Lets just say that Grandpa Mickey and Grandma Claire know how to plan a great weekend! If you can't tell the kids think so too! 

We arrived in Boone around dinner time on Thursday evening and headed out to Mellow Mushroom for pizza. YUM!

The next morning we had a relaxing morning then headed out to hit the Greenway trial for a little bike riding.

Yeah I had to roll up my pant legs.. they were getting stuck in the chain.. and I have the hole in my pants leg to prove it. Hot right?! LOL

It was an awesomely relaxing ride. We rolled along at an easy pace. We stopped and playing in a creek.

Climbed some rocks. 

Pretended to be great explorers.  Well at least one of us. Maylin wasn't convinced by Pierson's acting skills.

We glided along. It was great and relaxing and the weather; we couldn't have ordered better weather!

For most of us the ride was perfectly smooth. For Pierson... the ride was long and tiresome. I had not realized how long his legs were getting in comparison to the height of his bike. He was pumping and pumping and pumping. Poor guy. A child's bike does not really lend to coasting. If you want to keep moving forward you have to keep peddling. For him that meant he was practically eating his knees. He was a trooper though.  We moved a little slower but kept on going. I guess we are going to need a new bike soon. His only request is that it be big and have brakes on the handles like ours were.

Conveniently where we started and ended the ride was an awesome playground.

We didn't hear any complaints about that. Only thing we heard was "Watch this!"

We topped the afternoon off with a stop for frozen yogurt! Followed later by delicious homemade spaghetti then settling down with in-home cinema 'Puss in Boots'. 

Great day! Thanks Grandpa Mickey and Grandma Claire

Blog-techy-people why do you make changes to the way this blog is set up and how I post things... You make me crazy.

To everyone else sorry for the delay in blogging. I had a great blog almost ready to publish about our nice weekend in Boone last weekend.... before I got a chance to edit it these blog people change how everything is set and and now I can't figure out how to get back to my saved blog entry or edit anything. UGH.

Easter Day

Easter day was another whirlwind of fun and laughter. We stared the day by going to church. Since Adam and I had to be at church by 7:45 we decided that the Easter bunny would come after church. When we got home we took pictures (shown a few blog posts earlier) and then the kids and the daddy's went to the pond to release the minnows they caught the day before at the park. 

Did I say kids? ...I meant super heros!  Buzz trying to take flight.

captain America clearing the way.

Releasing the minnows! Yeah! They are much happier now! ... well most of them. :o

Amazingly while they were gone releasing the fish the Easter Bunny showed up with Easter baskets! That tricky rabbit! ;)

Maylin's life was made a little brighter with post-it notes, pens and stickers.

Pierson is seeing a little more clearly with binoculars...

and a handy explorers vest! The Easter bunny only brings a few pieces of candy to our house. Fortunately those pieces of candy fit perfectly in his new vest!

Maylin couldn't have been more excited to see a pack of 200 sheets of construction paper. Have I told you how much she likes paper?  Oh yeah, paper is the way to her heart!

Grandma had some crafts for the kids to do while they waited for lunch. They all did a great job decorating the foam eggs with foam stickers.  It was fun. What was even more fun was the tiny pieces of white paper backing EVERYWHERE when they were finished! :)

Good job Darcy Q!

It is amazing how that Easter bunny shows up while the kids are occupied. during all the craft and lunch commotion the Easter bunny hid eggs in the yard! Here all of our little bunnies were lined up and ready to hunt!

The bunny hop!

May the best hunter win!

After eggs were found, and candy sorted the boys decided to play a little bit of baseball in the yard.

I just love Daniels smile!

And yet another activity! Ayi (aka Aunt Kristi) taught the kids how to make Resurrection rolls. Yeah I didn't know how to either. What you do is dip a marshmallow in melted butter, followed by rolling it in cinnamon and sugar. When it is nice and sticky you wrap it in a croissant.  The marshmallow represents Jesus as he was wrapped and prepared for burial. Wrapping Him up in the croissant is like putting him in the tomb.  Then you bake the yummy treat like you would a normal croissant. When it is done and cooled for a few minutes it is ready to crack open and find that Jesus is resurrected!

Where, oh where did that marshmallow go?

After stuffing our tummies yet again it was time to catch worms! Just call her "Worm Girl!"

Pierson had to test out his new vest and binoculars! Oh yeah there is my little explorer! I love the crooked helmet, plaid shorts, sandals and explorer vest look! ;)

Happy Easter! I hope your day was filled with as many giggles, treats and love as ours! Praise God He is alive!

Easter Eve

Things are way more fun and way more noisy when there are six kids in a house. Even reading books can be a challenge when you have a marching band in the house.  :)

 The day was filled with giggles and silliness.

 We dyed eggs (even superman).

 We painted our dyed eggs.

 Some better than others. ;)

 We got rides from cousin Chad.

 Grilled and ate, and ate, and ate!

 We celebrated a new baby coming into the family.

 We investigated with new spyware!

 We played games at the baby shower. Adam won!

 We caught minnows.

 a couple of us fell in the water...

I won't mention those kids names... but :)

By the time we got home we were dirty and tired. If it had not been for the fact that the next day was Easter Sunday we might have let the stinky kids skip a bath. But we didn't.
We finished the day with Grandma reading a book about Easter. It was a great non-stop-kind-of-day! Things are always better with family!

Happy Easter Monday!

More to come from our wonderful, whirlwind of a weekend soon! It was an awesome Easter weekend filled with love and family! The only downer was that it ended all too soon!

I am so thankful for for a risen God! Happy Easter

Sibling Love

Peek-A-Boo

"Seriously?" 

Pierson thinks he is pretty funny.

Maylin... not so much.

LOL