Happy Easter

We hope your family had a wonderful, blessed Easter weekend; our house certainly did. We spent a wonderful weekend enjoying time with family, church friends, and, of course, some fun presents.

Egg dyeing went better than I expected. No eggs were harmed in the process, and the newspaper soaked up most of the "stirring" process. The boys were thoroughly intrigued by eggs turning colors.

We had done several practice runs with empty eggs, so imagine the delight when there were puffs and yogurt melts in the eggs the Easter Bunny left!

Str-e-e-e-e-tch!

Best puffs ever!

The Easter Bunny brought Thing 1 and Thing 2 Elmos. They haven't left their sides since. So, Thing 1's hands are getting awfully full because he's my collector. At any given time, his hands are full with rhino, Elmo, his dog (woof, woof) and a train engine or two.

I love that S caught Thing 1 in perfect running form.

My three loves.

A little post-nap viewing of "Tangled" that the Easter Bunny brought us.

When did this happen? Where did my baby go, and who is this big boy?

St. Patrick's Day Fun

St. Patrick's Day isn't a huge holiday in our house, but we usually have a little leprachaun fun around the house to help us celebrate. Most years, this has included turning most of our food and beverage choices of the day green. But this year, the weather was forecasted to be absolutely gorgeous, so our plan was to head to the zoo with Daddy for the day. I didn't feel like trying to prep a picnic for five with green food so we needed some other options.

Bub is on Spring Break this week, so we had a little fun on Wednesday with a rainbow chart using Skittles. He's truly my child, as he'll do anything for a bag of Skittles! I got the idea from Little Wonders' Days and knew Bub would love it.

Hard at work sorting his Skittles colors

As promised, we had absolutely beautiful weather yesterday, and spent several hours at the zoo enjoying the weather, the animals, and being together outside!! To round out our rainbow filled day, we had fruit pizza for dessert.

The boys loved eating it, but their favorite part of any meal is watching it bake. Lucky for them, Mommy's always baking so there's always a show in the kitchen.

Photo post

I've apparently been in a blogging slump for, oh, three months now. But looking around at the other blogs I follow, it seems to be the season. My excuse is that I've just been too busy having fun with my boys! But since it's 9:00 on a Saturday and I'm supervising our first sleepover with 5 crazy boys, I figured I'd get caught up on some pictures. So here's a few from Halloween to now.

Just your typical Star Wars family out for a night on the town.

If only he could actually rake for Daddy.

But we do love being outside!

This is our favorite reading spot, so we keep it well stocked with Heralds (our church's publication) to peruse.

Meet our walking disaster. He can get into, out of, or on top of anything.

Just having a little snack before breakfast.

Our first haircut went exactly as expected. Thing 1 just sat and patiently waited for it to be over.

Thing 2, well, this is a good shot. He screamed the entire time and tried frantically to swat her hand away.

Our handsome monkeys after their cuts.

These two are chunks!

Okay, so we've done a million other things this fall, but that's all I have energy for at this point.

4th of July

Yep, it's mid July and I'm just now getting to posting pictures from the 4th. I guess that means we're just too busy having fun. It has been a busy month, Bub had Star Wars camp, my sister and brother-in-law are in town so we're trying to get with them as much as possible, my birthday, and S and I are preaching tomorrow. So, I'm hoping after this, things slow down a bit.

But here are some pics from our neighborhood 4th of July parade. They had a firetruck lead the parade, then the kids followed behind on bikes or scooters with parents pulling wagons or pushing strollers. We went through the neighborhood, and some of the residents sat out in their lawn chairs just like a real parade and clapped as the kids went by. I thought it was a lot of fun, and really great for the kids to be able to be in a "real" parade.

Bub's best buds just happen to live in our neighborhood too, so we went to the parade together. Growing up in the country, far from any friends, I think it is wonderful that the boys will grow up with close friends within walking distance.

I am happy to say we are training wheel free now!!! I wasn't sure the day would ever come...

I have more pics from the actual 4th with Bub and his Daddy and uncle blowing things up. But they're on the other camera, so I'll get them in later.