Easter Weekend and other stuff

SCHOOL PICS

Well the kids had picture day on St. Patrick's Day this year. I don't usually buy the school pics, so I gave them the choice of dressing up for pictures or wearing green (they didn't have any nice green clothes). They chose green. And they would have still turned out perfect, but both of them have a dab of paint right in the middle of their green reunion shirts. Haha. The dab showed up nice and bright but from the shoulders up they don't look too bad!

IDAHO FALLS "ROCKS"
There is a new group on Facebook encouraging people to paint rocks and hide them around town. And then go hunting for other rocks to keep or rehide!  I had planned to paint some rocks and go rock hunting ourselves, but I hadn't gotten around to it. Last week we were at a park for Crystal's soccer practice, and Jay came back with this rock! He's in love with it! We will need to paint rocks and hide them soon!

EASTER WEEKEND

We ran into the Easter Bunny while looking for Easter clothes earlier in the week! The kids were THRILLED! Friday afternoon we decorated our boiled eggs. Ty and I didn't think the dye would work well on brown eggs so we just used sharpies to color and decorate them. The eggs are gone and none of us died so I guess it was okay. haha. (PS. As it turns out, dye works just fine on brown eggs... next year. haha)

Friday night the kids put their eggs in their baskets and put their baskets out for the Easter bunny! He hid their eggs AND their baskets! Jay's was under the preschool room table, Crystal's was in a closet, and they finally found Lily's in the basement! Haha. The girls got math Wrap-Ups and baskets for their bikes and Jay got a bubble gun and a nerf football. And they all got a bunch of candy! Later we went to Grandma and Grandpa Cook's house where the kids rode their bikes for a while! They loved the freedom they had to ride around in the street! Haha. We had an Easter Egg Hunt (tons of eggs for 9 kids) and a BBQ! We also roasted marshmallows! It was so much fun! Jay discovered the water pump and tried pumping water out of it. He climbed up the pump and out on the lever but it still wouldn't budge. haha. Daddy had to help him! 

When we got to my parent's house, we discovered Papa had just finished putting together the new toy for their backyard! A ride-on princess carriage! The kids spent all weekend playing with it until the battery died! Haha.

Sunday the girls and I wore our new dresses from Grandma Leslie. Jay didn't want new 'church clothes' so we just dressed him in his Sunday best! ;-) Ty isn't in the picture because someone had to take it. Haha. He was there though I promise!

The Past 2 Weeks

SCHOOL WORK

Lily brought this home from school. It seems maybe it was a valentine project. I thought it was adorable that she put her best friend as what she loves because 'she's sweet.' SO adorable!

CONFERENCE WEEKEND
Saturday we cleaned out boxes and boxes and boxes of junk from the basement while we listened to conference. Sunday we watched afternoon conference with Ty's parents. After dinner we went on a little walk to see the animals down the street. Jay had made a muddy mess of his shoes so he was wearing Crystal's shoes... Crystal was wearing Grandma's rubber boots. Haha. All of them were also sporting gardening gloves. A must when it Grandma's House!

DANCE PICTURES
The girls had dance pictures taken this week. Jay was feeling left out while they were getting all dressed up. The girls helped him out with that! Haha! He was also feeling left out while they were getting doted on by the photographer, so he asked me to take his picture too. Haha.

TOOTH FAIRY
The tooth fairy made a stop at our house this week!  Jay and Lily were sitting in the same chair and Jay elbowed Lily in the face knocking out her front tooth. And it wasn't even her loosest tooth!!! Haha. The really loose one is still hanging in there unfortunately! The tooth that fell out was loose as well so it didn't hurt too much. She actually didn't even cry this time ... yes this time... it's the second time she's lost a tooth by getting hit in the face. Haha. Crystal knocked out the first one. lol.

UPDATE: Lily's other front tooth finally fell out on it's own 2 days later at Grandma and Grandpa Gordon's house! Her and her cousin Millie are both toothless now! Haha!

MOVIE NIGHT
Well we spent the weekend working on the basement again and we actually got a room cleaned out to celebrate we threw down a piece of carpet and put up the projector for a movie night! Hopefully it won't be long before it's finished!