Easter Morning

During the night it snowed and a special visitor came and left gifts, but it wasn't Santa. It was the Easter bunny, though with the snow and the excitement of the kids it could have been Christmas. They were so excited to see their gifts from the Easter bunny and the clothes from Grandma and Grandpa.
They had a lot of fun searching for the eggs and they got so excited to see them hidden in so many places. In fact, Karen just found the last one just now and was just as excited now as she was this morning. They went so fast that I could only get a few taken before they were all found.

Here they are after we got them all dressed in their Easter Sunday best. Thanks Grandma & Grandpa.

Easter

We were lucky to have our Easter party yesterday with my family at our house. Since it had snowed (so upset!) we did everything inside and had a lot of fun with lunch and the Easter egg hunt for the kids. I didn't get a whole lot of pictures til near the end, but I got a couple fun ones. I got 3 of my sister's families, though I wasn't able to get one sister's family before they left and forgot my own. Here's Kathleen and her kids. It was Melissa's birthday which we celebrated too.

This is what Anthony was doing at that time.

Here's Rose's family. Aren't they cute and happy? The kid's sure are growing fast!

And here's Cindy's family. Jeff really wasn't mad, he just doesn't like pictures. Aren't her boys handsome?!
And this is what Neils did for quite a bit of the party.The kids also had a lot of fun. Here's a picture of each of my own kids with some of their toys.

Who knew that these would be such a hit with the older boys. They had more fun with them than the younger kids.

My Birthday

I've always loved my birthdays and the fact that I can do whatever I want and celebrate for several days and get away with it. This year was the first year that I didn't want to get older, but I still loved celebrating with my family. Since my birthday was on a Monday we celebrated on Saturday and Sunday. My family made me this wonderful cake on which is only one candle since we didn't have enough for my real age. I've decided that I'm going to stick at 29 for as long as I can get away with it. It will help me to feel young for a little longer.

On Saturday we went to Desert Star Playhouse to see a fun parody of Pirates of the Caribbean. It was so fun and we laughed so hard. My cheeks were aching by the end of the performance.


After, we went out to dinner with some family to celebrate mine and my niece's birthdays. I couldn't wait for my presents, so I got to open those on Sunday with my cake. Monday we didn't really do much, but that was okay, I still got wished happy birthday a lot on facebook which made it nice.

Michael

Daddy made chocolate chip oatmeal muffins one day and Michael loves the chocolate chips in them. He decided that he only wanted to eat the chocolate chips though and not the whole muffin, so he got his tweezers and tried to get the chocolate chips out as seen here in this picture.

He actually did it and used the tweezers to eat the chocolate chip that he'd extracted. I thought it was so funny that I had to get pictures as he did it again.

Daddy also took Michael to get his hair cut. The last time we went to that particular place was last summer when we got it cut short for the warm weather. When they came home it was much shorter than expected and there wasn't a whole lot I could do to style it. I played around with it and thought this fauxhawk (sp?) was kinda fun, though daddy didn't like it as much.

I loved his face in this next one. Couldn't stop laughing.

I'm so excited! We finally got a piano! Well not actually a piano, but close. It's a weighted keyboard and feels like the real thing. I wanted it to last us so we got the grand piano size with 88 keys. I got it so that I can plunk out the tune of a song the kids are learning, but mostly I got it so that Karen could start piano lessons. Her grandmother has taught piano for many years and has offered to teach Karen. Karen is very excited and looking forward to lessons with grandma. Michael has also expressed interest, though he's still too young, but hopefully he will still want to when he is older.


My favorite thing about the piano is that it has 60 songs programmed in and plays by itself! I've got a player piano just like I grew up with except without the piano rolls. It's a lot of fun and the kids love it too. Here is Karen pretending that she is playing.