that orange UVA hat...:D

It's Bug's favorite thing to wear. And so, it only seemed right that, for his birthday this past Sunday, we make him a baseball cake.
Yes, our little baby bug had his 3rd birthday. Here are some great pictures to sum him and his special day up. :)

aren't his eyes *lovely*?

sorry, had to 'erase' his name that we put on the rim. that's why it looks foggy in all the hat pictures. :D

notice Gab and mom's scared looks when i hit the pinata. :D

The little blonde girl is 'A' from Pure Joy. We had their family over for his 'party'. :)

please excuse how weird i look in all of them.
And Gab and I were all fancied up because we went to the swim team banquet before. :)

I think he had a wonderful birthday. :) Happy late birthday again, Bug!! I can't believe you're 3. 

if you look at the downside, you'd mention this is 2 weeks later...

...but look at the bright side! (that I'm posting at all :P)

I wish I could say that I have a perfectly logical, understandable, and acceptable explanation for my absence...such as:

"I've been so incredibly busy that I haven't been on my laptop for a whole 2 weeks!"

or

"All my free time has been spent in prayer, fasting, and folding laundry in preparation for Holy Week and Easter"

or

"I've written like 5 different posts with tons of pictures, I just haven't had time to post them" (which is stupid, because pushing the 'publish' button takes about 2 seconds)

...but, alas (as they always say in books), my real reasons are not quite so noble. :D

The main reason was that I was too lazy to think up a post. My life was interesting enough...but who really wants to read about how I got new silver sparkly sandals from Target??

(that actually is true. And in case you're one of the few people that *does* care about that (yes, that's actually correct grammar. Gab would be proud. :P), here's what they look like)

I was too busy relaxing, sleeping in, and playing Draw Something on my iPod (this game is addicting. please get it and find my by typing in my username 'vivi coulter' :D). Oh yeah, plus I'm reading THG. Again. (desperate times call for desperate measures...)

But here I am! Back into swimming, school, orchestra, and normal busy life. And I LOVE IT. :) I don't care for school much (I just want that to be done), but I like my normal routine...know what's going on, and what'll happen each day. And lounging on the couch is not part of it. Plus I realized how much I missed swimming. You go for two weeks without exercising (except one time that left me sore for days), and you'd miss it too. ;)

Easter was awesome. Still is. After all, it's gonna be Easter for the next...what, 50 days? Don't you love how you even have an extra ten days to make up for all that lost sweet-eating time in Lent? *sigh* Life is good.

In case you're interested in stuff like this, here are a couple Easter-y pictures for you. Starting right before Easter Vigil when we ran outside and had a messy photo shoot. ;)

(the weird stuff that happens after the 4th photo)
(pretend Josie has her eyes open)

chocolate-covered peeps. who knew, right?

i had to get the bunny out. i mean, it was kinda his special day...(p. s. if you have yet to learn his name, check here for an intro)

We went to the baseball game to cheer on the hoos (he had too much popcorn, apparently. it does things to ya...).

(5 brownie points if you can find his football egg! :D)

(um. yeah.)

Anyway, we had a fantastic Easter Day. I can only hope that the next 46 days are half that good. :)

Christ is Risen! PRAISE THE LORD.

How was your Easter? How many jelly beans did you eat? (be honest. I'll answer first and say I didn't count, and I don't think any of us really want to know. I'm just hoping that they'll get swum off in the next...month maybe?)

oh, the troubles of lent...

Come lent and it finds me on my iPod mournfully looking at dessert backgrounds.

Isn't it awful how as soon as you can't have something, you realize how much you love it?

Well...happy lent! Have fun looking at dessert! :D

happy valentine's day!

"...this night is sparkling, don't you let it go

I'm wonderstruck, blushing all the way home

I'll spend forever wondering if you knew

I was enchanted to meet you..."

(sorry if the format got really messed up :P)

This is for you guys...'cause I love you. <3 Happy Valentine's Day!

so i've changed his name a couple times...

But I can't completely decide one which one.

What do ya think?

Does he look like a Danny (his middle name's Daniel), a "DJ" (for Davy Jones), or just plain Davy.

I don't know why I got stuck on D's...:D

(these were taken while we were watching the world's largest snowflake Google doodle video. everytime the cow mooed he's throw back his head and laugh. :P)

I know. I'll let y'all vote...:) There's a poll under his picture. Tell me which one you like the best.

(as for the pictures, there's never enough joy in the world, right? it's the little things...;)

those pictures i never posted...

We got some snow last week, and I went out in my sweatshirt and got some great pictures. It was really less of a real "snow" and more of an ice storm with some flurries sprinkled in, but...

Just hadn't put them up yet, so...

...see the grass was green, but everything was frozen...

...and i got the most awesome model ever...

...(our charlie brown tree)...

<3