Easter Weekend

We had an eventful weekend that began Friday night at the Ballpark in Arlington.  We took the kids to see the Rangers play the White Sox and stayed for fireworks after the game!

The weather was absolutely perfect.  70 and breezy.  Sure beat our June game last year in the triple digit heat!

We bought passes to watch the fireworks show from the field. It was fun to walk around on the field but we decided compared to last year that the view is actually better from our seats.

We pulled in at 11:30 Friday night and headed to Keegan's double header T-ball games Saturday morning.

We had Easter dinner at Grammy & Poppy's Saturday night with of course an egg hunt and some egg decorating.  Presley declared it was the "best Easter party ever!"

No interest in egg coloring for this guy....But if there's a car or plane around he's a happy boy :)

Sweet Kinley

Sweet girl's first Easter :)

After church we headed to Nana & Gramps' for Easter lunch and egg hunts.  We had so much fun celebrating both Easter and Gramps' birthday!

Then we came home and crashed!  It was such an awesome weekend of worship, family and fun. 

Thankful that we serve a Risen Savior!  As my kids love to shout "The tomb was EMPTY!"  Amen.

Keegan's Adenoidectomy

We took Keegan to the ENT doctor a couple of weeks ago to have his adenoids checked out.  He's been a mouth breather for so long and it has really affected his eating and sleeping.  It's been hard for him to eat without coughing and choking because he's trying to breathe and eat with his mouth at the same time.  And his snoring has been so bad that he wakes himself up a few times a night causing many nights of interrupted sleep.  X-rays confirmed that his adenoids were so large they were blocking 80% of his passageway.  Poor little guy just could not breathe through his nose!  

So we headed into surgery yesterday morning to have them removed.  Keegan loves to go to the doctor so he was pretty fearless at first.  He kept asking if he was going to get stickers.

They called us back around 8:00am to get him dressed and ready. 

He did not care for the wrist band but he was so brave!

Prayers before surgery.....

Love from Sissy.....

Five minutes after the "happy juice"......

When they rolled him back he turned his head and stared at us till he was out of sight.  Not the easiest 10 seconds of motherhood so far.  But he didn't cry out and I'm sure he was out within a minute or two.  The surgery took only 20 minutes and our Doctor said all went well and the adenoids were even larger than we thought.  They were blocking almost his entire passageway so we are so glad we opted to have them out. 

They called us back about 10 minutes after the doctor met with us and although I'd been warned Keegan would be 'fighting' mad, I don't think anything could have prepared me for those first 30 minutes in recovery.  ROUGH.  He cried, screamed, and was literally 'fighting' us with his entire body, staring at us like he had no idea who we were.  It was the worst.  After about 30 minutes he wore himself out and dosed off in my lap. 

 Besides throwing up a little on the way home it was smooth sailing the rest of the day.  He had lots of popsicles and go-go squeeze and he was running around the house flying airplanes by 5pm.  Ava spent the day making sweet 'get better soon' cards for him :-)

He was a little sore this morning but the motrin seems to be working well.  He's eating well and playing hard!  In a week or so when the swelling is gone he will be able to breathe clearly and his sweet little voice will probably sound much different and less "nasally."  We are beyond thankful for all the prayers and well wishes.  How great our God is that we never walk alone without Him?!

 "Praise be to God, because He has not rejected my prayer or removed His steadfast love from me!" Psalms 66:20

Some Spring Pics

We've been busy around here with school, t-ball, dance, etc. and we've spent a lot of time outside on the spring-like days.  I uploaded some pictures from my phone of some spring fun we've had the last few weeks. 

Last month over spring break we had beautiful weather and I took the kids park hopping and bike riding a couple of days. 

We had a picnic lunch at a nature preserve with our Smitherman friends over spring break.  These girls have had a busy kindergarten year and were so excited to spend some time together.

Keegan is loving T-ball.  He practices for an hour on Wednesday evenings and he looks forward to it all day.  He waits for me in the laundry room with his glove and ball yelling "Let's go!!" every week. 

He won the first award for best offensive player Game1 at practice a couple of weeks ago.  He was soooooo excited. He walked in the house asking for 'glue' to hang it in his room.  Precious.

He is so proud!

Ava is still working on her two shows for recital weekend.  She's dancing to songs from the Sound of Music and the choreography is so cute.  Just two months away! 

We've taken advantage of these windy spring days flying kites at our park.  Ava loves it.  Keegan is done after about 20 seconds.

Happy Spring :-)