Easter @ MindSay

I have been slacking lately on updating my blog. Sorry. It tends to run in waves. Here are a few updates for you all.

To begin, Happy 1st Birthday to Lewie!!!!. His actual birthday was March 21, I didn't post this then, because he and his big brother were going to have a party this Saturday. I figured I could give them both a special birthday message and maybe a couple new photos. However, the whole family is laid low with illness, so the party may be off. We'll see. At any rate, I wanted to wish him happy, and if the party goes as planned, we'll just do it all again.

Related: Happy upcoming Birthday to Lewie's big brother, Clayton. Clay will be four on April 5. Here is a recent picture mom, Mindy sent out. Not sure why they're both making faces, must be the curse (or blessing) of little boys.

Obviously, the big one is Clay and the little guy is Lew. Man, they are the cutest little guys!

In other news, Happy Belated Easter to you all! I meant to post on Easter, but was far too busy enjoying my second consecutive day off (that doesn't happen much in my world). I had big plans to treat you all to a nice history of Easter, why it is on a Sunday, why it moves around (the date) and all that, but I didn't complete my research and now....well, who cares? You'll just have to wait in breathless anticipation of next year's story. Or look it up on your own.

And finally, my favorite season is on its way, Baseball! I am a bit leery of my beloved Twins this season, they have made some pretty big changes, see here, for one of the biggest. Still, I love them and baseball, so I am truly thrilled that the season is about to get underway. We do have the return of Francisco Liriano to look forward to, along with a very young lineup. Cross your fingers. This Sunday night, I will be attending my fantasy baseball draft (my second season!) at Brine's in Stillwater. I am looking forward to another strong season, this time hopefully with a strong finish as well. (Last year, Chase Utley, affectionately called The Machine, carried the team until his injury cost us the playoffs. Oh well, I still love you Chase!)

So, look forward to many updates on the season, both in reality and in fantasy.  Until then.....

Happy Easter to everyone! :)

So I took the first photo yesterday, Easter, the sky looked beautiful, so I actually took a lot of landscape pictures.  This one I actually took while driving, gotta love my new camera!  Anyways, I cropped it down to the second, then got rid of a tree branch and put in a lighting effect on the third.  I think the final one just seemed perfect for Easter with the sun shining through the clouds.  Shows hope, and happiness in my opinion.  He is Risen! :)  Looks beautiful to me, and I'm usually picky heh.

http://flickr.com/photos/trinalina/sets/72157604225547020/

I took this one of The Kiddo at an Easter egg hunt.

The Hunt by ~ObsidianJewel on deviantART

This was taken during my trip to Portland

Well, this weekend was a blur! Started on Friday with everybody out of work and school. So went all over NC(felt like it!) hunting a prom dress for Ariana.-Talk about stressful! LOL she is so tiny and dainty, she wears a size 0 and everywhere we went -hillsbourough,greensboro, burlington, etc... was sold out of 0's or had none! we got home about 5:00. Whew..started again on Saturday morning with a trip to Concord Mills. we were there for 3 and a half hours! Still no 0's but she narrowed it down to a size 1-2 navy blue or a xs green one. We bought the green one. Now we just have to get it hemmed and adjusted..... Stressful! LOL she bought shoes and earrings too. Just have to find bracelet and necklace now.  Goodness!

Sunday went to Easter service early. We were out by 10:15 and went to pick up grandma and then drove to Boone to have Easter lunch out with Morgan. It wasn't a bad day, just chilly after the 70's on Sat. and Fri. Morgan was starving. No classes on monday or tuesday, and he probably should have come home, but he didn't. We had a nice lunch at Golden Corral. Everybody napped when we got home. I fixed a ham for supper and Ariana had Amy over to eat with us. All in All I had a great day, especially since I got to see my son! Miss him! Just think in about 7 weeks he will be home for the summer and freshman year will be over..... Sigh... and Ariana's Jr year in Highschool.