Easter!!!

I am a little slow getting these pictures up, but better late than never. One reason is we were asked on Easter Sunday if jff and I would give talks the next Sunday. So I spent the week after, researching, worried, and then writing my talk. I am glad to say that it is finished and hopefully I do not have to talk in sacrament meeting for years. 

Now it is on to the Easter festivities. The week before Easter Dallin and Isaac had spring break so everyone except Jeff headed up to Logan to spend some time with my family. The main reason is because this week jeff is doing a PMP training, and he needed that time to get ready for the training and get caught up with his new promotion.

Everyone had a lot of fun and the real party didn't start until Thursday when we had a craft day. My sister, Debra, picked out a couple of crafts for us to do and my mom, my sister Amanda, my sister Debra, and myself all took the afternoon and made some crafts. If you would like to see the pictures, I will blog about it on my crafting blog Splendid Failure Crafts.

On Friday, we went to the baby animal days that is put on at the Heritage Center in Wellsville. The kids had fun going and looking at the animals. I think Dallin had the most fun seeing the animals. We saw baby ducks, chicks, rabbits, ponies, pigs, lambs, cows, and even some baby bears. Kaden didn't really care for the animals, until he saw them in their pen. He loved them. There was also a white peacock on site and I have never seen one of them. I made a collage of the pictures.

On Saturday, there were a lot of stores running an Easter egg hunt. I wasn't planning on going to any that began at 8:30 in the morning, but Kaden woke me up at 7:30 on Saturday, so we went. The first place we went to was, Smith's Marketplace. Smith's was also serving donuts and juice so the kids and I also got some free breakfast while waiting for the hunt to start. First up was Kaden and I had to leave Dallin and Isaac by the cart, while I went to help him find eggs. He was a typical 18 month old, find the first thing and is just happy with that. I ended up helping him put the egg in the bag and finding 4 more eggs. At that point I was happy and we left to go see Dallin and Isaac.

Dallin and Isaac were in the same group so we went to their area. Dallin is not a fan of running to try and get candy in public, so I was giving him a pep talk. I told the boys that we should just try to get 1 egg and be happy. It turned out that it was inspiration, because both of the boys got just 1 egg. It was a mad house. But everything was great.

Smith's also had a egg decorating place, so we decorated some cookies and then back to the grandparents to wait for the next hunt. The next hunt was at the mall, and unfortunetly Dallin didn't want to participate, so he went and played on in the child area, while I waited in line with Kaden. Isaac had to stay in line by himself because Kaden and Isaac were hunting at the same time.  He did fine and got lots of candy. Kaden did better this time and even came away with a baloon. Everyone had fun.

Later that day everyone came over and we had egg olympics, and everyone had fun. the kids and I left after dinner that night for home. I was tired the next day and occupied with practising for the choir number the next day, that I didn't take any pictures of the boys playing with their toys and eating their candy. But it was a great week. I also made a collage of pictures for the Egg olympics.

The biggest Pizza we have ever seen!

After all of our Easter festivities my dad took us all to Firestone for pizza. We told all of the kids that grandpa didn't have a lot of money to buy a lot of pizzas so we would be sharing one pizza. Dallin was really sad at that point because he thought that he would not be able to get the kind of toppings that he likes.

We got put into the room that they have for large parties and we waited about 5 minutes and then the workers bring in the 3 feet wide pizza. Canden went wide eyed and Dallin was a little scared of the pizza. The kids were in all surpirsed and loved the pizza.

The pizza was really good. the best part of the pizza was the crust. Normally the crust on a pizza is not good, but here the crust tasted like breadsticks. I went back for more of just the crust a couple of times.  I snapped a couple of pictures of the pizza and some of what Kaden was doing. It was a very fun dinner.

 Kaden and Gavin sat together and also during the weekend they took naps at the same time and on Sunday I think they became quite fond of each other. They were really cute.

 The pizza was huge and they had to tilt the pizza just to get it into the door. Again the pizza was really good.

