Easter Bunny and Egg Hunt

The Easter Bunny went a little over board this year, but hey they're only young once right?!The girls had a great time wearing their Bunny ears and playing with all their Easter toys. The Easter Bunny didn't bring any candy this year. Thank goodness! We always have to throw candy out around here! (can you see the science fair projects in the background? Thank goodness that's over!)

Then it was off to the Annual Easter Egg Hunt. What a great day for it. The weather was beautiful, we saw tons of friends, and enjoyed spending the day together as a family.

It was a packed house this year. Glad we went early to get a good parking spot and a good seat!

The kids were so excited to get down on the field, they had a hard time standing still for a picture.

Alex and her BFF Yasmine! Alex had to have her hair cut short just like her BFF. These girls are pretty much inseparable at school (at recess anyways since their in different classes!)

The girls with their FULL Easter baskets. There were over 5000 Easter Eggs this year!! They must have gotten at least 25 hard boiled eggs. We didn't win any prizes this year but we didn't care. We had so much fun. We can;t wait until next year. Actually I can, I'm pretty sick of eggs at the moment!

A couple of cute chicks on Easter

My two little cute chicks got a couple of cute chicks for Easter. We kept them in the back room, so it was a complete surprise on Easter! I looked everywhere for some. All the feed stores around here were sold out. When ever I'm in a pinch I call my Mom and Dad, they checked a feed store in Benson and score, we had chicks. They came to my rescue as always!!
Alex loves the little black silky chicks the best.

Sydney loves them all, as long as she gets to hold them she's happy.

We're hoping we can make our chicks as tame as the ones at our friends house. They aren't afraid of us and they don't mind being held. Every spare minute the girls have they're holding their chicks. Way to go Easter Bunny, You Rock!

Science Fair Season

Science Fair Season is upon us! Sydney's science fair project was due today. I forgot how much parent involvement these projects take. For her first project I think she did pretty good. I don't remember one of my science projects from school (I remember Linda's paper towel experiment, that's why I never buy Bounty or the high dollar paper towels). We have enough documentation of Sydney's science experiment that she'll never forget it!

Good job Sydney!

Easter Primary Activity

Last Saturday we had our Easter Primary Activity Day. We had a great turn out. I think just about every kid in primary was there!We walked in just as they were getting started so we had to hurry and make our name tags and sit down.

They explained what we would be doing, then it was off to our centers. Sydney and Alex got to go to the coloring center first. We color all the time at home so you think they would be sick of coloring. I think they stayed the longest at this center!

They thought there was going to be a coloring contest so they tried very hard to do their very best. Turns out there wasn't a coloring contest. Their pictures were so good they earned a spot on the fridge at home. Good job girls!

Then it was off to dye Easter eggs. We hardly ever dye Easter eggs at home so this was a treat for the girls. Between school Easter eggs, the Bisbee Egg Hunt eggs, and relatives eggs, we have no need to dye our own. Plus Mom has a little dye phobia so.......

After we dyed an egg or two it was time to decorate our baskets. The girls went a little sticker crazy.

For some reason I keep finding stickers of Easter eggs and little lambs on everything. From cups to doorknobs, I think we've got Easter covered!

Then it was time to fill our baskets with yummy candy and goodies, not to mention Easter grass. I have a disliking for Easter grass so soon after we got home it was in the trash can!

After that it was time to go outside and hunt our eggs! Each kid was allowed to find two, with a few extras hidden for those who had really good eyes!

Both girls found their eggs pretty fast, then helped some of the younger kids find some too.

Have you ever been to an Easter egg hunt where everyone is looking UP for eggs?

There were two hidden eggs in this tree, but we could only find one. Way to go Easter Bunny!

Then we moved inside where the kids read the Easter story from slips of paper in Easter eggs. Each slip of paper came along with a little visual of that scripture.

Then it was lunch time. Our favorite part was eating our boiled eggs, YUM! It was a great day, a very fun activity, and the girls still remember the story of Easter because of the great visuals. I was very impressed with the turn out. The girls had a lot of fun and are looking forward to the next activity day!

Random Craziness!

Alex is awesome! She lets me do her hair any way I want most of the time. We can get pretty wild with our ideas. Her favorite is when I french braid her hair and then the next day take it out and her hair is all wavy. Perm for a day we say! Alex recently got her hair cut short again so our crazy hair days have been on hold for a while. I came across these pictures and they made me laugh. We just have to put this in the blog book. Imagine what she's gonna think when she's 16. Heck, maybe she'll still be wearing her hair this way. Who knows what will be in style. She won't care either way. As long as she thinks it's cool, she rocks it!

