Jamie, Liam and Emma came to visit us when they were in town in early May. We LOVED, LOVED, LOVED seeing them! It amazes me each time how well the kids get along. They could only stay for a few hours as they had a packed schedule of events and people to see in their limited time here. The weather was unusually chilly that day, but we still had fun playing inside and out and taking pictures with both our cameras. I’m sure it’ll be at least a year, but we can’t wait to see them again.
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Easter Egg Hunts
Miss Hope’s preschool had a massive Easter Egg hunt in April. They had 60 preschoolers (from Multiple classes) and some siblings all meet at a park and gather eggs. It was really fun. In the top picture there is a guy with his elbows up. That is our neighbor Josh, who’s son Dallin is in Hope’s class. He was hilarious as he was telling the kids to throw their elbows around to get eggs. As you can see, the kids weren’t really even paying attention to him. Bryce was in class doing his own Easter Egg hunt so just Ethan and Hope participated at the huge hunt. But they LOVED it.
Best Buddy cousins! We had an Easter Egg hunt at both Grandparents houses. I ended up with only a few pictures from Grandma and Grandpa Christensen’s house. The Uncles and Grandpa hid the eggs. What was funny was after 10 minutes of the kids piling eggs into their baskets Hope burst into tears and exclaimed, “Mom! I don’t have any eggs!” It was so funny because she was egg hunting with Sadie who got to the eggs just a little bit faster then Hope and so the eggs were going into Sadie’s basket. The second everyone saw her in tears the kids quickly offered up eggs to her and the hunting continued with all the kids sharing. Bryce had an overwhelming basket because he hunted with Avery and every egg Avery dropped from his basket went into Bryce’s basket. In the end I think they split their eggs. It was really sweet how the kids offered up eggs to each other.
The best Easter Egg hunt of all was at our house. The Easter bunny was tired of Easter Egg hunts and Candy so she hid an Easter Basket for each of the kids with one egg of Jelly Beans, one egg with a dollar, and some clothes. The Easter Bunny’s husband laughed at the Easter Bunny as she hid the baskets and made an Easter Basket Scavenger hunt. But it was so much fun with the kids. They found a note at the bar with an Easter egg that had a picture clue inside as to where to find their baskets. Each clue led them to another egg, with another clue, and eventually in the Guest room their found their baskets. It was so much fun that Mr. & Mrs. Easter Bunny decided they’d do a scavenger hunt every year.
Grandma and Grandpa got a new dog……
After the passing of Tanner, Grandma and Grandpa’s sweet Golden Retriever, they started talking about getting another dog. Part of it is for protection for the Grandkids in case wild animals start roaming their property when the kids are there. After some research and looking around they bought a sweet German Shepard female, who was a bout a year old, and named her Tara. We all came up immediately to meet her and in an instant Bryce was head over heals in love with her. All the kids love her really. She is sweet, and just follows them around.
Now fast forward to a month or so later when Grandma and Grandpa were going out of town to Hawaii and the boarder who usually takes their dog wasn’t available. We were thrilled to have the opportunity to watch her. Bryce was in heaven!
For a puppy Tara is really good. But, she is still a puppy and wants entertainment all the time. We did get some outside furniture chewed on and kids were jumped on a bit. It was such a good reminder that with 4 little kids already we need to wait to get a dog of our own. (Much to the children's dismay) Tara goes crazy for Hallee so I had to keep the baby away from her, and Ethan kept letting her inside….as in multiple times a day. Jared cleaned all our carpets on Saturday. Sunday while Jared was at meetings and I was showering Ethan came in to tell me the dog was inside. He had one of those cute/mischievous smiles on his face. I jumped out of the shower, threw a towel around me and while still wet raced through the house to find her. She was in the front room, the nicest carpet in the house, and had just squatted down to do her business. I grabbed her as quickly as I could to take her outside, but a little business had already been done. It seems funny now, a few months later, but I felt so bad to have to tell Daddy about what happened. All in all, it was fine. Mommy was extraordinarily exhausted at the end of a week, and Tara’s playful nature left quite a few scratches, but we still love her and it was a fun adventure.
Got a new camera!
We did some calculations and decided it was more cost effective to buy a nice camera then hire a photographer once or twice a year to take pictures of the kids. Daddy took these pictures in the yard in April when the flowers were just blooming. Just like with all electronics, he’s pretty good with the camera!
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