Beautiful Bluebonnets!

A few weeks ago a friend of mine and I went to take pictures of our kiddos in the bluebonnets. There is a huge patch real close to our church that you would never know was there unless someone mentioned it to you or if you just happened to be driving by. Kate had just fallen asleep about 5 minutes before we got there so she was grumpy and did not want anything to do with bluebonnets or sitting or smiling or being nice. All she kept saying was, "No. nooo. No. no. NO. nnoooooo." I was about to loose my mind! I am so thankful that we got at least one cute picture of each of them. Here is the best one of them together. You can tell Kate is still grumpy but it turned out cute anyways.

These few were some of the last ones we took. I was about to give up when my friend's little boy started to make her laugh. Thank you, Evan! You saved the day!

Grumpy pics

Grant was having a blast! He did think it was fun to pull the flowers which we quickly told him that was against the law and do not do it. Of course, that just made it more fun for him.

This last picture just makes me laugh. Grant is trying to be so sweet with his arm around Kate and Kate is still being a toot and trying to shrug him off. This picture captures how often they are towards one another. This is how it goes with them: If one is nice to the other, the other is not. If, however, 5 minutes later the other one decides to be nice, then the other one is not. Makes me go crazy sometimes!

"Jesus Died and Rose Again!"

The title of this post was Grant's bible verse at Sunday School yesterday and his buddy, Val, who is also his private speech therapist, came up to me after church and said, "Grant said his bible verse today!" She was so excited and said she almost had tears in her eyes when he said it. He said it to me at church and then later that day to our friend's at their house. Today I asked him to say it again to see if he still remember it and he did. He doesn't say it all at once but with prompting but this is still so great!

It goes like this:
Me: "Jesus"
Grant: "Jesus" while signing for Jesus
Me: "died"
Grant: "di"
Me: "and rose again"
Grant: "ro a in" while raising his arms for rose again

Grant: big smile :-)

Joel and I are just thrilled. This is his first bible verse to ever say and what a gift it was to receive on Easter Sunday. It's because of this verse that we have hope for our future and that we can live with peace and joy in our hearts. May we never forget this verse!