Cupcakes, Eggs, The Zoo, Easter, Baby Lucy, The Masters, & Photo Insanity

Please excuse the amount of photos in this post.  We have been busy lately.  Last week was Masters week, which meant Nana was off from work as well as Kelly the last part of the week.  We got together one day for making some Easter cupcakes as well as egg-dyeing.  While we were doing our eggs I had a de-ja-vu moment of dyeing eggs this time last year...it was the same day I went into the hospital for early labor with the boys.  What a year!!!  Praise the Lord for health.

Making cupcakes

Can't wait to try one!

Yum...

Kate started off with a pink egg...her fav color :)

Notice Will's blue teeth?  We forgot to tell him the dye was for COLORING the eggs...NOT for drinking! Lol!!  He quickly discovered vinegar and water are not exactly tasty :/

Little Joshy getting in on some of the fun...Matthew and John were napping

Proud of her beautiful pink egg!

Dyeing eggs is fun!

Fruits of our labor

The next day we decided to visit the zoo.  This was Kate's first trip so I was excited.  No, I was not quite ready to take two teething 8-month-olds AND my 2-year-old, so I left the boys home with Kathryn.  Yes, I am a chicken and I am ok with that.  Kelly was brave and took both Will and Josh.  All the kids did wonderful and had a great time, including Josh!

Our first stop...checking out the zebras

Had to get this photo of Kate looking at the turkeys for Daddy.  When she told him she saw turkeys, his first question for us was, "Did you hear him gobble?"  Yes, Daddy, he did gobble.  Turkey hunters.

Looking at the monkeys

All day long Will could not wait to see the tigers.  Everywhere we went he kept saying, "I want to see the tigers."  When we finally saw them, it was a little anti-climactic, to say the least.  He saw the tigers and said, "Where are the elephants?"  

Josh wanted in on some photo-ops

Will and Kelly checking out the bears

Kate said, "He's tired."

Looking at the HUGE turtles

Josh-y loves the zoo!

We were making our way through the aquarium when we looked down and saw Will and Kate holding hands running through looking at all the animals.  Sweet lil cousins!

Looking at the...well, what is that thing?  Giant lizard??

Fishies

Easter came and went this past Sunday.  We had a wonderful day at church, at home, and just being outdoors and enjoying the beautiful weather.  We heard a fantastic Easter sermon Sunday morning. Our pastor reminded us that not only is Easter about the cross, but most importantly it is about the resurrection!  Lots of great religious leaders have died...Buddha, Ghandi, etc.  But Jesus is the only human being in all of history we have record of as being risen from the dead.  Grandaddy and Grandmama joined us for lunch after church.  While we were at the table Grandaddy started talking about his Sunday School lesson that day.  They were asked, "What does Easter really mean to you?"  Definitely an interesting question to ponder.  What a blessing to hear "what Easter means" to my 83-year-old Grandaddy.  To quote him, "Easter means life!"  How grateful I am that He sent His only Son to die for me, but how truly AWESOME that Jesus rose again on that first Easter morning.  How great is His love for us.

Everybody checking out what the bunny brought...

How did he know my shoe size?

John was more interested in the grass...

Everybody got new sunglasses

;)

Family shot after church

I think she's in love...  :)

Good-lookin' men

My precious nephews

Kelly with her boys...minus Billy.  He was on a mission trip in Belize for Masters week. 

Matthew and Lo-wie

Hunting eggs

Matthew was NOT feeling it

What else is hiding in here?

More grass!  John loved the grass.

And one final special Easter treat to wrap up the day...Brent and Liz were passing through Augusta on the way back from visiting family in NC, and were kind enough to swing by to see us so we could meet PRECIOUS baby Lucy.  They were here about an hour and I never gave her up.  She never made so much as a single sound.  Precious, PRECIOUS baby girl!!!  How quickly I

forgot the tiny-ness...

Another reason this was a fabulous Easter was because of this guy.  Easter Sunday happened to also be Masters Sunday here in Augusta, and what a thrill it was to watch Bubba Watson putt to victory on the 10th green during a play-off with Louis Oosthuizen.  A Georgia grad, not afraid to shed a few tears, family guy, but most importantly, a heart for Him.  Great Masters 2012! 

Signing off this post with a shot Joe took this past weekend.  This is Kate giving the boys their bottles.  I mean who says you can't put your 2-yr-old to work when you need to get a few things done?  I need to get some pics of Joe and I feeding them like this...whenever we're by ourselves and we have to feed both at one time, this is how we have done it the past 8 months.  Guess we've done it so many times Kate has learned how!  It is getting exceedingly difficult to feed them like this, however, because they are ALL over the place these days.