Easter 2014

I keep falling way behind on my blog!  So much is coming soon.  I cannot believe the kids' birthdays are coming again.  3 and 6.  Does that feel crazy to anyone other than me?  First though, Easter.  It was a fun weekend with beautiful weather!

 

The kids (and Elsa from Frozen) and the Easter Bunny

Our favorite miniature train runs the day before Easter.  It was a beautiful day to ride the train and play at the park.

 

Easter egg dyeing!

Layla prefers the hand dunk to the egg tools these days :)

 

Easter baskets! 

Easter morning with our cousins!  The kids were so excited. 

 We think more excited than Christmas?  It was pretty funny!

It is officially Easter to Layla.  She loves her chocolate bunnies!

And the egg hunt begins!

How cute is Finn?

It was another gorgeous day on Easter.  My kids got their first mini sunburns of the season even though I re-applied sunscreen twice.  I think their skin was in shock from so much sun :)

Kite flying

We had a really nice morning and early afternoon with my sister's family.   My parents were in Florida for Easter this year otherwise they would have been in the picture too!

Then we were off to Ryan's parents house for Easter dinner!

Layla, Grady & Kelsey

Treasure hunt for eggs!  Layla took a bad spill during the

treasure hunt so she had lots of escorts for the remainder of the hunt!

 

What a nice weekend!  We are looking forward to all of the outside time to come!!

Spring Break 2014

We pretty much had two weeks of spring break this year.  My sister and her boys were in town for Shea's spring break and Layla and Ryan were off the following week.  It was a nice two week break from our typical routine!  Lots and lots of pictures are below!

 

 

A trip to Joan's library!  Fun, fun time!!

The fun continued as we headed to a neat kid art place. 

All four big kids loved it.  Finn slept his way through it :)

 

Love this picture of Grandma Barb and her grand kids.  The kids all adore their grandmas and papas.

 

 

Getting ready to drum paint.  Grady and Liam loved the drum painting.  Layla and Shea liked it but would have loved to produce some kind of art project while drum painting.  Flinging paint must be more appealing to the three and under crowd :)

 

 

 

 Bowling fun!

 

The kids loved bowling.  Our package included two hours of bowling.  I think the kids lasted an hour and forty five minutes before they called it quits.  We were pretty impressed.   

 



A trip to the dinosaur museum

 

The kids were fascinated by all of the various stuffed animals at the museum.  

Grady was especially fond of all of the birds.  He said a lot of, "Oh wow.  Cool."  Layla loved the lion and her cubs.  Lots of artists were scattered around painting at the museum on this day too.  Layla thought that was pretty neat to see. 

We learned a lot about dinosaurs!  Our biggest fact we learned was that there is no brontosaurus dinosaur.  What?!?  Yep.  They are actually called apatosaurus dinosaurs. 

Maybe this was only new to us? 

 

 Ice skating! 

Layla used this guide to help her ice skate this time around. 

By the end of our trip, she was skating on her own with no guide!

And a trip to the zoo with Joan!!

 (Thanks for the zoo tickets Kayte and Brody!!!)
 

Watching seals

 

Dippin' Dot Break with Joan!

The male lion was very relaxed during his nap!

 

Whew!  What a fun two weeks.  We are so lucky to have Ryan home with us for nice chunks of time during these breaks throughout the year.  We had a lot of family time and got a bunch of little projects done around the house.  And Ryan and I pretty much watched our way through the Redbox movies :)  I would say it was a great double break!