Popsicles and Pepper

Gavin wanted to have his picture taken with Pepper this afternoon, so Maddox hopped in too. Pepper is nearly as large as the boys.

The boys were enjoying their snacks outside this afternoon. Gavin told me last week that he gave up fighting with his brother for lent...can you tell from this photo. Actually he has done better at being nice to his little brother. Thank goodness for lent. Too bad it doesn't last all year.

Play Ball!

This evening Gavin was excited about showing me how he can catch pop flies much better than last year.

I got it!

Whoa!

Now it's Maddox's turn...to show me what he's got!

Maddox firing the ball to Dad...that boy has an arm on him. If only he was old enough to play this year. Maybe we could sneak him out on the field.

Gavin starts practice on April 3rd...He's looking forward to it.

Saturday...

Today I took lots of pictures and just thought I'd post a few. We were on the run today...and the last thing I need to be doing is blogging. Ah well!

1st Stop: Grandma and Grandpa Dorn's The boys went fishing and the girls went shopping...and shopping is exhausting...just ask Mallory!

Mallory and Grandma Dorn

3rd Stop: Grandma and Grandpa Kocher's

My nephew, Rhett

Me and Chelsea

Mallory showing me the "proper" way to open Grandma's cabinets (inside joke)

My Little Greaser!

This morning Maddox decided to "fix" his own hair. It looked awesome...what do you think? Never mind the huge clumps of Daddy's "grooming creme" on the sides of his head. This view actually looks pretty impressive.
Nice?!

Even nicer?!?! The best part was trying to get it out of his hair. We didn't know what to use, and the first thing that popped into our heads was Dawn...it does cut grease! What a mess...we didn't even get it all out because after his nap today it looked as if he'd been cruising around on Grandpa's Harley all day. Definitely some wacky hair today!

Who Needs a Stylist...

...when you've got cousins! Jeremy and Kelly stopped in to get ready for church pictures this evening and I was getting Mallory dressed up in her super cute big girl dress. Gavin and Maddox enjoyed helping me get her dressed. We had to take her socks back off so that Maddox could have a job too. Gavin got her all buttoned up the back and Maddox did a great job getting her toes covered. She thought she was big stuff getting all that pampering.

Gavin even decided to roll up her sleeves for her

Giving a little wave...
This little girl has it made...don't ya think?

Today's my Lucky Day!

I guess the luck of the Irish is with me today. I was down 4.4 lbs. at weigh-in tonight. That's right . . 4.4lbs. I am beyond ecstatic! We didn't have a whole lot going on this week...we didn't go anywhere and I didn't have a whole lot of temptations overall. That's a total of 15.6 lbs. for me. I feel a party coming on!

I heard from Mom this afternoon. She has lost again...this time 1.8 lbs. Her total is 10.8 lbs. Not too shabby! She's going to catch right up with me.

A huge thanks goes all to everyone for their comments and emails and encouragement through this "lifelong" journey of ours. THANKS!

Just loungin' around!

Just a while ago the boys were watching Spongebob (Surprise, Surprise!) and this is how they were laying. This type of affection doesn't happen too often anymore between the two of them. I had to capture it. Gavin's getting to the age where he thinks he's too old for it. It was funny because Maddox asked Gavin if he was getting heavy...and Gavin said "No buddy, I'm good!"