Cornelius Chronicles

Here's just a moment of delight brought to you by my beloved John.  What a lucky mom am I to have such a goofy and sweet and smart and caring little boy.  Love you, John!

I just love seeing my kids be creative.  I love all of their creations from arts to letters.  Here's just a very small sampling of the joy their creativity brings into my home every day! John showing off his Monster Truck in chalk.  Nice details, buddy! A note by Owen from his imagination at bedtime when he should have been sleeping, but decided to go on a sea adventure instead: It reads: Captain's Log: I'm in the triangle.  I might die. Our ship might sink!  Whoever finds this, I might be dead. John and monster truck.  Created at preschool and carefully folded to bring home and give to Mommy. John and his cousin J with their masterwork, "Monster truck in Space"

It was a week late, but this handsome husband of my worked hard to plant me 3 new beautiful trees.  Welcome to the yard Nectarine, Apricot, and Crabapple tree friends!  We are so glad you are here to beautify our lives! Dustin and John working together to dig a hole for the apricot tree.  Loyd treating one of our cute little evergreens to get it pretty for the spring.  

 That's right!  It's the beginning of a new era in independence at our house.  Loyd and Rebekah both got their learner's permits and are helping Dustin turn his hair gray at a rapid pace with all their driving practice around town.  Rebekah finally found something she likes about Morgan, the lack of traffic anywhere.  It takes a lot of stress out of learning how to drive when you're the only car on the road just about all of the time.  :D  Fresh from taking the test for their learner's permits!  They passed!

Thanks, Aunt Liz for making us look cool!  

I just can't get over this adorable little miss.  We are so in love with our beautiful Baby Diana!  

Oh, how happy am I to see these lovely little crocuses greet the first warm rays of Spring sunshine!  Summer gardening season is on it's way!  

 

Easter forgot to tell Morgan that it is Spring.  We celebrated a white Easter this year with plenty of snow decorated with easily found colorful Easter Eggs.  It's definitely a Morgan experience to enjoy a snowy spring in April! Can you find the Easter Eggs for the Lion's Club annual community Easter Egg Hunt?  Owen and John represented our family at the Lion's Club annual community Easter Egg hunt.  Both boys found lucky eggs and won a special Easter basket!  We had so much fun! After the super fun community egg hunt we decided we had better color our own Easter eggs.  We just did a few, but we sure had fun with decorating the eggs we had! Easter Sunday was our traditional family confetti egg fight.  We held it in the front yard this year with a few neighborhood friends since the grass in the back was super soggy from our record breaking snowfall this year.  I think we had a pretty fun time and surprisingly no one ended up in tears!  Happy Easter!