Easter at Tam-Tam's house

Saturday after naps, we packed up and headed to Tam-Tam's house for Easter supper.  

Piper always loves playing Tam-Tam's pianos.

And we had another egg hunt!

And the highlight of the evening just might have been all the caterpillars on Tam-Tam's porch.

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Easter at Nana and Gramps's house

Easter festivities in east Tennessee began with an egg hunt at Nana and Gramps's house on Friday night.  Piper and Ian had a blast finding their eggs.

Saturday lunch was our family Easter dinner.  My dad's family came over for lunch, and Pop Pop met Graham for the first time!

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Spring Break!

The week before Easter was Piper's spring break from Mother's Day Out.  It was also spring break for all my teacher friends in Williamson County, so we were able to get together with lots of them.  We ended up having at least one playmate/social activity every day!

On Monday, we met Maddie and her mother at the park to play.  Maddie's mom, Anna, teaches English at my old school.  When I turned down the offer to come back to work last year, they hired Anna.  I joke that she is forever indebted to me :-).  Piper is three weeks older than Maddie, and Maddie is getting a little brother this fall!

We have had such amazing weather for April.  Piper and Graham both had to wear hats outside because I hadn't yet stocked up on sunscreen.  

On Tuesday, Baker and his momma, Charlotte, came over to visit.  The kids exchanged birthday presents and then fought over said birthday presents, in true two-year-old fashion.  

The doctor set was a huge hit during this playdate.  I'm not sure I'm ready for Piper to be playing doctor with anyone yet!

 On Wednesday, we met Lilly, her momma Jenny, and little brother Cam (three weeks old!) at the zoo for the morning.  This was the only picture I got because we had our hands more than full with 2 two-year olds and two infants.

Piper loves the "flingos".

art time on the deck after the zoo

This picture has nothing to do with anything really.  But it was taken during this week, and I think it's cute :-).

 Thursday we met Meg, Mary Clark, and momma Ashley for lunch in Franklin.  This was the scene when we arrived at the restaurant.  I hated to wake them!  I don't have any pictures of our lunch date because there were four kids under age three who were taking up all of our energy.

And on our way home on Friday, we stopped to see Derek and Anna, our dear friends in Knoxville.  Cameron, who is four months younger than Piper, woke up from his nap, and Piper immediately started calling him "baby Cameron".  We thought this was hilarious seeing as he is probably two inches taller than she is!

It was a busy week, but we had so much fun seeing friends we don't normally get to visit with!

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Aspen Grove CC Easter Egg Hunt

As promised, here are some photos from our egg hunt at church last Sunday.  Our church photographer-in-residence, Charles, graciously took these pictures.  And don't worry, grandparents and great-grandparents--I've already ordered some prints for you!

This is the face we got when we asked her to smile. Yikes!

That's better!

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Busy weekend

This weekend we played host to Brenden, Sarah Beth, Ian, and Jason.  The boys went to a hockey game Saturday night, and we were able to visit with them the rest of the time they were here.  Thankfully, the weather was perfect for everything we wanted to do.  Friday night we had burgers on the back porch, and then Piper and Ian played inside when it got dark.  Saturday we ate outside at the famous Loveless Cafe.  Piper even got a bit of a sunburn!  Sunday after church we had a fun Easter egg hunt.  We loved having them here!

And this sweet boy was dedicated to the Lord during our Palm Sunday church service.  Unlike his sister, he didn't scream through the entire dedication.  Piper was funny up on stage with us today; she kept asking to go see the water (baptismal font).  I don't have any pictures of the ceremony yet (or of the Easter egg hunt), but I know that a friend took some pictures and even video, so I will share those later.

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Graham has been spending more and more time in his exersaucer lately.  Piper likes to "show" him all the toys, but this day she was painting him with water that must have come from the dogs' dish. 

My latest attempt at a sibling photo

Look what I found! 

The other night, Piper tipped her chair over during dinner and did this to the wall with her head.  It was definitely scary, but she is ok.  Hopefully now she'll listen to us when we tell her not to do that!

He smiles a lot, but we also get this look of disgust often.  

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