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So here are some recent pics....sorry it's taken so long



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Easter Fun

A day late and a dollar short - I know. But we had such a good time last weekend over the Easter holiday. The Powers family came in from NC on Thursday and Kris and John came in on Fri. Then once the Lilley clan cleared out, the Land clan came in for lunch on Sunday! It was a whirlwind weekend, but we had such a great time catching up and visiting with everyone! Rose had her Easter Party at school on Friday...I think we had more family there then there were children! She had such fun, there was lots of "Rose over here! Rose look here!, etc".




It was also neat to see her interact with the other kids and her teachers, and I really think she is a well-behaved child (for the most parts - there are moments! ;-) ). Then on Saturday we took her to the Easter Eggstravaganza at the local park. There was horseback riding, cotton candy, inflatable playgrounds, candy/egg hunting, bubbles and more - a very good time was had by all!










Later that night the city has a wonderful service where for $15 you can have the Easter Bunny come to your house and deliver a stuffed bunny. At first I was worried as to how Rose would react b/c she had just warmed up to Santa, but she still was not very big on character animals. However, at the park she seemed good with the Easter Bunny - even giving him a hug - so I figured she would get a kick out of him/her coming to our house. Well she did, but honestly I don't know if she was more excited or the 10 adults standing around squealing as she giggled! Mom and Char even gave us a nice little rendition of "Here comes Peter Cottontail" to which the Easter Bunny ever so kindly hopped down our sidewalk! I don't know if Rose had more fun with the Easter Bunny or with Santa!






On Sunday after the NC crew headed home, Dad's family came over for Easter lunch. It was so wonderful to have my cousin's kids over and for all of the kids to get a chance to play together hunting eggs. Even though it was way past nap time for all - I think everyone had a good time! In my book Easter Weekend was a success!

Riding out the storm....

Well we have made it through the first big ice storm of 2009 and the Snell Refugee camp has finally cleared out. Bodie and I decided that if there ever was a good year for us to have bought our own home, we were sure glad it was this year. I think we got roughly about an inch to inch and half of ice this past week with some snow over top. Bodie worked almost round the clock Monday through Wednesday at EKU trying to help keep the campus accessible and ready for the crowds for the All-A Classic. I was off work Tues-Thurs b/c there was no electricity at our office. Tues our electric was out here out our house and at mom and dad's so we headed to Grandma's. It was a good idea until her's went out too...so we all packed it back up and went to mom and dad's thinking that would be the best location. Luckily, our electric here at the house came back on that night and we moved the camp to our humble abode. Mom, Dad, Grandma and Aunt Molly were all in and out and we were certainly glad to have them! But now, the sun has been out, things are starting to melt and everyone has electric (at least of our small group, however there are still thousands in KY and even central KY without it) so our house is back to just the 3 of us. We are crossing our fingers that we will get missed by this supposed big storm moving in Monday but I guess we will have to wait and see.....

Happy Birthday Rose!

We have spent the past week getting ready to have our house turned upside down for Miss Priss' 2nd birthday party! We had about 30 people there and loved every minute of it! She had tons of friends and family who were there and our house has never looked better! Rose had soooo much fun, got too much stuff (although we are so very thankful to everyone!), and we had a blast getting to catch up with all of our friends too...Below are some pictures and I will try to post a video - but we will see how that goes!





Sorry I haven't posted lately, early to rise and early to bed so I'm lucky if I check my email! I've entered into month 3-4 and sickness is kicking in full force...next doc's appointment is in a week and we will find out sex 1st of March...

Also some pictures from Christmas...yeah, I'm running behind. Welcome to my world.

The Holiday Carnage...

This weekend instead of shopping my sister and mother kindly converged upon our house to help paint, organize and clean. Well, we some of that accomplished...The following are pictures of Friday's carnage.....




And today's carnage....







Along with some pictures from Thanksgiving Day and a current family picture....