Happy Easter

What a beautiful day here today! Here are some pictures of our weekend. 

The boys practiced riding bikes :)

Decorated cookies...and Tommy thought that mean to try all of them you decorate, he didn't quite have the concept of decorating them to eat later ;)

We got our seeds and plants into the garden yesterday. 

Had an amazing meal this afternoon with both sets and parents, my Grandmother, and even Evan surprised us! The boys even squeezed in some trampoline time with Grandma!

Happy Easter!

Easter Eggs!

The boys were off from school today and I was off from work, so it was time to get ready for Easter! Our first adventure was the grocery store.

Our next adventure was eggs! We are having everyone over to our house for Easter Dinner so we needed boiled eggs for deviled eggs. So that means the boys got to dye eggs! 

Later we will be decorating Easter cookies :)

Spring is here!

I know, I know, it has been too long since I have blogged. No excuses, but we have been a tad busy :)

Little Cyril has been going to school early everyday and playing chess. He played in his first team tournament last month and they got 6th place. He really enjoys it, and will be playing in an individual tournament in May. He is doing fantastic in school, reading at a sixth grade level, and has mastered addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division! They are working on testing his intellectual abilities so we can get an individual educational program for him, to continue to let him learn since he is so far ahead of his classmates. :)

Tommy is doing fantastic as well. He started at a new preschool last month and is thriving. When I go to pick him up he wants to stay longer! His favorite afternoon activity is jumping on the trampoline now that warmer weather is here! He also has inspired us to make a vegetable garden. They had planted some carrot seeds at school and wanted to plant more at home. So we went to Home Depot and got seeds and supplies for a raised vegetable garden. 

We have carrots, watermelon, and a few tomato plants so far! We also have strawberries in a planter.

Wish us luck! Hope I have a green thumb!

Now for an update on Cyril and myself! We are both busy working and trying to get the yard cleaned up for spring. Cyril is on a coed softball team, and he will have games on Tuesdays. I am still working out a lot, but about to cut back on classes a bit and enjoy more time outside with the boys. 

On a sad note we were faced with the incredibly difficult decision of putting Hercules to sleep last month. He had been having a rough time since about December. We tried new medicine, but it was only a temporary fix. He was tired, has great difficulty walking and just wasn't his happy self. We miss him terribly, and the kitchen is very lonely without him. He was a fantastic dog. He would have been nine at the end of this month. That is the hardest part about having such a big dog, besides the drool :) is that the bigger the dog, the shorter their life :(

Snow Day

Yesterday we got about three inches of snow. So of course we bundled up the boys and went out to play :)

Cyril is 7!!!

Today my Little Cyril turns SEVEN! Can you believe it??? I sure can't! Six was one thing, but something about seven makes it feel like he is really getting older! Yesterday we had a great party with his friends. He requested seven piñatas for turning seven, so that is what we did! We also made a volcano out of mentos and diet coke! It was a blast (pun intended)! This morning has started out with presents from us (note his new high tops in the picture below), biscuits for breakfast, and we will be going to church shortly. Then for lunch we will have my parents and Cyril's parents over for hamburgers and cake! Then he has requested homemade pizza tonight! A day full of yummy eating! Elfy even dressed up for the occasion and wrote Cyril a note on his mirror! Happy 7th birthday Cyril! Time sure flies!

Half Marathon!

Today marks the one year anniversary of my weight loss journey so far. And there just happened to be a half marathon in Oak Ridge this morning...so what better way to celebrate being in shape than run 13.1 miles ?!?! Over the past year I have run a little of and on, my longest run being 6 miles on a treadmill. But I thought what the heck, let's do this! So one of the gals from my p90x class encouraged me to sign up, and I did! It was a beautiful morning. We were blessed with incredible running weather! It was in the mid thirties to start, but once the sun peaked over the horizon we were warm. At mile four I wondered what the heck I was thinking, but that feeling soon passed when we finished the first of two laps. We were cheered on by a lot of people and we finished in two hours and twenty three minutes! Not bad at all for not really training! It feels incredible to have completed the race! Thanks Melissa for all your encouragement, couldn't have done it without you!!!!!! Here are a couple pictures: before, after, and our finishers medal!!

Love our matching outfits?!?!?!

Great news!

Cyril got a new job in the Oak Ridge/Knoxville area!!! We are ecstatic to have him back home with us in the evenings. I am sure he is equally as thrilled to not have to drive fifty miles each way to work each day. We are very thankful for the job he is leaving, but are so thrilled to have him home every evening!! Thank you all for your love and support this year, it really means a lot to us all!