It’s been a full week of baseball, award nights and school days!

We had absolutely GORGEOUS weather at this game! It was so much fun. Parker is so cute to watch – he just runs with a smile the entire game.

Sidelines with these two. I fed Parker dinner before the game and packed it for the other two. A certain little miss sits a lot better for the games if she’s constantly snacking. 😉

Cubbies Award Night!! Parker was SO excited! They had a pizza party and handed out the awards. I can’t believe the Awana year is already done.

Another day, another baseball game. It was FREEZING on this morning. Everyone in the stands was just piling on all the layers we could find.

Hanging out on the sidelines. She was only content in the chair for about half of the game.

The stands were cracking up the third base coach in this game. Ha! Maybe the laughing kept him a little warmer. 😉

Someone discovered the Boxcar Children this week and he’s just been obsessed. I seriously was tearing up – I’m SO thankful that he’s come far enough in his reading that he can enjoy the bigger kid books!

It’s been a crazy week around here!

The other two went on an errand with Jon on Sunday afternoon, so Parker and I played a few board games together. Parker is all about games. And one-on-one time.

We had pancakes for dinner and Eisley managed to get syrup everywhere. I was laughing so hard at this – I looked over and she was just amazed at how her hands stuck to her cheeks. Ha!

Why does he look so old?? I go in to check on the kids every night before I go to bed and he just looked so terribly old to me. Such a blessing to have healthy kids growing up but I wish it wasn’t so fast.

The weather was gorgeous so I told them they could playing with the water sprayers in the backyard. Oy. So ready for the work to be done so we can enjoy it instead of only seeing what needs to be done!

Maila got fixed this week. Jon dropped her off on his way to work, so Parker came downstairs to tell her goodbye before she left. These two are buds.

Poor dog. She was so sad that night. She slept good, though, which was a huge blessing!! Probably thanks to Eisley playing her a song on the kazoo. 😉

Seriously, these two are just good friends. Maila adores Parker and Parker ADORES Maila.

Eisley loves Maila with all of her heart but Maila’s thoughts toward Eisley are a little more about tolerating her and not as much about loving her back. Ha! Someday Eisley will hopefully have a little more gentleness and then Maila’s thoughts might change. 😉

Parker’s first baseball game was absolutely the most beautiful day we had had so far this year!

He did so well! He was so cute – we had the best time that day. He ran every base with the biggest possible smile on his face!

Gammy, Pops and Aunt Cayce came to cheer him on too! So much fun – he was so happy!

T-ball is the best. Just saying. 😉

Everything is starting to wrap up for the year around here! April is always this weird mix of really nice and really HORRIBLY windy days in Albuquerque. We all start to get anxious for the warm, non-windy summer. Not to mention, in the summer, Jon only has one job. Always a plus. 😉

In Awana, Parker’s Cubbies’ student teacher has just been fantastic! She got him a little matchbox car for his birthday and he worked so hard to write his name on the card for her. I was so proud of him! He’s been trying so hard to be big and do school everyday. We started going through the learning to read book and he’s just doing amazing.

Must be spring. 😉 T-ball practice is officially underway.

This kid. He’s either extraordinarily happy or extraordinarily not. 😉 This ninja spoon came in a kid’s meal on one of our road trips last summer and its still one of his most favorite things in the whole world. The kids always teach me a lot about having joy in the simple things.

Someone asked how homeschooling was going the other day and I told them that we were just limping along to the end of the school year. 😉 The kids are doing well – it’s more that we are just running out of things to do! Nathan will probably finish up math and science by the first week of May. He’s doing fantastic. I’ve been having him do some pretty tough reading comprehension packets on top of his other work and he’s just been rocking it. We started this year at the beginning of first grade and I think he’s probably at a second grade graduate level now. He will have completed two years of math by the end of this school year! I’m so proud of the kids – they have all done so well this year! I started the year terrified of homeschooling and I’m ending it thinking we’ll probably never do anything else. 😉 The sign of a great year!

Easter is one of my favorite times of the whole year. A few years ago, we started doing a Passover dinner with the kids on Good Friday and it’s become such a fun tradition. This year, we were all exhausted on Friday from our week in the yard, so we decided to do our Passover meal on Saturday instead.

We never have red juice (EVER), so the kids were guzzling the cranberry-grape juice like crazy. Love the tradition of this meal! Love watching the kids connect the dots from the Old Testament to the New Testament.

Easter morning, we almost always go to the sunrise service at the football stadium. I grew up going to this every Easter and now it just feels like that’s what Easter is supposed to be like. Love this of Nathan and Pops! This service always means so much to me. Five years ago, right before we left to go to the sunrise service, I found out our second IUI was unsuccessful and I spent the entire service crying on my friend Leigh Ann’s shoulder. Every year since, I get teary at how much God has given us – we are so blessed.

We went to Ihop after the service for breakfast and then headed home for naps!

Our three biggest blessings all dressed up for Easter after a good nap.

Checking out the rings that were in her Easter basket. She’s become very obsessed with accessories. 😉

The boys got those little acrobats that flip down windows in their baskets and they were dying over them. Naturally, this turned into a race. Jon was getting all into it as well. So fun!

Then it was time to hunt for eggs at Gammy and Pops’ house. We kept this year a little more chill than years past – it was good.

They had the best time!

Love this one.

Pretty dress, pretty shoes, pretty bracelets, carrying a pretty basket and getting to hunt for chocolate? I think Eisley’s favorite holiday is officially Easter. 😉

Happy Easter everyone!!