Easter, Spring Break and Such...

When I first started this blog I was posting at least once a week- now what the heck?! It goes unloved and I am only doing it like once a month. Sorry this is going to be a bit of a long post.

To start off spring break we took the kids to the mall to see the Easter bunny. As you can see Everett was not so hip on the idea. Neither of the other kids ever cried when seeing the Easter bunny or Santa- I think this little one might have a bit of fear.

We did an Easter egg hunt on Saturday with our friends children. It was so funny watching the older boys, they had so much energy that they spent most of the time just running around the yard and not really looking for eggs. We had had a lazy day on Saturday and Jamison had fallen asleep just before the hunt- thus the jammies.

Jamey and I wanted to do some fun things with the boys for Spencer's spring break, so Jamey took two days off of work. We also tried to find some fun stuff to do that wouldn't cost lots of money. The first day we took the kids to the Denver Mint to learn all about how our coins are made. Of course it was a lot of machinery and not much to see, but it was fun to hear some money/coin facts. The tour guide started by telling us a few things, then she said 'hold your questions and put them in your back pocket and I will answer them a bit later'. When we stood to move to the next room, Jamison looked at Jamey and said 'where are my questions?' We both laughed to darn hard- too funny that little one! We weren't allowed to take any pictures in the mint, so I have nothing to share photo wise.

After we left the mint we drove around a bit trying to find a park to eat our lunch. It really wasn't the warmest day, so we opted to just drive to our next stop and eat our lunch in the car. The kids didn't care they had fallen asleep. Our second tour was to the Hammonds Candy Factory. It too is a free tour (yeah!) watching all about how they make various kinds of hard candy. Everything is done by hand and it smelled so good! The only complaint was that the group was huge and so it was hard to hear and see at times, but all in all it was good and of course we had to buy each of the boys a lollipop.

Why did mom make me wear this?

All the kids talked about all week was wanting to go see 'How to Train Your Dragon'. So the next day that is exactly what we did. Spencer was very unhappy that we didn't see it in 3D, but with Everett we knew there would be no way, plus Jamey and I don't really like watching movies in 3D. Speaking of- why is every show being made into 3D? It must be the new thing. Anyway they both loved the movie and still talk it, so it was a success.

Everett has been standing on his own for a couple of weeks now. He is SO close to walking, he just needs a bit more confidence. On the 5th he took his first steps, but he still won't just take off and walk. It's coming and by summer he will be out 'running' with his brothers. Last night I noticed that he is finally getting another tooth- he is going to have two whole teeth on his 1st birthday.

Isn't that smile precious?! He is turning one next Friday- that year seemed in some ways to have flown by. There are some days in the beginning that I would never want to relive though. So happy to say that this smile we get to see almost all the time.

For Family Home Evening the other night we planted our garden. We loved having a few of our veggies last year, so we are excited to try it again. After doing it for the first time last year we have a little experience and hope to do even better this year.