Sweet Pea...

Just a good day..

seeing this cute little Sweet Pea!

Cardinal Opening Day!

Go Cardinals!
Don't cha Just LOVE Cardinal RED Tulips!

Check out her GREAT

Cardinal Tennis Shoes

Uncle Nathan bought for Lil Orchid!

What a Great pre-game

Opening Day Celebration!!

the Heidi and Lil Orchid Show

Go Cards!!

Lil Orchid discussing

"Cardinal" business with

retired Cardinal,

Ricky Horton

Saturday, Springtime

Roses are red

Violets are Blue? or Violet

Does it really matter to a little girl...

Lil Orchid thinks they're Pretty!

Pretty - Pink - Pandas

Need I say more?

Ya Just Gotta Love her!

A Delightful Surprise !!

Today when the mail was delivered it brought a BIG Surprise from some very, very Special Friends....Thank You, Jonni, John, Sofia & Samantha!

Lil Orchid received a box filled with some Birthday & Easter Goodies.

She was so EXCITED and LOVED IT ALL!!!

Just check out the face..it doesn't lie.

On the way home....

What started as a beautiful sunny day to travel....turned into a scary, thunderstorm with hail and tornado warnings on the highway of h#@! We not only got an experience we wouldn't want to redo, but we added a few dings from the giant hailstones.

Lil Orchid did really well considering we had to pull over with the rest of the highway traffic due to heavy rain and was being pelted and rocked by the winds.

Easter Blessings

My amazing Lil Orchid sounded out her letters and wrote this message!

Happy Easter to Everyone

I hope everyone feels as Blessed as I do!

Lil Orchid found an egg in her tree....

Uncle Nathan found a "Lil Chick" in his tree ;)

Lil Orchid gave Uncle Nathan one of her prizes she won at a previous Egg Hunt!

Finding Eggs High and Low..

We planned ahead to make sure Uncle Nathan & Lil Orchid got to celebrate some egg hunts together. Dressed in our almost Easter best, the hunt begins....first stop, Nathan held the bag as Lil Orchid filled it with 51 eggs...next park Lil Orchid scooped up 27 eggs. What a great day.

As for myself they found a bench or propped me up against a tree during the festivities and then gave me curb service for the ride back.

Happy Birthday to ME!

What a wonderful Birthday, I got to spend it with both my Amazing children and my Beautiful granddaughter.

The best pain killer I could have was the JOY of being with all of them.

The drive was gridlock and seemed to take forever, it shocked us that the traffic was just as bad when we headed home later.

They took me out to lunch, Olive Garden, and I think it was the first time I actually tasted food since my surgery.

We went back to the apartment and they surprised me with a birthday cake that Lil Orchid helped make - a Kitty Cat face.

(can you tell by the icing, it was in the 80's)

A Big Thank You...

I'm Back...not up and going...just more conscious
A Big thank you to my daughter...for keeping my blog updated
and for taking care of me...
although I don't know
if I believe ALL the things she and Lil Orchid say I did
while under after my surgery....

Kitty Dress-up

This morning, MamMaw was feeling better, so she decided to ride with us to pick Lil' Orchid up from school. But as you can imagine, MamMaw over did it with the short trip and was misearable the rest of the day. After we took MamMaw home, we then took a short trip to Build-a-bear (to use Lil' Orchids $5 birthday coupon from the store before it expired). Since we were making the trip, this also allowed Lil' Orchid to use her birthday gift card from her Cousins. Plus we had another coupon for $10 off. So needless to say when we got there, we had lots of fun picking out new clothes for her Kitty to wear. When all was said and done, we walked out of there with 3 bags full of goodies. We had so much fun playing dress-up with Kitty once we got home.

With all her goodies from Build-a-bear

Her drawing/painting of a Rainbow Monster and her bean plant from school

Egg Hunts, Birthdays and Earth Hour

Today we left MamMaw on her own so Lil' Orchid could attend some local egg hunts and her Cousin's birthday. The first egg hunt we attend Lil'Orchid picked a prize egg, so she was super excited to get a bunny bowling set. We then headed over to FH's Egg hunt, which has become an annual tradition since Lil' Orchid's first Easter at home. There is always a huge crowd there (at least 100+ kids per age group). MomMom didn't get too many pictures because she was trying to make sure Lil' Orchid didn't get trampled. Lil' Orchid was actually more excited about seeing the Easter Bunny again then hunting eggs there. Our next stop was Toys R Us for their Easter event, which has all become an annual tradition. We walked around the store and collected the stickers and at the end we got a nice treat bag. Our finally stop was Rotary Club egg hunt, after the egg hunt was finished, they gave all the kids prize bags and everyone got a cookie and juice box. Lil' Orchid saved her cookie and brought it home to MamMaw. We then drove to the next county so we could attend Cousin Kiwi's 3rd Birthday. Lil' Orchid was so excited to get to see her family and she also introduced everyone to the classpet, Rainbow Star. Lil' Orchid loved getting to share her cake and ice cream with Rainbow Star and she was even more excited when Rainbow Star got a Birthday hat. We ended our day by celebrating Earth Hour. At 830pm, we turned off our lights. Because of MamMaw's needing light to take her medicine, we didn't keep them off for the full hour but we did our best.