We went to the McWayne Center in Birmingham during the boys

Spring Break. We all had a blast!

SL lays on a Bed of Nails!The boys pull their own weight. Notice: I did not try this! Havey and Ben finally built the perfect arch, but it does not last long!
Ben and the boys try to knock away invisible soccer balls on the blue screen!This is the closest I have ever seen Ben to dancing! Look at the big screen to the left and the soccer balls appear in the movie!The boys do thier favorite thing-play in water!!
Havey poses by the big one.Stephen Louis is amazed by the fish. Me and the boys experience what a tornado feels like! WOW!

Tracy had a great surprise birthday party for Andy the first of March. We had a lot of fun visiting with our sweer friends and the boys had such fun playing with Landon and

Anna Catherine.

We are so excited for our friends as Andy prepare to go to

Seminary School!

We are praying for you guys!

Ben loves to teach the kids cool experiments, like what Mentos candy does in a bottle of Diet Coke that has been shook up. This experiment is much safer than the one they saw Ben doing with their magnifying glass and a small piece of paper on a sunny day!

WE LOVE SPIDERMAN!!!

Heritage Academy Kindergarten visits Columbus Air Force Base.

SL and Havey fly a plane!! (The guy beside the plane is the dad to both boys' best buddies.)

SL thought it was cool to try on the pilots gear! Havey thought it was just cool to watch.

He told me he wasn't putting that on his face after all the other kids-I do not blame him!

Firetruck time!

Benjamin Harris and his friend pretend they are parachuting from a plane!

COWBOY WEEK AT MAINSTREET CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

Isn't our little cowboy darling? Stephen Louis's cowgirl and cowboy friends! SL and his sweet teacher, Ms. Missy!

Ride 'em cowboy!

I love getting kisses from my sweet boys!SL and Havey choose their rooms!
Ben and SL look over from the balcony for a quick photo.

No more kids upsatirs until their is a rail-that is way too high! I wonder how many airplanes will be flown over that balcony into the great room, by Ben and the boys!

Oh Boy, do I need to spend some time updating our BLOG! Things have been so busy lately with trips, birthdays, and Easter! So, we have a lot to share!

In late February we took our annual trip to Sandestin and played, while Ben went to Forestry meetings with the AFA. We had so much fun with Mama Ann and Benjamin and Georgia-Lee (my older sister kids). Ashley is also a Forester, as well as her husband Ben, so they come to the meetings too! Yes she is married to a Ben and her son is named Benjamin too, and yes they are all foresters, as is my little sister's husband, but he is not named Ben, nor do they have any kids! Crazy, I know!! It just makes things so wild when we are together!

Rock star fun in our hotel room at a pajama party! They are getting ready for St. Patty's Day!
Mama Ann and the brothers

The beach was a little chilly the first night we arrived, but we did have a great sunny day the next day. It was hot enough to wear swimsuits and build sand castles! I do not know where the photos are from that day.

Pretending on the playground like little lost pirates!

Cousins are the greatest! SL found his most favorite shop ever at Baytown Warf! It was the Candymaker Store! He was so overwhealmed with the selection, he did not know what to choose first!

Benjamin Harris shows off his very loose tooth on our ride to Auburn on February 21st. It was just barely hangin' on, but he was a little worried about pulling his first tooth. I tried to talk him into letting me pull it. I am his mom, shouldn't I have the priveledge of getting to pull his first tooth? No way was he letting me do that-he would only let me touch the tooth as long as he was guiding my hand!

We went to one of our old college favorites for dinner- Cheeburger, Cheeburger. YUM!

We took the boys on a small walk on the Plains after dinner. I think they love Auburn as much as we do. It really is such a pretty campus and holds so many fun memories for me and Ben! War Eagle!!

Okay, can you believe he let Ben pull the tooth when I was out of the room? Well, he did! Havey was so glad that it did not bleed or even hurt. We were very glad about that too. If it had, he would not have wanted to ever pull another one!

The Tooth Fairy came to the hotel room that night. She left him a $10 bill for his first tooth and she even dropped her crown when she was flying out of the window that night. How exciting! The boys decided that she probably has a lot of extra crowns because this probably happens a lot. I love their imagination and innocence. They are surely gifts from God! :)

Benjamin Harris is showing off the crown along with his money and empty tooth box in the photo below! Look at that sweet toothless smile!

It's Great to be an Auburn Tiger!

We are so excited that the house is actually looking like a house. We have been so pleased with the builder. The crew is moving quickly on the framing. This photo was taken on the 19th of February. It has changed even more over the last 2 weeks. This view is of the front of the house. The boys love visiting the house for one big reason-a very big dirt pile! I think the pile may have to stay there upon completion and not be spread out. It makes for very dirty clothes and boys, but they have so much fun playing in/on the pile!
Rescue Heros, John Deere Tractors, and a whole lot of dirt- What more could 2 little boys ask for!
This is a view of the back of the house.

The boys help Pop with his candles and opening his presents. They know he loves puzzles, so they got him a few for his birthday. They got him one for just him to do and one for them to do together. SL is always so tempted to mess with Poppie's "big puzzles" that he is working on, so maybe this will save Pop from losing the pieces to his "big puzzles".
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SL stirs us up some Monkey Bread for breakfast! YUM! YUM!

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A couple of us girls went to Harvey's for a wonderful dinner and a great time with friends for Cindy's Birthday! It was nice to have a little adult conversation at a restaurant other than McDonalds, not that I don't enjoy my fun-filled times with the kids at McD's! I wouldn't trade those days for anything!

Days with grandparents are so much fun, especially when you have a sugar high from all of the Valentine candy!

Three years ago for Valentine's Day Ben and the boys sent me away to the spa. Ben had someone come clean the house, while he and Benjamin Harris prepared dinner and decorated for a special Valentine's meal. Benjamin Harris was 3 at the time and Stephen Louis was not yet 1. The Lost City Restaraunt was the name that Benjamin Harris gave to our kitchen that night, as he had transformed it with a little help into a magical place. So, we have a special sign hanging in our kitchen that was so sweetly written last year in Benjamin Harris' handwriting that labels it as the "Lost City Rastront". The picture below is our Valentine's Dinner at this special place!

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Heritage Academy had an Iron Chef Cook off for mothers and sons and of course we entered. Benjamin Harris wanted to make Chocolate Chip Pie. We had a good time cooking together and his pie turned out wonderfully.

This photo is from the morning of the Big Contest! He won in the Pie Category. He was so excited! They even gave him a $5 gift card to Beans and Cream, one of our favorite place to go for doing homework, reading, playing games/puzzles and to get some yummy treats!