Easter

We celebrated Easter at our house on Saturday morning because Saturday night we were going to Lance's parents house and (of course) they had their own little easter basket and egg hunt for him there. The Easter bunny was good to him, he got some candy, a new outfit, and a t-ball bat and gloves (and a few other little things).

This picture is of all of Javan's cousin's on Lance's side. Its loads of fun for Javan when we get together with them.

Pop that popcorn!

My friend, ashley, often mentioned how much she loved fresh popped popcorn in a pan better than the commercialized microwave popcorn. But I never got a chance to actually make it that way.

Today was the day! Oh yum...if you cook it with butter it already has the buttery goodness taste baked in. Aaaaannndd....its so much cheaper...and waaayyyy more fun for a 4 year old!!!

Decorating easter eggs!!

Branson Pics

I finally got around to uploading our pics from Branson. To view them, click this link:

https://picasaweb.google.com/Merriettgrace/Branson#

And a few other pics....

Javan's first T-ball practice

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Helping Lance clean his motorcycle.

A day at the park.

Today we decided to have lunch at the park. Javan chose a park that is downtown by where Lance works. It wasn't one of the usual parks that we go to. 

Well after wee had lunch and played for a while...they started setting up the towns Easter Egg hunt!

Lucky day!! Javan had a great time and afterwards they had a storyteller. It was an awesome day!!

Basket O Loot

A little bunny

The story teller and the 3 little bunnies in her story. She was very good. 

She kind of reminded me of my mom. In fact, I think my mom should

start a business as a storyteller :-)

Ahh its a beautiful day. Lance, Javan and our neighbor Matthew went to the park to play some tennis and some catch and I am relaxing in a quiet home finishing up some sewing projects. Can't get much better than that!  

We had an awesome day. I'll blog about it soon but the pictures are on Lances phone so I have to wait until he gets home to post about it. 

Meanwhile, hi ho hi ho away I sew... 

Can't wait to share with you all about the projects i'm working on. I will definitely blog about them when I'm all done :-)

A garbage disposal and an ice cream maker

Some of you may remember the time about 18 month ago (give or take) when Javan decided to put some of his rocks in my sink... which ultimately ended up in a destroyed garbage disposal.  It was just Javan and me at the time and I was sooo proud that I purchased a new one and installed it all by myself :-)

Well, last week the garbage disposal decided to go kaplooey on me, no rocks involved - I promise!

Since it was still under the 2 year warranty, I decided to give it a shot and called the company. They tracked the serial number to prove that it was still under warranty and TADA a new garbage disposal was delivered yesterday..

The best part.... I didn't have to install it this time! haha. Gotta love that hubby.

The same day that I called the disposal company, I couldn't get my ice cream maker to work. I knew that it was just operator error, considering I had only used it once before and it worked perfectly fine then...so, since I had calling the company on my mind (from the garbage disposal incident) I decided to call the company that made the ice cream maker to see if they could figure out what I was doing wrong.

Apparently, it takes too much time to walk through it with me step by step cause they just sent me a new one!! We gave that one to our friend.  Shew, we had a garbage disposal and an ice cream maker delivered to us in the same week and didn't spend a penny.

So, the next time your appliance doesn't work (and its fairly new) it might be worth trying to call the company.

Oh and I also learned that substituting honey or maple syrup for sugar in making ice cream is not really a good idea if you want it to look like ice cream (but it does taste just as yummy).

and.... sorry for the random post that says one word "stop". Every once in a while I get marketing text messages and if you text them back with the word "stop" they usually stop sending... I accidentally send it to the blog instead - who know's how i pulled that off.  haha.

We went up to Lance's parents house for the day. Javan was THRILLED to get a ride on the tractor. :-)

Yesterday was a gorgeous 80 degree weather day so we decided to head out on a bike ride.

Javan and I wanted to show Lance where the kindergarten was so we rode our bikes there. Jav and I had visited the school for the first time on Friday for Javan's kindergarten round up. Any anxieties I had about sending him to this school were put to ease. The teachers all seem wonderful and we found out that one of Javans friends from church will be going to the same school. An answer to prayer!!

They have an awesome playground there so we played for a while.

That was where Javan went across the monkey bars for the first time all by himself!! Amazing!

We are on our way home!

It was a really wonderful relaxing vacation! THe sight and sound show was Awesome! Jav really enjoyed it!

Mom-mom sent some extra money so we could buy Javan a t-shirt.

Well, we did buy a t-shirt but we also bought an umbrella for him.

WHAT a hit that crazy umbrella has been!! He has taken the umbrella everywhere.

After the show we had a wonderful dinner with Pearl and Rick...don't worry he brought the umbrella...

The picture is of Javan in the backseat, with his umbrella, watching movies on his computer. The umbrella is actually helpful blocking the sunlight through the window. :-)

2 hours of unlimited go carts!! YAY!

Its been a fun couple of days!

On Thursday Javan got a package from Aunt Julie which is always exciting. He wore his new slippers on top of his new socks for the rest of the day. Stickers, stamps, and some really goofy glasses.

Friday morning Javan woke me up by crawling in bed with me, cuddled up and sang Happy Birthday. He remembered it was my birthday and was excited to sing to me! **melt** helped me forget it was 6:40 am.

After work we packed up the car and headed to Branson!

Staying in a hotel is so exciting for a four year old!

This morning we had some breakfast and headed right on over to the go cart place!

The sight and sound show is at 3:30!! Can't wait!