Cinco de Mayo

We held our annual Cinco de Mayo party last Saturday night and like an idiot, I forgot to take 1 single picture!!! Not happy with myself.
We had about 30 people here enjoying the festivities. There was much laughing, drinking and eating of guacamole. I think everyone had a fun time, I know I did!
So even though I forgot to take pictures of the party, I did take a picture the next day. We asked everyone to bring something for our local food shelf and boy did people deliver. We had 5 grocery bags stuffed with food & personal care items to take the food shelf! The lady at the food shelf said we must have really great, generous friends. I couldn't agree more!

Easter

We celebrated Easter at home. I have very few pictures from Easter Sunday because my camera battery was dead! I know, you just can't believe it! Anyway, we had a nice day which started by finding eggs from the E.B. Then we were off to church where Aidyn's choir sang. For brunch we headed out to eat at the casino. Yeah baby, nothing says Easter like slot machines and people gorging themselves on buffet food.

The afternoon was spent playing Wii, relaxing and I may have slipped in a bit of a nap. It was a nice relaxing Easter for us!

The Works

We visited The Works one afternoon. Here is the description according to their website...'The Works is a "hands-on, minds-on" museum that makes learning about engineering, science and technology interesting, understandable and fun.' I have to say, it was interesting, understandable and fun.

This was my favorite thing, the Light Harp. There aren't actual strings, but instead there are laser lights that allow you to play the notes. Very cool!

Everyones favorite 'Carnival' mirrors. No pictures of me in these things!

They had several exhibits on gears & gizmos, Nolan enjoyed trying all of those out.

There was also a building area where the kids spent a ton of time building cars to race and using foam blocks to build houses. It was a really neat place to visit, totally geared towards kids with stuff to interest the adults too.

Easter eggs

So we've been a bot slow at updating the blog over the last month...sorry. Let's do a quick catch-up.

The kids decorated Easter eggs...

Aidyn helped me make a Jello cake...yep, that is five different flavors of Jello layered together, covered in Cool Whip (with a dirty little boy finger in it). A dream from my childhood.

She's growing up...

Aidyn has been asking for a while to get her ears pierced. I told her that she could get it done whenever she wanted as long as she was sure she was ready. We discussed the procedure (at length...) and she has gone back & forth about doing it because she was afraid of the pain. She recently decided that she was old enough to handle it and was ready to get them pierced. Well, today was the day!
Here she is getting ready...'Mom! I'm not so sure!!!'

And just like that, it was done. She is so proud of her new earrings and of how brave she was. No tears at all, just a little nervousness.
My little girl is growing up...

Spring Break!!!

Last week was Spring Break, which is good because things can get pretty stressful in Kindergarten & Preschool so everyone needed a break. We headed south for some warm weather...sunny Mexico! Puerto Vallarta to be exact.

The boys started to trip out right...with popsicles & Pacifico. Oh the life!
By the end of day one, Nolan looked like this. Actually, this wasn't the end of the day, it was only about 5pm. We still had to get through dinner!
The boys

The next day we headed to the ocean to splash around. The kids were very excited to play in the ocean.

They had SOOOOO much fun running, jumping & splashing around in the water.

They did play in the sand a little bit...

Enough to get plenty of sand in all sorts of cracks & crevices.
Most of the time was spent in the pool but we did take a break for arts & crafts. Here is Aidyn with the dolphins she painted.
The girls
Me & my sweet peas at the pool.
Anytime Nolan was out of the pool, he needed to be wrapped in a towel or else he was freezing. Never mind that it was in the 80's the whole week we were there!
More fun in the ocean...
Here we are at dinner the last night of our trip.

Our last sunset. Beautiful!

We all had a great time and the kids keep saying how much they loved Mexico! It was a fun week together and boy did that sun feel good! Happy Spring!

Making Daddy proud...

Nolan's Birthday Party

We celebrated Nolan's 4th birthday with our families the Saturday after his birthday. He wanted a Spider-Man party, so G'ma Sharon obliged with this nifty cake. He got lots of very nice gifts. Thanks everyone!

Jeff's favorite was the Nerf gun that Nolan got. We have used that gun to shoot pretty much everything in this house. Walls, windows, the ceiling fan (while spinning), each other, you name it...we've taken target practice.
Here's our handsome 4 year old with his new Twins cap on. It will come in handy at that fancy new outdoor stadium next summer. Thanks to everyone for coming to celebrate with us!