Easter Bunny

He came!  The Easter Bunny brought Mills an awesome Easter basket.  Mills woke promptly at 6:45ish and came down looking for his loot, but couldn't find it.  If it had been a snake, it would have bit him. ha!

He finally found it!

A Toy Story smart cycle game

Reese's peanut butter eggs

A ducky flashlight (that he threw a fit for from the Freckled Frog)

Reese's carrot

Lightning McQueen yo-yo

The ever so famous Peter Rabbit chocolate bunny

Chocolate cross

Bible verse book

Cars kite

Daddy showing Mills how to yo-yo

Easter Blessings

HE IS RISEN!

Happy Easter from our family to yours!

Easter Eggs

Mills, with generous help from his mommy, dyed his Eggs yesterday afternoon.  Dyeing eggs is one of my favorite Easter pastimes.  The only plastic eggs we ever used, was when Mom and I tied string to them and hung them on our tree in the front yard.  As for hunting, we never had plastic egg hunts, and I loved that!

I remember the egg hunt that we used to have every Easter Sunday afternoon at church.  Everyone was to bring a certain amount of dyed eggs.  The eggs were collected, hidden, and off we'd go!  There was always a winner, of course, but we always got our own eggs back to take home.   How I miss those days!
Mills is off to his very first egg hunt this morning.  I'm sure he will have a blast.  As for tomorrow, he and Lainey will hunt their dyed eggs at Pop and Dee's house.  A tradition started last year.

Blowing them dry!

I tried to get creative again, but I made more of a mess than anything.

FBC Preschool Easter Party

Mills got to attend his first Easter party at church yesterday during Sunday school  The kids made several crafts, listened to Ms. Sara as she narrated the Easter egg resurrection story, and then had a light breakfast.  Mills, Erik and I enjoyed it very much. 

Here, I am helping Mills make a refrigerator magnet from his hand print

Mills had a blast sticking the foam pieces together

Mills and Daddy coloring

What would we do with out the dads?  These fireman are really utilizing their rope skills as they help make cross necklaces! Ha!

Mills finding his egg for the resurrection story

Who is this guy?  I mean, he just jumped right into the picture! Ha!

J/K Erik Krull!

 

Donut holes, fruit and sausage balls = happy Mills!

Sesame Street Live

For Valentine's Day, Papa B and Gram gave Millso tickets to Sesame Street Live, "Elmo's Super Heroes."  He has never been to anything like it, so we were curious to see how he would behave since our first trip to the movies last summer was a "wash." 

Friday morning, we headed down to the forum, as the show was set to start at 10:30 am.  Mills knew he was going to see Elmo, so he was super excited.

He was sooo good!  For the first half of the show, he sat amazed and still in his daddy's lap, unable to believe what he was seeing.  We had awesome seats!  He warmed up after intermission and actually participated in the clapping and stomping with the rest of the children. 

Waiting patiently for the show to start.

Enjoying popcorn!

GOOD TIMES!

Happy Anniversary!

Today, Erik and I are celebrating our BIG 10th anniversary!  How exciting!  We have made so many memories and I am such a lucky lady to have such an awesome husband that I love with all of my heart. 
Erik is such a wonderful caring and responsible husband, father, helper, head of the household, and not only am I so blessed to have him as a husband,  He is my best friend.  Mills is a lucky boy to have Erik as his father.  He is such a wonderful daddy.\

A decade of commitment has passed for us, and I look forward to each and every day here after as our commitment, love, and life together grows to be that of what God has set in our path.  Through good times and bad, we are lucky to have God on our side to guide us, protect us, and show us that we are His. 

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Thank you God for blessing us with so much more than  deserved and for showing us that by trusting in you, you will always be faithful.  We are thankful for our many blessings.  I thank you for giving me my wonderful husband and son. 

Meet "Mills Ah-yer Breezy"

Mills has learned his middle and last name, Mills Oliver Beasley.  He loves saying it, as a matter of fact, he had been leaving his first name off.  When we ask him his name, he just says, Oliver Beasley or "Ah-yer Breezy" in his lingo.  It is too funny.

**Mills and Erik had been hitting each other in the head with balloons. Imagine that! Boys hitting each other with balloons? So, daddy was giving "Mills Ah-yer" his payback. Notice it doesn't phase him. Boys will be boys!

Rabbi Greg

So touched today!  We had an awesome service at FBC, as Rabbi Greg Hershberg spoke ot our congregation during the Sunday school hour and worship.

I learned so much about the Jewish heritage/culture that we as Christians have left behind.  The fact is, Jesus was not Jewish, He IS Jewish.  Jewish Christianity...how awesome!!
I am definitely going to be studying more about this, because it is all so interesting.   The misconception that all Jews do not recognize Jesus as the messiah is nothing but untruth.  Yes, there are many Jewish men/women that still practice Orthodox Judaism, and do not believe that Jesus is the messiah,  but many, oh...they know the truth and what a blessing it is!  This, Messianic Judaism, has really caught my interest.
 I am so blessed to have met Rabbi Greg today and plan on tuning into his podcasts on my iPhone so that I can learn more about the way Jesus' taught and how God's word originally written in Hebrew, has an even deeper meaning than I have ever attempted to dive in to. I am eager to learn!

Beth Yeshua (House of Jesus) International

Score

Several weeks ago, I broke down and bought Mills his very own Cars potty chair.  I was not planning using a potty chair, but a snap on seat instead, but with Mills having little or no interest using the toilet, I had to resort to option 2.

Yes, the potty that makes race car noises.  He'll like it, I thought.  I took him with me to get it and he was so excited to sit on it when we got home....with his clothes on.  He has cared less about the thing with the exception of the gear shift "flusher" that makes noises.  Bad idea mom!  I have even bribed him with treats, M&M's and such, but after sitting there for two seconds, he gets bored and distracted and says he's through.

After watching the Lion King several times, he has become a fan of Simba.  He told me he wanted a Simba toy.  So, with that being said,  I told him that if he would tee-tee or poop in his potty he could have one.  Hmmm, all that did was make him beg for his Simba toy and get mad, because I would not get him one.  He would NOT go in the potty.  So, I gave up.

Just this week, no joke, I have had two mothers say that they ended up putting the potty chair in front of the television and making their children sit on it until they "went."  With all options behind us, I thought, why not?  At this point, I'll try anything.  So, I brought the potty chair into the living room, took Mills pants and diaper off, and he willingly sat on his potty for a few minutes, stood up and said, "I frew!"  My thought was, Yeah right sit back down until you go."  I was ready to put his diaper on and as I walked over to grab the potty chair and take it back to it's spot in our bathroom, I noticed that Mills did a tee-tee.   I mean a GOOD tee-tee!  I literally screamed with excitement and he started jumping up and down smiling.  "I go pee pee in potty, Mama!"  Now, he may not do it again, but here's hoping.

Our next stop: Wally World for Simba way past Mills' bedtime! I didn't even know if they had a Simba, so I kept my fingers crossed the whole way there.