Cool Yard Sale

We stopped at a yard sale and found something pretty cool....

Just the right size....

Just the right safety equipment...roll bars and seat belts!

Just the right place to store and ride it...

(Nannie and Papa's house because our yard has too many obstacles and fences!)

But WAY too fast for this Mommy!!

Away they go!! Just look at those faces :)

In Nannie and Papa's field, the boys can wind through all 3 gears and have even jumped a hill...yes they got airborn. We made them stop immediately and Wyatt said, "Are we in trouble? I didn't even make Will go that fast!" Another good safety feature is the gas pedal restricter...yes we will be using that!

Happy Easter

Easter morning we came home to find little Easter eggs all over the kitchen floor. The boys said "the Easter bunny must have pooped all those eggs out when he came." The egg trail led the boys to the kitchen table where they found their baskets full!

And Wyatt explained that it wasn't really Easter bunny poop because, "you know the Easter bunny actually poops out jelly beans."

They had time to look through all the goodies, eat a little candy, and play with new toys before getting ready for church.

It was a beautiful day to celebrate the death, burial and resurection of our savior!!

And after church, we headed off to Aunt Jane's for an egg hunt!

Cousin Landon was there, but Noah was sick :(

They hunted and hunted....

And searched and searched....

They found so many eggs!!

 In so many cool places!!

They all had a basket full of goody filled eggs!! Some eggs even had a special gold coin they could trade for a prize :) So much fun!!

Even Weston loved running around filling his basket!

Afterwards we headed in to make our own Easter eggs with a no stress, no mess egg coloring kit.....

After the grown up ladies - Me, Rachel, Mom and Memaw - attempted to get everything ready so the boys could come in dye the eggs and decorate with stickers - we realized this no mess, no fuss kit was a bit of false advertising. We almost burned down Aunt Jane's kitchen, nearly cracked all the eggs and had to stressfully figure out the best "process" to get the boys in and out without losing their interest. Whew....

The boys had fun anyway and enjoyed the looking at the silly faced eggs!

After all that fun, we headed down to Hendersonville to visit with Nana and Aunt Cindy's crew before heading back to Portland for church and then dinner with Daddy Jack's crew. 

Just another busy holiday in the Napier house! I love that we have so many places to go and so many people to visit. The boys get to see grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts/uncles, great-aunts and great-uncles, cousins, 2nd cousins and even 3rd cousins at nearly every holiday!! What a blessing to have such a big family so close physically as well as so close in our hearts and lives!!!

Happy Easter!!!!

Lads to Leaders/Leaderettes 2012

 

 

Lads to Leaders/Leaderettes was fun and exciting again this year. We spent Easter weekend at Opryland Hotel and the boys participated in song leading as well as oral bible reading. It was great to spend quality time with so many people from our church as well as so many people from other congregations across multiple states. They said this year the attendance was nearly 10 thousand people just for this conference! It was packed and crowded and filled with people! We got there on Friday morning and left early, early Sunday morning to get home to see what the easter bunny had left for the boys before heading off to church.

The boys loved looking at all the pretty things in the hotel.



However, the boys did NOT like all the pictures we were taking, most of which turned out like this....

Well, since our room was not ready until normal hotel check-in time (3:00pm) and the boys had an event at 2:00pm....we went to the car to change clothes :)

Because everyone knows you don't put fancy clothes on young boys for longer than absolutely necessary! Wyatt was nervously contemplating his bible verse on the walk back in. Isn't that the sweetest?!

This was our group of PreK-2nd grade boys that "competed" in bible reading. They don't actually get judged and ranked in any of the competitions until 3rd grade, so everyone in prek -2nd gets a certificate. Our boys did Great!

Wyatt read Matthew 7:12

And Will read Matthew 7:13-14 

For Song Leading, here are some of our prek - 2nd grade boys. Again they did great! All these boys have been practicing in front of our congregation on Wednesday nights for several months. It takes alot of courage to stand up in front of the entire congregation and lead a song at this age!

Wyatt lead "When We All Get to Heaven". I didn't get a picture of Will, just video, but he lead "This World is Not My Home".

And...... this is Wyatt sleeping while the other 16 boys lead songs :)

Between competitions we got to explore the hotel. We did the boat ride and watched the water show and took more pictures!

Of course the water show needed proper conducting! Will and Weston were very into it!

