Easter Weekend

This weekend has been a roller coaster of emotions...to say the least. There have been scary moments, sad moments, fun moments, joyful moments, but most of all THANKFUL moments :).

Our office was closed on Friday, so our weekend started on Thursday. Web, Vance, and I went to some friend's house for a nice cookout. They live out in the country as well so Vance had a GREAT time :)!


I love this picture of Web & Vance tossing the football to one another ;).

Friday morning started off GREAT! Web and I had a fairly long list of errands to do, so we decided to take Vance to daycare. We were working on our list and decided to meet Meag, Chris, Lily, and Donnie for lunch at Newk's. We placed our order, sat down to eat, and then it happened. For those of you who have not seen the news, a large tornado swept through Murfreesboro on Friday.


It was categorized as an EF-3, set out on a diagonal path through town, and did some fairly bad damage in certain parts. So far only two deaths have been confirmed and just a handful of injuries. The community has already started coming together to help those families in need.


We were ushered to the back of the restaurant until the storms passed. Meag, Lily, and I decided to go to the less crowded men's restroom and take some pictures. Lily did GREAT! My heart was extremely heavy while we were there b/c it took a good hour to get through to Vance's daycare. At one point the tornado was headed straight there and we were worried sick. By the grace of God, it missed his daycare and all of the kids were safe!!! We left the restaurant when the coast was clear, picked up our boy, and headed home. It was not the best Good Friday ever, but again we were THANKFUL!!!

Saturday was much better! We finished our errands from Friday and even drove through one of the neighborhoods that was hit. It is such a blessing that there were not more people injured.

That night we visited one of my friends from high school/college. We had not seen each other in a long time, so it was nice catching up. She has a little boy that is almost four and a little girl that is ten months. From the pictures below you can tell Vance had a ball!!!


AJ and Vance riding in the Monster Truck :)! AJ was a great driver and Vance just LOVED this.


This is Vance just SITTING on AJ's four-wheeler! He is too little to ride but you could tell he wanted to so badly :).

The boys spent most of the night outside playing while we talked and laughed :)!!!

EASTER SUNDAY WAS WONDERFUL!!! We had a full day that included Mass, lunch at my MIL's house, and a birthday celebration dinner for yours truly at my parent's house. Let the pictures tell you the story of our exciting, fun-filled day :)!


A quick family picture before heading to Mass!



A little sidewalk chalk fun before going to our MIL's house :)!


A fun, little Easter Egg Hunt at Nana and Papa's house :). Vance did so good and kept asking for "more eggs?!"


Yes, this is Vance painting with my chocolate pudding dessert. He ate some of it but liked painting with it more :).

My birthday is not until April 20th BUT our schedule is a little crazy this week and weekend. I had a wonderful evening with family and received a lot of great gifts!

Like I said, a roller coaster of emotions but THANKFUL tops the list :)!!!!