We LOVE the ice cream man!

Marcus' first words when he came home from work monday night were, "ice cream man, ice cream man, ice cream man." I had just looked out the window and seen the festive van stopped a few houses down. I grabbed my wallet and we power walked/jogged down the street. The group of ice cream buyers consisted of us and two eight year old boys. We paid four dollars for a bomb pop and a strawberry sundae crunch. The kids were asking the ice cream man, "Are you coming back tomorrow?" I was kind of hoping he would, but haven't seen him since.

Happy Mother's Day!

I am so lucky to have a fantastic mom. Here's my favorite picture of us. This was the morning before my wedding. Hope everyone has a great mother's day!

babysitting night

Marcus came up with a fun idea this week. He sent an evite to our class at church and offered for us to babysit kids friday night so parents could go on a date, run errands, etc. Potentially we could have had like 15 kids, but we ended up with 5. There were two 1 year olds, two 2 year olds, and a five year old. We ate chicken nuggets, watched Cars, read books, and played elefun. My therapy toys always come in handy when kids come over. They were very well-behaved and it was alot of fun. I told Marcus that we could definitely handle having five kids. HA. Maybe more like 2, but it was great for one night.

Marcus captured everyone's attention with "Lilly the Lamb".

Ethan was quite a fan of my ABC book. He is so cute and loves letters.
One of the moms, Becky, brought Elefun. It was a big hit!
Little Lorelai is adorable. She makes me want a baby. She gives kisses and does all kinds of cute little tricks. She thought the butterflies in the game were hairbows.
Marcus taught Alex and Landon how to wii fish.

Elijah was content hanging out on the couch and watching Cars.

the past month or so

I just haven't had much to blog about lately. Here's a quick rundown of the past few weeks.
Good things:
-The highlight of the past month was definitely our trip to AR for Easter.
-Another good thing lately has been a girls' bible study that I've been going to every other monday. It is a great way to start off the week and I love the book that we are reading.
-My allergies have not been acting up. No stuffy nose in the spring is a very good thing!

Not good:
-We had to pay a yucky amount of taxes and then a week later had to have Marcus' car towed and repaired after a simple "do it yourself" job went bad.
-We have termites (hundreds) in our house. It is really gross, but at least since we are renting we don't have to pay for getting rid of them. I took pictures, but I won't post them-that might be kind of weird.

So now you see how boring my life is and why I don't have much to blog about....
Tomorrow we are having a (very small) kentucky derby party. I just might post pictures if anything exciting happens.

Easter Weekend

Last weekend we were able to visit our families in Arkansas for Easter. It was so nice to have a long weekend to just hang out with everyone. We got to meet our new nephew Asher(who was so sweet and cuddly!) and spend some time with John Mark. John Mark is so funny and smart. Here are a few pictures:

Marcus is so good with babies. I love it!

John Mark is quite the entertainer. He was singing a song about Easter.

lots of snow = a sad and boring weekend

I knew it was supposed to snow today, but not this much. We got up early to head to Fayetteville and it was snowing, but we were hoping it wouldn't stick. About 45 minutes into our trip, we nearly went into the ditch and it was getting worse so we turned around. Last time I checked it was still snowing really hard. So much for a fun spring day with our sweet little nephews! We'll get to see them in two weeks for Easter though. I've been wanting to buy Easter decorations. Maybe with enough pastel stuff and bunnies around the house, the snow will go away!

This is what the road looked like a few minutes outside of Tulsa. It got alot worse.

I don't think our poor flowers are going to make it.

Marcus posing for me in the driveway

Me - being sad

spring-ish

I was planning to do a post about things I like in the Spring. Since it's about 40 degrees and the forecast is calling for snow, I'll hold off on that.

The people who lived in our house before us planted lots of flowers and they are so pretty. I took some pictures of them the other day and am hoping they don't die in the snow. It's the first time we've had a yard, so we are pretty excited. We used a Lowe's giftcard we received for our wedding to buy a rake, a hummingbird feeder, and two mini herb gardens. The herb gardens will actually stay inside, but they are really cool. One has 3 types of hot peppers and the other has 3 Italian herbs. I think I could really get into gardening.

This weekend we are going to Fayetteville to meet our new nephew baby Asher. He will be there, along with his parents and John Mark, visiting family. It's not a bad drive at all from Tulsa. We can't wait to see him!