Best Buds...

Christian had a playdate this week with his best friend from school, Izac. He was so excited!
Izac is such a sweet boy. The cutest thing is that he calls Christian by his full name. He will say, "Is this your toy Christian Hopkins?" or "Hey Christian Hopkins, do you want to go outside?". Really cute. ;)

Fun times on the swing set!

They even played school together working on their sight words. I am so glad Christian has such a sweet best friend! :)

Blogs I'm following...

So you may have noticed I have added some "buttons" along the right side of my blog. These are links to a few new blogs I recently discovered. NWA Motherlode is a blog I have been a big fan of for a long time now. These moms have great articles and information on things going on in Northwest Arkansas--plus tips from area doctors, beauty experts, and fellow moms. They also have the BEST giveaways! I won dinner at Bordinos and tickets to the Robert Cray Band at the WAC a couple years ago!
A few others, "After the Bubbly", "Buried with Children" and "Let's Have a Cocktail" are other blogs written by moms with a fun sense of humor. I have literally laughed out loud reading some of their posts. :) And last but not least, is "Kelly's Korner" a blog by a mom in Bentonville who struggled with infertility, became pregnant, then had an extensive stay at Arkansas Children's Hospital with her baby girl, Harper, but who is now a healthy almost 1 year old! She shares fun home decor ideas, lots of places to get cute and fun things for your baby and is just a cute "Southern" mommy!
If you get a moment, check out these blogs and I am sure you will want to become a "follower" as well!

Spring Break part 2....

Well, Christian's Spring Break is about to come to a close, but we had a really fun week!

Wednesday, I taught Christian to play baseball while Andrew napped. He's actually pretty good. We signed him up for t-ball this spring and practices should start soon! Thursday is was cold and rainy all day so we had a pajama day, just watching movies and playing together. Thursday night, I got a MNO (Moms night out) with a few of my gal pals and had dinner at Theo's.
Friday was his last day of spring break, so I told him he could choose anything to do that day (within reason, haha). But if he had said "let's go to the beach", Jim may have returned home from work yesterday to find a post it note on the door saying..."went to Florida, be back soon!" You think I am kidding? haha. Instead, Christian requested the following, "I would like to have breakfast and watch cartoons and go out to eat for lunch at my favorite place...MiMi's!" Not too bad, I thought to myself. I can handle that! :)
Friday was a BEAUTIFUL day and the sun was shining so we headed to MiMis for lunch and spent the whole afternoon walking around the promenade and playing! The Promenade Express Train was open for business too!

Christian LOVES trains!

Christian played on the outdoor playground and also pushed his toy trains around the fountain. Andrew even took a nap in his stroller so I sat in the sun people watching!
We spent most of the day at the promenade and only spent $3 for a train ride. Sweet!
Hope everyone had a wonderful Spring Break!

Andrew's first haircut!

This week I gave Andrew his first haircut. His hair was getting long over his ears and the back of his neck so he just needed a bit of a trim which I could do at home. So I put his portable highchair in the bathroom and we got ready to play "barber shop"! ;)

Also, since I was busy cutting Andrew's hair, Christian took all of these pictures for me!

Andrew was quite surprised...thinking "am I eating dinner in the bathroom tonight??!!"

Andrew was nicely distracted by one of Christian's toy trains as I trimmed away!

Getting a haircut is no problem, right?!

Only right at the end did he start to fuss! Good job Andrew!

Spring Break...so far...

This is Christian's first "official" Spring Break! We don't have any big plans like going out of town (but who knows, the week is still young, haha) but just looking forward to having fun together! After a weekend of 7 inches of snow (yes, spring break snow), it has melted away and the sun is coming out. Now, that's spring break weather. I won't bore you with anymore snow pictures as you have seen PLENTY over this winter....just scroll back to some older posts to see our Bella Vista snow. ;)

Yesterday, we spent a lot of time playing outside while Christian rode his bike and played on our swing set. Andrew just loves to watch and play with his big brother. It's actually EASIER having Christian home with me this week to help entertain him!

Today, we went to Jump Zone and met up with Dawn and her son Presley along with Drew and his wife Jennifer with their girls and friends. I missed Dawn's baby shower this weekend because of the weather so I was so glad to be able to give her Kinley's gift today!

Lots of fun baby girl toys and a cute bib that says "Pretty Like Mommy"

me and Dawn

I did not get any pictures of Christian or Presley since they were busy running around and jumping in the bounce houses. :)

But I did snap one of Andrew...

He was having fun watching all the kiddos running around!

Won't be long before my Andrew is running around too so I snuggle on him all I can!

Cooper Spring Carnival

I just came across the pictures I took at Christian's spring carnival at school a couple weeks ago and forgot to add them to the blog, so here you go....ENJOY!

Christian wearing his Cooper Broncos shirt to the spring carnival!
The school had hot dogs and chips with a silent auction of goody baskets to bid on. Each class put together a basket with a theme. Christian's class did a kitchen/cooking basket full of cooking utensils, spices, cookbooks, etc.

Christian climbing into the bounce house they had in the school gym.

They also had lots of fun games to play...

like this big nerf gun that shot at a spinning bullseye....

ring toss...

bean bag toss...

fishing...

and Plinko!

The Kiwanis Club was there offering packets for children that included finger printing and a DNA kit.

One of my old co-workers Edwin, was there doing the finger prints. Christian thought it was cool. ;)

Many of the people working the games were volunteers from the Bella Vista POA, firemen, and various town offices. I thought that was nice and it gave the teachers a break from running the games like they do in the fall festival. The teachers actually got to walk around a enjoy the carnival too!

Christian had a great time and came home with some fun prizes and candy!

Savor surprise...

Friday night, I meet up with a few of my girlfriends for dinner. Kimberly was in town from Texas for some school work in Little Rock and Dawn's shower on Saturday in Van Buren.
Susan and Mischelyn joined us too. Susan recommended trying Savor and ANYTHING Susan recommends should be fabulous since she is an amazing chef. It was such a fun and relaxing dinner! We were there for more than 3 hours just talking and eating.

Kimberly also made an announcement....SHE IS EXPECTING! Yep, I am going to be an AUNT!
Is that not the coolest?! She told us family back in December but had been waiting to make the big announcement until recently. Many of our friends had been asking me and it has been very hard to keep it quiet. But she also made the announcement at Dawn's shower Saturday so since EVERYONE in Van Buren now knows, I think it is safe to put the news on my blog. ;)

She should know what they are having sometime in April. She is due at the first of September. Personally, I am hoping for a girl since I have two boys and it would be fun to buy some pink stuff for a change. ;)

Congratulations Kimberly and Wrenn!