April thus far

First a toot!!

Only it’s not for me and that’s more then okay!

It’s for this child.

And the magazine she’s holding in where she is published!  Now the new magazine isn’t up yet on their website, but when it is it her poem is on page 54 of the May/June 2009 issue!  She wrote a poem in 4th grade in response to a unit they were doing on Martin Luther King.  If you want to see a copy of the poem you can on her blog here.  From what I understand she is the youngest poet ever to be published in this magazine!  This magazine also offers a photo contest, so if anyone is interested!

We are so proud of her!

Other April happenings!

I held a photo shoot with my eldest.  He was cooperative only because his girlfriend was watching.  I REALLY am jealous of all that red hair!

Of course there was Spring break!  Brian and the three younger kids spent 5 days at Grandpa and Grandma’s house!  I stayed home with Ty and so I could participate in an online scrapbooking crop held by Create My Keepsake!  I managed in those 5 days to complete 10 layouts, 4 projects and 2 cards!!!  How often does that happen?  Here are a few things that I did with my scrappy weekend!

Then there was Easter.  Ours was rather busy and trying.  I really wish it hadn’t been, but God had different plans.  On Good Friday, at around 3 am or so, Brian’s grandfather, the kids’s great-grandfather, finally got his final reward in Glory!  It had been a LONG, long battle with Parkinson’s and 7 long years in the nursing home.  My younger children do not remember Papaw Great anwhere but the nursing home and certainly never the way Ty remembers him.  The funeral was the Monday after Easter.  We were all fine until Ethan lost it about 10 minutes before the service was over.  Ty prefered to sit in the front row, prior to the service and play his guitar.  It’s as close to the casket as he cared to get.

Warning!  The next photo was taken of Ty doing just that- It does show the casket and Grandpa’s body.  Ty will need to remember this.  For those that think funeral and casket photography morbid, scroll past it please.

We all mourn in our own way.  Papaw never got to hear Ty play and music and writing are two of  Ty’s way of expressing himself.  He did a lot of both this weekend.  For more about the who Grandpa was see my husbands blog

The flowers were just beautiful.  I took several flowers from the cut flower arrangements.

These lilies were my favorites!  So very pretty!

Two more photos from Easter weekend.  Ethan with his Great Grandma and a close up of Zoe.

We also colored Easter Eggs and had an egg hunt.  Had to keep some normalcy to the weekend.

Now back home again.

We had book fair night at school.  Aryn was a 5th grade star reader!  Complete with her own star!

And we have a finch that has taken up residence on a pillar on our front porch.

And Ty finally painted me a flower pot for use on my scrappy table!  I LOVE it!!

Take care . . .