Easter

Waking up to Star Wars stuff in Easter baskets:

 Easter pictures before the egg hunt, Easter dinner, and late church:

 

 Easter Egg Hunt:

These boys have waaaay too much fun together.  And I love it:

 

 

 

Happy Easter!



Red Head Ali and Best Friend Kyle's 1st Trip to Texas

A few days after we flew back from Florida my best friend, Red Head Ali, flew to Texas on her birthday with her fiancée, Best Friend Kyle (my boys love the movie Home and that character), so The Duke Crew could meet him and have some fun.  Great way to celebrate our birthday week!

The boys having a blast building Legos in the morning with Best Friend Kyle:

Best Friend Kyle's maiden voyage to Joe T's and the Fort Worth Stockyards was a success: 

 Colt got a boost so he could see the cattle drive:

 Every tourist must get on a longhorn:

 2nd time, in fact, for Ali:

 Howdy there, sheriffs:

Saturday was a great day for their engagement pictures at the Stockyards and around Fort Worth.  Don't worry, I was not the photographer, and they did have a wardrobe change so they didn't smell like enchiladas and livestock.  They were seriously the cutest:

So glad they came to visit us!  Can't wait until they get married in August!!!

Spring Break in Tampa, Florida

We went with Mimi and Papa on a quick beach getaway for the first part of Spring Break. We stayed at a beach house owned by the late George Steinbrenner (former owner of the Yankees). Poor Matt and Allyson got hosed checking in at the airport and missed the flight...and had to go to urgent care for Hayley twice within 24 hours with the flu (at least she didn't have walking pneumonia like Tyler had the week before we left), but after the first day the trip got better.  Autrey and I went on the most relaxing/scenic 4 mile beach run.  He would probably beg to differ on the relaxing part, but I'm glad he joined me.  A black racer snake went right through Autrey's legs at the fence as he was rinsing sand off the boys so they could get into the pool and hot tub.  Wish I would have caught that on film! The entire rest of the trip he tried to catch it, and came close once.  The cousins would have been happy digging and swimming forever:

 

 Tommy teaching Colt to play Checkers.  Or attempting to:

 

 

Only in Florida can you feed alligators while you play mini golf: 

 

 

 

 We had dinner at "Bubble Gums" (I love that the boys called it that).  Papa's favorite movie is Forrest Gump so it was a novelty.  They had all kinds of shrimp.  My favorite was the coconut shrimp.  I love that the bench had Forrest's suitcase, box of chocolates, and shoes:

 It was foggy and overcast the last day: 

 Thanks for taking us with you, Mimi and Papa!