Easter & Nascar

We had a great Easter weekend with festivities in our neighborhood, at Yaya's house, and in our own backyard.  By the last egg hunt, Ty & Em got that there was candy in the eggs!  Ty was happy with just a handful of eggs, and wanted to eat the candy immediately.  He was totally obsessed with candy the whole weekend!!  He didn't want to play at the bounce house at Yaya's, or play with any of his friends... he just wanted candy!!!  

My parents, 2 brothers- Matt, John & Ashley + Blakely, and my uncle Brent all came into town to go to the Nascar races here.  We went out to eat, played at the park, hung out, and of course, went to Nascar.  Pax & I went to the Saturday race, while Mom watched the kids.  It was my first Nascar race.  It was SO loud, but a lot of fun.
Saturday morning, Mom & I went to garage sales in our neighborhood looking for good finds, but also looking for ugly hick-wear for the race that night!  We had tons of fun and found some pretty awesome stuff!

 Brent & Matt had fund dressing up, and making up hick names for each other.  Matt was Darrel.  He introduced his name with a southern accent like this, "Hi, my name is Darrel.  It's like barrel, but with a D!"   I don't remember Brent's name... something like Bobby Joe or something.

 John & Ash!

 Those cars go SO fast!  It's pretty awesome.  There were no wrecks and hardly any other problems the whole race.  It would get old, but there were definitely exciting parts.  The racer Ash & I were going for almost won, but lost the lead in the last 30 laps!  Darn it!
I had SO much fun having my family come to visit.  The kids loved it too! I hope people can come more often!

Ty is funny.  Something quick about him is that he loves the color orange.  He always has to have orange plates, bowls, cups... and he notices orange toys and things.  He also loves to pretend he is dragon warrior from Kung Fu Panda, or he says he's Beauty and the Beast. He doesn't say "I'm the beast"... he's "Beauty and the Beast."  Silly kid.

Emery loves dolls, animals, and pink things.  She is so cute.  I painted her nails pink today- she loves it.

 Eating lunch outside today.

 

No Smoking

I just wanted to congratulate my Dad on 1 year of no smoking!! He quit cold turkey on April 10th, 2011 and hasn't smoked a cigarette since. This is a huge accomplishment and our whole family is so proud of him. Way to go Dad!!

My Dad (Pop) came to Dallas this weekend for Easter and we all got to hang out with him. I am sure Abby will be updating the blog soon with pictures of our Easter festivities at YaYa's.

Love you POP!!