Easter Day

Easter Morning we travled down to PB to celebrate with the Coyle side of the family. We always have a great time and I'm so thankful that Kennedy and Caleb have so many cousins to celebrate with!!

 

 

 

 

 

Easter Morning

 

 

 

 

 

Disney Reveal

Dave and I talked for months about how we wanted to celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary coming up this July. We wanted to take a special trip, but really didn't want to leave the kids for more than a few days at this stage in our lives. We finally decided to go to Disney World and all celebrate as a family!!! We debated how, if, and when to share this news with the kids. We wanted to surprise them and settled on telling them a few weeks out from our departure. Dave researched, like he does everything :), and found a cute idea of placing a package with Disney goodies on the front porch for them to open, revealing the surprise. Their reaction was so joyful that it brought Dave and I to tears, nothing like seeing your babies so excited!!! It was pandemonium when it finally registered with them where we were going and I don't know who is more excited, me or them :)

 

 

 

 

 

Easter Weekend

What a fun and busy weekend we had celebrating the death and resurrection of our Saviour!!! We started the weekend off with Good Friday Service at FBC and continue to see Kennedy grow in her understanding of Jesus and what he did for us that day on the cross. She learned John 3:16 a few weeks ago and has been reciting it for us spontaneously :) She even recognized it on the screen at church on Good Friday and starting saying it for us :) Makes a mommy so proud!!! Nothing better than to see my baby learning about the Lord!!! Saturday morning Kennedy went on special date with her Peeps to MiMi's Cafe and Disney on Ice, she loved it and could not stop talking about all the princesses and this made me so excited to share with her where we are going in a few short weeks, but that's a post of it's own. We then had our 1st MM neighborhood egg hunt and finished off the night with Saturday night service at church, which was an amazing service on stepping through the door of hope in Jesus, without Him we are nothing and a reminder of how much we need Him in every facet of our lives. I'm so thankful for the amazing teaching we receive each week and this week was no different!

 

 

 

 

 

Camille's Back

Kennedy and Camille met when they were in the womb in a water aerobics class for preggo mommies to be!! They were great friends from the start and K was very sad when Camille moved away when they were a little over two years old, but they are back in Arkansas and we are all so very happy!!! Welcome back to Hog Country and the south, WPS!!!

 

 

Community Group Easter Party

Love this group of people, love living life with them, love what the Lord is doing with and through each family in our group. Looking forward to what the next few years bring!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Roughin It

I took the kids down to meet my dad's family for a short camping trip on Wednesday-Friday of spring break. Dave was not able to take off work for the trip, so the kids and I decided to brave it and make the nearly three hour trek to Dierks, AR. on our own!! If you've never heard of it, which I'm sure most have not, it is in southwest, AR in the sticks!!! I thought we would never arrive and thought I must be lost more than a couple of times on my journey. In my anxiousness to arrive, I was going 51 in a 35 speed zone in a little town outside of Nashville and got pulled over!! I truly thought the speed limit was 45, so in my mind I was only 6 miles over, in reality I was 16 miles over!!! I was so thankful that the officer only gave me a warning. Of course, Kennedy thought it made for a good story that mommy got pulled over by the police, good lesson in slowing down!!! The officer followed me to the next small town like twenty miles away, which made me so nervous, it is very hard to make your car go 30 miles an hour on highway, but I did and we made it to Dierks with no other news worthy for Kennedy to tell!!! The kids love the outdoors and were thrilled to arrive to fish with their Papaw Ricky, Uncle Colby, cousins, aunts, and uncles. Caleb had been waiting to open his spider man fishing pole since I brought it home from the store a week ago. The time had finally come and he went right to fishing, with no hook of course. He didn't seem to notice that he caught the same red (plastic) fish all weekend. Kennedy loves to fish as well, and even caught five real fish with her Papaw. I don't know who was more proud, Kennedy or Papaw!! This was my families first trip without Grandpa Dave and his absence was tough, we all miss him so very much!!! My grandmother wasn't sure she would go back to the lake when he passed away back in August, but I'm so glad she decided to carry on the tradition and go even though I know how hard it was for her to be there without her husband of 58 years. This is the second year I've taken my kids to join The Donaldson Family in their annual fishing trip and I'm so glad I did. Little did I know, our first time to go last year would be my grandfathers last, made this trip even sweeter knowing memories with family that we don't see near enough are so very important!!!

 

 

 

 

Heifer Village

We took the kids to Heifer Village here in Little Rock today for free family Saturday!! We've gone in the past and the kids always have a great time petting the animals, making crafts, and exploring the hands-on exhibits about ending world hunger!!! Heifer is such a great organization and I'm so proud that it is right here in our city!! If you've never taken the kiddos, it is a must do to teach them about poverty and world hunger that us Americans so often forget about. Heifer's mission is to end hunger, poverty and care for the earth by giving families a hand-up, not just a hand-out empowering them for a lifetime!!! You can buy a family an animal in another country which turns into a sustainable income and nutriton and they pay it forward by passing on the offspring of their livestock to another family in need!! What a great organization!! I'm thinking about having Kennedy's next birthday party guests bring a donation toward purchasing an animal for a family, she has picked a goat, which produces milk, yougurt, cheese, etc!! I love that we have this in our backyard to teach our kids about giving back and that the world is so much bigger than what is right in front of us!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wye Mountain

 

 

 

 

What a beautiful day the Lord has made!!! We made our annual trek out to Wye Mountain this morning to soak up this awesome sunshine!!!! I always envision getting these precious photos of the kids and of course they always have a different plan that does not include stopping for a photo session :) Well, K is all about posing with the flowers and Caleb just loves to run, run, run in this wide open space and explore. I love his sense of adventure and energy, wish I could bottle it and drink some in to help this momma keep up!!! We got a few pics, ran, picked flowers and had a picnic lunch with friends. I'm so thankful for the special ladies God has placed in my life during this season to share in days like this!!!