Easter Fun!!

Our yearly Easter fun is always held at my aunt and uncle's farm... Egg hunts for the kids, basket hunts for the adults, games, awesome food and fun times with the family!! This year the weather was FABULOUS and we spent the majority of the day outside enjoying our first great taste of spring...

Braxton getting way too up close and personal with the cows! :) I asked uncle Mike if the electric fence was on since he managed to either grab or hit it about 4 times... He checked and it was on and working - how Braxton got so lucky, I'm not sure... Either that or he is really tough!!

The kids have started playing the game that we made up when we were younger and had all our family get togethers... At one point all the kids (my cousins and I) and the grandkids (all our kids) joined in to play! I love making great memories with our family!

Beau was super curious about what was in the old barn... Uncle Mike got to give a few of them a lesson on farming! :)

Then we came home and got to do our own Easter egg hunt...

Our Family!

Egg Dying!

With Easter only a week away and Josh thinking that he is going to be gone for the week we decided to do our egg dying today. We had a lot of fun doing our eggs and the kids are getting a little more creative with their decorating, now they need to just have a little more patience and we might get a little darker colored eggs! :)

Brody's Friend Party!

Brody had a lot of thinking to do to figure out what he wanted to do with his friend party this year. He was torn between bowling, Chuck-E-Cheese, biking the Heartland Trail, camping or roller skating... Finally he narrowed it down and decided that he wanted to go roller skating, which meant mom had to get her butt in gear and do some major party planning quick. Okay, so I just had to get the invitations out. Makes it a little trickier when the roller rink is only open on Fridays and the next few weeks were already booked up! :) So, I threw the invites in Brody's backpack and went grocery shopping. The boys (and Elyse) were AWESOME and they all had a great time. Most of them had not been skating before so it made it a little more entertaining, but they were all great sports about it and tried their best! We took the rest of the kids with us as well, in a separate vehicle thank God because while Braxton did a great job skating and trying to keep up with the big boys, he did have a major meltdown which led to an early retreat for Josh and the rest of our crew. What a night!

Space Derby!

Tonight was our space derby for Cub Scouts. It's usually a long night of broken shuttles, fixing shuttles and tears! This year we decided to make it across the board that no shuttles get fixed, if it's broken, you are done. This made for a few sad boys that had their shuttles break, but a happier group of parents that didn't have to be there for hours and hours!! Brody and Beau both made it through the whole time with no broken shuttles and both ended up with 3rd place finishes. They had fun and are ready for the next challenge - raingutter regatta!