The Goodwins-Dru, Margaret, Simms, Cope and Clarke

Friday, April 26, 2013

Dru turns 33!

Dru turned 33 on April 15 and we spent the weekend before that celebrating at the lake! It was a great weekend with family. We are SO ready for lake season now!

These two sillies went swimming. The water was pretty cold too.

Cope and Lilla played so well together. I am so glad. I worry about him being the only boy!

We took the boat to Catherine's for lunch on Saturday (Simms' favorite thing to do)

Kiddos loaded up for the ride back to the boat

Back into the lake this one went when we got back to the house

We celebrated Dru Saturday evening with a delicious meal, cake and presents. I am SO, SO glad he had a "party" because on his actual birthday that Monday was when I was admitted to the hospital {a post is coming on that and my latest adventure: contracting Fifths Disease and passing it on to Clarke :( and all that has transpired since that happened}

Mrs. Lil's tables are always so pretty

Adorable cake that was so good

Our growing family!

The Birthday Boy with his two favorite kids!

We had a great weekend. And like I mentioned, I am so glad we were able to celebrate Dru. He is a good person. It really is as simple as that..his heart is gold. He is a wonderful, wonderful husband, and hands down the BEST Daddy! I really think our kids know how blessed they are to have a daddy like him. They adore him. Happy Birthday Dru!

Monday, April 1, 2013

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Easter Sunday 2013

We had a beautiful Easter! We spent the early morning doing fun Easter baskets before heading to church. Our service was wonderful! I have been amazed at how much Simms' comprehends about Easter, the Crucifixion & the Resurrection at this age. Between Sunday school & her preschool she's heard the stories a lot. She's also watched The Bible series with us. I am so happy she knows that even though we do the "fun" stuff, Easter is way more than the Easter bunny and Easter eggs. We enjoyed lunch at my grandparent's house after church. It was SO good and I ate WAY too much!

The Easter bunny brought some fun spring surprises. Perfect for days spent outside!

They had fun going through their baskets and showing things to each other. Cope was beyond excited to have Mack from Cars 2 & Simms got an Easter Barbie so she was thrilled. She was also so happy to get some glittery sandals! She loves glitter and sparkle just like her mama!

All dressed up for Easter morning!

I love these two. Next year little baby Clarke will be in the pictures with them! :)

Putting the flowers on the cross before church..

Easter Egg Hunts!!

Simms' preschool had their Easter Egg Hunt last Monday. It was such a cold and windy day but they had so much fun! It was at an old farmhouse that can be rented out and is a restaraunt too and the staff/owners thought of everything! I cannot believe this was her last "preschool" egg hunt...

Her class performed some sweet Easter songs before the hunt began!

The ~~scary~~ Easter Bunny came..

Simms found lots of eggs..although I had to tell her it was ok to keep putting eggs in her basket. Polite little thing would pick one up and think she had to be done. I told her this was a time it was ok to be selfish :)

Simms with her favorite friend, Addison. They will be at FRA together next year..hopefully in the same class..

Working so hard on her butterfly craft..

We had our church egg hunt on Saturday. I was so happy Cope had an egg hunt to participate in as well! He was SO, SO excited about it! I helped organize it so Daddy was in charge that morning. He left Simms bow out (which is ok..I guess..as long as she doesn't get used to it) and he brought them in his Jeep. He is such a fun daddy! The hunt was a lot of fun. There was a very sweet story done at the start of it using a hand blown egg that was then cracked and the kids saw that it was empty & comparing it to the empty tomb. Great comparison!!! After the hunt we had a fun Easter party with lots of sweet treats! I am so thankful for our church!

Simms & Mary Margaret..

I compromised and let Cope dress like a BIG boy for the egg hunt, since he was going to be in lace the next day :)

His age group got to start the hunt a few minutes before the other kids..he was on a mission too!

Simms was ready for this hunt! She was full force until all the eggs were found!

Such a big boy!

The Easter Bunny came!!

Enjoying the fun Easter Party after the egg hunt! Love Simms' left hand in her lap!

Random Happenings

These are some random pics that I didn't have enough of to make their own post..Starting with..

We took Simms to visit FRA, the school she will attend next year for Kindergarten. I graduated from there and it is just a 1 1/2 minutes from our house, which I love. It is a great school. I just cannot believe my precious little sidekick will be gone ALL day to school starting in August. That is a tough one to swallow. She was so excited that morning!

Cope loves showing off his big muscles..I could eat this kid with a spoon!

Simms had another great dentist visit! I think this was her 5th trip to the dentist and she LOVES being told no cavities!

I turned 31 on March 19. Simms has a cupcake cookbook and she wanted to make me something for my birthday out of that cookbook more than anything. So her sweet daddy said ok..and they made me the most delicious homemade cupcakes! They used a recipe that was the Wilton Old Fashioned Icing for the icing and OH MY GOODNESS!! Delicious. Once they were done and decorated they led me to the table and sang to me. It was so sweet.

Dru & I went to New Orleans a few weekends ago to see one of my closest childhood friends get married. Lance married a girl from the New Orleans area, Katie, that he met at Auburn, so there was lots of that NOLA flair to the wedding & reception. It was a wonderful getaway although I was highly skeptical of going to NOLA 24 weeks pregnant. I am so glad I went though. A lot of my family was there for the wedding too so that was fun! It was a beautiful night and Dru's parents were so sweet to keep Simms & Cope so that we could go!

Simms is enjoying ballet again this year and the countdown is on for her spring recital! She loves it!

Here we are at 25 weeks, Clarke! I had to have labs drawn today to see if I have been exposed to Fifths Disease ( I know I have, b/c Simms & Cope have more than likely just gotten over it) and to see if I have it or have an immunity to it. Hopefully I'm immune to it because it isn't a good thing to have while pregnant! So I am waiting to get those results back! Other than that this pregnancy is flying by. The heartburn is killing me but that is really my only complaint since my migraines have become less & less. I only get them about every other week now which is SO much better than every 2 days or so. Simms and I started going through some of her baby clothes yesterday and laying things out that we will be able to use for Clarke. I am trying to get organized so I will know exactly what we will need to buy to be prepared for her arrival!

Going to Clermont & The Rodeo

Two things we've done recently that I haven't uploaded on here yet. In January we went to Clermont to visit Dru's aunts, uncles & cousins, and his parents happened to be there too, so it was a nice chance to do a lot of visiting! We had a great time! The kids traveled well & were really good the whole trip, which was nice! I am really glad we took the time to make the trip...I love for Clermont to be fresh in their minds. Dru and I just love going down!

Cozy kiddos on the trip down. We left when Dru got off of work that Thursday & arrived just before midnight, so they slept the whole way down! They woke up when we got there and we let them stay awake until 1:30 to get tired again!

Dru & Cope took several paddle boat rides around the lake. Cope also got himself a haircut while we were down there.

Simms reminds me so much of myself in this pic...sitting back in a chair by the lake!

Cope had so much fun playing with his cousin Brax. He loves getting the chance to play with other boys! Doesn't happen much!

Simms playing on Dru's grandfather, Pah's, old organ. She loved it!

The sunsets in Dru's aunt & uncle's backyard are amazing. I love this one of our two precious angels playing in the water.

We had a great trip and hope to get back down very soon!

In early March we went to Montgomery/the lake for the weekend. The main reason was the rodeo but Dru also had some work he needed to do in the yard at the lake, so off we went!