Easter....yikes

Our Easter Celebrations began with a little egg hunt at Benton's preschool.  Benny and Paisley both enjoyed the hunt.  The big prize was the egg with a quarter in it.

 Why do these two never want to look at the camera?

 Benny's preschool class as well as another class along with all of their siblings.

 Next up was the Primary Egg Hunt.  We also had a few games.  Benton and Paisley tried the spoon race.

 They were big cheaters holding their egg on the spoon, but so did pretty much everyone else also.

 Next up was a sack race. Tab is in the florescent yellow jacket.

 Paisley, slowly but surely made it across the field.

 Finally the hunt, itself.

 The Easter Bunny hung some eggs in the trees and Tab was jumping to try to reach one.

 Grandpa came up to visit for Easter.  I can't remember why, but my mom was out of town, so he came up.

 The kids woke up and went to work looking for where the Easter Bunny hid their basket. (And yes, Benton's shirt is on backwards.)

 Per Jason's request, the kids follow a trail of jelly beans or candy filled eggs which leads to their basket.

 Sharing the wealth with their sister.

 Tab was quite pleased with finding the eggs.

 They finally located their "basket".  Since my dad was coming up, I had him bring one of my mom's ginormous stainless steel bowls.  This is what my parents always put our community Easter Candy in.  It was kind of fun to do the same for my kids.

 Jason was working nights, so when he got home he ran out and hid the eggs and then we sent the kids out.

 Paisley really had a blast finding the eggs.

 As did the rest of the bunch.

 

 

 Then came the discovery of the final egg.  Paisley beat Benton out by a milisecond.

 Which didn't go over well.

 It was quickly confiscated.

 And happily placed in his egg carton.

 As you can imagine this didn't bode well.

 She was quickly won over by being allowed to eat as many eggs as her little heart desired.

An Outing

 On a particularly nice afternoon recently, Jason decided he wanted to get out of the house after work.  So we went for a little drive.  We stopped by one of our favorite covered bridges and walked around.  I think the kids just enjoyed being outside.

Then we drove over to the fish hatchery.   They have a ton of little pools where they raise all of the fish that they stock various lakes and such with.  The kids really enjoyed being able to see them.

Then we found that we could buy little bags of food to feed the fish for super cheap.  So we got a few bags and let the kids have at it.

We all really enjoyed watching the fish jump out of the water to get the food.

It really was incredible just how many fish there were.

Family Fun Night

I had this post all set up and then apparently didn't post it. 

Tab's school had a Family Fun Night a while back and it really was a lot of fun.  They had some semi organized dancing set up in the gym.  Paisley had a blast.  She ran around dancing for a long time.  She cried when I made her leave so that we could do something else.

She was completely oblivious to the fact that she was by far the tiniest little thing in that room.  And she could have cared less where her brothers were.  She was having so much fun.

The kids got their faces painted.  Can you tell what Tab and Benton asked to be done as?

They asked to be skeletons. 

Paisley just wanted a heart and a butterfly.

*Side Note: (Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong mom, but this is how I remember it.)  I almost always let me kids get their faces painted when we go somewhere.  One, because they love it.  Two, because growing up my parents would NEVER let us get our faces painted or put on those temporary tattoos.  I always wanted to, so now I let my kids.  I guess that is one of those stupid you want to give your kids what you could never have sort of things...lol.

A Little Vaycay...

 In February, Jason was FINALLY able to take some much needed time off so we made it up to Jason's parents house with the kids.  Grandma took us all to a place called Monkey Joe's.  Basically it was a huge room filled with inflatable toys.  The boys had a blast.

 Paisley was a bit timid at first but quickly warmed up.

 One evening, Jason took the boys on a "nature walk" in the woods behind grandma and grandpa's house.  The boys liked the rock wall.  I'm sure Jason did too.

 They really liked the stream/creek/whatever you call it.  (I never was sure of the difference between the two.)

 See they had a blast throwing stuff in the water and poking about with sticks. (Why Tab has Benton's coat on and Benton has Tab's coat on, I have no idea.)

 Doing what nature was intended for.

 Remember the stream?  Tab wasn't listening to Jason and fell in.  Did I mention it was really cold outside?  Jason said he told the boys to start heading to the house after this happened as it clearly made a quick end to the nature walk.  Jason was trying to talk to Tab about what happened, etc. and Tab was just getting really angry (not unusual for Tab, but this was a bit different apparently).  Finally Jason got it out of Tab that he was having a hard time walking because his boots were full to the top with water.  Apparently Tab was having a genius moment and couldn't figure out the solution to his freezing cold heavy feet.

 Later during our visit, Jason's sister, Kristine, and her two kids came over to play.  Grandma broke out the parachute and they had a blast bouncing Benny's cow (that he names Cattle) around.

 we also enjoyed some sack races.

 Tab tried to use the sacks as parachutes.

 Getting ready to race.

 Benny was the winner.  Apparently it is difficult to hop in a sack when you have a little girl in yours with you.  I can't imagine why?