Showing posts with label Spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spring. Show all posts

Saturday, April 19, 2014

Easter Weekend

Spring Branding, a picnic, egg hunts and looking for Easter baskets was on our agenda for the weekend!  Ryan had to work, so he stayed home while the kids and I headed to Grandma and Grandpas to "help" work cows and have some Easter fun.

We dyed some eggs (that nobody in my family will eat, and they have to be VERY cooked for me to eat!)...




our favorite part....mixing the dyes after we're done...

Saturday morning the kids found their Easter baskets that were hidden in Grandma's house...of course Tanner found all of them but his....and when he finally DID find his, we headed outside to the back yard to hunt for eggs!  Uncle Reed was kind enough to scatter them ev.ry.where!



On your mark.....get set...GO!!!





Looks like everyone found a little something!



 As soon as that race finished up, we put our working boots on, and went to work!






We finished up the day with our traditional Family Easter Picnic...complete with hot dog roast in the back yard.  While waiting for Grandpa and everyone to come over for out lunch, my boys found the peeps....and you can see what happened between building an AWESOME teepee fire with one match, and eating a delicious lunch!  Roasting peeps.  Um....I think I'll be buying up all the peeps left over for our summer campouts!  


Following our very full and very fun day, we found Kortlen asleep on the rug by the back door....he slept there for a good hour, while Keetley and I tried to have a nap...then he came and cuddled with us for another hour nap.  Silly, tired babies!

***I need to figure out how to get pictures off my phone....ever since I've gotten a fancy-smancy smart phone, I take entirely too many pictures with it, and there are a lot missing of our day stuck on that device.  It is a tad tricky taking pictures simultaneously with a phone AND a camera.  

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Easter Weekend at {home}

The boys and I packed up and headed to Chesterfield for Easter Weekend to take Katelyn's Sr. Pictures (link coming soon)  and to have another egg hunt...this time at Grandma and Grandpa "Tw"andalls.  We are having the darndest time with our speech these days...


Reader be warned, this post is picture heavy.  But I LOVE it.

Friday afternoon was spent taking Katelyn's pictures...I have the most gorgeous sister...who is starting to look like the sister between us, on her mission.  It's so funny how she looks like Stephanie's twin in some of the shots! That was fun...windy, cold, and BRIGHT!!!  But we got a few good ones.

Saturday brought many adventures...

Instead of paying over $1000 to fix Ryan's car, my amazing brothers offered their time and expertise to help fix it...so Ryan ventured down early in the morning to bring parts.  Something about coolant part not working...and come summertime, it's death to the car; better get it fixed!


This is the corroded part that we've been driving with for over a year...ouch!


Reed explaining the part he's holding. It all sounded foreign to me.  
After a quick and brisk hot-dog roast with delicious salads and the famous Easter Cupcakes, (sorry, no pictures; i know you're crushed) we waited for Grandma and Grandpa to return from the funeral of a dear friend.


While uncle "Tw"ay (Clay) was helping the Easter Bunny hide eggs outside, Tanner needed to show off his new skills (with Deseret's encouragement): 




He LOVES using the noodles now...LOVES it!!!
And Taylor is just too cute. 

not quite willing to let go, yet.

Then onto the Easter Egg hunt!


He made this rule up...he's all about rules right now.  LOL!


Easter Bunnies are so good at leaving little toys, too!


What does Kortlen have??? 

Oh!  An egg!!!  Fun for baby! 



His pants 'crack' me up.

I don't think there's any more room, buddy! 

Aren't their bucket's cute!?!?
They were super easy to make.
I drove to Target and paid $2 a piece.
Brilliant, I say, BRILLIANT! 



after all their hard work, they got to go for a fun
and relaxing (not to mention freezing) ride. 

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Easter Egg Hunt

Grandma and Grandpa Poulsen invited us up for an early Easter Egg Hunt and dinner.

I didn't get many pictures...I was having to much fun in the moment...which is important, right? 

But I did get a few (okay, more than a few) when all 'hail' broke lose.
super annoyed at the hail...







And snapped a few in the house when opening the eggs and playing with treasures.