Easter time

I love Easter and I love having my parents in town. They were here for Easter weekend, and we had a ball with them. Mom has always wanted to go to the Dallas Arboritum, and we finally made the trip out on Saturday - what an amazing place! Donny had given the boys a pep talk: "Now, boys, your Nonny is very excited to see all the flowers, so you need to be sweet and let Mom take lots of pictures of you in the flowers and tell Nonny how much you love being there, k?" They obeyed nicely, except I don't think they even needed the pep talk - they had a great time and so did we all! That place really is just breathtakingly beautiful, and they had neat displays, craft tables, rodeo stick horse races, etc. for the kids. Beautiful weather, beautiful scenery, just really nice. Here's a couple of my favorite pics from our outing:

Then we went to the Head farm for their big family gathering on Sunday. This was our second time to join them, and it was great! They bring oodles of Easter eggs to hide, lots of side dishes, and prizes for the egg hunters, and the Heads provide fried chicken and the rest of the stuff. My favorite thing from the day was the cute little baby chicks that the Heads bought from the local feed store . . .that were dyed for Easter!!!! Hysterical!!! Brady had to keep going back to check on the baby chicks over and over - he was pretty impressed with them. I was, too!!! Good news - these chicks will not be the laughing stock of the chicken coop for long - they loose their baby down and get feathers that will NOT be the current color.

Warm "Mommy moments" from the day: Tyler woke up, greeted us, and after we said, "Happy Easter!", he replied with "That's right, and Jesus has risen!" Later that day, it was Colby's turn to pick a prize from the prize table at the egg hunt. He immediately reached for a cute little pink sparkly stuffed bunny, and just as his parents started to wonder about our little boy, he walked over to his baby cousin, Annie, and handed it to her. What kind of sweet boy picks out a prize just to give to his baby cousin?? What a man that one is on the road to becoming. Love him. And Papa Head made sure he got another trip to the prize table where he picked out a mean t-rex dinosaur (making his daddy feel a little better!he!)

This tired Mama is headed to bed. Just wanted to write down my thoughts before they flitted away in my short term memory! Jesus is SO good, and SO alive and active today. Where would I be without Him? Love Him. God is good.