Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday our boys apparently thought they would get to run to the empty tomb with Peter and John b/c they were both up before 6!! After putting Jack back to bed around 8:00 a.m. we determined that no one was going to steal the joy of this family on Easter!! We persevered and headed to church after our family participated in a Resurrection Easter egg hunt. What a great service we had celebrating our risen Lord!! Feelings overwhelm me as I recall the words to one of my favorite hymns: "Up from the grave he arose, with a mighty triumph o'er his foes! He arose the victor from the dark domain and he lives forever with his saints to reign! He arose! He arose! Hallelujah! Christ arose!!" He conquered and sacrificed it all so that everyone would have opportunity to truly live...in this life and for eternity!! Hallelujah, my Savior lives!!Our church egg hunt...can we call it a hunt? I think it is more of a free-for-all!! Jack held his bucket in his lap for the first 10 minutes of the trip. Fred asked me how long I was going to let him eat candy. I didn't even know he was eating it, but when I turned around he had candy wrappers all around him, a piece of candy in his mouth and a partially opened egg in his hand. I told him he could have no more candy to which he replied while looking at the egg in his hand, "this the last one?!?"

We headed to Jackson for some family time. Mimi and Tee had hidden 96 eggs...for two boys!! (We were livin' it up Kenworthy style!!)

What a fun day!!

Lazy Saturday

After a breakfast of french toast and scrambled eggs we broke into the "treats" that Mawmaw sent us! We worked with stamps, we blew bubbles and we played with sidewalk chalk. Then we came inside and dyed some Easter eggs. (I did not get pictures during this time as I was having to be VERY careful with the dye!) Even Fred got his artist groove on...

Well, then we were just silly!! Before we dyed the eggs I had the boys remove the shirts. When I picked up my camera Clayton was very concerned that he was "naked" and could not have his pictures taken. Once I convinced him that just his shirt being off was okay he began to act silly. Thus producing the following picture...

Of course if Clayton does it so does Jack...

Whew, what a morning!! Did I mention we finished ALL of this before 10:00 a.m.!?!

Easter Parties

Almost every Monday Jack and I attend story hour at Rhea with Mrs. Donna. Jack looks forward to it all week, frequently talking about it each time we pass the school. Once we get there though he gets really quiet and just looks at the other kiddos. It is really funny to see his reaction. He is a stinker!! We had an Eater party this week. He didn't want to hunt the eggs until Melody told him there was candy inside. He relucantly began to hunt once he learned this.

Mrs. Donna always has treats for us with a party. Jack really enjoys this part!

Clayton's class had their spring party several weeks ago, but I went to read to them before Good Friday. I couldn't just read. I took a bunny cake as well. They were all so excited!

Clayton's photography skills

Clayton has been grabbing my camera lately and snapping some pictures. It's always fun to see life through the eyes of a five year old. Look out Elizabeth!! It looks like you may have some family competition!! Enjoy...

First Pictures of Baby Shackelford #3!!

Yes, you heard that correctly...baby #3!! Below you will see his/her first picture. I asked the ultrasound tech to make sure there was only ONE heartbeat and she assured me there was only one!! Everything looks great! The heartbeat was around 180. Dr. Evans said there are old wives tales about heartbeats and determining if it is a boy or a girl, but she has not seen them hold true (Well at least not more than 50% of the time!). After my confession that I downed a medium iced vanilla latte (Thanks Katie!!) from McDonalds neither one of us was surprised at the heart rate! The quality of the scanned picture is not that good, but that was as good as I could get it...sorry! With all of the official stuff said Fred and I are now taking name possibilities. We are open to any and all suggestions!

Spring Break

We headed to Memphis for a little Shackelford visit for the end of our Spring Break. While everyone else was at work Fred and I took the boys to the Pink Palace. We had a wonderful time. Jack ran from exhibit to exhibit wanting to know what everything was.

When we asked Clayton what his favorite part of the entire museum was he excitedly exclaimed, "The Escalators!!" We could have done that for free at the mall... Oh well, we had a really good time!After Pink Palace we headed to Incredible Pizza. Clayton once told us it was called Incredible Pizza b/c it truly is incredible!! The boys had a great time! Who wouldn't?!? Five different buffets, indoor mini golf, indoor go-carts, games, mini bowling, etc, etc!! Needless to say by the time we left they were worn out!!This is what happens after a long weekend at Mawmaw and Pawpaw's house!!

Spring Party

Friday was Clayton's last day of school before Spring Break. Jack and I headed to Rhea for a little Spring party action!! We kicked the festivities off with an Easter Egg hunt. Clayton was so excited, Jack was a little stressed...all that candy and he couldn't get any!!As most of you know Clayton is very good friends with Shannon. They are in different classes and rarely do they get to see each other, but on this day they got to participate in the egg hunt together. They were both so excited to see each other!Back in the room the room mother (not me!!!) had planned several fun games.

Then we had a visit by the Easter bunny. Neither of my kiddos really knew what was going on...how funny!! They were both looking at me like, "why is there a big bunny in here?!?" They didn't really get it, but it was fun none the less. You will notice Clayton's class is really small. There were five children out the week before the break. We are hoping all germs will die in his classroom over Spring break!

After the party we headed to Jackson for the weekend. By Saturday night we were home. By Sunday Jack was exhausted as you can see! He fell asleep before we got home from lunch. He even had a little drool on his face and was snoring by the time we got home!!