when we go out

It goes like this:

The boys are strapped into mammoth chairs:

Brookston

Everett

-------------We drive.

-------------------------------We arrive.

The Target trip:  

So, we also go inside the store, but I forgot to take pictures of that.

 

Next.

 

The Sam’s Club trip: (these pictures are actually from back in February, ah well)

Sam’s carts are equipped with seating for two, which we all enjoy.  Below Everett awaits the arrival of his shopping partner Brookston. 

The boys are excellent at selecting good produce.  Here Everett advises on the best oranges: 

The boys love a good outing and are always on excellent behavior.  Therefore I love a good outing and also am on excellent behavior. 

I can’t speak for Nick…

should have been watching more closely

 

A feeding time theft:^Don’t worry, Everett has since gotten him back for it.

 

A mistake by mom with delicious results: I know now not to leave stuff sitting on the edge of tables.

 

Look who’s climbing: ^Everett looks over: “I told him not to.”

^And now Brookston looks over:  “I had to follow him up here to tell him not to.”

 

^This one was really confusing to me.

bath night

It’s live

April 17th @ 7 pm.  Loco Lu’s in Raleigh (near the airport).  Nick Empey, Jamie Purnell, Wes Collins, and Skip Robey on stage simultaneously.  2 hours of pure acoustic power.

oh yes it’s ladies night

The boys hosted another ladies night (it was really daytime, though, but the boys don’t care.  If there’s a lady involved, it’s a ladies night).

Brookston and Kaitlyn, what a couple.

Don’t worry, there is always a chaperone at these events.

annnnd, some attempts at a group shot.  ah well.

spring occurrences

We’ll begin with flowers blooming:

And moving right along, a few lady friends of mine came over to make some spring cupcakes.   These are from the book Hello Cupcake! which I recommend.   They are supposed to look like little rabbits jumping into their holes, you can decide if we were successful or not.   I had purchased whipped frosting unknowingly so the grass didn’t turn out so well, but it was fun nonetheless and it’s easier to mess things up if you can eat them anyway.

 

Brookston helped himself to a bunny bum.  Nice job kid.

 

Another spring occurrence involved Nick sitting in a tree,

 

while the boys had a picnic:

aren’t sticks great?

The boys got a package from a grandmotherly Easter bunny.

Thanks, Grandma!

Playing around in the grass was a regular spring occurrence until I developed some nasty style allergies that resulted in violent and unrelenting sneezing fits.  Some highlights (not of me sneezing – of the boys in the grass)

I love the concentration in this picture:

and we’ll end with  flowers blooming:

Sometimes I stay up late

And when I do, it’s usually beyond the hour that any rational human being who has to wake up at 7 am should be awake.  But in those moments of solitude and (self- or laundry-induced) insomnia I realize…umm….ah, snap.  I lost my train of thought.  At any rate, I found out last week that I’ll be playing a show—a real gig!—in Raleigh April 17th.  It’s at a coffee shop called Loco Lu’s, and I’ll be part of a 4-man set, which means I’ll get about 30 minutes to play all my sing-alongs, clap-alongs, dance-alongs, and pick-your-nose-alongs.  AND, here it comes.  Wait for it, wait for it.  Shameless self-promotion www.nickempey.da.ru.  And a weather report:

@ 2.39 am in Chapel Hill, NC

55°F

Current: Partly Cloudy
Wind: N at 0 mph
Humidity: 67%

Which is a lead-in to my next post which will consider how a 0 mph wind can have a direction.