Easter 2011

So, with the weather not the warmest and the clouds hovering and dumping rain, Easter was very much an indoor holiday this year.

I took the kids to the Easter egg hunt for the kids at the church. Too bad we were only using one room. . . it made it WAY too easy for the kids to find eggs. You think these eggs are hidden for the little kids so they need to be easy, well, it was the same for the bigger kids. I did my best to make some of them hard to find, but oh well. The kids were happy because the eggs had candy or other misc. things in them, so they had fun.

Addison wasn't as confident about picking up eggs, but she got the hang of it. She still brings me eggs and wants me to fill it with something yummy. I have tried to get rid of most of the ones that are still in the house.

Brayden was done as I was walking into the room. I was walking in right behind everyone else, he just picked up his allotted amount quickly.

Evan was done before I got in the room. . . no more comment.

Here we are decorating the eggs. This year I was smarter and I colored the eggs the day before we were going to decorate. The kids had lots of fun.

They were concentrating pretty hard.

They made dinosaurs,

and monsters. Overall, they turned out REALLY cute. I should have put more pictures of the eggs in since they were so cute, but since they were just eggs, I decided not too.

Easter morning the kids had to wait until we woke up to find their baskets. That worked well, except Evan found his (must of been hidden to easy) before we got up, so I re-hid it. It took him awhile after that. SO MUCH MORE FUN!!!

Brayden's was in the ottoman.

Addison's was behind the toy bucket.

Andrew's was just between the wall and the couch. He got a big ball, so it was fairly obvious.

Evan finally found his in the drawer of the oven. We had to give him hints, but he did well.

Here is Andrew with his ball.

Addison got a travel aqua doodle. The girl LOVES to draw and doodle.

Here is Addison in her cute Easter dress.

Here is what we ate (not that anyone cares, but it helps me remember).

Here is the desert. It's a chocolate cheesecake. I like regular cheesecake, wondered if I would like this even more. The recipe called for the chocolate to be 60 - 70% cocoa. . . pretty dark in my regular opinion. Turned out, that was still my opinion when I tasted it when it was all done. No one really liked it in the family, too rich and too much dark chocolate, however, the babies ate it like it was the best thing they had eaten. So funny. It's still in our fridge. I don't have the heart to throw it out, yet.

Overall, it was a good holiday. We are grateful for the Resurrection of our Savior Jesus Christ, and for his sacrifice. It was wonderful to talk about it so much with the kids. Evan was able to even help his teacher out by answering her questions during primary. She said he did a good job. He told us about it at dinner time and did a great job!

Happy Easter 2011!!

Vet school

So, I finally got around to putting these pictures up. I took so many with the intent of finally updating this blog. . . then about 2.5 weeks went by. Now, I have easter to post also (those will come tomorrow, hopefully). Anyway, we had fun a couple of weeks ago at the Vet school open house. Cornell's vet school is top notch, and it was fun to go and see some of the fun things they had.

This is actually a picture of the kids in front of the green houses where Josh plants his rice. We parked in that parking lot since the Vet school is next door.

Cute babies, ready to go!

We saw pigs. . .

and chickens. . .

and cows. . .

and more pigs. . .

and more chickens. They were some of the cutest animals I've ever seen!!

The kids got to be Teddy Bear Doctors.

and they were great at it!!

The babies had to ride around the whole day. Though they did get to pet animals at the petting zoo area. They like just going. Stopping wasn't fun for them, but as long as the stroller was moving they were loving it!

Evan and Brayden also got their faces painted. Evan is a bunny rabbit.

Brayden got a frog. . .

and a heart.

I had to throw this cheesy picture in. She is so cute and funny. People who babysit her always say, "she is such a character!" I always agree. She sure is!!