Thankful Tuesday

Hooray for MAY!  Seriously...it has been so beautiful lately and the joy Collin Henry gets out of finding he can wear shorts and a t-shirt to school is really something to behold.  I don't have to do anything for him other than lay out an outfit and answer yes when he asks if it's going to be warm today, and he seriously starts jumping for joy and pumping his fist.  So that would be what Collin is thankful for today!

I am thankful for the following:

Spending time with our sweet Community Group and celebrating birthdays.  Sweet Sam is 1 year old!

Can-Man, Collin and me for a selfie!

All "the babies" as Collin would say.

Easter and all that it entails.  Reflecting genuinely on the sacrifice Christ made for us and the opportunity to spend time with our families.  I helped with Collin's Easter party at school, and we had a blast.

Nailed the ring-toss from six inches away - YES!

Cutest little bunnies, EVER.

Serious about hunting eggs.

Collin insisted on showing me his playground trick while I was there.  His teacher says he has perfected this "trick" and does it over and over as often as she'll allow him.  I love seeing his boyness come out in him!

We spent Easter at my parents' place in Texas, and Collin had a blast.  He spent time with his cousins, got to sleep with Jarrod in the tree-house my dad built and play outside.

Collin & Tins looking out a window of the tree-house

Walking with Mimi in the pasture to see a new, baby donkey.

The only Indian Paintbrush we could find during our joy-ride in the pasture in the EZ Go Cart.

Probably yelling at me to go faster, but look at how cute they are holding hands!  

Hunting eggs together.

Cousins.

Collin and Jarrod spent the night in the tree-house Friday night, and they had a great time!

                 

 Jarrod making breakfast sausage with my dad the next day...

 Picnic lunch in the tree-house.  Perfection.

Posing for Mommy!

Collin loves his "chubby baby", cousin Weston.

Collin and Tinsley matched perfectly on Saturday.  Austin and I spent forever trying to get some cute pictures of them, but Collin was grumpy.  He said he didn't want to stand with Tins, he didn't want to hold her hand and that she was sassy!

 Basically the most adorable picture ever.  These kids should do print adds.

 Collin saw this picture and told me he was MAD here.

 Then he saw this picture and said he was happy here, because Tins wasn't with him.  HA!

Tinsley working it and Collin being a typical man, wondering what the heck she's doing!

When your uncles are gun fanatics, you shoot clay pigeons at your Easter celebration.  Collin actually really loved it!  I made him take his nice shirt off though after seeing a little rust from the fence get on it, so we ended up with this photo...

That's right folks, Redneck Easter right here!

And last, I'm thankful for protection during the storms that hit Arkansas over a week ago.  We were taken care of but so many other people lost a lot.

Sitting in the bathtub together while Daddy stands with the front door wide open and the TV blares in the background.  Thankful for this boy who did what we told him to do and asked very few questions about it.

Oh, Little Rock

We spent last weekend on a mini-family-staycation in Little Rock with Jarrod's family.  It was a quick trip, but so much fun!  We stayed downtown and walked to most places; plus, the weather was gorgeous.

We didn't tell Collin about our plans until Friday afternoon when we had to head to the airport to pick up Jarrod's mom and dad.  We told him Nonne and Papa were flying on an airplane to come see us and we were going to stay in Little Rock.  He was super excited about seeing his grandparents but not so much about staying in a hotel.  He could not figure out why we would sleep there and not our house.  He even asked us if that was now our house!

We had dinner at Flying Fish, which was all of about two doors down from our hotel.  After dinner, we went back to the airport and picked up Aunt Kiki!

Saturday morning we had breakfast downtown and then we walked along the riverfront.  

A lady who lived in the top of the hotel where we were staying told us about cardboard sledding down the hills near the Clinton Library, so we decided to see what that might be about.  We found some cardboard and quickly proceeded to make fools of ourselves.  This was probably Collin's second favorite activity of the weekend!  He thought this was the most fun thing, and he probably would have kept doing it over and over and over.

After a little while, we made our way down to the Clinton Library where they were apparently having a large Easter egg hunt and other activities.  Collin watched a bunch of kids in bounce houses, but he didn't want to participate.

He did agree to sit on the back of this firetruck though.

After this we walked back toward our hotel, during which time we had to stop at this bronze eagle...

And Collin got to experience the closest thing to flying...

We got cleaned up at the hotel and headed back out for lunch at Boulevard Bread Company.  We sat outside in the sunshine and ate while people-watching.  And then it was time for Collin's favorite activity of the weekend - The Peabody Park and Splash Pad.

Collin took forever to get near the water.  With the help of his aunt, he eventually let loose and became soaked!  We all sat here for a long time and just watched him play (and of course did some more people watching!).

He had to wear his undies and his aunt's shirt back to the hotel!

We had dinner at YaYa's Euro Bistro that night, and Collin was passed out in the car before we ever made it back to the hotel.  We put him to bed and he asked me to snuggle him, but before I could even make it over to him he was snoring again!

The sweetest thing in the world.

We woke up Saturday, checked out of the hotel and headed over to the Capital Hotel for breakfast inside Ashley's.

Yes, please.

We were not dressed fancy enough for this place.

After breakfast, we did some running around and ended up dropping everyone back at the airport around 3:30.  Just in time to make it home so we could cook dinner for our Community Group that night.  It was a quick weekend, but such a good time!