Eggs 2012

With all of the craziness of this Easter we still were able to squeeze in some egg dying.  Q loved it of course.

 Pay liked it until she realized dying eggs takes patience and she didn't want to wait for the eggs to turn color.

 Q was so focused!

 Livi did this during the whole process

 Pay decide to pass the time by coloring.  Which by the way she has really gotten into, that and puzzues. I am so impressed because she is coloring much more than the typical "tornado" she would bring home from school earlier in the year.

 Once the eggs were dyed she quickly ran to help Q decorate with lots and lots of stickers.

Keep posted for more Easter pics.

Blessings for Braden

For those of you who know about our buddy Braden, you know he is currently battling cancer - neuroblastoma.  For those of you who don't know him, you should.  He is a part of our family - kinda.  I started watching him last year while his mamma taught kindergarten (he was 6 months old).  The girls think he is their brother, they are his girls.  Because of this terrible situation they are going through we are currently working on organizing a benefit for him on May 19th at Dacula High School.  We would love anyone out there to come support the Boozers and bring your family out for a day of fun, food, jumpies, and a silent auction.  Here is the link to the Blessings for Braden blog and you can also "like" his page on Facebook (Pray for Braden).  If you do want to come to the benefit would you please let us know by signing up for the event via Facebook so we can get an idea of how much food we need to have there. 

9 Years

Earlier this month B and I celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary.  It is amazing how quickly time has gone by and how much our lives have changed since then; for the better I might add.  We had the chance to celebrate with our anniversary buddies, Heather and Ben, who celebrated their second anniversary.  We both have had new babies during the year... check out the adorable 3rd children.

There's nothing like middle babies (spoken by a true middle child herself).

 

And look at those awesome oldest children.

 One reason I love B so much is that he always keeps me laughing.  This is how he feels about being married to me for 9 years, or maybe realizing that he has known me for 14.

 

 Look at that cute couple.

Happy Anniversary to us!

First Bottle

O has been such a good baby and has learned quickly how to deal with chaos and noise.  The girls were so excited to help out and give her her first bottle.  Everyone did wonderfully.

This picture 100% depicts our family.  Q is so concerned and attentive to her little sister, P is the consummate entertainer and loves her sister, but is more about being funny, and her awesome daddy is the protector and provider for all of his girls.

 P's turn (she literally lasted about 30 seconds before she was off to sing or dance).

Q's turn.  She could have fed O the whole bottle if I didn't make her get into bed.

 This last picture is simply for record keeping purposed to let know that she did have her own nursery (she has yet to make it into her bed) and not everything was a hand-me-down.

Yard Work

For my anniversary present B and the girls worked on building another raised bed for our garden this year.  Q loves being outside working with her daddy.  Both of the big girls also love looking stylish in whatever they do, even if it involves wearing bathing suits when they do manual labor.

 Check out the new bed on the far right.

 Q got to haul off the grass in her gator

 And then she brought in new dirt to finish the project.

I can't wait to see what goodies we will grow this year.  Thank you so much to my two beautiful and one super handsome workers.

Egg Hunt Take 1, 2, & 3

Even without our church having an egg hunt this year (which I'm thankful for because we did something way better for the community) the girls still managed to have a half dozen egg hunts.  We were a bit late to P's school egg hunt, so they found some for her to have her own special hunt there.

 Hunt #2 was at of all places Publix.  Yet another reason why we love that place.

 For years Q has been scared to death of stuffed creatures, now look at her!  Kindergarten has done amazing things for this little girl, this is just one way she is coming out of her shell.

 Hunt #3 was at a sweet little church down the road from our house.

 They ran into a friend from Q's class along the way.  Check out their spoils.

We have candy coming out of our ears, and this was just the beginning of our Easter festivities.

Spring Break 2012

This spring break could possibly have been the most fun I have had and we hardly ever got in the car.  It could be partly due to the addition of O and also due to the fact we had absolutely no plans.  B took off some days and we had lots of special visitors come to see us.  

Q did realize that babies sleep a lot an in her 5 year old world they can be boring at times.  She also realized how tired a seeping baby can make you.

 We loved on Grammy.

 Had lots of buddies come over.

 Di Di taught Q how to bath O.

 Snuggled some more.

 Posed for lots of pictures.

 More snuggle time.

 Read lots of books while O sunbathed.

 Hung out with the next BG generation.  (p.s. - I LOVE T's smile, the little guy on the far right)

 Spent the day with their Abbey.

Oh how we love breaks from schedules at our house.