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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Easter Morning

The Easter bunny was good to the kids this year, bringing way too much candy, but leaving a trial of fun in his path!

Ryan showing off the eggs he dyed!




Hunting eggs in the front yard




Ryan still looked at every egg to see if it had his name on it!








Here sis, this one has your name on it




Checking out their loot


Finding their indoor baskets












Some bunny is very happy!






Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Easter Egg Hunt at I-Cento

The kids' school did a really neat egg hunt that was, in my opinion, completely brilliant. Each kid got to find 12 eggs; the trick was they had to find their 12 eggs! So as they walked around the playground hunting, they could only put the ones with their name on it in their basket. So there was no running or pushing, or one kid ending up with 20 eggs and another with 2 eggs, and best of all, they were learning in the process and they didn't even know it! How clever is that!







Looking for his name in the pile of eggs...


found it!












Ryan and Mena
Ryan tells us he and Mena are going to get married!
When Michael asked where they were going to live when they got married,
he told him they are going to live with us!










I'm not sure what the cape thing was about but I can tell you I thought
it was quite the fashion statement coordinated with the dangly orange heart earrings!


Randi and her boyfriend Caulder.
They aren't getting married just yet, but they have been an
item since November, so things are obviously a little serious...
well at least as serious as they can be when you're 5 years old!




Randi with classmates Christiana and Maci




This is how I found Ryan when I picked him up after Randi's egg hunt.
Notice he's reading a spanish book about space shuttles...
well I guess he's just looking at the pictures anyways.






Joys of a refrigerator box - Part 1

It's amazing how much fun a giant box can be to a kid! We got a new refrigerator, and I made the delivery guys pull the box off the truck and put in the garage....how dare you take away hours of fun entertainment...and quiet time for me! Anyways, the box was really, really tall, so first we cut it down by a foot and a half, and then it was time to decorate it. I cut our a door and two window and the kids went to work with markers. If you look closely, you can see Ryan's first attempts at writing the letter "R"...and he is VERY proud of those "R's"!














The new gardener

With all the rain we've had recently, the grass is starting to grow like crazy, so I told the gardener he'd better bring some help next time he showed up to mow, and this is what I looked outside to find in the front yard....











By the way, they did a really nice job on the yard!