HAPPY EASTER!!! I love Easter - I really do. It was Andy Pandy's very first Easter - and Camp's first Easter where he was actually semi-aware of the festivities. The picture is taken at my beloved Mimi's house in Columbia. I have such wonderful memories of happy Easter's at her home - and I hope my children's memories will be just as wonderful.

AND - Happy Birthday to my absolutely terrific best friend Sharon!!!! She's 29 and holding today!! (Shay - if you ever read this - you will ALWAYS be 29 in my postings.. no matter what!)I called and left her a voicemail. I hope she's had a faboo day. I know she was going to have lunch with her family and her darling boyfriend.. I hope she's had a great day! She's amazing and wonderful and talented and very pretty - I should hate her endlessly - but I can't!!!! You see those movies about those women that have remained friends through there entire lives - well - that's Shay and I. I'm lucky - I have a few women in my life who I just know will always be there.. and Shay is one.

The day started well for us! Andy slept until 6:30!!! YAY!!! I love when he sleeps ALL NIGHT. It's finally becoming more and more frequent. Which is such a wonderful thing. Camp got up around 7 - and we all had breakfast. Lo and Behold - the Easter Bunny came for the boys. Camp got some candy, a bunny that hops across the table (when you pull on it's pull-string), a Hollow Easter Bunny, and - his very 1st Matchox car! It was a yellow Plymouth something or other. Jason liked it - and Camp sure did. He would not put it down. It has officially begun. Andy had a basket with some plastic eggs in the shapes of balls - football, soccer, etc - and he has a new stuffed bunny that says "my 1st Easter" on it - it's yellow and white. Course, next year - he'll get HIS first matchbox car - but it's way way too early for that.

We all went to church this morning. It was packed. We dropped the boys off in their classrooms - and Jason and I were helping with the 3 year old nursery room. Good thing - as there were 16 kids today! Wowser! I like helping with the 3 year olds - they're so funny. We read, and did puzzles, and had snacks. And best of all - my sweet, precious, nephew Ford got to be in the room too! He's 3 and a half. I could eat him up he's so sweet. He played really well with the other kids - even when some child kept taking the dinosaur he was playing with. I am very proud of him. Not only is he brilliant and handsome - but he's such a sweet boy too. Our family is very lucky.

Then - after church, we all packed off to Columbia. My grandparents are getting so old. It breaks my heart to see them getting that way. I think back when we used to play with them - and go to the beach with them - and man - they were so lively and energetic - and we did everything with them. And now - time.. marches on - and it's just sad to think about. At one point, my Grandaddy was in his recliner, leaning to one side so his arm was off the far edge so he could pet his dog- and the expression on his face, and how ridgid his body was in that position. It just made me view the inevitable right then and there. I know what he'll look like when he dies - I saw it today. And it broke my heart. I got up and kissed him on the cheek and told him I loved him. Which I do, very much. I've never understood much about his life - I know he was an orphan - and he was given up for adoption during the depression. He was also in the Military. But - how sad is it that I know so little about the rest of his life. I need to fix that asap.

My Mimi - whom I want to grow up and be just like - is terrific. She's old too, now. But she's so sweet and always smiles at me and has the most affectionate look in her eyes when she does. I just want to reach out and pick her up and put her in my pocket. I think she's proud of my boys - she thinks they are sweet, I think. She repeats herself alot, and is not in the best of health anymore - her alzheimers is wearing on her too - but I love this woman. Very much. I really do want to grow up and be a lot like her.. or at least the her that my memories are of. She's amazing.

So - now back from the tangent.. We saw a lot of the family today - my cousin Mark and his wife Trisha and their beautiful son, Evan. (he's got the most gorgeous dark curls). My cousin Andy (whom my son is named after). My cousin Ginny and her handsome new hubby Bubba. And of course, sister Beth and Will with Ford and Charlie. And my other sister Ashley, her hubby David and their gorgeous son Walker. I hadn't seen "Wa" in a LONG time - he's gotten HUGE - and BLONDE! When did that happen. He'll be 1 this coming Saturday. My Mama and Daddy, Mimi and Grandaddy and my Aunt Gail and her husband Bill - who I consider my Uncle. They've not been married but more than a couple years - but it seems like he's just been part of our family forever. I really adore him. And he treats my aunt well - which is the most important thing. I love my family. All of them. Maybe they just don't realize how much - but each one just plays such a roll in my life, quiet though it may be.. but significant.

We had lunch, Camp and Ford played in the yard with the spigot (it doesn't take much to entertain toddlers). Andy just kind of hung out and looked chubby and cute - which he is. We left Cola about 4:15 and came home. Jason mowed most of the yard, before the lawn mower died, then we fed and bathed the boys and put them to bed. It's now 8:15 ... and I'm WIPED! LOL! Sad, sad, sad. Oh well - still have to clean the downstairs, or at least make it look decent, wash bottles and RELAX a bit.. ya know? Anyway - my life is boring - but I don't care. It's my life, and I love 98% of it. (ok - make me really skinny and rich, then we'll be at 100%).