MOVING!!

Hey All!!! Can't believe its been a whole month since my last post, but I promise I have a real good excuse.... MOVING!!! We have bought a house so over the past month, we have remodeled and moved into a house (which I have to say is the most stressful thing I have ever had to do). I never realized how much junk me, Casey, and the kids have until now. Its ridiculous!!! After looking through all the toys, clothes, and just junk my kids own, I have realized just how lucky and blessed we are to be able to provide pretty much anything they could possibly want. Yea, you could say they are a little spoiled but being able to go buy "almost" anything they want, is a TRUE BLESSING. Not every family has that luxury. I have pics of the new house but have had very little time to do anything that doesn't involve painting, packing, loading, and unpacking. I did manage to upload these 2 that were taken right after we got through painting the walls and staining the concrete.

These pics don't do it justice.... you should have seen the carpet we started with, YIKES!! This was a very easy thing to do... minus the mishap we have had with little (some big) white spots that have started showing up all over the house..... hopefully nothing a few rugs cant fix!!!

We are almost through.... still living out of some boxes but I think I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel!!! Hope everyone is having a great summer so far (despite the terrible heat).
Here are some pics of what we have taken on in the midst of moving our whole life from one location to another (luckily its less than 1/2 mile down the road from our current house).

Cayson's First Year of T-BALL

(Ignore the date... I used my mom's camera and it is definitely a little behind)

So far so good!!!! We have only had 1 meltdown in 2 games!!!

Have a great week and hopefully I will be back soon with a few more pics of the house!!



Easter 2011

A little late posting Easter pics but last week was Relay week so I was a litte busy!!! Hope you enjoy all the pictures!!! Kids had a fantastic Easter!!

Anna's Easter Party at school

Silly Girls.... 

Racing to hunt eggs.... 

not sure the name of this game but I call it "Dont drop the egg"... Luckily they were plastic because there were alot of eggs dropped!!!

Cayson's Easter Party (that I was a little late for)

The Easter Bunny did come to The Pickering House but I deleted the pics off my phone before I uploaded them....

Church Attire and The BIG Egg Hunt

It was Anna's year to be at her mom's for Easter so unfortunately she couldn't be in the pic. 

My handsome litte man!!! 

Cayson and Sissa 

The four boys.... That Jax is something else!!! They were all adorable though!! 

Just cant get over how big my baby is!!!!

Cayson and his cousin Zachary... they were here for the weekend but had to leave at lunch on Easter for their 8 hr drive back to Texas. 

Casey, his mom, and his sister Patti 

Annual Easter egg Hunt at Lacy's 

The bunny cake... long story about the missisn bowtie (cake on table alone + dog = missing cake) 

Me and my sis Melissa 

Me and my sisters....3 silly bunnys

Let the hunt for over 300 eggs begin.....

all the kids counting their eggs and looking for money eggs 

The highlight of the day was when one of the kids bent over to pick up an egg and luckily discovered this nasty creature before it got anybody... Thanks to Melissa (our snake hunter) she was able to use her new snake gig to get rid of it!!! The kids thought it was the coolest thing ever!!!

I will be back later this week with lots of pictures from this past weekend's Relay For Life!!! It was an AMAZING night and we are up to about $262,000 for the county (and still counting).

Have a great week!!!!

Baptism and Hunting Eggs

We usually start the whole "hunting eggs" thing a few weeks prior to Easter just to get everybody perfected before Easter. Anna will be with her mom this year for Easter so we did our hunting eggs this past weekend at Casey's moms house. No matter how old you are, dying, hiding, and finding eggs never gets old!!!

We hid 42 plastic eggs first!!!

Then dyed a dozen real eggs.....

and finally hid and found 25 plastic eggs and a dozen real ones.... neadless to say kids had a blast!!! (and so did we)



Sunday was one of the happiest days in a parent's life.... one of your children giving their heart to the Lord and getting baptized. Anna has begged and pleaded to get baptized for over a month now and after talking to us and the preacher, we all decided she was definitely ready.... so yesterday all her family gathered at Journey Church for an exciting day.

She was so excited all day!!!!

Sunday was also an exciting day for us as a family.... We became official members of Journey Church. We have been going for over a year now and life couldn't be better. We know this is where God wants us to be.

After the church service, we all headed over to Roger's Green House for our church Easter Egg hunt. It was the perfect day to be outside!!!

We are so blessed!!! Hope you all have a great week and a Happy Easter!!!