Easter Findin'

Searchin'



Jugglin'



Wrasslin'



Findin'



And just plain cute!

Easter Waitin'

Waitin' around for the eggs to be hid.....(and yes, I know hid is
not grammatically correct, just goin' with the theme...)










The sorting and instruction givin'

Easter Dyin'

There was no school today and we were invited to an Easter Egg Hunt!!

Step One-dye the eggs!









What exactly are we dying??

Overheard...

Chase: "Now I'm officially more of a man than you are Braden!"

Said after Chase killed and disposed of the latest cockroach
fatality at our house. (Gotta love Florida and recent bug treatments-
or not)

Just for the record, Braden does squeal a bit like a girl when
faced with the prospect of killing and disposing of roaches...

Everyone should go camping

With a ten foot, water balloon chucking crossbow on the
top of their car!!



Just to be fair, it is a prize winning, ten foot, water balloon
chucking crossbow on the top of my car!!

And you thought this went out a century ago...

Nope! Kids are still beating rugs with sticks! (and it was even Delainey's birthday...I know, mean...)

Project de jour

We learned a bit about Russia in history so we had
borscht for lunch, made this kokoshnic headdress
for Delainey, and Chase worked on a batik print.
(the print didn't turn out so well)



We made a fancy one.

The big "B"

The second official teenager is now in the house!!

Every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man!

Look out girls!

Overheard at Family Home Evening last night

"You know how the Chinese have the year of the rat,
pig, etc? Well we're American and we have a much shorter
attention span, so we're having the Week of obedience!"

Guesses?

Turkey Trot 2011

This morning we hauled all the kids out of bed at 5:45
so that they could go run in a Turkey Trot. Andrew and
Braden ran the 5K and Chase and Delainey ran 1/2 mile.
They had a good time and I was able to have a quiet
house to cook in!!

Andrew crossing the finish line:



Braden's turn:



All the runners after the race, plus Emily:

Halloween Dinner-on November 1st!

We lost power on Halloween and weren't able to have

our fun dinner. Delainey was very sad, so we had it the

next day!

Some of the dishes-guts and blood with slime (spaghetti

squash with spaghetti and alfredo sauce), dried leprechan

poop (mini tater tots-I mean, what else would a creature

from Ireland poop???), goblin smiles (orange slices), troll

eyes (grapes), swamp punch (der, punch...), crunchy bug

pods (sugar snap peas), and a few other favs, mummy hot

dogs and salty bones (bread sticks in the shape of bones).

Add in some dry ice and it's all good! Happy Halloween!

Trick or Treat!

We have a great neighborhood for holidays!
The kids were able to go trick or treating
with some friends down the street and another
family from the ward that came to our
neighborhood to trick or treat.

This is Chase and Delainey with friends
Ethan and Noah who live five houses down.



Our favorite cowgirl! My niece, Emily!



A Roman Legionnaire! Braden made his shield and pilum (spear)



Delainey as an Egyptian Princess



Chase as "Brainwashed"-a costume he found in a magazine
that we made....



The main gang-Andrew had swimming and came later so
we missed him. He went trick or treating with friends later.

Sweet Sixteen!

Happy birthday to Andrew!! He's a great young man
and we're happy to have him in our family! The
pictures aren't great, but it's something to commemorate
the day!

Eagle in the house!!

A few weeks ago, Andrew passed his Eagle Board of Review!!
First Eagle in this house!!We're waiting for paperwork to plan
his Court of Honor, but here's the happy new Eagle with most
of the fam!