Happy April!

Lots going on since I’ve last posted and as always, LOTS of pictures to share….

We got to hang out with Landon for a play date last month.  It was fun seeing him and watching the three older ones play and have big-kid-conversations!  Grayson is doing a Michael Jackson pose or something in this picture!

Cousin Reagan’s birthday party out at buddy’s.

I swear the kids had at least four Easter egg hunts this year between Buddy’s, school, one with the in-laws at the park, and finally here at our house Easter Sunday.  That Easter bunny really made his rounds!  We decided to skip out on #5 after church on Sunday.  The kids definitely had their fill of eggs and treats!

At Buddy’s Easter the Friday before.  The kids are sitting on the pre-fair demolition derby car! 

Putting out our colorful eggs the evening before.  We left Mr. Bunny some carrots too just to make sure he didn’t hop over our backyard!

Mr. Bunny finished all his carrots and brought several treats for the kids, including pool toys and new swim suits!

Easter morning…

Grammy and Papa kindly skipped out on giving the kids MORE Easter candy and gave them some gardening tools.  Here they are planting their sunflower seeds.

After breakfast and an egg hunt at our house, we went to church with my parents, followed by naps and then Easter dinner at DeeDee’s.

Four generations picture and love this one of Uncle Dale and Grayson. 

We’ve had two t-ball games so far and Grayson is already loving it!  Although he finished up his soccer season on a positive note, he has been way more enthusiastic about baseball from the start.  He loves to play catch after work with Dada (Mama is not skilled enough!) and is becoming quite the little ball player.

 

We took Grayson and Colbie to the fair last week.  While the the kids enjoyed it, one day was plenty for us!  Their favorite thing to do is still the petting zoo and checking out the animals.

Just like last year, Grayson was eager to try all the rides.  Colbie wanted nothing to do with them, but was all over my Indian fry bread and cotton candy!

Love, love, love this picture!  Becca, the much better photographer, took this!

Apparently he’s into skulls and flames right now!!  I was sort of hoping he’d pick sponge bob or Dumbo or something!

The Ferris wheel was the only ride that we could get Colbie to do.  While she pretty much clung to me the entire time, she was all smiles!

We even stayed for the demolition derby that night and were joined by my parents and Dale.  Blaine’s step brother, Jake and his buddies have been hard at work for the past several months prepping a 64’ Impala for the big event. While they didn’t make it to the end, it was fun to know someone out there and root him on!

It ended up being a pretty entertaining and intense derby (as you can see in the kids eyes!)  One of the cars flipped over, started smoking and seemed entirely to close to where we were sitting!

Finally, a group of us ran in the Color Me Rad race last Saturday here in Yuma.  It was a 5k that raised money for Diabetes.  It was such a fun race and great way to kick start the weekend!

My marathon buddy, Miss Monica and I, showing off our tutus and tattoos!

I also wanted to share these before I forget.  Grayson loves to draw rainbows and landscapes these days and I think it’s so cute and happy.  Here are two of my favorites.  He taped a plastic lady bug onto this one.