Taylor's preschool

The other day Tyson was complaining about Taylor's preschool and saying it's not fair how much fun Taylor is having.  I reply, "Life's not fair".  I don't think he appreciates that :)  Gotta love big brothers!

 We had an after Easter egg hunt at the park.  Aren't these just the most adorable hats and makeup?  I love that Taylor kept it on most of the time.

 Taylor is very serious about egg hunts now and was all business when the kids were let loose.  This is also one of Taylor's favorite shirts, she loves anything that says "Grandpa" on it.  She loves her Grandpa and talks about him and Grandma all the time.

 Hayden was not officially in the egg hunt but that didn't stop the girl from grabbing some eggs.

 Hayden, Jane, Tay, and Sadie enjoying lunch and the cutest drink boxes ever.

 This same week we went on a field trip with Taylor's preschool to the Springs Preserve.  Hayden got very wet messing with this ball.

 They had a flash flood exhibit which was in this room that got dark and then there was lightning and thunder and a huge flash flood.  I love their little faces of concern.

 Here is Hayden's face before I had to pick her up :)

 Hayden is a climbing crazy so she was glad to find this turtle and be allowed to climb on it.

 Taylor found the sand box and had some fun in there.

 Taylor, Sadie, Adam and Lisa checking out the train exhibit.

They have a fun outdoor area for the kids with a play train.  Doesn't Hayden look so grown up here?  She is sure losing her baby face :(   I have to agree with Tyson it is so unfair all the fun that Taylor is having.  Thanks to all you wonderful Moms in our preschool, you're the Best!!!

April 12x12

This is my very first 12x12 and let me say it was a lot harder than I thought it would be!  Trying to remember the camera all day was quite a chore.  It turned out alright though :)

 This is how I start my day every morning.  Our family is crazy about Plants vs. Zombies and I have to take care of my Zen Garden.  This year this is the only garden I can care about.  Jason put one in outside and I have gone out all of two times this season to look at it.

 I had been dreading this day all week.  I had a crazy amount of things to do and thanks to Mark's urologist changing our appointment from Tuesday to Thursday I had to take him to the doctor as well.  The girls and I hit Target and CVS after kindergarten drop off.  Ran home and had a primary meeting at our house at 10am.  During which I was watching a baby from 10-2pm so her mother, brother and sister could go to the dentist. Whew!

 After the meeting and kindergarten pick up Taylor and I put up a few spring decorations.

 This is Tyson's face the minute homework is said, I wish I could give you the sound effects (they are not pleasant)!

 After finishing the tortures of homework, sometimes you just gotta bust out of your shirt and jump on the trampoline I guess.

 This is the only thing that gets me through these days!  I was downing one while driving Mark to the urologist to get a catheter change.  I also couldn't find a babysitter because of all the activities going on on Thursday so my Mom got off work early to watch the kids. (Thanks Mom!!!)  I really didn't want them to have to witness a catheter change.  They already ask why Mark has a bag on his leg and I tell them because he's old.

 Taylor has to be involved in the kitchen every night.  Here she is making pasta.

 For dinner we had BBQ chicken, pasta, vegetables and fruit.  A pretty typical meal for us.

 The chow down. 

 Hayden loves frozen vegetables and is seen here eating here third bowl of them.

 Jason had to work the snack bar at the ball fields so he went straight there from work so we didn't see the guy until we got to the ball park.  Grandma again helped out and kept the girls at home with her so they didn't have to be out in the wind.  Tyson is in love with the ball park nachos.

I am Tyson's church ball coach and love to be out there with my boy :) The other team only had four players so we called the game early.  Our very long day was finally over!  Let's hope next month's 12x12 is a little less exciting!!!

Easter

Happy Easter!!!!

We have had a very busy Easter.  We helped a lady in our ward stuff over 800 Easter eggs so we were invited to her community's Easter egg hunt and boy did  the kids make out!

Their little baskets were filled to over flowing and they had a great time.

This is the best shot we got of all three of them looking at the camera.  I am extremely prejudiced but I think they are darling :)

I had to throw in a couple of the poses that didn't make the cut.  The tantrums...

...and of course the crazy faces.

We also went to our old ward's Easter party.  They had a real petting zoo with horse rides!!

They also had egg coloring which is always fun :)

Tyson is such a good big brother and rode with his baby sister.

Taylor, our little cow girl.

Our ward had a picnic at the ball fields with an egg hunt.  Hayden loved finding the eggs but really wanted to find out what was in each one before she would go after another.

Tyson's older group were let loose and it was a frantic chase to get the eggs.

This year the baskets were not too big, they got two toys and then Easter items and of course candy.  I also cut back on the eggs to hide after the kids got bored last year and kept whining to be done.

The kids woke up, immediately found their baskets that were hidden under the stairs, dumped them out and were on the search for more eggs.

I love that they couldn't be bothered to change or even brush their hair, they were just too excited.  Hope everyone had a great Easter! (I am so glad to be done with holidays until after the baby comes) (Someone asked me if I celebrate Cinco de Mayo and I almost shouted at them, I feel I am making excellent progress on making the holidays fun for the kids but I draw the line at other countries holidays!!!  Sorry Mexico.)

Little League

My boy has started another season of little league.  Can I tell you how much I love, love, love seeing my baby out there playing?!?  It makes me so happy!!!

 It was pretty wild at opening ceremonies, we have done a season of fall ball but this is spring little league which is a little intense.  There were 30+ teams there and each walked in the parade and were introduced to the cheering crowds.

 Each team has a banner with their information on it.

 Smiling at Mom while walking in the parade...

 Each team is required to make a basket of some sort with a bunch of goodies to be raffled off.  I thought it would be very generous of me to buy a few raffle tickets so I bought $20 worth and had Tyson put the tickets in whatever baskets he wanted.  Well we won three of them!!!!

We got a call to come and pick them up and were met by quite a few jealous people.  When they heard all we spent was $20 they were even more upset :)  One lady said she put $100 bucks in and didn't win anything!  I am seriously thinking about taking a trip to the casinos...

St Patrick's Day Party

Happy St Patricks Day!!!

 Taylor and her preschool had a fun party on Wednesday.  I have never really given St Patrick's day much thought but this year we had planned this little party and last year I bought a bunch of decorations on clearance and was really excited for this crazy holiday.

 I love that my kids will wear silly hats and costumes, it makes me so happy.  Hayden was actually pretty good at this party.  Usually in company she turns into a screaming brat.  I found the reason why she was so good when we got home.  She was too busy putting dirt in her hair and clothing to throw her usual tantrums.  That was a fun discovery :)

 We did a bit of freeze dancing, some of the kids had serious moves.  Taylor and Hayden mostly jumped up and down.

 They made a fun rainbow craft.  They strung fruit loops on green strings with cool shamrocks too.  Hayden ate them all off in minutes :)

 Then the kids went on an awesome treasure hunt with rhyming clues and everything.

 They finally found the treasure in the dryer!

The treasure was an amazing bucket full of fun things, Taylor is showing the squinkies but her most favorite things in the world were in there: chapstick and finger nail polish!  The girl was in HEAVEN!!!  We are having so much fun with Taylor's preschool this year, we are getting sad it's almost over!