A Fence, A Party, Easter and More!!

Wow!!! What a week/weekend! We started off with Palm Sunday. Here is a picture of Rachel in her "new" dress. My mom found this in her dress closet and wondered if it would fit Rachel by now. My paternal grandmother got this dress for me when I was Rachel's age and it was my favorite dress! I LOVED this dress and now Rachel loves it too! She said she was just like Cinderella in her blue dress...or like Belle walking through the market in her blue dress! Sooooo, cute! And still one of my favorites!
Then, on Wednesday our brother-in-law, Mike, came over and started work on our new fence. We've lived in our house for almost four years and have yet to put the closing fronts on our fence. Now that Rachel and Eric are big enough to have a new playhouse, we figured it was time for them to be gated in!! This way mommy doesn't have to be outside with them all the time! So, Mike was generous enough to offer his new found welding skills and made us our own wrought-iron fence! It looks SOOOO great and here are some of the before and during pictures.

And...the best part...look how well it holds the kids in! HAHAHA!!! So, funny. Hopefully, her head will grow soon enough and someday it'll hold our runt in!! Too funny that the whole reason we got the fence, is now a moot point! :)

Then, Daddy had Good Friday off and we made the most of it! That morning we finally got to meet our sweet nephew Austin Mitchell. He is SO handsome and just the sweetest little thing! He was born on December 17th, just one day after Rachel's birthday! What a special little guy!!!

That same day, we (the McMullan clan) went to Chuck-E-Cheese to celebrate Eric's second birthday. Eric had a GREAT time as did Halle, Jake and Rachel!

We spent Saturday morning celebrating Easter over at the McMullan's. They hosted a very yummy lunch and surprised the kids with lots of Easter bunny treats! It was a lot of fun. Then we packed up the kids and headed to the Red & White OU Football scrimmage. Jake and Rachel had SO much cheering and just being cute kids playing together. Someone asked me how the team looks...honestly, I don't know. It was hard b/c I was cheering for both "teams." So, when one messed up, the other was succeeding! Too hard to figure...

Lastly, we celebrated Easter morning (the first rainy Easter I can even remember), by going to church with the kids and my parents. The sermon was wonderful, as always and we got to watch some very moving clips from the "Passion of the Christ" while our music minister sang an amazing solo to it. What a great way to honor the Resurrection of our Lord! It was awesome! We rounded out the day with an incredible Easter feast at mom and dad's where we also got to celebrate a few more Easter bunny treats and a yummy lemon flavored cake in honor of mom's BIG birthday coming up on Tuesday!!!

Goodness, our busy week in a nutshell...