Easter weekend!!!

As I said in the previous post that we were up in Logan over Easter weekend because my father was put in as the bishop of his ward and we went there to support him. That Saturday, Debra had an idea that we would have an egg olympics. Where we would play games with hard boiled eggs. On Friday, everyone got around the kitchen table and dyed 7 dozen eggs. Dallin and Isaac had fun dying the eggs with their cousins.

Saturday afternoon we all went outside and we started the games. I only played one of the games because I was either trying to get Isaac to be happy so that he could play, or I was talking pictures. The only game that I played was where we had to carry an egg on a spoon and race around the backyard.

The other games that were played were rolling eggs with your nose raise, egg toss in a bucket of water without breaking the egg, egg toss with a partner, egg relay race, and to end it all we had an Easter egg hunt.

Everyone had a lot of fun, even Isaac did when we got to the finding of the eggs, Kaden was asleep the whole time, but I managed to get him outside after his nap and took some pictures with him and the eggs. Also, all of my brothers and sisters and their families participated so it was a very fun weekend.

This is my favorite picture that I took during that weekend. While I was outside taking pictures with Kaden, Emme came and was trying to keep Kaden happy. It is a very nice photo.

I took so many photos over the weekend that I couldn't fit them all so I put them all together to divide the two activities we did over that weekend.

Easter and Spring Break

For Easter decorations this year I decided that I want to do some painted eggs. I was planning on painting them all myself, but when Dallin saw what I was going to do he wanted in. I decided that it wouldn't hurt anything to have a couple of eggs that were colored by a four and six year old. So I got the supplies, I went to the DI and spent $8 and got men shirts so the boys could get paint on them without hurting their clothes. The kids had a lot of fun coloring the eggs, Dallin more than Isaac. Isaac has decided that he doesn't like to get his hands dirty. He stopped painting his eggs early because his hands were all painted. He was more than happy to let me finish the eggs so he wouldn't get his hands dirty.

Here are the pictures:

Well this year for spring break I decided to go up to my parents so Jeff could get a little break from the kids and so he could work more on his smart phone project that he just got at work. It also happened that Easter was that Sunday so Jeff came up on the weekend. It snowed a lot while we were up there so a lot of my plans were halted, but the kids still had fun. On Wednesday we dyed eggs with my family. because we were going to have a lot of people there I went out and bought 3 dozen eggs, and then my sister brought a dozen and a half for her family, so we had a total of 60 eggs to dye. Dallin and Isaac were happy to do all the eggs, but after awhile I started to get frustrated with them so I said that it was time to take a break for a little while, so mommy can dye some eggs. It worked and they went off to play. Dallin came back later and did a couple of more. It was a fun day. Here are the pictures of the boys with their eggs:

On Saturday when Jeff was up my family went bowling. Dallin has wanted to go real bowling for awhile. He has only bowled on the Wii. Jeff wanted the kids to know how to correctly throw the bowl down the lane and he taught the boys. Isaac wasn't strong enough to hold the ball by himself so Jeff helped him a lot and he had a lot of fun just being able to through the ball down the lane. But he did great and his score was close to mine both games. After Dallin was shown how to throw the ball down he didn't want any help (typical Dallin) so his score was not what he wanted it to be, but he really improved the second game and was only a couple of pins down from Isaac, who had help from his Dad. Jeff and I had a little better games than the boys, but not as great as they once were. We have been playing the Wii too much.

On Easter Sunday, the boys spent most of the day playing with their glow stations that I got them (no I don't say the easter bunny brought them stuff. I never understood the easter bunny so I am not passing it on). After general conference got over we all went outside and we had a plastic egg hunt. Amanda, Debra, and James hid the eggs and then it was up to Dallin, Isaac, and Austin to find them. The boys had a lot of fun and Dallin was proud of the 24 eggs that he found. Isaac was a little disappointed with his 18, but it is a good number. Here are the pictures: