Easter Pictures

Here are some pictures from our Easter weekend! Anthony got to spend some great quality time with KiKi (my sister who lives in Georgia) and Uncle Matt (Mark's brother who also lives in GA). We haven't seen either sibling for a few months, so it was fun to watch Anthony drag them all over the place and enjoy being with them.

On Saturday, Anthony helped Grandpa wash Nana's car.


Then on Saturday evening, Anthony got to dye eggs with Parrain and Uncle Matt. It was a very messy experience. Grandpa had to scrub the counter afterward, even with all of the newspaper that was laid down.




Sunday was spent between both families. A family reunion in Madisonville on the Tchefuncte river Sunday morning/early afternoon...KiKi and Anthony walked by the water a lot. KiKi taught Anthony to say "Be careful!" when near the water, and that he should always hold someone's hand when he's walking by the water.




And then back to Nana and Grandpa's to knock eggs and see what the Easter Bunny brought to their house. Anthony got a bubble blower and a Magna-Doodle.
Chasing bubbles:


Guessing what Uncle Matt is drawing on the Magna-Doodle...his cows were terrible, but his shapes were VERY good. :)


Knocking eggs with Daddy:


The weekend was a great one, but it was hard to get back into the swing of things on Monday. I've got this week and next of school and then a week of finals. I'm so glad that this semester is almost over! I'll have a month off from school before heading right back in to my clinical program. I got word the other day that I have officially been accepted into the Medical Technology program, so I have to go shopping for scrubs and gear up for tougher classes!

Tomorrow I'll take Anthony to his surgeon to take another look at the infection on his scar. I'm not sure it IS still infected, but I want the surgeon to make that call. I'll post with news on what's going on there sometime tomorrow.

Love to you all!

Love, Laurie, Mark and Anthony

Coming up in Anthony-land:
Thursday: surgeon
Friday: probably back to day care
Saturday: chillin'
Sunday: crawfish boil!

Weekend Pictures

We had a great time this weekend with Mark's family. On Saturday we all gathered for a professional family portrait (none of them were any good, though, so we'll try again at Easter). Then we spent the afternoon with Nana and Grandpa and Uncle Matt. After mass, we ate dinner with the whole family. Then back to the house for Nana's birthday presents and cake. And Parrain and Uncle Matt each got Anthony a gift for Valentine's Day, so Anthony got to open some presents, too. Anthony spent the night with Nana and Grandpa; Mark and I were supposed to sleep in this morning, but we were both awake before 6:00! So much for a long night's sleep. We spent today with Nana and Grandpa, Uncle Matt and Parrain again. We had the first crawfish boil of the season (although we ate crawfish pre-boiled at Maw Maw and Paw Paw's on Friday night...twice in one weekend: yummy!). Anthony helped Grandpa wash the crawfish, drain them and boil them. Then he fell asleep before getting to eat any (more for us because that kid can EAT some crawfish!). Enjoy the pictures!

I heard a rumor that Uncle Matt has a present for ME:


Yay! My present!


One from Parrain, too? I'm so lucky!


DORA!!! (or, Guhl!)


Watching Baby Einstein this morning:


Washing the crawfish:


Going in for a crawfish:


Here's the one I picked!


Helping Grandpa drain the tub:


Playing in the backyard with my hat on silly:

Not much else is going on! It's back to the daily grind tomorrow!

Love, Laurie, Mark and Anthony

Coming up in Anthony-land:
Monday: back to day care
Tuesday and beyond: stay tuned!

Christmas Pictures

Christmas was a wonderful weekend of celebration in our family. We attended Christmas Eve mass with my family, and then opened presents after at my parents' house. I don't have many pictures of that event as my father was the photographer and I haven't gotten the pictures from him yet. Here's what I do have:

The family after mass:


Mark, Anthony and I after mass:


Anthony helping Maw Maw put Baby Jesus in the manger:




On Christmas morning we opened presents at our house and then went to Mark's parents' house for MORE presents. Anthony really racked up this Christmas, but my favorite gift he got is the one we bought for him:




His little eyes lit up when he saw his Cozy Coupe and he went right to the door, opened it and got inside. He laughed when he realized he had a horn that goes "Beep beep!" (really it's more like "Squeak squeak", but he LOVES saying "Beep beep!"). We even took it with us to Nana and Grandpa's so he could ride it more there.

A few other gifts:


"I TCP/IP, but mostly IP" a play on Mark's geekiness:


And now on to Nana and Grandpa's. I didn't post the millions of pictures of present unwrapping that Mark took...you can see by the ripped wrapping paper everywhere that the take was plenty.


Riding the trike Nana and Grandpa got me:


Anthony's very own air mattress, Thomas the Train:


Comin' through!




Road rage!


Bye!!!!


Versions 1.0 and 2.0 (and I think Mark said something like, "Just like Microsoft products, Version 2.0 came with more errors than Version 1.0")


Four of my five favorite geeks (Matt not pictured)


If you get what Mike or Marshall's shirts mean, leave a comment. You're smarter than most (ahem, me!). On Mike: "There are only 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't." On Marshall: "Schroedinger's cat is dead." (On the back it says, "Schroedinger's cat is not dead.")

All "geek" t-shirts purchased from Think Geek . It's a great website!

So that was Christmas in a nutshell. We hope everyone had as wonderful a weekend as we did!

Love, Laurie, Mark and Anthony

Coming up in Anthony-land:
Wednesday: day care
Thursday - Monday: visiting Uncle Matt
Tuesday (January 3): LABS