Dentist and Hunting fun

I mentioned in an earlier post about what a pro Houston was at his first dentist appointment.  I have finally downloaded photos to prove it!

You had a nice conversation with your hygienist to find out what would happen during your visit.  This included trying out all of the equipment.

You wore your cool shades to keep the light out of your eyes.  I love how you had one leg ready for a quick getaway if you deemed it necessary.  Luckily, it didn't happen.

Dr. Martin took his turn checking out your pearly whites.

You were much more comfortable at this point and didn't have the getaway position.  Clean bill of health and back we'll go in 6 months.  High five buddy!

We had a wonderful Easter.  The weekend prior to Easter we went with friends to the Easter celebration and egg hunt at their church.  There was so much to do the girls never hunted eggs!  Houston hunted a few, but was way too into things like.....

riding a pony!!!!  We had planned for the girls to take a horse back riding lesson during Spring Break.  It was rescheduled for the following week because of rain but Houston was very intent on riding a horse since then.  You can see the happiness!

The girls enjoyed it too.

The happy group after 2 hours of play.

Popsicles to end the fun.

Houston had a sweet time hunting eggs and playing with his friends at school.  He really enjoys his time with friends.

Houston's sweet class and teachers.

The girls also had an egg hunt with their class.  We were surprised that a public school plans an egg hunt but we're not complaining!

      Pretty sure I selected the silly class photo here!

Our annual Easter egg dying.  Dad usually mans this event.

Aidyn

Mister Man

Hollyn

The kids with their great grandmothers.

Easter morning

Houston with his loot!

We had a wonderful time celebrating the resurrection of our Lord and Savior.

Spring Break 2012

We debated if we should head north or south for Spring Break this year and the north won.  Had we known that the weather would be more like summer temperatures we might have planned differently, but we had a wonderful little getaway in Tennessee.

Our favorite excursion was spending time in Cades Cove Park.  These are turkeys.  We saw lots of turkeys.

And deer.  Skinny deer.

Cades Cove Primitive Baptist Church.  

We got an unexpected souvenir from Cades Cove Primitive Baptist Church.  A primitively sharp rock pierced our tire and caused a slight problem.

The explorers that we are weren't hindered by a sharp rock.  We continued to explore an old grist mill.

This was an old house that had once been a store.

This is our hero changing our tire.  Thanks dad!

We enjoyed our time in nature and getting away from the city.

We also spent some time at a Titanic exhibit.  Aidyn has recently read a Magic Treehouse book entitled "Tonight on the Titanic" and has been curious on the topic ever since.  She learned some interesting facts from the book but learned titanic amounts from our tour.  No pictures could be taken inside:( but they had room after room of artifacts and replicas of several rooms.  The neatest thing was when you "boarded" you were given a boarding pass that was the name of an actual person on the real ship.  You were given a little history on your person and they let you know where to look for pictures of yourself or items that had belonged to you.  This intrigued us all because before leaving you found out your fate.  Myself, Houston and Hollyn were lucky passengers and Hugh and Aidyn not quite so lucky.  Really neat thing to see and even at our little ones ages they were very engaged and learned a lot.  Just ask them!

Everyone enjoyed the break.  Only seven weeks of school left.