Josie's Birthday, Part 1

We had some visitors from Virgina here to celebrate with us. Here are Grandpa Jim and Grandma Carlene with all three of their grandkids! Josie got to "Build a Bear" on her big day.

She dressed her in color coordinated fashions and named her Janison.

Here's the girl helping me make her cake.

It was Daisy she wanted and Daisy she got.

Party pictures still to come... I need to get those pictures off of Grandma and Grandpa V's camera.

HGTV will you hire me?

Over the past couple months we've had a family project going on... a house for my brother Hans and my niece Charlotte. I was able to help with color selections, painting, laying tile and decorating. Here are the results. The music accompanying the pictures is done by my brother-in-law Calvin Locklear. I hope it's not an insult to his music to pair it with my cheesy video production but this way all of the big name recording execs who check this blog will be able to hear him and offer him a million dollar contract!

Easter

Both kids were sick so we ended up missing our main service for Easter. I thought it would be a bad idea to bring two sick kids out in the cold in the middle of the night. We did go to the service on Sunday afternoon and enjoyed some of the festivities. This is what Good Friday looked like for us.

This illustrates the holiday for Silas pretty well. Poor guy, you can tell he's not feeling well.

I couldn't get this girl to hold still for a picture that morning.

Here she is in her pretty dress that afternoon.

There was an egg hunt after the Sunday afternoon service. Here's Josie holding her basket of eggs... and sneezing.

At our Church the kids are encouraged to ring the bells during the week after Easter to celebrate Christ's resurrection. I love this picture that Bleys took.

snow day

A couple weeks ago we had a blizzard. We were lucky enough to have Jordan, Calvin and Quinn snowed in with us at Deborah's house. Here are some shots of the cousins and of Josie's snow creations.

Making Faces

Reading

"Awwww, poor Bo-Bi"

Way back in the beginning of March Silas spent a night in the hospital. He had RSV and needed to be on oxygen for a few days. The title quote was Josie's reaction when I talked to her on the phone and told her that I was going to have to stay the night in the hospital (hostible in Josie-speak) with Silas. (His nickname evolved from us calling him Silas Silas Bo Bilas.) Seeing him with tubes in his nose was pretty sad, and very cute (if I do say so myself).

It didn't stop him from eating his toes!

He's doing fine now and all the while he kept gaining weight, clearly. Check out those rolls.