Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Saturday photos...

How fun does this look?  Forts are so fun and the boys liked making it and then hiding out in it.  I was happy to see them working and playing together.  (and surprised that they still wanted to play together after I made them change their sheets)

I may have blinded them with the flash to get this photo.

and, Liam enjoyed wearing his rollerblades

Friday, April 13, 2012

the 2 pictures I took on Easter

Easter morning, the boys were excited to have candy waiting for them at the table.  They also each got a little toy and chocolate bunny-of which Liam's melted that morning.  We think it got hit by a direct sunbeam while we were at church.

I agreed to teach children's worship that moring and we did the Easter story using resurrection eggs.  Google it.  You can find lots of different ideas for making your own.  I got my idea from moneysavingmom.com.  The kids liked each having an egg to open as the older helpers read the Bible verses.

Not even a picture of all the kiddos together.  Bummer.  Sorry to disappoint.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

of course we did an Easter egg hunt

Our spring break week started off with an impromptu run to an Easter egg hunt at at nearby park.  Our neighbors were going and Andy took any of the boys who wanted to go.  Of course, Cale wanted to go-the chance to get some candy is very exciting.  Ewan went also-he got to ride with our nieghbors-probably the part he was most excited about.  Sounds like it was pretty crazy.  They had areas for different ages, but Andy kept Cale and Ewan together in the same area.  I think Marcus went too, to view the action.
Cale, Ewan and Ewan's bestie

just a few people came to watch :-)



They had some fun and brought home candy to share with everyone. 
Good times!

Monday, April 9, 2012

last Friday night...

Cale had been begging to go to Chuck E Cheese for  a while now, so last Friday, we made his dreams come true :-).  It was a good chance to get out of the house and do something together.  Plus, I had some good coupons for tokens and we has to go to Indy anyway, so might as well make good use of the opportunity.  I really think that CEC is a Vegas-in-training for kids, with all the lights, games and tokens.  But, they love the over-stimulation, including Kella, who is in none of these pictures.
so happy!

wins the award for "hardest to keep track of"

I watched Marcus play the shooting baskets game.  I have to say, that boy has some skills with the ball.  Andy's not too sure where he got this talent from.  I would like to point out that I did letter in basketball the year I played in high school (ok, we weren't any good).

on one of the roller coaster sim rides


Then, we went to the hotel where our church was hosting Leadership Training for Christ.  It's kind of like 4H for church.  Marcus was signed up to do Bible Bowl on Saturday and we just needed to check him in.  I can say, it's nice having your church host the event, because the place was full of people that we knew with many eager arms to hold Kella.  While she was being watched, we took the kids to the praise assembly.  They did okay, even though they were getting super-tired.



The kids were so tired when we got home.  They had played outside all day before we went to CEC and LTC (maybe you can see that their faces are a little redder than usual). But even then, they really didn't melt down getting ready for bed. 

And that is how you wear children out.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

start of a new project

Andy started a new project: some landscaping changes to the front of our house. He dug up the bushes that had been by the front door and moved them to the side of the house, by the garage.  Right away, the front area looks alot more open.  I'm thinking of putting some rose bushes here. 

And, the bushes ended up over here.  Andy was able to basically pull up the bushes to move them. (I knew I married the right man.) They've all been planted now, and we have plans to mulch and put up a border of some kind.  Excited to get another project checked off our list!

crazy hair!

our stay-cation beach

We added some new sand to the sandbox recently, much to the dismay of our neighbors (something about their kids coming home covered in sand).  Kella seems to be enjoying it. 

and it tastes great!