Happy Easter and Happy Birthday Will

A bit different Easter for us.  I tried not to be too sad, but it was still hard not to be with my family on Easter Sunday. You see, we are expecting nephew #5 in the Levings family (grandbaby #12!) tomorrow (Monday) and Mom went down to help out my brother Tyler and his wife Brooke while they make their last minute preparations for the big boy!  And besides, when we get together without one of the siblings..it's just really not the same. So we'll make plans to be together hopefully very soon to meet the new baby and spend some quality time together.  And of course, we'll look forward to a wonderful Easter next year with all our different "heats" and celebrating a baby's 1st Easter!

So this weekend brought about a 1st birthday party for baby Will. Guess we have to drop the "baby" part since we have two new baby's on the Grant side and a one year old isn't a baby anymore. Although, he is still real stinkin' cute, and seemed to really enjoy his birthday cake!  We had a really nice afternoon and Kyle and Kate's, although it was a bit cold at times with that north wind. Who knew? Late Easter should = sunny and warm, but not really this year.

Then we came back to our house and hunted some eggs with Grandma & Grandpa and got to play with Laurie and Seth's sweet babies while they ran an errand. Why didn't I snap any pictures of those precious two???

Ah well, here are a few from the day....

Sunday we got up and went to church, came home for a nice lunch, and then just played and hung out in the afternoon.  Glorious day and here is to new beginnings as we are thankful that Christ died and arose again!

March of Dimes - March for Babies Walk - 2011

Each and every year we look forward to this fundraising opportunity. It gives us a chance to give back (which we don't do nearly enough), and it makes us feel truly blessed for the healthy babies in our lives - not just under our own roof, but our nieces, nephews, and all our friends sweet babies.

Babies are just the most amazing miracles, and we support what the March of Dimes does to prevent those babies from joining the world sometimes too early.

And not only does our fundraising go to a good cause, but the walk is fun and a great family activity. This year, it was a pretty cold morning. Windy, but nothing like the previous day.  So we started off really cold, but by the time it was over, it was beautiful out.  The kids weren't taking the best of family pictures, but here a few from the morning.

Hardball Classic - Pre Season Baseball Tourney

Well, first baseball games of the season are out of the way. It's going to be a fun year two of machine pitch baseball for Beau and his friends.  The first game Thursday night was a bit of a tough go, as the coaches realized they didn't practice in fielding nearly enough. But by Saturday, things settled in.

So Thursday night we lost. Saturday morning we won. That got us seeded 7th (yikes!), so we played again Saturday evening and won. Played Sunday morning and won. Played again Sunday afternoon, but lost. A win would have put us in the championship game. So I going to say we got third! Not too bad to start the year.

Bubba did awesome. I was so proud of him!  And I discovered what it was like to have a little girl in big girl panties who seems to be enamored by the porta potty! Eeehh! Ah well. Great, fast, and windy weekend. And besides a little ear infection (Bren) that slowed us down a bit on Sunday, it was a great one.