easter and backyard fun

so as usual it's been a while. nanna came to visit in mid april and was able to stay a week and enjoy easter with us as well. deuce, like always, had the time of his life. he def loves his nanna and spends the next several days after she leaves going from room to room looking for her. this time when she came in he actually got to miss school for the whole week (talk about spoiled). which leads right into easter morning. you would have thought that it was christmas all over again. nanna/the easter bunny had to bring deuce everything he could possibly need for summer backyard fun.


so we'll start with easter and lead to the backyard

this is what deuce was greeted with easter morn

nanna decided to show other uses for the bouncy ball

and what's that phrase......"monkey see monkey do"

the only pic we managed to get after church

mommy hiding easter eggs

deuce hunting them

easter 09 rakes family photo

nanna helping deuce water the tree with his new watering can

now for some backyard fun that we have been having in the last couple of weeks now that the weather has warmed up

deuce going down the slide

deuce n bronco playing in the backyard

deuce getting in bronco's pool completely clothed....he just had to have that stick

nanna n deuce have fun with bubbles

checking out the new sprinkler

we also got a visit from the taylor family. carol anne is the one that used to watch deuce so it was nice to revisit with them even if it was for not so happy reasons. kyle used to be stationed with dave n dc but had gotten out and has now been recalled and will most likely deploy after training so if everyone can please keep them in their prayers, i'm sure they would greatly appreciate it.

kilee n deuce playing with the rocks. they were transferring them back n forth and back n forth between the two buckets

and then kyle started blowing bubbles and really excited deuce

well that's all for now

miss everyone like crazy

luv mel dave n deuce!

1st haircut

that's right...u read it correctly....i finally broke down and cut his hair. i kept holding off thinking the front would catch up with the back AND that it would become curly. well, two weeks ago i came to the realization that neither of those things were going to happen, so we cut it (the back, that is). living in this lovely small town (ha) there wasn't very many options for places to go and dave refused to drive to wilmington (the "big" town about an hour from here) to get it done. he wanted to do it himself, but i told him let's at least get him one decent haircut before we butcher it ourselves. no, kelly i'm not as confident as you guys. so we went to the fantastic sams and here is how it went.....

so after waiting for about 30mins we finally went back and here is the before shot

so with the backyardagains playing on the dvd they wet his hair down and went to town

still very focused on the backyardagains

and ta da... the finished product

and his first lollipop for a job well done.... p.s. i think the car seat is still sticky

well that's all for now!

luv mel dave n deuce!