Dyeing Easter Eggs

Saturday night, we dyed our Easter eggs.  Kelly came over to join us for the Easter egg hunt and then to color the eggs.  I was glad he was there because he kept on eye one James, who was a little excited about the whole process.  He started out dyeing one egg blue, then the next yellow, then finally green.  He wasn’t too good at using the egg holder to pick up and lower the egg, so he just used his hands.  By the time he was done, he looked like the Hulk with his green, green hands! I put him in the bath with a lot of bubbles, and it came off better than I thought. 

   

   

In the last picture, you can see his green hands, and his mad face because we told him there were no more eggs to dye!

Landon and Davis had a ton of fun too.  Davis especially liked coloring on the eggs with the crayons, and then leaving the egg in the dye for a long time.  Landon liked the white crayon and see how it looked when it came out of the dye.

           

The finished product

Easter Egg Hunt

The last two years, my mother-in-law has sent me the best Easter present ever.  She really sends it for the kids, but it’s a great present for me too.  She sends us a box of pre-filled Easter eggs for our egg hunt.  This year there were 94 eggs, so the boys each got to find over 30 eggs.  We were lucky that all of the rain let up on Friday, so it was relatively dry in the backyard Saturday for a hunt.  The boys had fun searching in the yard for the eggs, and opening them up to find candy and coins.  James was content with just one egg.  The first one he found, he opened it up, saw the chocolate kisses, and sat down to eat it.  It took some prodding from us to keep him hunting!

 

James running around while I hid the eggs, and one egg in the clothesline

           

Landon’s First Baseball Game

Saturday was Landon’s first baseball.  Unfortunately, since March was the rainiest March on record for Portland, we had only had two practices before his first game, so we were a little nervous about how he would do having hardly played.  Luckily, his coach was great, and Landon did well and had a great time!  It is coach-pitch, so a little different than t-ball last year, and they can get out on base, but they let each team have all of their line-up bat each inning, so it is a good learning opportunity for them. 

 The Spectators

   

Lucky for us, there is a playground right next to the field, so Davis and James didn’t get too bored during the game.

     

Spring Break

After my parents left for Spring Break, we tried to fill our week with a lot of other fun activities.  Luckily, our great friends the Lovelands were looking for fun things to do too at the beginning of the week, so we joined up with them.  On Monday, we went to a park we hadn’t been to before to play and eat lunch.  The weather was a little cool, but the sun was out and it was a pretty day.  The playground had an old merry-go-round, and the boys had fun riding on that while Luke pushed them around.  They also had a pretty big slide that was fun to go down.  The first time James went down, I think he was a little scared at how fast it went, but then he climbed right back up to go again!  Brigham also got a game of tennis/volleyball going on the tennis courts that all of the kids had fun playing too. 

   

Luke (Landon’s age) on the monkey bars, and James walking across the bridge and climbing up the slide.

       

Landon always has his hoodie one!

 

I had to be careful with James on the merry-go-round that he didn’t just get off as it was spinning around.

 

Luke pushing the boys on the merry-go-round, and Isaac (5 months younger than James) on the swing

I didn’t take good pictures the rest of the week, but on Tuesday, we met the Lovelands at McDonalds for lunch and the play place, and on Wednesday we all went to OMSI again together.  Thursday and Friday, we spent the day with the Woodley kids.  Thursday we went to their house, and Friday they came over here. 

Saturday was General Conference, so in the evening, I invited the Lovelands and our other friends the Kojimas over to watch a movie while the dads were at priesthood.  We each brought different items with a hole in them that we could put on a necklace (pretzels, gummy life savers, froot loops, mini donuts, etc.)  The kids made some necklaces and then relaxed watching a movie while we moms visited.  The only downside to the evening was that the Lovelands told us they would be moving to Utah in three months.  To say the least, we were all pretty sad.  Landon and Luke are best friends, and Eve and Davis have been friends since birth.  They have a cute, special connection with each other, and Eve has frequently told Jenn that she will marry Davis one day (Davis doesn’t quite return the feeling, but then again, he just said he will marry Mom or Grandma).  James and Isaac are becoming fast friends as they grow older, especially since Jenn and I always swap kids with each other.  Jenn and I became quick friends when we first moved here five years ago, and Shane and Cody have been good friends and served in the bishopric together for the last 2 1/2 years.  It will be a sad change and adjustment for us!

Back to some more positive things, here are a few fun pictures of the kids from the evening, and a few others from Luke’s birthday party a few days later.

Landon, Luke, and Davis

 

Left: Landon, Jared Kojima, Davis, and Eve, and Right:  Davis and Eve