Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Easter

We had such a busy weekend over here! It started Friday night with a 7:15 p.m. t-ball game. Saturday morning, we got up and celebrated Easter with Tony's family at 11:00. The kids were asking from the moment they were up when we were having the egg hunt at Grandma and Grandpa's. They carry on this cool tradition Tony's Big D.O. and Mama Genie used to do where they hide eggs for each kid and they have numbers inside and then they get prizes that correspond to the numbers! So fun! I have no pictures of this, but I'm hoping Grandma does and I can get some from her! After the fun, we came home and napped and then off to the ball field again for a 4:00 t-ball game. Clay and Hope, and Aunt Bevo and Emma Julia came to this one and I was the dug-out Mom...so I spent the game in the dug-out getting the kids lined up for batting and helping them get ready to go back in the field. After the game, we played on the playground for a while and had sno-cones...that Ski Bob is a nice guy! After sno-cones there was dinner and then coloring eggs. We wanted to go to the early service at church, but we also knew that if we were going to the early service, it would mean we would need to be extra early to get everyone in, to their places and us to a seat on Easter Sunday. We woke up Sunday morning and I came down and made cinnamon rolls for breakfast, then we had the kids come down and they were so excited to see their baskets. We hadn't talked a lot about the Easter bunny...lots more about Jesus and how he died on the cross for us, so the night before when we sat out the baskets, there was not a lot of hoopla with it! After baskets and cinnamon rolls, we dressed and got in the car, later than I had wanted, but we had gotten lots ready Saturday night and we made it by 9:10 on Sunday! There were still lots of spaces in the parking lot! I told Tony we needed to high five over that...what an accomplishment! Church was great, and there were over 1000 people at the first service! What a cool thing to praise and worship our risen savior! Grandma took a few pictures of the crew on one of the sofas at church and then we rushed off to Commerce. My Daddy had left me instructions to start some things for lunch, so I immediately started those when we got there. Two minutes later, my parents got home from church. We had a nice lunch, then the kids took naps and after naps, we made rice krispie treats as well as bunny sugar cookies. We were waiting on Aunt Bevo for the egg hunt. As soon as she got there, Uncle Fred and Tony went outside to hide eggs. The kids had so much fun. (On a side note, and something that I want to remember is that my Mama had found random eggs that she had...totalling to like 11. She had them in a basket by the piano and Hudson found them, came out on the porch where we were sitting and announced to Grandmama that her eggs did not have any candy in them...he had shaken them all!...thus ensued a talk about why there was no candy...Walker suggested they might be "magic eggs" and as soon as those kids started napping, Grandmama went to work on figuring out what to fill those eggs with and decided she was not a very prepared Grandmama...we laughed and laughed about this one!)

After the egg hunt, we went to the field across the street to play some t-ball. Uncle Fred, Tony and Daddy let Walker learn to bat from the tee and Hudson got some practice in! (It paid off too...at his game Tuesday, he hit two balls down the third base line! Previously, they've all gone down the first base line or right to the pitcher!) Then, we rushed to take a bath, ate some dinner, threw everything in the car and came home, off to bed and then I had to work two more days at the beginning of this week because I switched some days around. Needless to say the Dudish house is T-I-R-E-D! But that good kinda tired where you were busy with fun stuff!

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Holiday Cards...

My Sawyer will get his own post here soon...as soon as I get pictures onto the computer. But in the mean time, I am thinking about Christmas cards, as I am sure you are too! We are having our Christmas pictures made on Sunday by our brother in law, Justin www.375photography.com. If you need any kind of pictures, you should definitely call him...he's awesome! I am thinking that I might try to have Sawyer's birth announcement with our Christmas picture...this is the card I'm thinking...it's my favorite for this year http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/cards-stationery/joy-love-story-holiday-5x7-photo-card-5x7-photo?sortType=1&fa=8&storeNode=93496. I'm thinking that we'll have one family picture and then some pictures of Sawyer around it.
One of my favorite things to get from Shutterfly is the photo books http://www.shutterfly.com/photo-books. They are so easy to make and a great way to get save all your digital photos.
Check back soon for all the details about baby Sawyer and to see some great pictures by our Uncle Justin.

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Seriously...

So, I know my Uncle Ged will appreciate this! I don't know where the month of January went! This month, we've pretty much been staying inside and trying to stay warm. Here are some Christmas pics that I promised a month ago!
Making reindeer food before Christmas!

Christmas morning...seeing what Santa brought!

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Things I love

I saw this idea on another blog and I really like the idea. I'm going to do different posts of things I love this week. Today is going to be random things that I love!
I love Caffeine Free Diet Coke. I especially like to drink it with ice. And, I've found, after drinking out of cans my entire life, that I like the plastic bottles best! But it's really great when it's from a fountain, but it can also be really gross from the fountain!
I love the color pink, and I am very happy to be able to share in the pink love with a baby girl I will soon meet.
I love our car...Cheverolet Suburban. It is so big and I actually lose things in it, but I love that it's big enough to change a diaper or clothes in the back...hold a little travel potty that can be used in the car and lots of other things!
I love to try to do new things. I think I like the challenge of figuring out a way to do it...even if I don't know exactly how it should be done.
I love taking really hot baths/showers in the dark. I think it's b/c when I used to get up early in the morning and I wasn't quite ready to be awake, I would leave the lights in the bathroom off and I do that to this day. That is, until one of my boys bursts in the bathroom and leaves the door open, letting all the outside light escape into my dark bathroom! And, I don't know why I like the water so hot, I just do...I have to be careful when I run the boys' bath water that it's not too hot for them!
As anyone in my family can attest...I love shoes. But I never spend a lot of money on them and I save them forever! I love that shoe size doesn't change, too...like no matter how big and pregnant I am, my feet are the same size!
Is there anything that you randomly love?

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

I didn't say when I originally posted this that I was inspired by the Nester, a great blog for cheap ideas in home decor. I painted the stars on the mantle and found the small topiaries at Goodwill and just changed them a little. I'm very happy with how the mantle looks, even if it's not the best garland every!

We have our tree up, but no decorations. We put it up Friday, planned to decorate Saturday after the GA/GA Tech game, but the bottom section of the tree doesn't have lights...they're out. I just can't bring myself to take the lights off the prelit tree and put different ones on...I'll do it soon...I am super duper proud of the mantle...Tony wonders why I even want to decorate...who's gonna see it he says...ME! And anyone who comes to our house...and now...all of you!


P.S. This is what Hudson and Walker did after we got the tree out of the box...they had so much fun!