Easter Fun

Sorry it took so long to get some Easter pictures posted. Danica had a fun time this Easter. She got to dye Easter eggs for the first time and loved it. She enjoyed it so much that I bought some extra dye kits when they went on clearance after Easter! Who says you can only have pretty eggs once a year! She didn't even argue about having to put on a smock to color the eggs (previously this had been an issue!). I guess she thought it was just like wearing her apron when she "helps" me cook.

Here she is getting all ready to go. And apparently doing her best "grasp the monkey's tail" impression! (tai chi for anyone not familiar)

She was all about the pictures that day. As you can tell by the cheesy grin. She is all ready to go!

I wrote on some of the eggs with a white crayon and she loved how we could put names on them. The names included: Danica, Mommy, Daddy, Papa, Grandma, RoseAne, Nicholas, Emmarie, Monica and Kasen. (and yes Monica it was her idea to put your name on it!) We took Kasen his egg the next day when we went to Randi and Devon's house for Saturday "Easter" dinner.

Here she is with her finished eggs. She was so proud!

Like I said we went to Jason's cousin's house for Saturday evening. The kids quickly disappeared into Kasen's room to play. Even Ellia was in on the action.
Later the kids has some fun with a track. I think it was for cars but am not sure.

Here is Randi and Kasen getting all ready for their Easter egg hunt!

They loved it!As you can see Kasen was determined to get that egg. Even if it meant manuvering under a chair to do it!

They were pretty good about not trying to take each other's eggs. I think that they came out about equal in the number department. Of course us parents helped steer them towards more when needed.

Ellia enjoyed watching them and chewing on the plastic eggs as well.

The kids and dad sorting out there treasure!

The kids sitting watching a show, winding down before we had to leave.
And Ellia sitting in her high chair eating dinner happy as a clam! Gotta love that hair and grin!

This was Danica's Easter dress. This picture was taken after church BEFORE lunch so that would be why there is a crabby look on her face! It is such a cute dress though!

MN Trip

I am aware that these pictures are long over due but better later than never right! The beginning of April we took a long weekend trip to MN. It started out being a surprise to my sister Janeen for her birthday. Then we decided to try to surprise pretty much everyone, with my parents being the ones who knew along with my father-in-law Don. Well....long story short we ended up having to tell almost everybody in the family that we were coming due to it being a busy weekend and we didn't want people to go out of town or have every minute that we were there scheduled with something else. The only person who was surprised was my mother-in-law Jeanine. Jason and I were pretty impressed that Don was able to keep the secret! Needless to say she was very surprised to find us standing on their doorstep at 4:30 on a Thursday afternoon!

Danica quickly snagged Grandma and they dissappeared to find the toys and play puzzles. In case anyone didn't know, Danica has no problem with shyness when it comes to seeing people that she hasn't seen in awhile...or complete strangers for that matter. We also had been talking to her for several weeks that we were going to be flying on an airplane and seeing Grandmas and Papas and her cousins. She had a great time on the plane and thought the very bumpy landing that we had was fun. Mommy and Daddy thought otherwise. Don't....like....turbulence.

This is from when Danica got the see my Mom aka "other Grandma" (this title is used to refer to whoever she currently is not around and can be used to refer to Papas as well). I'm not sure either one of them planned on letting go!

This was at Tim and Monica's house. They have a very old rocking chair that the kids liked to sit in.

And here is Emmarie patiently (for the most part) waiting her turn.

Danica and Nicholas are both pretty huggy kids so it wasn't hard to get them to do it for the camera.

Emmarie spending some time with Uncle Tim. I wonder why they get along so well? Hmmmm.

Danica with Uncle Justin. Friends of Janeen and Justin just had some little lamb born that morning so we went to see them. Danica didn't like the lambs--no idea why...but she loved the chickens. She also loves her Uncle Justin...could be because she knows he very used to little girls since they have two.

Emmarie and Danica would frequently disappear when at Tim and Monica's house. We would usually find them in "the red room". They would be playing with cars or whatever. They got along so well. It was cute because Danica looks so much like me and Emmarie looks alot like Janeen. We had mini versions running around!

Janeen and I managed to convince our Dad to make his yummy milkshakes! They are still some of the best I have ever had. Here the girls are enjoying theirs.

Danica was dancing on Grandpa's feet again. Nicholas thought that it looked like fun and tried to join in.

And this is Nicholas after Danica told him no, it was her turn. Ever so politely by pushing him off. He then growled at her and shook his finger at her and dramatically put his head down. And all the adults laughed. And then he smiled.

This is a sculpture that Tim and Monica received for their wedding from our Uncle Fred. I just love it and thinks it's beautiful so that is why I am sharing it.

You may have noticed that there are no pictures of RoseAne. I didn't realize that until I was posting this. RoseAne was very busy the weekend that we were there. She was in her first play Disney's Beauty and the Beast and was both a lamb and a flower. We were able to go see it on Saturday afternoon and Danica loved the play. It was well done and you could tell all the kids worked really hard.
Danica did great on our return flight too. She loved being on the airplane and "going up in the sky, really fast, and bumpy!" It makes it so much easier when they are good flyers. And thank God for non-stop flights and portable Dvd players!