 Wyatt tried, but with cheeto fingers, it just wouldn't work!

The awards ceremonies at night were really fun....long, but exciting. Our youth won so many awards! It was neat to see the kids go up on stage and get the trophies. The boys especially liked it when a friend of theirs in 3rd grade won a 3rd place trophy for his speech. They thought that was so cool! In a couple of years, Will is going to be at that level.....scary!

The glass elevators were fun too of course.

They were so tired by the time they finally fell into bed!

It's a fun and exhausting weekend!

Springtime fun

Hello it's springtime! And this spring has been beautiful weather for outside play!!

Since this weather has been so nice, we have been outside ALOT. We've even gotten the water house out to run through! In March and April!! Weston loves to play outside and has the boo boo’s to prove it. He has lots of cuts on both knees and a big goose egg on his forehead that he has re-injured 3 times!  Aggregate is hard on toddlers! Wyatt still has a scar on his knees from doing his “toddler  time”.  On a side note, I noticed recently that I carry 3 packages of baindaids and a spray tube of Neosporin in my purse. Along with diapers and wipes of course…now that’s a mom purse

This is why I need so many baindaids! Mr. Tough Guy can do anything his brothers can do!

The boys favorite thing right now is riding to the top of the hill on our road (about 3 houses away which is the farthest they have EVER been allowed to go!) and flying down the hill as fast as possible to jump the curb into our yard! They do this with their bikes, the little red wagon and even pushing Weston on the tricycle. I’m just waiting for the moment I hear “hey lets make a ramp”. Not looking forward to that.

Speaking of bike riding...Wyatt has learned to ride sans Training Wheels!!! Yep. He's a 2-wheeler now :)

 

Just look at him go!!

He has been begging us non-stop for the past couple of weeks to take his training wheels off, but the timing just hasn't been right.  So this weekend at Memur and Pepaw's house, he got to ride one of Will's old bikes without the trainers and he learned so quick! Uncle Drew pushed him all around their grassy hill until Wyatt was riding on his own! Today he begged me to take them off his bike...so I did...and off he went! No problems, no worries, just free ridin'! At 4 years old no less!

In other randomness, Will and Wyatt have both started baseball (t-ball for Wyatt) and they are loving it! Over spring break, Will wrote a story entitled "The Will Book". I will type it out here for your reading pleasure (with his creative spelling and all):

Once there was a superhero named smlyman (smelly man). He had the pawer of scunks (skunks).  His sidekick was chicknman. He had the pawer to poop out big boldeers (boulders) of eggs. The iname (enemy) was cald (called) erthman (earthman). His pawer was to dustry (destroy) the erth. He wod do inething to tri to duschray (destroy) the erth. Smelyman use's his pawer on him and chikenman poop's a egg on him but it is no yoos (use). Erthman has a shild he uses on smlyman and he penchis (punches) chikinman to. It is pabach (payback) time sed (said) chikinman sed (said) with a grin. He shot his nives out.

Well, that's all he wrote. Kinda cracked me up a bit. 

Here are some other things that have made us smile lately:

Quotes from Will: "Dad, I know you know how to do it your way. But what I’m trying to do is find a way to do it better and faster." Also, he  now  wants to be an agricultural engineer. Yep, thats right. And what will he do as an Agricultural Engineer?  figure out how to grow apples and use pesticides that won’t make people sick - of course.

Quotes from Wyatt:  "hmmm, ….perhaps yes".  Riding his bike  today, “I just keep getting all squirlly”. ;  last night at bedtime, “dad, in case you forgot, puppy dog is downstairs in my bag…just in case you want to go get him.”

Quotes from Weston: "mom,mom" that's what he calls me. When I ask, do you have a dirty diaper? "Not meeeee, not mom mom, not dad dad" Or He'll say, "not meee" I'll ask, well then who has a stinky diaper? "daddy"  ; woo woo = his foo foo ; bkey = his blanket; ask him why not?  “cause”; "predy pease" with a sweet smile and a side head tilt;  anytime we go anywhere - upstairs, outside, to the bathroom, he says, "me too, me too"

And Ava Belle: She is getting bigger and sweeter! She loves to wear bows (even though she looks mad in these pictures, she really does love them!) She is 3 months old and weighs 6.6 lbs. She just went for her last set of puppy shots!

Isn't she sweet!