Hawkins Family / East Coast

Saturday, April 18, 2009

It Must Be Spring Because We Got New Sneakers!

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Happy Easter!

Our Easter Bunny Cake. Henry gave it "alien eyes".

The kids are getting so big. How many more Easter mornings will they be willing to pose for Easter Basket pictures? :)

Dwight's macho camo basket. He gets candy + soap and nail care products! :)

My Easter gift to myself. A feather-y, egg-y wreath!

Henry did the eggs all by himself. Here he is, all organized and ready to go.

Baseball Opening Day -- Rainy

The 'parade'. Dwight and Henry are in there...see if you can find them!

It was rainy for yesterday's baseball opening day parade. We got there at 8:30. Dwight had his team organized and ready to go by the 9am start time. Everyone was already wet by then, but thankfully it wasn't too cold and the rain was a steady drizzle, not a downpour.

The kids came onto the field...first the littlest ones, then the softball teams and lastly the various baseball teams by age group. One nice tradition is that they have the local highschool baseball team come out and welcome all the kids onto the field and the captain of the highschool team makes a little speech about trying your hardest and having fun.

Then the national anthem, some special thank you's and finally the first pitch.

After that, we went across to the smaller field for Henry's 10:30 game. Dwight announced positions, the kids ran out onto the field and then the game was cancelled due to rain! It wasn't raining any more or less at that point, so it was really weird. Henry was so mad!

Friday, April 10, 2009

Flat Ellie Visits East Coast Hawkins

Ellie, my cousin Maggie's daughter, sent us a Flat Ellie doll recently. I had a lot of fun taking pictures of her around New York and with my family. Maggie said there was a bit of a competition going on at school about who's "Flat" would travel the farthest...I don't know if New York is far enough away, but since Flat Ellie was in my tote bag every day for two weeks, I'm sure she put on the most commuter miles! She had a couple of mishaps along the way. One of her eyes fell off, but my assistant Katy found it and taped it back on. And she got a bit wet because it always seemed to be raining when I had time to take some photos. And, one morning I took her out of my bag and her head was bent way back, so I had to put some masking tape on the back of her neck so she wouldn't look headless in the remaining photos.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Remember That Attic Project?

Seems like so long ago that I posted the original attic re-do pictures. Well, it's been pretty much 'done' for the past few weeks, but finishing touches like curtains kept me from taking photos. Today, I feel it's in good enough shape to post. Voila!