And the great thing is they sometimes have organic!!! All the produce is grown from local farmers as much as possible...of course some of these things are not grown in our area. All of this was only $16.50. I think that is great!!! There is a first time charge of $3 but you only have to pay that once. So, I guess all of this was really $19.50 this time.

It was a really fun morning. There were several girls from my MOPS group there and most of us showed up a little early so we just chatted (and froze) while we were waiting!!