Busy Bees

This post is going to be picture-heavy, so I'm going to get right to it. We have been doing well and staying busy. This nice weather seems to help our activities pick up, too. I have the majority of my maternity leave sub plans completed, and only 9 days left until I begin my leave! Luckily I get the week of Spring Break off right before Carter will be born, and those day won't count against me. We spent a little bit of time in her room today, but in my eyes, still have a little ways to go. According to Josh, we're good to go. Ha. Men.

So I was messing with Josh's phone for some reason today and stumbled upon some pictures from Mom and Dad's visit a few weeks ago. I wanted to go back and share some of these too.

Tillman reading a baseball book, pirate-style. 

Dinner at The Starving Artist Cafe downtown Easley. 

This was such a nice change of pace, change of scenery, and had a good ambiance for our dinner, including live music, which Tillman loved and Dad kept playing "Guess That Artist." 

Me and the Mr.

Big Dep and Little Dep

Tillman has been doing an outstanding job sleeping in her "big girl bed" so we decided to take her to Toys 'R Us this week and let her use some of her Christmas giftcards that we are still rationing out. This is what she choose. 

And this is how she slept that same night. She had to have the Jessie, Woody, and Buzz Lightyear dolls with her in bed, along with her usuals. I tried to tell her there wouldn't be any room left for her with all those toys, but she found a way to manage.

Carter got a little treat in the mail this week. I can't wait for football season!

This weekend our Sunday School class had an "in-house" marriage retreat Friday night and Saturday morning/afternoon. It was a great experience, and Josh and I both took away some valuable insights and perspectives. It was great spending some quality time with our other class members, as well as focusing in on our marriage, what works for us, and how to we can improve it.  There were a lot of laughs along with a lot of "hmmmm" and "Oh, wow. That makes sense" moments. 

Unfortunately we missed the last session of the retreat because we wanted to participate in the preschool Easter egg hunt, also put on by the church. We had McKinley bring Tillman up to the church to meet us so we could have some fun with her too. 

A blurry shot, but she was ready to run! She was scoping out all the fun.

There were inflatables, train rides, crafts, food, and an egg hunt.

Making our way to line up for the 2 and under egg hunt.

I think Josh was talking strategy with her too. 

Scoping out all the eggs before Mrs. Kalah said, "Go!"

Surrounded by eggs. Per Josh's suggestion, Tillman ran all the way to the end of the field, past all the other kids and eggs, so she could find a spot to herself to collect eggs undisturbed. 

As you can see, there were plenty of eggs to go around.

I'd say she was successful.

Having too much fun! & wanting to get started eating those suckers. 

Team Christopher

This was all the help I was..."Look, there's an egg right there." 

Sorting through the eggs after the hunt.

If you look closely, you can see how Tillman organized all the loot. The bubbles are all together, then the ducks, the chocolate, and the sour candy. Proof that she is my child, too.

Cracking open and sorting. She had it down to a science by the end of it.

Collecting eggs

Playing on one of the inflatables. 

Somebody was worn slap out when we got home from all the fun and decided to have a meltdown on the kitchen floor. I jokingly put her blankets on her and told her she could just take her nap right there. Josh got down on the floor to tell her night-night and this is what we get.

Going from a full blown tantrum to hugging on Daddy...

Convincing Daddy to take off his glasses...

and giving him sweet kisses...

Who do you think she has wrapped around her little finger???

And this is what my monkeys do when we have 5 minutes to spare before heading to church this morning...

Love it

Good morning, everybody!

For those who are aware of the St. Baldrick's fundraiser Josh was in charge of for LMS's Student Council, the final culmination event was this past Friday afternoon. Josh and the other students of LMS worked very hard to raise $5,700 towards a children's cancer foundation (after setting a school goal of $1,000). 35 heads were shaved at the event (a school dance), including Josh, Mr. Edwards, the principal, 3 girls, and 31 boys. I'm beyond proud of Josh for heading up this fundraiser, the final event, and encouraging and motivating the students of LMS to put forth such caring and character for children they will likely never meet, but will undoubtedly help change their lives.

A quick "before" shot

During the head shaving... Thank you, Emma for this lovely look.

And an after shot.

Thank you, Emma for helping out with the event and making Josh look good by the end of it! 

So we've been all over with this post and my brain is already permanently scattered. So with that, I'll hopefully be back on tomorrow for a 36 week / 9 month picture comparison post of Tillman and Carter, assuming I remember. Goodnight!