Sydney on the other hand....... Likes her hair long and left down. I have to tell her it's going to be windy to get her to let me put it up. Sydney's long hair is well taken care of, so I don't mind what she wants to do with it. She always looks beautiful no matter what. They're so different. A wild child like her mom, a calm conservative like her dad. Can you guess which is which? I always do Alex's hair how I would want to wear mine if I didn't have to be a grown up! You rock with awesome-ness Alex(and you do too Sydney).

Good things are growin.....

I will be the first to stand up and say, I love my job. I love being the librarian at school. I like working with all the kids and getting to know all of them. I love reading them books, seeing them every day, and what can I say, I LOVE BOOKS! I didn't know when I took the job that I would have to host a book fair. Well I did. Here was our theme this year. Thanks to my Aunt Bev and the Jr. high school librarian, we had some pretty awesome decorations, even if I do say so myself!
Here are the bags we made for the teachers wish lists. They fill out a wish list, then parents generously buy their kids teachers a book and the book goes in the bag, then the bag goes to the teacher.

We made vines, and flowers, and carrots, and radishes, and beets, and potatoes out of pantie hose (thank you Aunt Bev), and much more!

Yes, we even had corn growing in our library....

Artichokes popped up too! We have a school garden that gets all the seeds when were done. YUM!

We even went as far as decorating the ceiling. The kids loved it! I think every inch of the library had something to do with something growing. The theme grew on us so much that even though the book fair has been over for a week or so we still have the decorations up.

We had a great showing of support from all the students and parents and teachers. We beat last years total for money earned and we earned $2200.00 in new books for our library. WOW! All in all it was a great experience, glad it is over, and can't wait to do it again next year!

They're back!

We had an Easter Primary Activity today. I'll be posting pictures of that in the near future. Today as we came home from the activity, we noticed our swallows are back! Every year since we have moved into this house, the swallows have returned every Spring. I thought for sure a Hawk had gotten them last year. I even chased that nasty Hawk away a couple times because I didn't want it to get our baby swallows. I'm not sure if these swallows are the exact same ones we've had since the beginning but we enjoy having them here.
The first couple of years we lived here, we would knock down the nests when the birds went away in the fall. Now we leave them up year round. We had a winter visitor (some kind of bird) this year that kept the nest warm for our swallows until the day they returned.

That day was today! We're so glad that they are back!

Uncle Scott comes for a visit

Last Saturday, we spent time at my parents visiting with my Uncle Scott. We slept most of the day because of the late night/ early morning we had at the movie release party. When we finally did climb out of bed we went and had lunch and visited. I think this is maybe the third time the girls have seen my dad's brother Scott. This is only the fourth time in 12 years I have seen him. I think Clay has met him once or twice since we have been married.
It was great to see him and a lot of fun to spend time and visit with him. I know my Dad would like to see him more. When Uncle Scott is here we always make time to go and visit.

Dragon Training 101

Today is Friday, YAY! It is also the one Friday every other month that I had to work, BOO. My mom came down and babysat while I went to work. After work we went to the mall. We ate, walked around, window shopped, and went to see How to train your Dragon! It wasn't what I expected. The kids loved it, I cried, and my mom thought it was ok. It was a perfect Friday to complete a near perfect week!

Fun Friday (part 3)

After Tsunami night, it was time to go to Walmart for the New Moon Midnight Release Party. WOW, we had fun. We were all a little tired, wet, cold, and maybe even a little cranky. Tsunami night was over at 10 Pm so we had to wait until Midnight for the movie to be released. The girls brought their jammies and blankets and were ready for a long night of waiting. The girls were ready to go but after watching the making of Twilight twice, they were slowly losing their energy.
And then they crashed! They slept through most of the party (slept until mom started yelling answers to the quiz for a chance to win another raffle ticket!).

This crowd could be compared to the Target crowd on the day after Thanksgiving. All walks of life were present and accounted for. Men, women, children, babies...... all wanting the same thing. NEW MOON. There were refreshments, drawings, movie trailers, quizzes, trivia games, giveaways and lots of chit chat to keep us busy until Midnight.

We were all given these Midnight release fan kits. Poster, tattoos, trading cards, quizzes, and lots more. By the time midnight came around they were still raffling off prizes. I was pooped. I grabbed my copy of New Moon and headed to the check out. I gave my two raffle tickets to a group of giggling, screaming, hyper teeny boppers, wished them luck and headed home.

I WENT,

I WAITED,

I WON!