Part III: Lunch with Pappaw

After church we went to the Tin Top to meet Dad and Alye for lunch.  Lunch was great- the food, yes, but mostly the company!

:) Love to see how much the 3 of us look alike :)

Easter Part II: The Hunt

Just so you know I have pictures of the baskets, but I am not posting them because Tucker got so much more stuff than Talon and Alye and Cameron made me feel bad about it the night before ;).  Tucker got way too much, from now on my rule is it has to fit in the basket.  It seriously looked like Christmas morning.

Checking out the goods...my favorite part about this picture is Alye in the background. 

Cameron's smile is weird in this picture...but look how much Talon is loving his first Easter!

Tucker refused to carry his basket.

The Easter Bunny hid like 40 eggs.  A little much if you ask me, but I'm not the Easter Bunny.

This basket was mine, so it's special, but I think I'm going to get them new ones for next year.

Easter Part I: The Eggs

Super Bunny and Super Egg hard at work

LOTS of different colors to choose from ;)

Such a fun time, brings back lots of memories!

I don't know how any of these eggs survived!

Such a sweet "LiLee"

April 27, 2011

This will be a day that we will never forget.  And so will the next day.  The day after the storm I went down to "ground zero" to help salvage whatever possible in what is left of the building that housed Patton Realty.  I had to park in the employee parking lot at DCH and walk down to McFarland Blvd.  It took a little sneaking to get through, but I really don't know that any one could have stopped me.  I, like many other people, needed to be there.  I needed to help, I needed to see the damage with my own two eyes, and I did.  And what I saw will be burned in my memory forever.  I am so thankful that none of the people I love were hurt in the storm, but my heart literally breaks for those that were.  Mommas and Daddies and babies, gone.  Right now it feels like we'll never move on from here, but I know God has a plan in all this.  I already experienced part of that plan in the days following the storm.  The number of people doing whatever they could to help in any way possible is absolutely amazing.  I don't know how to explain the feeling of being in Wal-Mart surrounded by people that have buggies full of supplies, discussing all the things these people are going to need and asking each other the best ways to help.   To go to church the next day and see the gym packed full of relief supplies and people to sort and distribute those supllies, is a wonderful thing to be a part of.  God is good all the time.  

Bath Time

Tucker really likes it when Talon takes a bath with him.  He likes to help me bathe him.  And Talon seems to like taking baths with Tucker, too!  It's so nice to have a baby that doesn't scream every time I put him in the water.  It is so funny, almost every thing about Talon is opposite of Tucker.

Already loving Big Brother and watching his every move

He thinks he is so funny :)

3 Months

Talon turned three months old last Thursday.  He is definitely becoming more animated and alert, which makes him much more fun for Tucker to play with!  He laughed for the first time (at LeLe, of course!) about 3 weeks ago.  He is so ticklish, so we love to tickle him and try to make him laugh!  He is eating anywhere between 4 and 6 ounces every 3-4 hours and has started getting up twice a night again. (boo)  His eyes are still blue and his hair is still brown.  

Tucker loves to try to make him smile or laugh.

Look at those lips. :)

ALL b.o.y.

If you know me, you know that I am 100% girl.  I do not like bugs, I do not like to sweat, I do not touch reptiles, I will fish, but I will not bait my own hook (you get the idea).  Which makes it so ironic (God has a great sense of humor, you know) that I have 2 boys.  And while we don't yet know how the younger of the two will turn out, we know that the older one is 150% boy.  And since it is now warm outside he is having lots of fun doing all things "boy."

No, he did not catch all these himself, but he did catch his first fish all by himself two weeks ago!

This is "Lizard Taft," named after his cousins.

He would ride his bicycle all day every day if we would let him.

Even though I'm not ready to catch a lizard and I screamed and ran and hid in the other room when a HUGE green moth flew in our house the other night, I am totally ready to embrace this "boy thing."  I guess I don't really have a choice at this point, huh?!