Megan's 9th birthday

Megan had a really fun birthday this year. In the morning Grandma Bird and I took her to see Beauty and the Beast at the Smith Center. In the afternoon we had a spa birthday party complete with pedicures, facials, flip flop embellishing and making lip gloss. The girls had a blast and ate yummy cupcakes and candy nail polish (made from a chocolate dipped marshmallow with a tootsie roll on top. The evening was dedicated to family fun with pizza, ice cream and a cake shaped like nail polish. It was a busy a fun filled day!

Easter Sunday

Easter was both interesting and low key at our house this year.  The kids enjoyed getting up and looking at their Easter baskets and then we all got ready for church.  I was trying to get the Easter feast ready to go for later so I only ended up with 20 mins to get ready for church--argh, why does that always happen!  Anyway, just as we got Laynee in her pretty dress she threw up all over herself and Brian!  YIKES!  Well, we hurried and cleaned everyone up and ran to church.  Laynee was fussy the whole time and Colton was on one.  When it was time for the primary kids to sing he wouldn't go up so I tried to coax him.  He ended up flopping on the ground in the aisle and I dragged him up...embarrassing!!  Anyway, he just sat on the stairs and made faces the whole time.  Needless to say between the two youngest kids I did NOT feel much of the spirit of Easter.  We did have a yummy Easter lunch, much needed naps and watched "Hop" together.  Hopefully next year goes a bit smoother.

Easter egg hunt and picnic

Tonight we had an Easter egg hunt and family picnic in the park. The kids had lot of fun and there was a lot of yummy food!

Spring break fun part 2

Megan chose mini golf today. The weather was awesome so we went to an outdoor course

Decorating the eggs

Everyone enjoyed coloring Easter eggs (despite Parker's face in the picture with the 3 older kids). This year we had a marble decorating kit and a glitter decorating kit. My counters are now tie dyed but all are happy. Now off to watch Charlie Brown Easter!

Spring break fun

We let the kids each pick a fun activity they wanted to do over spring break. First up...bowling...courtesy of Colton. Parker got the high score and laynee had fun running around the bowling alley.

Saint Paddy's Day

MMMM Rainbow Muffins

The Leprechauns were VERY naughty this year

The chocolate gold is gone....

Rainbow fruit pizza for the green feast!

St. Paddy's Day was a lot of fun.  The kids woke up to find that the Leprechauns had created all sorts of mischief during the night.  Their favorite were the tiny green footprints on the toilet seat and the green water in the toilet bowl!!!  The little wee people also knocked over all sorts of decorations and left traps in front of Megan's door.  BUT they did leave gold chocolate coins for all!  We all wore our green St. Paddy's shirts and headed to church.  Later that evening we had a green feast complete with chicken alfredo with green sauce, green salad, green grapes, and rainbow fruit pizza for dessert.