Ready for Easter

Just thought I would share some pictures of dying Easter eggs. The kids loved doing it this year! Mark drew in white crayon on some without showing the kids. Hayden was REALLY surprised when he took an egg out of the dye and it looked like a football! :)

hmmmm...Interesting!

The finished product

Pretty proud!

Here is our wild man knight! He loves to pretend to be a night and has figured out how to get all his axes and swords by tucking them into various clothing!

Just posing for Daddy!

HAPPY EASTER!

Happy 31st Mark!

Mark had a couple of celebrations this week for his birthday. On Thursday we had a fun dinner with chocolate cream pie to finish it off. Hayden was really excited to put in the candles.

Lilly liked watching too :)
Action shot of blowing out the candles

We went to Richland this weekend to visit Mark's parents. The kids had a great time! Grandpa went to umpire a softball game so Hayden thought it would be fun to dress as twins.

Just Lilly and her regular Cheese face

Helping grandma to make breakfast. We got to have an early St. Patrick's Day feast with green eggs and ham and kiwi smoothies!! YUMMM!! You can kind of see Lilly peaking out behind Hayden. She likes being a "helper" too!

Pretending to be a motorcycle man in Grandpa's helmet

Celebrating the real day with some apple pie!!

Unfortunately we ended the weekend with Mark and Lilly having a stomach bug (AND piper) and Hayden having a cold/asthma, but a least it wasn't until after all the fun celebration.

Good bye little Rav

HELLO Minivan!!!! Yes, that's right...we are now a minivan owning family! Mark has been looking online for a few months for a minivan (which in itself is funny since he vowed that he would never own a minivan when we got married!!) He kept telling me about different vans he was looking at and I would get excited and then we would end up not getting it.....so I told him not to tell me until he was ready to buy!!! I guess he took me seriously because while I was working on Saturday, he took the kids the the Toyota dealership and took this minivan for a test drive. I guess the kids liked it because he did all the negotiating with the salesman in the kids play area (I imagine them sitting in little chairs and table :)) SO, now it's official. I'm a minivan mom!! I'm really excited and love the new car smell! Lots of space and fun pushing a button to open the doors!! Lilly and Hayden think it's pretty neat too! I guess we are ready for #3!

Our February/March Highlights

I was just downloading some pictures from the last couple of weeks and thought I would blog our happenings.
Lilly's getting better and better at going potty. I just need to get a little more motivated to put her on more often. But she loves to copy her brother and tries to go everytime he does.

During the last few weeks Hayden and Lilly have really started playing together. It's fun to see how they communicate and pretend together. Here is Hayden doctoring Lilly. She loved letting him inspect her!

Also thought I would add some pictures from my nephew Jake's fun b-day party.

Pretending to be scary lions! ARRRR!!!! Lilly's looking to see if the stuffed lion is roaring :)Having fun in Jake's new wagon
Ready to dig in! MMMMM!!!!

Ready for cake and ice cream!

That was good!

Following the tiger's tail to the prizes

Found the prizes at the end of the tail

HMM, this looks good!

One night, Hayden decided to draw a spider. We thought this was a pretty good interpretation, considering we had never drawn a spider for him before!

The kids got some free headbands from a friend. Here is their interpretation on how you wear them!

Officially Announcing......

Today we got to see the tiny little heart beating away!!

Due date: October 1, 2010

We are going to be a family of 5!!!!

Hayden is really excited and wants to know and see how this baby is growing each day. It will be a fun 7 more months!!!

Random Pics

I haven't downloaded the pictures from our camera in a few weeks, so just thought I would share some of the fun we have been having since Christmas. Here are all four stinkers in the bath tub. I think they all had a fun time. Jake was a little overwhelmed, but he liked being in on the fun!

We got some fun treats in the mail from the Saisslin's for Valentine's Day. Yummy marshmallow suckers! Hayden enjoyed it for a little while, but our sweet tooth Lilly, chewed on it until it was all gone!!
She loved it!

Hayden has a great set of train tracks from Ryan. He asks me to put them together ALL the time, but it seems like every time I try, it ends up not fitting together into a circle and so I always tell him to wait until dad comes home. He finally got tired of me saying that and so went and put this together ALL BY HIMSELF!!! He definitely didn't get my genes! He must be a builder like his dad! I think Lilly is more like me. She tries for a few seconds and then gives up! Oh-well. We and he was pretty proud of his creation!

January Fun

We got to have Robin and Jake at our house yesterday. As usual, they made it more fun for us! Here is beautiful Snow White and Ariel. Hayden couldn't wait to have Robin over so that they could both dress up in the pretty costumes.

Jake got into the spirit of dress-ups too and wore the Buzz Lightyear hat for a while. I don't think he thought it was too bad!
Then, on to finger painting. Of course, Hayden chose the pink apron. They had fun mixing colors to see what new colors they could make.

I tried to get them to show me their hands after finger painting, but this was as close as I got.

Lilly took an early nap, so she had lunch later. She loved having Jake, as you can see. She is such a little mother. She just kept patting his head (hopefully he didn't have corndog hair, Amy).