The "official" performance pictures

Fat Cat day at the bank

Amelia got to deposit $79.00 into her savings account this week!!! They had treats and coloring pages for all the kids and a visit from the kids savings club mascot "Fat Cat". (we stayed at the bank for at least an hour so she could color and put together the mobil that she got.

Painting

Amelia and Truett are both intent on their projects... (sorry for the funny color... I was sitting on the couch and being to lazy to get up to take the picture...)

Our Library Garden is in Bloom

Videos from Grandma's House... (turn down the volume for these!)

20 questions with Amelia...

amelia (ahe typed her name by herself...)

1. What is your favorite color? Sparkly White & Pink

2. What is your favorite food? Kids Cuisine Chicken Nuggets

3. What is your favorite animal? Baby Bear

4. What is your favorite book? Alladin & Jasmin

5. What is your favorite rock? Sparkly white rocks

6. What is your favorite flower? Pink ones

7. What is your favorite movie? Mulan

8. What is your favorite T-shirt? Jasmin T-shirt

8. What is your favorite toy? Jasmin Barbie

9. What is your favorite vegetable?

10. What is your favorite song?

11. What is your favorite TV show?

12. What is your favorite dessert?

13. What is your favorite

OK... she lost interest after 9 questions... we'll try again another time...

Driving

Amelia "drove" the little tykes car down the hill several times... As you can see she had a few close calls with the tree too...

Driveway mural

Ameila and the rest of us created this cool little chalk mural on Saturday...

Mother's Day Pictures

These are all pictures from our pre-Mother's Day celebration at our house on Friday...

Amelia with "her" mother's day flowers and stir fry that she and daddy made...

My flowers - all from our back yard...

My birthday / mother's day cake... Amelia kept calling it my birthday... to her cake and presents = birthday...

Sorry no Mother's Day Pics...

I was going to post Mother's Day pictures today - but I forgot... They are all on Truett's camera - not mine. So it's swing set pictures instead!

Ballerina Preview

Amelia got her pictures taken for the ballet recital on Monday. When we got home she just had to try them on to show daddy... Here's a preview.

Zoo Pictures

We had beautiful weather for our trip to the Zoo on Saturday.

The animlas were having a sleepy day so we didn't see them doing much. But Amelia and Jacob had a blast in the "Kidzone". There were all sorts of hands on activities for kids of all ages.

This was a pond where you could use nets and strainers to find treasure. The treasure turned out to be plastic animals and fish - but it was fun trying to find them.

This was a garden area where kids could "plant" things.

Amelia really liked the chalkboard wall. Truett traced her body and then she had fun coloring it in. They also had water to paint and spray with.

Then there was the playground.

All of the animla exhibits were wall to wall people. We ended up spending most of our time in the kids area and on the playground.

There was a carousel with all kinds of animals. Ameila wanted to ride the polar bear - but she got a rhino instead.

Back in the kidzone they had a pretend vet station too. Amelia had a good time playing with the animals. She likes to be the Dr.

Save the best for last - a HUGE sand play area. This was a favorite with all the kids. There were at least 5 different metal tubs filled with sand and rocks. Scattered everywhere were cooking and digging impliments of every kind - cake pans, pots, spoons, strainers, bottles, jars, cups - andything you could think of - it was there.

My fabric on a chair from Pier 1

A few work pictures...

I think I'm going to start sharing some of the pictures that we get from our customers. Every seems to be interested in seeing some things of mine that actually make it into stores.

Both of these frames use exclusively Culp fabrics.

EASTER

Here is Amelia right after she found her Easter baskets.



Here she is after she discovered that underneath all of the paper shreds there was CANDY!!!

The Easter Bunny left her a trail of eggs that lead her to her baskets. Then she realized that they were filled with CANDY too!!!

Amelia, Jacob, Amber and Abby all did an Easter Egg Hunt at Grandma Hoyle's after lunch. With the help of Amber and Abby, Amelia found the most eggs.

Here's the whole group counting eggs after the hunt.

(From left to right - Amelia, Abby, Chris, Amber and Jacob)