Fergusons

Monday, April 9, 2012

Easter Sunday

The Masters, Raymonds, and Ferguson kids all dressed up for Easter Sunday. The service was wonderful with music designed to point us to the resurrection truth and scripture passages describing Christ's love and sacrifice in terms of truth from Corinthians.

After arriving home, Elli commensed looking for her basket. Her riddle said, "Play the piano, sing a tune, I am hiding in this room." She found her basket under the piano. She also had 16 eggs to find, filled with candy which she was quite effiecient at doing:)

Family picture in front of our house, with newly mulched flower beds. I am 28 weeks pregnant here.

Easter brunch at mom and dad's was a little untraditional this year. We skipped the ham and made breakfast foods instead. Delicious! Heather is taking the picture, Gloria is playing in the other room, and Leah is at the "kid's" table with Wesley and Luka:)

Elli found her basket at mom and dad's. It had some fun things in it. (It was on the dryer)

With another beautiful day, we had to get outside. Lots of playing. The adults however ended up being more worn out than any of the kids. How does this happen?

Luka gave me a big grin.

Wesley was having so much fun with Papa...

and then he gave me a sweet little smile:)

We thought we would try for a picture of all the kids, but it is rather difficult with their ages right now:)

Not too bad of all of us.

Happy Gloria.

This is my favorite picture. Mom really wanted a picture of her and all her grandbabies. As you can see, it didn't go as planned!!!

Egg Hunt at The Club, April 7th

The bunny this year was not nearly as scary as two years ago:)

The eggs were hidden inside this year due to the wet frost outside. At first, it appeared all the eggs were gone, then Brent noticed there were a ton in the locker room. Elli found most of them:) Then, I told her there were some kids that didn't get any eggs and she proceeded to dwindle her basket from about 20 down to 7 by checking all the other kids' baskets and giving them away to kids who didn't have any. I love to watch her compassion.

All of us with the bunny:)

We didn't want to waste this sun on the course without golfing a bit.

My first time watching Brent golf this year. Looking good.

Elli has really been wanting ti improve and here she is getting a little coaching from her daddy on putting. She put it in the hole!

April 2nd, Coloring Eggs

We invited Emilee over to color eggs. It was her first time! The girls had a fun time and made some very pretty eggs.

Good job girls.
Before we colored these eggs, we went through our resurrectgion eggs and told the story of Easter. It was fun to have an interactive lesson with these girls and to see them ponder some pretty hard truths.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Time with Nieces and Nephews, March 30

Wesley (orange plate) and Luka came over while Leah had a dentist appointment. I have not gotten to watch them all by myself very often, but this was a fun afternoon. They did very well and are enjoying watching Elli. When Leah came back, we spent some time at the Greene letting the kids run and enjoy the nice weather.

I love how Elli is opening her mouth when she feeds Wesley.

Later that evening, we got to watch Aria while Jenna and Justin went on a long awaited date! She was so sweet and once again, Elli was all about caring for and playing with her. Elli even went to put her pajamas on that looked like Aria's.
Even later that night, Kyle and meg came over for a quick visit with Seth and Rayna. So in one day, I saw most of my nieces and nephews and super enjoyed it. (Liam and Lillian were in South Carolina and Gloria was at the lake.)

Emma Grace turns Three

Sweet birthday girl:)

Blowing out her candles. Emma Grace loves Dora, so of course, the theme was perfect for her!

Love that Elli has such sweet friends. I am thankful for wonderful families and sweet times together.

March Activities

We have been working on getting the basement finished. Brent was adding some can lights that we forgot about when the electricians came. Drywall is now complete and Brent has been working on getting all the boxes installed. We will paint soon.

Elli enjoys practicing golf with Brent now. Of course, she has to look good while doing it:)

Couldn't resist a picture with our pretty pear tree this year. Of course it also helps to have such a pretty girl in the picture too.

Elli also has some skills in the softball area. Her first "at bat" this spring resulted in one fast, hard hit straight into Brent's chest which caused a yelp and a welt! And again, she has to dress the part. In fact, while at WalMart one afternoon, she saw some pink softball gear; bat, ball, glove and helmet. She said to Brent, "Daddy, I need those things. They will look pretty when I wear them!"

Leah's Birthday

The kids were enjoying watching Brent and Papa fly their helicopters.

Luka couldn't wait to hold the controls:)

Elli and the birthday girl!

The 4 grandkids being still, for about 5 seconds.

These boys were not in the mood to sit for pictures, even on their mamma's birthday:)

As always, we get a picture of the girls. it was a fun day at Leah and Matt's, celebrating together.

Monday, March 12, 2012

South Carolina March 7-11

Nap time in the car. Comfortable, right?

They loved playing together. Elli especially loved this car:)

Lillian loved getting her bath.

Liam wanted me to read him a book while Lana was caring for Lillian. I loved it.

She is a precious little girl. So sweet.

Look at those eyes staring at Elli. So attentive.

Swan Lake photos. New family of 4.

Our soon to be family of 4!

24 weeks.

A little tree climbing for a great family pic.

Our turn:)

Some friends of Lance and Lana own goats and chickens. We had lots of eggs while we were there. The kids were able to feed to goats and chickens, then we all took a nice long walk through the woods on their property. Such a nice family. They have "adopted" Lana :)

Such a sweetie.

A trip to the park yielded lots of squeals of laughter, lots of static, and lots of fun.

Pizza night!

Just a glimpse of the unhealthy evening of pizza, chips, pop, oreos, and ice cream. Glad this is a once in a while kind of meal.

The morning before we left, Liam was ready to play, play, play! We miss them already and know it will be hard to not see them for a long time. They head out to Germany the end of April. Had a great time visiting. I got to snuggle and play with Liam and Lilli quite a bit. Elli did too:)