Emma's Easter Party!

Emma's class had their Easter party this afternoon (a little earlier because they have a field trip on Wednesday and no school on Friday)! So fun to see how much she and her classmates have grown this past year...cannot believe they will be starting Kindergarten in the fall!!

Just a couple projects...

Well I think I've finally come to the realization that Patrick and I cannot sit still, we've always got to have a couple projects going on...but hey, I guess there will be a time and a place to sit still, just not right now! Here are a couple of Patrick's backyard projects that he has been working on. The playhouse is still a work in progress, the roof needs shingles and the house needs to be trimmed out and stained...but at least the kids can play in it now! The picnic table was a little afternoon project (actually he built it in a half hour) and he has made three more since then for a couple friends! It's the perfect size for the kids and now they beg to eat outside for every meal!

Just for fun...

Just for fun we took the camera to the FW Botanical Gardens this Sunday and with help of the tripod and camera remote snapped a few pics of the family!

Dinos at the FW Zoo!

The FW Zoo has dinosaurs on exhibit they had an early opening this morning for Zoo members...Dinos & Donuts. Vanessa and Gregory joined us and the kids had a great time checking out all the very real looking dinosaurs!

what a weekend...

This is our last weekend without Collinger (we pick her up on Tuesday :) so we had planned a weekend full of lots of work in the yard and lots of work on the new playhouse, and we spent most of Saturday doing just that...but Saturday night Bryan gave us the scare of our lives so plans quickly changed. We were getting ready to leave the house after dinner Saturday night and we told the kids to go get their shoes. Bryan had just walked into his room when he heard a loud crashing sound...we ran into his room to find his chest of drawers had fallen face forward on the ground and Bryan was standing next to it and escaped with only a "booboo" on his finger. We are still not sure what caused it to fall, Bryan has never tried to climb up it, or any other furniture for that matter, and he wasn't in his room long enough to have pulled all the drawers open to make it top heavy. We have every other shelf, cabinet, etc. in the house bolted to the wall but for some reason we never got around to the chest of drawers in the kid's rooms and they are solid oak so one wouldn't think it would easily tip over. So scary because it easily could have killed or severly injured Bryan had it fallen on top of him...and we are still not sure how he got out of the way. But needless to say his chest of drawers and Emma's were moved out of the house Saturday night and I refuse to put one back in their rooms. So Patrick and his handy carpentry to the rescue...he transformed the kid's closest so that there wouldn't be a need for a chest or drawers or dresser in their room. So if you are reading this and have young kids, please secure your furniture!!!

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