Goings On

WII

I got the Wii up and running again a few weeks ago (it's been a while). The kids love playing games on it! Jay takes his ski jumping very seriously so watch out! lol! Lily played under his name by accident and got an awesome score. lol. He gave her the biggest hug for getting him the 'crown' on the scoreboard! Lol.

 PRESCHOOL
I love it when the book box comes for scholastic. All the books in the picture aren't mine, but I spent plenty. Lol. Then they went and gave me more coupons ... so .... of course I'll be making another order this month. Haha.
There is a FB page called Idaho Falls 'rocks' that encourages communities to paint rocks and hide them around town to make people smile. They definitely work! My kids especially think it's the greatest thing in the world when they find a painted rock at the park! Since we were going to the park for a field trip, I decided for preschool one day to sit down and paint rocks with the kids. They loved it! They were so excited to go hide them!!!

FITBIT

When you want to ride your bike but you want the steps to count.... need I say more? lol.

FRIDGE
My new fridge! I always swore I wouldn't buy stainless steel! I'm already pretty concerned about the fingerprints. But in all honestly the other option was shiny black and seemed just as prone to finger prints... so stainless steel it is!!! Now I just need a dishwasher and oven to match it! Haha! (PS SUPER excited about the ice maker!!! YAY!!!)

OUT TO EAT
We've been able to spend time with family and friends the past two weeks... while eating of course! Haha! Including our boys from out of town and that tiny little human in Papa's arms! 

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!

Jay's Birthday

Jay is 4 years old! I'm not sure how that happened already but it did!!! He had a pretty fantastic day! He woke up to a Dune Racer in the living room! He has begged for one for a year now, so he was pretty excited! He had a race car birthday party! We of course had to race cars! And we also played Pin the Teeth on Mator! We then sang to him, opened presents and had cupcakes! He had a pretty good time! All afternoon he played with his new toy. I'm glad it was sunny and 55 degrees so he could play outside! Then for dinner we went to his place of choice! Pizza Hut! When we got home we had family over and sang to him one more time! Then we had more cake and ice cream! He had a pretty fantastic day and is still telling anyone that will listen all about his new Dune Racer! lol.