Trying to sell our house is a lot of work!

We've had our house on the market for 3 months now and we are starting to get frustrated. We want it to sell like yesterday! I'm really just getting tired of having to keep it clean with two small boys constantly coming behind me and messing it up again. Over the weekend there were some pretty bad storms that came through and wrecked havoc on our yard so Sunday we knew we would have to get out and clean it up. Well, Sunday morning when we got up we saw that one of our huge hickory trees had snapped and fallen onto two other trees. If those trees wouldn't have been there it would have hit the house for sure. At first we were thankful but now that we found out the insurance company won't cover it unless it had hit the house we are a bit disappointed. We really don't have $500 to remove the tree right now. So we are waiting to see how God will provide for us! He is our provider afterall.
Now the bright side of all this cleaning and yardwork: great photo opportunities! Enjoy!

2010 Easter Fun!

Easter is such a fun holiday. Ryan is starting to remember past holidays much more vividly. He knows that I've been reusing his Easter basket each year so I had to say the Easter bunny fills his basket when he gets to our house. Oh, the deception. Why do we do this to our kids?

We also had an Easter party at our Sunday School teacher's house and it was such a great time. They live a little out of town on a gorgeous property next to a field with cows. Aiden particularly loved the cows. As we were sitting having a picnic Scott and I were just commenting on how gorgeous everything was. Since we've been trying to sell our house Ryan has overheard us talking a lot about different properties we might buy, so I think he thought that's what were doing here, because the next thing he said was "this is a great place. It has a big play set and we could put our pool right there in the middle..." He pointed to the front lawn and I think he was ready to move right in! Scott and I laughed and just agreed that it would be a great place to live but we were just visiting.

Coloring Easter Eggs with friends

Coloring and hiding eggs is so much more fun with friends. It's a bit hard sometimes to pack everything up to go to a park especially when you are trying to fit in nap times and friend's nap times so we just invited our friends to our house and had a picnic in the back yard after coloring eggs. We finished the day off with an egg hunt. Lots of fun!

Ryan's prayer time

Ryan's prayers always bless my heart. I know God smiles. Tonight he prayed the following:
"Lord, we love all the people in the world, especially those who don't know God and the Bible. And God, when I grow up I might become a missionary. Amen." So I told him that was a wonderful thing to pray and I asked him if he knew what a missionary is. He said, "it's someone who tells people about God and that he loves them." I said "That's right, and that would be a wonderful thing to be when you grow up." He said, yeah, or I could be a Karate Ninja!

I did all I could to not laugh. I just kissed him and said "I love you and good night."

Daddy's 38th birthday on April 1---and that's no joke!

Everyone likes licking the beaters and bowl!

We made cupcakes this year so we would only have to use one candle. 38 candles might have been reason to call the fire department!