Bunnies, Babies and Crawfish Oh My!

I know some of you might be tired of my new skills in blogging but here are some more pictures and a little commentary!

First of all we have begun the tradition of having a crawfish boil during the Easter weekend.  We have had it 3 years now and we hope to keep adding participants and family members.  The first year we had some of Emily's friends and their families and this year we added Grant's friends to the list.  Now it's very interesting to see how Texans deal with crawfish - some don't even want to try it and some dove right in!  Grant's friends all gave it a shot and I think they enjoyed it!

We were also very glad to have Al and Leah, Al, Stacy, Ely, Luke and Molly and Grandma also be able to spend the afternoon with us.  Ely ate quite a bit of crawfish as long as someone could peel them!  Glad to see he has some Louisiana blood in him!  The twins are now just over a year old and trying to walk - they are the best babies in the world and we love them soooo much, it's so much fun to have babies that I can play with and then give back.  But I will say I can wait a long time before it's time to be a grandmother - not happening anytime soon!!!  So here are some pictures -

Look how pretty - these are actually Louisiana Crawfish.

Oh No my Pretty there is no escaping the Pot!!

Scott and Emily have this boiling thing down to a science.

Ely getting in on the fun.

Now for the pictures of my babies and their friends and some pictures of Molly, Luke and Ely.

Luke

Crazy "E"

Molly

Now here are my babies with their friends:

Lindsey - Emily's friend with the escapee!

Now they are eating!  Scott did an excellent job they were very yummy!

Eric Arnov and Nick.

Nick, Patty and Grant!

I think Grant and his friends enjoyed the party and at the end of the festivities they all hunted Easter eggs that Emily and Lindsey hid and each one went home with some junk and a Sonic gift card - except Grant who got bubbles!


We went to Al and Stacy's house on Easter after church and got some baby time!

Got to have the picture with Grandma!

Luke, Emily, Ely, Grandma, Grant and Molly!

Grandma and her boys - Scott and Al.

Emily and Molly and Grant and Luke getting ready for the hunt!

Girls against the Boys and Ely ready to see who could find the Golden Egg!

Well it turns out that Grant and Luke had the most prizes, Emily and Molly had the most eggs and Ely ended up with all of the loot because he has really nice cousins that give him whatever he wants!  So it all turned out great in the end.

Atlanta Visit

O.K. here is the last post from vacation - I am just going to post a few pictures of our trip to the Aquarium and the Coca-Cola Museum.  Both were fun and it was a really good ending to our vacation.

Check out Grant's face - that is the really Mom another picture???

Have a Coke and a Smile!

There were all these funky little characters - thought they were interesting!

O.K. so we saw lots of fish and lots of people - both quite interesting and then we drove home!  This is how we travel now that the kids are older - it sure is easier than when they were younger.

Grant loves taking "good" pictures of Emily!

I'm going with I was looking out the window and not sleeping!

Very teenage boy picture!

 Now I have our crawfish boil and Easter pictures to post - so I will get to those soon!

Vacation Part 2

O.K. I have posted one and now here is the other part of the vacation.  I am trying to do this without anyone helping me so here it goes...

We arrived at the The Ritz on Sunday afternoon and checked into our room, as I walked out onto the patio I started to relax almost instantly, the picture says it all...

This is the view from my patio.

How wonderful is this view!  Here are some more pictures of the grounds and some of our activities while we were there.

The kids acting like little kids and playing on the swing.

The other view from the Patio!

Emily and Grant totally enjoying the "view"

Just one more picture of the grounds.

This is what they do to the trees when they die - they sculpt them into different things - very cool.

Scott having smores - they have them every night at around 7:00 all free!

I loved to sit on the patio in the morning and have coffee, it was so quiet and relaxing. And at night they would have a fire and everyone could make their own smores!  Scott and Grant really loved that!

We were able to go swimming in the heated pool, fish, take out kayaks and do a lot of different hiking trails - it was really a lot of fun.  The day we went fishing was not the best of weather but we enjoyed it anyway.  The next few pictures are of us on the boat.

Captain Scott

My future retirement home!

Aren't they sweet! 

This was 2 seconds after I snapped the first picture!

Here are some more pictures of other things we got to do - such as skeet shooting for Grant and Scott, horseback riding for me and Emily and just general relaxing.  So here are some more pictures.

Emily checking out the horses and below right before we had to saddle up our horse!

Yes we brushed and saddled our own horses!

The kids had it really hard!

Grant's first room service meal

Learning how to shoot skeet! (He liked this more than I like but oh well)

Literally hanging out at the pool.

The swing was a big hit with the kids.

Next are just some pictures that I took while we had them dressed up and cooperating.  Some of the pictures came out really nice.

My beautiful children!

My beautiful family!

My silly children!

Grant is almost as tall as Scott now!

This was a "statue" in one of the little towns where we had dinner...

Emily was afraid it was going to move if she got too close...

Turns out it does not move but Emily was never really comfortable with it!

This is the hallway to our room - can you say "Twilight Zone"!!

O.K. enough for one day - I have figured out how to get most of this done so I was on a roll.  I still have one more day of vacation pictures to post so I will do that soon. - hope you enjoy these pictures!!