Family Easter, Egg Hunts, Egglympics and more!

On Saturday, we celebrated family Easter. Luckily, the weather was good -the rain held off and the sun even came out. We had good food, even better company but most importantly we had fun! Noah brought in a friend to join in the celebration.
The Easter loot!

Victoria showing off her new walking skills.

Some cuddling before dinner.

Victoria decided she only wanted to cuddle w/her Daddy!

Eli helping Ty with finding his eggs.

Ty finding another of his chicks.

Trevor finding his last bunny egg.

After Eli found his eggs, he helped Ty find all of his eggs.

Noah's friend had the one missing egg. Those green frogs just blend right into the garden. But everyone pitched in to find that egg.

Victoria even joined in the egg hunt.

Lucas looks a little confused about what to do next.

Where Noah is the little boys are not to far behind. It is so fun to watch all the cousins interacting.

Everyone wanted to have a seat to watch all the fun.

Everyone grab a seat and get ready for the first annual Egglympics to begin. Andrew and Jen came up with a ton a fun activities in a Minute to Win Easter style.

Watching 6 boys try to move an Oreo cookie from their forehead to their mouths using only their facial muscles is quite an interesting site.Unfortunately Lucas wasn't able to get it in a minute but he sure gave it his best!

Can you win a soda? Just get the hula hoop around the soda bottle.

But the best event of the day was the "Junk in the Trunk", the boys had a carpi sun like box strapped to their backside filled w/eggs and a hole inside. The boys had one minute to jump, shake, and dance those eggs out.

Eli and Scott had a great time. And at one point, they even got in crab walk style stance to see if that worked. The oldest boys wanted the rule book checked, but I think they were really mad that they didn't think of it first.

Can you throw the football into the hoop? Jordan got it in the first time! Way to go!

Trevor and Ty even joined in the fun but they enjoyed their "bubbles" prize more than the games!

I think the marshmellow shooter was the hit prize of the day! I will have to remember than that the next time! We had a great time and the Egglympics are definately gonna be an Annual event! After the games, the boys just had a great time tossing the football and/or hula hoop around. And in all our excitement I didn't realize that we had forgotten Tovi's bday. But that post will come later.

My artists!

Here are some dragons that Noah drew. He also drew a dragon to go w/a poem that he did for school. So, stay tuned for the poem and dragon.

Lucas is also trying to improve his drawing skills. So here are some pics from his sketch book. He is doing a great job!

Have a great Easter weekend!

There is no such thing as normal!

Eli had a music program this week. The kids learned about autism and how no one is "normal". The kids really enjoyed learning about the autism spectrum and how different kids can communicate in different ways.

Eli was a dinosaur in the museum "exhibit".

It was a great program. Educational and fun!

Lucas + legos = FUN!

Lucas has gotten really into the Harry Potter Lego sets. He is also reading the books! He got "The Burrow" this week and quickly got to work. Eli enjoyed flipping the catapult while Lucas worked.

Parties, Choir, school and more . . . .

So, my BFFs are giving me a hard time about the lack of blog updates . . . so I better do this quickly before Easter, Mother's Day and Life gets ahead of me! We have been busy w/birthdays, school, and more. So here are some pics . . . . We enjoyed celebrating Trevor's 4th birthday. He was excited for cake and presents! It is so fun when they enjoy the party as much as we do.

Lucas has had fun with the above at school.

Eli had a choir performance. Noah enjoyed that in one of the songs one of his best friends had to propose. He was quite pleased w/his video!

And lastly our princess had her first birthday! Her biggest thrill was the tissue paper. She wasn't into her birthday castle cake. But she is a princess afterall. My brother also had a birthday, so we had Victoria's party in the afternoon and Fred's in the evening. Well, hopefully I won't be so delayed w/the updates next time. Have a good week!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I realize that it is nearly St. Patty's day - but here at last are pics from the boys' Valentine's day party! I think the food that Noah had at his party weighed a TON! Eli enjoyed the sundaes and Lucas made a craft and enjoyed treats esp heart shaped ham/cheese sandwiches!

Neil Armstrong

For those of you who remember, in 5th grade Noah studied a "hero" Jonas Salk, well Eli studied Neil Armstrong. He enjoyed studying the famous astronaut. He found it interesting to learn different facts about him ie his daughter died of cancer when she was two. Eli was nervous about speaking in front of such a large audience and he was first to speak- but he did a FABULOUS job!

Happy Birthday to me!

So, my birthday was last saturday - I had a great day. My coworkers had some birthday treats at work on friday. After work some of the girls and I went out for breakfast. Mom came up and surprised me w/a birthday cake. Boston cream pie! Yummy! My Dad and brother Andrew were out of town but everyone else came up to celebrate my birthday w/me. It was awesome way to celebrate my birthday. The boys surprised me w/a spa day! Yeah me!

With all of the snow and sick kiddos, the boys hadn't gotten to see their new cousin Colin. Unfortunately for Colin, he has a lot of cousins to compete with and he doesn't really do anything! But I am sure that he will fit right in when he gets a little bigger!

I spent my birthday in the best possible way with family and friends! Hope you have a good week!

Blizzard 2011

So last week we had a blizzard and were housebound for a few days. The boys had 3 snow days and now they are going to have to make up those days before the end of the year. :( We were able to stay safe and warm at home during the worst of the blizzard. But I really can't wait for spring!
The boys did a great job helping w/the shoveling but after awhile it seemed pointless because by the time they finished you couldn't tell that where they had shoveled. So here are some pics of how we spent the rest of the day warm inside!

And here are pics of the morning after the blizzard. Another snow day for the boys!

Again the boys did a great job of helping clear the snow and dig us out! But it was beautiful and they were able to mix some fun in w/their work!

The boys loved the deep drifts!

I think the boys have a new understanding of all the work snow can create. Noah and Eli helped a elderly lady across the street by shoveling her drive. And Eli and Lucas helped me clear the sidewalk of our neighbor behind us so that all the kids who walk to school by our house have a clear path! The boys definately deserved a break after all their hard work!

I treated the boys to some time at Power Play. They had a great time and truely earned their reward.

The boys and I had a great time last week but I sure hope that we don't get anymore snow! I keep telling the boys at this rate they will be going to school till July.

Volcanos and their parts!

Eli had a volcano project for school and he decided to do it on the parts of a volcano. Here are some pics of his project!

He did a very good job on his project and Nana was able to lend him some volcanic rocks from the Hawaiian volcano that she visited this summer.

For my crochet buddies!

I have been busy this winter w/lots of crochet projects. Lots of babies and friends need to be warm this winter! I wish I would have taken pics of all the stuff I have done over the years but here are pics of some of the scarfs I have done.
The pic doesn't do the scarf justice, but it is a mix of brown, green, blue. It turned out really great, and my friend Kayla LOVED it!

Here is a closer look at the pattern, Jen if you want the pattern let me know!

Here is a close up of one of the other scarf I did. I just double stiched these scarfs and allowed the multi colored yarn to make the pattern. They turned out great!

Here are the 3 scarfs for the BFFs! I have more scarfs to make so I better get busy!

Band Festival

The boys had their annual band festival. Well, actually Eli had been in strings last year - so this was his debut but it was Noah's 2nd festival. I chaperoned the boy's trip to the highschool to practice so here are the pic from their morning practice.

Eli during their performance that night.

Noah during the performance. I am so proud of all the hard work the boys put into practicing. They have a lot of fun practicing w/each other at night and make up their own music sometimes. We have been pretty busy lately so I will have more updates soon, come back and check it out. And those in this midwest blizzard with us - stay warm and safe!