Orlando and Erin's Baptism

Tax season is over and my dad is able to get out of the office for a trip again, so we went to Disney for a day before our passes were up. We stayed at Caribbean Beach and went to Magic Kingdom.

Monorail into the park

Oliver loved a small world. They had a couple rides open again including the kiddie roller coaster which both the boys enjoyed.

The boys also got a surprise treat from a worker-this huge cookie

On Saturday, we headed to Ft Myers to visit Matt and play some golf

On Sunday, Erin and many others got baptized.

The boys with Erin after she got dunked

Trains

If you know the boys, you know they LOVE trains. Scott's truck had some issues last week and we picked him up for church. We were early and he knew a place nearby with some old tracks. The boys loved it of course and Gabriel took a nail home as a souvenir.

Jeannette's Gender Reveal

I met Jeannette when I was 38 weeks pregnant with Oliver and out doing FAITH visits (where you go out and visit with people who had visited the church and make sure they know what it means to be a Christian and what it is to be saved) for Westside. She had visited the church and I was out to go visit her. I find it so ironic that it was my intention to make sure Jeannette knew what it was to be saved, when in fact, this last year, it's been clear that God was sending me to Jeannette to be one of the people to get me through my own struggles as well as to have me help her through hers. Jeannette is pregnant with her third baby and wanted a Gender Reveal party which Marie and I threw for her a couple weekends ago. She has two boys already and couldn't wait to get her friends together to find out what she was having this time!

we did all the old wives tales, she was split 50/50

..and a game, Jimmy guessed Jeannette's belly almost perfectly!

About to cut the cake and find out if it's a boy or girl

showing off the sonogram picture

we had 8 little boys running around!

all the girls

IT'S a BOY!!!!!

Oli relaxing after the party

Church Group Picnic

trying to squirt each other with a water bottle

Oli has pick of the ladies

"doggie!!"

boys and sticks

5 of the 9 families that came out

Easter

Easter has got to be my favorite holiday for many reasons and this year I had the privilege of hosting my "family" in Gainesville. We had a good dinner and an Easter egg hunt

Pre-Easter Celebrating

I took the boys to a church right down the road for Easter egg hunts, music, bounce houses, free food and face painting. The kids loved it, and so did I- the church did a great job. They had an area where they told the kids the Easter story. Gabriel sat down right next to the girl and so sweetly asks her, "Why did Jesus die on the cross?"
After nap time, we met Zeke and family at the Planetarium for crafts and some running around. Then we headed to our Easter service at our church

Oliver and Zora