Easter Fun!

Isn't Easter the best? Spring weather, Easter candy, ham, cheesy potatoes, family, remembering our blessings and the Savior? 

Love it!

We were thrilled to be invited to two fun Easter hunts!

Easter morning was a rough one (I had to sing and teach Sharing Time in Primary) and Reagan was still getting over being super sick, so the Easter Bunny came while we were at church!  

We didn't even get a picture of all of us dressed in our Easter finery :(

The Easter Bunny came!!

Colin gets a little funny with presents and new things. He takes a few minutes to warm up!

After he warmed up, he was thrilled about getting a Woody (from Toy Story)!

(as a side note, we don't normally have a mattress in our living room! We had lots of friends over for a movie night and needed extra seating and the kids loved jumping on it for a day!) 

Playing with her new chalk...

and having brother steal her chalk!

The Sharps (and new cute baby Molly!) came over for dinner, but sadly we didn't get any pictures :(

For Family Night we dyed eggs and it was a huge hit! Messy but lots of fun!

Tigers!

Super last minute, I dragged my friends to the Arboretum for the fun and free children's activities on Mondays.

Colin was SOOOO excited to get his face painted! He talked about it the whole way there and couldn't relax until he had his tiger face on!

These artists are so great and very fast! Reagan just got a heart on her arm, but Colin did great!

Both Isaac and Colin wanted to be tigers so we had tiger-Colin and Shere-Khan Isaac!

They both had fun growling at each other and all the little ond ladies who passed by!

(In a quivering, sweet little old lady voice) "What a cute tiger!" 

ROAR!!!!!!

(Colin is very committed to his roaring and uses his entire body to get the full effect!)

After being a tiger on Monday, Colin wanted to go to the zoo and see "the tigers and the dinosaurs" (I think he has the zoo and museum mixed up!) so I asked Desirae if she could take us sometime with her pass!

And off to the zoo we went with 6 kids and 2 adults! We all squeezed in her minivan (hello, musical car seats!) and had a great time!

This lion roars when you put money down his throat...Colin was a little worried!

Desirae had some extra carousel tickets and Colin could not stop talking about the "animal merry go round." He wanted to ride that zebra all day!

On the other hand, Reagan did not!

We did all the fun extra things! I couldn't say no when Colin asked to try the hurricane simulator!

Then I even let them get soaking wet in the river in the children's zoo area (because I am and awesome mom and they loved it! Of course, Reagan was drinking the water, Colin kept getting in the water after I got him in dry clothes (thankfully I had his spare outfit with us!) and between the humidity, the water, the tantrums, my patience was GONE by the time we left!

But they look so happy :)

And this is how we left! Ah the tantrums!

I love motherhood!

St Patrick's Day Activities!

This year we just had a few families over for Sunday dinner and had our tradtional corned beef, candied carrots, potatoes, rolls, jello, and cabbage. Yum!

As kids, we always had green pears with our dinner - Isaac isn't sure what he thinks of it!

Cindy brought the makings for cool lime sherbet floats! She even brought cute straws :)

 The morning of St. Patty's Day Colin got surprise cereal and Reagan had green waffles!

Colin and I made sugar cookies to take the Daddy's office and after lunch with Kevin we went in to Kevin's office and were met with this mayhem:

It's hard to tell what this is, but in the middle you see Conan O'Brien hugging Mary Kay employees! As part of his Dallas week, he filmed a bit at Mary Kay and we happened to be there! The employees weren't told until right before it happened! 

Check out this link to see what we saw! If you pan to the right of Conan, you will see Kevin carrying Reagan and me carrying a plate of cookies! 

Kaity's 80's Surprise Skate Birthday Party

What a RAD party!

I helped my good friend Kaity's husband, Andy, throw a surprise party for her and it was a total success! 

Not only was it a totally awesome party, but Kaity was definitely surprised!

I sent out the invites, brought food, and the party favors (slap bracelets, shutter glasses, and jelly bracelets) and Kaity's sister Annie and Cindy handled the decorations.

Love the Pac-Man picture backdrop? SOOOO fun? 

Surprise!!

 Poor girl got dragged here as a guise for checking out some craigslist furniture for her cousin, Maggie's, new apartment.

After the surprise, Kaity got dressed up in the outfit Andy brought for her and it was time to party!

I think most people had fun dressing up and skating!

It was so stinking hot in there that we were all gross and sweaty by the end!

 

Kevin and I hadn't skated for years and it was so fun to hold his hand and skate to fun 80's music!

Love this guy!!