The Result of Too Much Sugar from the Spring Carnival

After we come home from the Carnival, I say to the boys, let's change our clothes and cuddle up and watch a movie together. So I figure that's what they'll do. I go to change my clothes, come into the living room only to see that Carter and Graham have been kidnapped by

SpideyPirateCowboyDude

and CrusaderGrannyFireman.

I'm not joking. You can't make this stuff up.

CMS Spring Carnival or A Younger Brother's Dream

So it's like 40 degrees and drizzling this afternoon and we're supposed to go to the Creative Montessori Spring Carnival and I am thinking I would rather have a root canal, so I try to bribe the boys to go home and curl up and watch one of our gazillion Disney DVD's but to no avail. I finally give in to their pleading (it's a fundraiser for the school after all) and we pull up to the school. After a turn in the giant tiger bouncy thing and a few trips round the cakewalk, Graham spots the pie in the face booth. It doesn't take him long to talk Carter into playing and here it goes...

READY...

AIM...

FIRE...

BULLSEYE!!!

He's got a bright future as a goalie...

Graham and his teammate Blythe spent much of last week's game tending the goal like this.

I swear.

I think Graham is better at offense.

Happy Easter!

Even though it feels more like Christmas weather here in Alabama, Happy Easter!

I keep waiting on our family easter picture to post but it hasn't been emailed to us yet, so here are some shots of the egg hunt at Brother Bryan Park. As you can see Peter Rabbit paid us a visit.

And Graham found the golden egg - oh joy!

Beach Blues

We got back a week ago yesterday from what Reggie and I have said was the best beach trip we've taken in a very long time. Our good friend Pride invited us to her home at Fort Morgan Beach near Gulf Shores with four other families. We were excited but a little nervous about how so many people would live together for a week. In the middle of the week, I think there were nine adults and nine children. But it was GLORIOUS! The kids got along (for the most part) and the adults had a ball together. We're hoping to make it a spring break tradition.

Carter enjoys the wind by the beach.

Graham in a relatively quiet moment at sunset.

The kids (and us) had fun with old friends. Here's Carter with his lifelong friend Virginia.

And here's Graham with one of his best new buddies, Richard.

As soon as Betty puts all her good pictures of snapfish, I'll have more to show you! Hint, hint...