The Dotson Family Adoption

We spent Easter here for the first time since 2005. It was great to be with my family. Everyone came to "poppa's" house and Audrey and Hayden loved hiding the eggs for Mamie... yes. they didn't want to hunt, they wanted to hide them, yet when I would go look for them, Hayden (3) would say "Aunt Amy, Look in the garage, I put one in the garage" (he would then disappear and then reappear with an egg and say "here it is, this is the one I put in the garage!!!" He continued to do that with every egg, while Audrey (5) would scream "I HID THAT ONE" everytime I'd find one! I must say, they were VERY good egg hiders... Audrey, Hayden, Poppa and Sawyer It was such a long day for the boys :)

Our anniversary dinner.... LOVE IT!!! Kelly preached in South Baton Rouge and then we visited with his family for a few days before loading up and heading to NOLA!!! There were two movies being filmed while we were there. This was infront of the Riverwalk, 12 Rounds, with John Sena (sp?) The second was being filmed outside of our hotel. It's called Cirque Du Freak with John C. Reilly and Selma Hayek (sp?) Amy before dinner at Bocca's. New Orleans is just great. I love it more everytime we go! This time we spent a lot of time on Magazine Street. It's absolutely great. If you are there and need a place to eat, we recommend Theo's Pizza . We also did a cooking class at The New Orleans School of Cooking . We really enjoyed that. Our chef, Michael DeVIDTS was very entertaining and he had some great tips for "going green" in your kitchen. He made a Corn and Crab Bisque, Shrimp Creole, Pineapple - Coconut Bread Pudding, Pralines and the best part... they served A...