Easter Sunday

Today was a great day. We took a few pictures of the kids in their new Easter Sunday clothes. We kind of had to rush that because I needed to get to church early for prelude (organ subbing). After church we ate and had fun being a family. Yay for wonderful holidays!

This is mostly so the grandmas and grandpas can see the kiddos cute Easter clothes...


The girls

The boys

The kiddos :)

Easter fun

Happy Easter! We have been celebrating all week. We went to the Easter Pageant earlier this week. We sat closer than we'd ever been before. As always it was awesome. Me and the kiddos were going to sign up for it this year, but somehow missed the audition dates. Hopefully next year we can do it. We decorated Easter eggs today (Friday) since there is no school. Thankfully no die spills on my kitchen counter, and thankfully Seth took a little nap while all this fun was going on and woke up just in time to get in the picture.
Here's the loot. I had to take a picture of the eggs so they could always remember them after I had mentioned to the kids that we'd be eating some of them. That is such a hard thing for me every year. We mess up our kitchen making the eggs, then we either have to eat them or throw them away in a few days. I still do it, but I stopped feeling guilty about trying to get everyone to eat them before they go bad. Now I figure I bought them on sale, and I'd pay WAY more than that price NOT to have to eat them! I like an occasional deviled egg and a small serving of potato salad, but enough is enough.

The kiddos with their favorite eggs.

I gave Seth one of the eggs that wasn't died...straight to the mouth it goes. At least its not covered in die and glue and glitter!

(FYI) before I get tons of questions about it, yes that is a patch on Grant's eye. He has to wear one for a whole MONTH in hopes that it will make his weak eye stronger. Yesterday he came in crying because some of the neighbor kids were calling him a pirate. Next week he starts wearing it all day at school. Wish us luck, it may be a LONNNNGGGGG month. poor kid.

Olivia with some of the multitude from the Easter pageant

The boys with a "knight" (Isaac's words). lol

Isaac's face + really big rock = ...

GUILT for me, and a HUGE bonk for my little guy.

Shortly after dinner Isaac came in crying. I gave him a hug, and told him to he could rest on the couch if he was tired of playing outside. Because he was crying I really couldn't understand what he was saying. Something about a ball and his face...Grant and Isaac fight pretty much daily over this little ball they like to throw up in the air and then kick it, so I thought this was just another fight. He looked fine to me and so I really didn't pay it much attention after that. So many times I've thought about buying another ball so they'd each have one but I don't because either 1. they will fight over who gets the "new" ball, or 2. I feel like I'm rewarding their fighting with a new toy. So I've kind of been waiting to get two new balls when I catch them doing a good job sharing. ANYWAY, I assumed it was another tantrum over the little ball.

(Side note...both Grant and Isaac were extremely dirty. One of the dirtiest I've ever seen for them. And they were only playing out in the drive way, no mud or anything--time to hose down the driveway I guess. I didn't say anything about it because I knew they'd play outside 'til bath time so let em' have fun and get a little dirty. That is why I never saw his giant ouchie.)

That was the last of it 'til I came into the bathroom to get after Isaac because he was taking so long in the shower. That was when I saw his face CLEAN and his HUGE goose egg and bruises. He was standing in there crying because Ryan saw it a little earlier and thought he didn't wash his face and sent him back to the shower to finish. I felt SO BAD. Poor little guy. He tried to tell us and we didn't listen. When we asked him what happened the crying started again, so we finally got Grant to tell us the story...

They were playing NICELY together and then got the ball stuck up in our tree. They tried to get it down with a stick, but it was too short. So Grant grabbed the biggest rock he could find to throw straight up over them to try and knock the ball down. So the ball is still in the tree and the rock found Isaac's face on the way down. OUCHIE!!! Nobody did anything wrong, just an accident, and a poor little kid who didn't get any more than a quick hug for it. I LOVE motherhood more than I can ever say, but GUILT I really think I could do without!!!

I tried to get a shot of how much his forehead bonk protruded, but these were the best I could get with our bad lighting. They are even more colorful today!

