Fun with cousins at gramma's

We spent the afternoon at Grandma's house with Pierce and Aubrey...our Montana cousins :)
I left to go shopping with Hannah to TJ Maxx and we came back to a huge frosting hoopla!! It's always fun to let the kids do everything on their own and see their masterpieces at the end.

{ Lunch }

Day 6 - Lunch -
We are at gramma's house today with out-of-town family. This is what lunch looks like....a row of hot dog buns waiting to be filled :)

{ Someone Who Makes You Happy }

Day 4 - Someone Who Makes You Happy

It was too hard to narrow it to "someone" so how about some "somebody's". :)

Took this picture tonight while we were out to dinner at Red Robin. Funny that I got them all together, they both HAD TO sit by dad at the restaurant...perfect photo op :)

These people make me more than happy :)

A Day at the Park with Classmates

Spent the afternoon at the park with some of Parker's classmates today. Finally a warm (but gusty) day!! Joining us were Conner (glasses), Avi and Asher (brown boys), Cash (blue shirt), Elijah(Indian looking), Mason (big brimmed hat), and Mateja--the only girl and not pictured! The boys were in "boy heaven" playing cops 'n robbers, jail, basketball, fly up, and just running around. It was nice to be able to talk to the moms instead of our brief "hello" and "goodbye" as we pass each other for drop offs and pick ups.
I'm glad that Colton was able to interact too since these will also be his teammates along with Parker for t-ball starting here in a couple of weeks. The more he is around them, the more relaxed he is to chat :)

Spring Break - Week 2 - Day 11

Today was the first "nice" (if you can call 45• and cloudy nice) day we've had this Spring Break. On a positive note, it wasn't dark, raining, or windy.

We decided to go to a local "woodsy" park and have a scavenger hunt. I got the idea from this Pinterest pin:

http://pinterest.com/pin/9007267974921905/





Below are the pictures that correlate with the list of items they were asked to find. They are very smart boys...not everything was something we could pick up and put in our sacks...they really thought outside the box on this one!!

This wasn't actually on the list, but I like to take these moments to get a photo of the 3 of us together :)

Something smooth

Something beautiful - a tree

Something round

Something beautiful - the grass

Something that makes noise - jumping on a drain grate makes a hollow drum sound!

A chewed leaf

Something fuzzy - ASTROTURF!  How creative they are!!!

A chewed leaf

Something that makes noise - jumping on a valve box is like a drum!

Something rough - the top of a sewer cover, its bumpy!

Something round

Something rough - the brick on the wall

Something scary - we added this to the list when we saw the tree - it did look a little spooky

Something smooth - the top of the concession counter stand

Inside the scary tree

AHHH!!!   We're stuck inside the scary tree!!! 

{ Color }

Photo of the Day - April 2 - Color.

While at Lowes today these beauties caught my eye. And for $2.89 I couldn't pass them up. The color is SO vibrant...the boys actually picked this out...good color choice, huh!?
The name of the flower is a Ranunculus, also known as a Persian Buttercup. Happy Spring!

{ Reflection }

Photo of the Day #1 -- April 1 -- Reflection

I took this picture watching the boys from our upstairs window. I actually very much dislike photos of myself, so this was hard to do :)