Easter 2010

Happy Easter!

Every year the Easter Bunny brings books in the kids Easter baskets. The kids know it and love it. Me too, I LOVE books!!

Here are the kids Easter baskets on Easter morning (it really is morning, 1:22 am lol).

The girls knew that the flip flops and the blue bags with cookies were from me. Other than that they each got a book, a box of animal crackers, pencils, Anthony got cocoa clusters while the girls got a chocolate bunny each and that's it.

This is the book the bunny brought for Anthony. It is such a cool book! It comes in a heavy cardboard sleeve and has vellum envelopes that hold replicas of actual letters (like from Washington to Martha), newspapers, posters, etc.

Anthony is studying this time period in history right now so this book was perfect.

Emma got Panda Kisses. It's below her reading level but it was so cute and the bunny knew she would love it. He was right!

Sara LOVES dinosaurs so this book was a perfect fit for her.

Easter morning the girls dyed Easter eggs. It's not really my favorite part of Easter at all but it's one of those things you just have to do.

Sara used the glitter we had left over from making Valentine's and decorated all of her eggs with glitter.

My silly Emma. She is modeling the new flower headband I made her. It was so cute!

Even horsey got dressed up.

Emma got this horse at the Alamo 4 years ago and it has had it's hair singed off in the dryer, stitches on it's side (you can feel the scar), and it is just worn out from being loved.

I'm sure I have told y'all about it before. I think of it like the Velveteen Rabbit...this little horsey would have come to life by now from all of the love it gets from Emma.

I love this picture, she looks so cute!

My babies. They are so cute, I love them so much!!

I found this at Central Market and thought it would be perfect for Easter!

My version came out a lot messier than the picture on the box but they were soooo good! Super moist!

This is River Mae, Steve and Trixi's new baby girl.

I would have posted pictures of her when she was first born if I hadn't of been sick and couldn't go to the hospital. Trixi said that I could come visit them soon and take lots of pictures of her. yay

The boys playing hacky sack.

Trixi with her baby girl River.

Spencer!

Jen.

Anthony giving hacky sack a try.

Time for the egg hunt...Spencer got a head start.

And they're loose!

More eggs in the front yard, so the kids were let loose again!

This is Trixi's son Cody.

Me and River.

Anthony falling down trying to play hacky sack. lol

Kristen's son Ethan.

We got home around 7 and the girls bedtime is 8:15 so they had time for one more Easter hunt!

I was saving cute themed eggs for them. We had dinosaurs, fairies, cupcakes and zoo animals.

Anthony participated in this one. He may be too old to go egg hunting at our friends, but he's not too old to egg hunt for mama!!

And that was our Easter. It was a lot of fun. I love our friends, they are family to us and I'm glad that my kids get to grow up surrounded by all of these people who love them!!

Random April

Here are some random pictures that were on my camera from the first week of April.

Emma with Scotty. She wrapped him up in her pajama top. lol

Did y'all visit Google on April Fool's Day? They changed their name to Topeka. haha

We got our passports in the mail! yay!

I lost my ID at the end of January, so I had to get a new one so I could not only get my passport but my birth certificate as well.

ID $11
Birth certificate overnighted from California $40
Aaron's birth certificate $22
Passport photo $15 each =$30
Passport fees $100 each=$200
Total to get our passports $303

Knowing that the only thing holding up our trip was getting our passports and now we have them and get to spend two whole weeks in Europe....Priceless! ha!

Sara came home from school with new bunny ears.

Sara trying on the flower head band I made for Emma to wear on Easter.

And wearing the rest of the headbands as well. lol

That's it for random...next up is Easter pics!

American Revolution-Jamestown model

I think I forgot to share with y'all that I am once again homeschooling my oldest son, Anthony. He has been at home for about a month now and it has been pretty awesome. I will tell you more about our homeschool stuff after the pictures in this post.


Anthony is doing an in-depth history packet on the American Revolution. He will be working on this for a couple of weeks and by the time we are done, he will know everything you need to know about the American Revolution!

We are using Homeschool in the Woods for this. LOVE IT!! Can't wait to do the Civil War unit!

Here is Anthony holding up his Jamestown replica. You can make your own for free! Just click here to print it up!

Okay, I took Anthony out of public school after the 3rd time he was beaten up by a group (as in 3-4) of kids and the school would not do anything about it. It was too frustrating to keep him there.

So now he is at home and doing so well. I am having a blast teaching him algebra and instead of him getting frustrated with his work, he is happy that someone is here to show him one on one how to do the problems. He doesn't feel lost anymore.

He breezes right through English (the kids is smart) and is about to start Writing Strands 5.

We are about to start Real Science 4 Kids Chemistry for science. And for history we are using Exploring American History, along with the Homeschool in the Woods units.

This summer we are moving and Anthony will go back to public school for 8th grade so he can play football.

spring kite flying

We have had such beautiful weather this week and we have been outdoors as much as possible! I love having my front door open with the screen door closed!!

I bought the kids little kites and when Sara got home from school on Monday Aaron helped her fly hers until he had to go to work.

I hate that ugly old house across the street! I can't wait until this summer when we move into a bigger, newer house!

My stalker dog Caleb. As I type this he is sleeping right behind me because he loves me and follows me everywhere.

He wanted to give me sugars. lol

Sara and Emma's friends showed up and tried to fly the kite.

But gave up and went on to play frisbee. I had picked up a couple of frisbees, big bouncy balls, several jump ropes and sidewalk chalk so the kids would have stuff to do outside.