Easter Morning

We celebrated Easter at Boyce Thompson Arboretum again this year with my folks and the Edam Family. We cooked our breakfast outside and had a picnic, had an Easter egg hunt, and went hiking. The kids had so much fun playing outside all morning.

I love the little bums leaning over the water. Yes, Zackary was the first to get all wet!

We wanted a picture in front of this beautiful tree. The wild flowers were amazing this year. This is our attempt to get a family shot. Not so easy with 3 boys.

A Sleeping Mess

As you might remember, one of our favorite family things to do is go to Basha's for donuts and coffee. Anyone that is around Zackary often will know this. Every time we are playing and he is off on his bike and you ask him where he is going, he will say to the grocery store for donuts and coffee. This morning we headed out to Basha's for our weekend ritual and of course now Lane gets his own donut (we finally figured out to get him one with white frosting for better cleanup). He was happily eating his donut, squealing, laughing, and ummming about how yummy he thinks it is. I look back not 2 minutes later and find this. A complete mess of frosting, yes those are chunks on his shoulder, all over his face, all over his car seat, and he was passed out holding the rest of his donut.

Kids are awesome!

Celebrating Our 5th

Today we celebrated our 5th anniversary. I can't believe it has been 5 years. Time has completely flown by. It is amazing that we were having the most memorable party on this day 5 years ago. It surely has been exciting. Our time together has been so wonderful, we have made the sweetest family, we have created a beautiful home, and we have fallen more in love with each other. The saying 'everything gets better with age' is so true. We spent a great evening out together, first having dinner at RA for sushi, then heading over to the Desert Botanical Garden for a jazz night and finishing our night at Swirl It, the best frozen yogurt place ever. As you might know we always get each other something that is from the traditional anniversary. This year we didn't manage to get each other the exact same thing, I got him a Welsh Love Spoon and Aaron got me a really neat necklace that has a wood pendant with 'M' engraved into it.  Oh and the beautiful flowers in the background.  It is always fun to come up with something different and random.

Happy Anniversary Aaron, I Love You.

Preschool

Zackary started preschool today. What a big day! He was very excited to go since he had such a great experience with Papa in a class at Desert Botanical Garden earlier this year. We had a meet the teacher last week, they seem to be great and have been there for years. He is doing the Apples to Zebras with the City of Chandler at Snediger. I thought this would be a great place to try out the whole preschool thing. Sometimes I think it is too early but I thought that the listening and organization would be good for him.

He made this cute little Easter egg. He said it is for our Christmas Tree. I love all the little art projects he makes and can't wait for more to come. Papa met us there for the pick up, since he will be picking Zackary up every Tuesday for us. Papa and Zackary have such a great relationship, we say they are 2 peas in a pod. Every Tuesday they spend the day together playing, running errands, visiting museums, or watching planes. I love the relationship they have and the time they get to spend together.

Another World

 

I know the pictures are the best quality but they are taken from our trusty cell phone cameras.  So this is how we spent our Saturday night.  Z'Tejas for Margaritas and at Roller Derby.  Yes, there is this huge roller derby world in Phoenix that I never knew about.  I found tickets on Groupon, great deals for completely random things.  I thought it would be a fun night out with something different to do.  Laura, Glen, Mary and Steven were all troopers and decided to join us.

 

Let me just say that the scoring for Roller Derby is somewhat difficult to figure out when you have not clue what is going on.  Blockers, Pivotors, and Jammers, lots of padded gear, girls in really short skirts or just panties, ramming each other to score points. 

It was great fun! 

 

Hair Makeup

I just wanted to show everyone what happens when you leave little boys to color and stamp while you wait for wee little hats to cook!

Today I found more color in Zackary and Lane's hair. This time it was orange. I actually caught him with a little orange 'thingy' touching Lane's hair and asked Zackary, What is that?

Z's reply, "this is my hair makeup."

I tried to get it out but is must not be the best washable stamp. I just said whatever and continued our plans to run a few errands. We were at Bashas and the cashier asked is that some fun hair color you put in the boys' hair? Who puts 'fun color' in a 1 and 3 year olds hair on a random Friday?

Wee Little Leprechaun Hats

Andi and I decided that it would be a great idea to do a little art project for St. Patty's Day with the kids. We found out how to make little hats out of cups and were excited to see how they would turn out.
So we waited...

And Waited...

And Waited...

Here is the final project. Perfect wee little Leprechaun hats for us to wear. All we had to do was cook little styrofoam cups in the oven.  Don't worry there will be pictures of the hats in action!

Finished Product

Good Luck trying to get 3 little boys to take just 1 picture. Zackary wouldn't even sit down, he felt the need to throw balls during the photo shoot.

However, Otis was a trooper. He sat perfectly posed and proud with his wee little hat.

Pre St.Patty's Day

We had a great time celebrated St. Patricks Day and Art and Eileen's house. The whole family made it to the festivities. We had the famous Corned Beef and Cabbage and all the fixins to go with it. The kids had a great time playing outside and using Uncle Glen as a motor for the pink jeep. I think he got his work out for the day. We always have such a great time with our wonderful Family.

Tractor Show

We ventured out to the Tractor Show again this year. Now we have 2 that love tractors. They have antique tractors, new tractors, trucks, lawn mowers, engines and tons more. We enjoyed watching the tractor pull and looking at everything.

 

I was having a hard time getting a picture of Lane on a tractor.  He loved looking at them but not sitting on them so much.

Henry and Zackary checking out the diesels together. They are such great little friends. The hand holding was an attempt to keep them close to us so there was no more running away like at the zoo. I'm pretty sure we are in for it with these little boys.

Pal'n Around

We had our great friends over for dinner. It is so wonderful that we have such great friends that all have kids the exact same age. We are all in the same place and going through the same things. It is really nice to sit down and know that we are not the only ones in the same boat. The boys were playing so well together following the leader all over the yard. It was funny because Zackary kept getting high centered with his little bike and the others would get hung up on something, so they would all get off their toy and help eachother out.

I was able to capture a few cute shots of the kids. Of course the older ones are really bad with the camera. They like to look away when it comes out.

Henry

Katelyn

Rainy Day Schedule

So today was another rainy day weekend. So of course we needed to find some indoor entertainment. We started off with some Bendaroos. These are a blast. They are sticky wax strips that you can do anything with. Zackary made the rainbow by himself, I attempted the crab, it turned out pretty good. I think Aaron chose not to participate in the contest after seeing the crab, heehee. We tried to play duck-duck-goose. However Monkey and Lane weren't very good participants, and Zackary just kept running in circles. Aaron and I really enjoyed some good old-fashioned kid games.

Then we decided it was time to maybe get some to-do's done.

Does anyone else have this horrendous sippy cup catastrophe? We can't seem to get it under control.

We also have an issue with all the little plugs.

We found matches, cups, lids, and plugs, with only 1 bag misfits as I like to call them.

We had a nice clean drawer for about 2 days. Then it was all over. Someday we will solve this mystery of organizing the 'kid stuff.'