For the Allred SUPERFAN:

In case you're a HUGE Allred fan (we have a wide fan base you know)....here's a second taste of our Easter weekend and other recent events.
So I have a confession....I am pregnant. I guess I am saying that b/c I look super chubby in all these pics....but let's be honest- I am only ten weeks! Anyone who knows me know that I am a huge food connoisseur. We are due in early November. YEAH!




What Huggies? Really? this is supposed to protect my son from leaking?
We hide our kids Easter baskets on Easter. They LOVED looking for them. Link's was hanging on the bathroom door and Ella's was under the Dining room table. The Easter bunny underestimated them b/c the kids found the baskets way too fast. Sorry about the blurry pic, but you get the idea if the excitement.



We planted our garden this past weekend. Jason has been working so hard on it...thanks! Hopefully it pays off.





The billions of Easter eggs, ripe for the picking. Ella somehow only went away with four.
The blow-up toy thingies that Jason enjoyed far more than the kids.

Pleased to be waiting in a 15 minute line for a jumpy thingie( I am sure that's the technical term).

The baby chick that Ella fell in love with and immediately named Sparkle Rainbow.
Ella and Link at a petting zoo (part of our Easter spectacular weekend). Ella is saying "TA-DA!".
Link was quite the scavenger....he got tons of loot!

I forgot to post this picture in the Master's post. This a piece of the Master's green that Jason stole. He now has it in a huge pot (he quickly threw out my orchid)...and he coddles it like a newborn.
P.S.- I just realized that this was Allred overload....SORRY!!!!!! FYI-I am planning on printing this for my own journal.

Like a kid at Christmas, Jason came home from the practice round of the Master's glowing and looking completely fulfilled. He kept on saying he felt like he was in the Garden of Eden! He insisted there were no bugs, every piece of pine straw was in place and the grass was shining as if sprayed with a lacquer. It was so fun for him to go. His brother, Bo lives in Augusta while attending the Medical College of GA. He has been on the waiting list for the practice rounds for 4 years. His friend got tickets, couldn't go and so we were the lucky recipients. Thanks BO! So Jason got home and told me EVERY detail and I listened. Here's your little tutorial:

This is "Ike's tree". A very famous landmark on the course. President Eisenhower used to golf this course all the time and would often hit this tree. He petitioned to have it removed. Since then, it's been called "Ike's tree".
Phil Mickelson.
Even Tiger uses the restroom! AMAZING!!! :)
This is a famous bridge on the Master's course.
Azaleas....need I say more?
The "Shark", Greg Norman.
The famous Master's flag and flowery display of the great US.
Mike Weir. He's LDS and is from Canada. He won the Master's a couple years ago and actually putts with a hockey stick.
Jason thought I was crazy that I didn't know these three. They are the Babe Ruth's of golf. We have Jack Nicholas, Arnold Palmer, and Gary Player.
The "shark" again.




RRRRRRR. We know who this is.
And his bag. Funny guy.

GA's peacan trees. This is the regal entrance to the course.

Easter: Part 1

Seriously, I have so many Easter pictures...I guess I don't need to post them of every event. But with both our families here in the area, there were 4 Easter egg hunts, two big fat Sunday dinners. You get the idea. Here's the beginning.

We had a our first Easter egg hunt at a playgroup at my friend Meredith's house. Link got about four eggs, climbed up into the tree house and ate all the stuff inside. He did not understand that he completely lost his chances of maximizing his egg count by wanting to eat immediately. He learned fast though. By the fourth egg hunt, he was a seasoned hunter.

A proud morning

After burning 1300 calories at the gym this morning, I hauled my two toddlers into Walgreen's and got this load of stuff for a total of $15. I figrued the reatil to be around $115. Yes, I paid 15. I got sick of seeing blogs just like this one and so I actually did a little reading and asked a lot of questions to the Walgreen's cashier and basically, I figured out how to take advantage of their system. YEAH!!!!!!!! It was so exhilarating. It was a high and I can't wait to get high again!!!
P.S.- a great website for you fellow Georgians is southernsavers.com to figure this stuff out.

Progressive Birthday

This is an activity that we did last Tuesday when we learned about the letter -B. We read "Are you my mother?". As you may know, it's about a baby bird (double -B's- bonus!) who is looking for it's mother. So, we made these cute little birds with Styrofoam balls and toothpicks for legs. They really loved making them. I have to admit though, I felt a little defeated when they kept on calling the birds snowmen....the markers did not color the Styrofoam well.






On the day of Ella's birthday I asked her what kind of cake she wanted, but knew her party wasn't until Saturday and I would make it then. She asked for a purple butterfly cake. She was really confused why we didn't eat her cake on her birthday. At the end of the day on Wednesday she said, "Mommy, it didn't look like a birthday". I ask her what a birthday looked like. To that she said, "A purple butterfly cake". I knew once we made the cake her dreams would be fulfilled. And oh, were they. She just couldn't stop gushing about how beautiful it was!
So we have celebrated Ella's birthday for about 5 days now and she's already wondering when her next birthday is. We had a get together planned at a local free petting zoo for Saturday, but it rained so we canceled it and instead went o Grandma and Grandpa Allred's- one of Ella's favorite places. She got to see "her" horse Scarlet and even grandpa's new turkeys. The event of the night for me was seeing Grandpa in what he "thought" was a swimsuit but were in actuality sponge bob square pants pajama bottoms. So, he and the kids and Jason jumped in the hot tub in much more modest attire than usual.
Then on Sunday, we continued to eat Ella's butterfly birthday cake with my side of the family. Ella even got a gift certificate to go horse back riding from Grandma Jewkes. So between the 3 days we celebrated her birthday, I am thinking she better feel pretty loved.






Today we were at church and right before the third block started we were told to go home because it was snowing. Let me first say that I know to many of you living out the great wilderness of snow that some of you do live in, I know that this sounds ridiculous and juvenile. It only snows once a year here and when it does....WATCH OUT!! People stay in their houses, stock up on bread and milk and panic. It's kind of pandemonium along with the excitement of having snow. Of course, our kids could hardly contain themselves and were running recklessly through the halls. I have no idea how they escaped their classrooms. So went home excitedly and went right to the task at hand- building a snowman before it melts! You'll have to excise our snow get-up...this is about as snowy as our clothes get. Call me unprepared.