By the time I took this picture he was feeling a little more loved and started having fun with it. He was asking me if he should look sad or smile for the picture. I told him he could do whatever he wanted. This was the face he came up with. lol

Tagged

Here are the rules: Go to your documents/pictures Click on the 6th file Click on the 6th picture Blog about it Tag 6 people
I also got the 4th file, 4th folder tag, so here goes...

I took my kiddos pictures on MLK day and I think most of them turned out pretty good. However, my smiley guy Seth was NOT having a good day. I couldn't get a smile out of him for anything. The ONE time I did finally get a smile, I took the picture mid blink. So frustrating! Cute baby though. :)
Isaac and Grant sporting their new guis (sp?). And just earned YELLOW belts. They are still in Karate and doing pretty well. Isaac is by far the youngest yellow belt, but his heart is in it, and that's what counts.

I tag anyone who wants to do it!

So sweet and thoughtful..

My favorite thing about my birthday is watching my kids sneaking around preparing to "surprise" me. Usually it is some sort of surprise breakfast in bed with home made cards or something. This year I was excited because they were busy making and wrapping/re wrapping stuff for a couple of weeks before. It was fun to be excited, and truly SURPRISED! I guess my kiddos are getting big enough to be able to keep a secret. (I'm not sure I'm ok with that or not yet.) Anyway, here they are with all their presents for me.

Olivia made me a beautiful card with a little book in it. So sweet I was fighting back tears the rest of the morning. Grant wrapped me up some BOY diapers inside the box of chex. This was very thoughtful, because my kids are so offended that the in a box of pampers there are boy and girl characters on them and it makes them so upset whenever Seth is wearing a girl character diaper. Isaac did his shopping in our pantry. He wrapped up a can of Cream of Mushroom soup, and a half eaten box of Honey bees. He also gave me a little stuffed animal of his. I am so proud of my kiddos to be so thoughtful and creative. Isaac was a little bummed that I didn't eat my cream of mushroom soup for lunch that day, but I told him I was saving it for my favorite casserole and he was ok with that. At least we got to enjoy the rest of the box of Honey Bees. Ryan gave me and O tickets to a musical, and I also got cards from family. Thanks so much everyone. I love ya!

10 years and counting

I am WAY too much of a cryer to get sappy and talk about all the wonderful things my hubby does, but I'm the happiest gal you'll ever know. So here are 10 random memories...

1. Laser tag. (This one is mostly for Ryan, Vanessa, and me) hee hee

2. Graduating from EAC. I was 7 months pg and still as sick as I could be.

3. Making heart shaped waffles on the bathroom floor. (our first apartment was TINY)

4. Cheering for Ryan at ASU graduation. (I can't wait to do that again hopefully soon!!!)

5. The Ford Taurus (UGH!!!)

6. Having 4 babies!

7. The Baby Tenda seminar (was anyone else scammed into going to that???)

8. Potatoes and eggs with cheese on top (our breakfast almost everyday 'til it started grossing me out while I was pg with Isaac)

9. Moses and the frogs bed time story (this one is for the kids...somehow this story has strayed slightly from the biblical one it started out as :)

10. Eating sushi with Ryan's wasabi mix at our beach front table in Cancun--yummy I could go back today....

Happy times. Love you, husband!

Updates

Here's the latest news from our house...

The AFTER pic of Seth's hair cut. This is actually his third haircut, but I cut 2.5 in. off this time. The saddest thing I did all week by far. Sorry the after pic is first. Someday I'll figure blogger out, but its not today.

Here is the before. Don't mind the sweat, tear, boogers, and food face. Its hard to keep a little guy happy for that long.

Seth also reached 9 months! I can't believe my little guy is that old already. Why can't they be 1 week old for a year or two, and then start growing up???? He is such a little sweetie. He is FINALLY saying mama. (He's been saying dada for months...so NOT FAIR! I had to keep reminding him who went through three epidural sticks and then it had to be turned off for this little guy to get her, but I digress.) Seth is learning how wonderful getting into stuff is. His favorite is Dada's work laptop. He is pure sugar, and we adore him!

Grantman has lost 2 teeth. He finally got to get his name added to the loosing teeth club! He is growing up too fast.