Busy Busy!

Wheww... what a busy couple of days! The best Kind!

This is the kids scrubbing their toy bucket nice and clean. I think this may have been more fun than going to a pool!
We spent Friday cleaning out and rearranging the kids room! It was quite an adventure..
It is amazing how quickly a room can take on a life of its own. The kids play and get out toys and its like it becomes a living monster threatening to consume the whole house! SO... we killed that monster and I am not sure who is happier Momma or the kids. It is so much more fun to play in a clean room!

That brings us to Saturday!

The City Easter Egg Hunt.

We woke and hurried around to getting dressed and eating breakfast. Not one of us was in a "good" mood. Sam was mad about last years hunt because he Quote "every year, I never win the big egg" ...Yes, he remembers everything and is SO competitive. LOL

The hunt was so much more fun this year! They had a nice assortment of games with little prizes so everyone felt like a winner!

Here are the kiddos Fishing!

Avelynn bowling (kinda... haha)

Sam Shooting Hoops

Then it was Avelynns turn to hunt some eggs.

She did pretty good for being so nervious. Ended up with Lots of Marshmallows!
She was very proud of herself. Of couse mama was bust with pride for her little blonde girl!

Sam was totally pumped that he was there right beside Jack!!

Sam went after the eggs Fast and Furious style!

And he .............WON THE BIG EGG!

This is the Soccer basket he won for getting the "big" egg!

He could not stop smiling and our cranky day morphed into a Wonderful Happy Day!

Foolin' Around

April Fools was a very chilly Morning but that didn't stop the babes from enjoying the new swing Nana brought!

Avelynn fell asleep in her new swing......

APRIL FOOLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ave never tires of this joke!

And a boy can sure have alot of fun in an pink swing!

These are my special guests today Superman and Snow White stopped by to play with Me!

Have a Fab Day!

Okay.. I know I am falling behind (Oopsy)

Lets play catch up... Grandmas need their pictures after all...

These are pics from a science project we started a few weeks ago. Growing flowers.

The kids were excited to play in the dirt and and the flowers are coming along nicely.

We don't have any blooms yet but Ave is keeping a close eye out! ;-)

That brings us to the "Easter" tree. The kids were very happy and excited to decorate for Easter! I must admit hanging Easter eggs is a lot of work but Sam got some excellent practice with scissors cutting the string and Ave is a superb opener of plastic eggs!

Weekend Workers!

This weekend was wonderful! Jake and I took the kids out to my parents to help with some destruction... we took down and cleaned up some trees. On Sunday we just spent the day together playing outside in the sun... practicing Soccer! Only a few weeks left until Samuel is an Official "player"! He is is the very proud owner of new silver shin guards and a blue soccer ball and he could not be any more excited, especially since he found out Jack is going to be playing! Elijah and Jack all in the same space is Samuels Idea of fun!

Sam and Avelynn were a BIG help cleaning up the fallen trees!

Samuel is getting so strong.

Roy G Biv

We went to our Play Group Party today!

Samuel and I colored a million rainbows then hot glued on cupcake papers and filled them with Corn Pops! The kids seemed to love them! Avelynn had a ton of fun following big brother around and Sam spent most of the party defending Samsons toy cars! He was really worried the bigger kids were not going to give the toys back. LOL Not to worry I believe Samson made it home with all his cars in tow! I forgot my camera.. I know I know a mortal mistake...not to worry the cell phone saved the day!

Super Big Thank you to Terah for letting me know about the coupon for Hooked On Phonics -Kindergarten $18 bucks what a great deal! The code is save40 if anyone else is interested! We already love our Hooked on Handwriting and Bible Stories! We highly recommend their products!

Our Weekend Outside!

We spent the weekend at the State Park!

We went out hiking both Saturday and Sunday!

The kids really enjoyed being out and soaking up all that sunshine! We also were out and took our easter photos but those are top secret for now... prints have been

ordered!

Chloe loved the trails and Avelynn did not. We dubbed her Princess Avelynn carry me a-lot! She did MUCH better the second day! Samuel loved every minute of hiking and would never leave the woods... so much like his Mommy and Daddy. We will get Avelynn in to shape in no time, It really did'nt help that Samuel kept on tell her there

was a snake in every hole we passed... Boys. :P

I hope everyone was out and about this weekend, It really was wonderful!

We caught a wee leprechaun! We're still waiting on our Gold..

Sam and I made leprechaun's yesterday! They turned out really really cute!

we used some old tubes, paint, glue, glue guns, foam, a compass, stickers and yarn!

This was not a quick project but it was a lot of fun... Avelynn was sleeping but she enjoyed waking to find two new friends!

This past weekend we traveled to Ohio and visited the house I grew up in. My parents had to do some work to get the home ready to sell and Avelynn and I had the most fun running through the house and playing hide and seek, football and finally crashing! Empty houses are so much fun!

I went to check on the babies and Avelynn's bed was empty. After a bit of mild panic... I found her snuggled up with Samuel.

They are so cute snuggled down together!