Easter Fun

Saturday night the boys tried their hands at egg dying.....

Kinsey, a girl from our youth group at church, was home from college for the weekend so she came over to visit. It was so fun to have her with us and the boys were SOOOOOOO excited she was there to play with them! :) 

The boys actually liked this and stayed interested longer than I expected. I should've boiled more eggs.  

klp was making sure I saw that his hand was turning colors....

Almost all the eggs ended up a lovely shade of greenish brown by the time the night was over, but these boys sure did have fun dipping and mixing.  Here is q showing off a couple of eggs....and Hulk arms.  

If he could've figured out how to drop them in the cup GENTLY, klp would've been a pro :)

Happy green hands!

oh dear. 

I wrote their names on an egg and wanted their picture with their name eggs.  BUT the concept of holding something up to show me without covering their face is almost IMPOSSIBLE to grasp...ahhhh!!!!

but this little series of pics did kinda make me laugh, so I'm putting them all up.  

Not covering their faces, but not even close to looking at the camera.  

I am only posting this one because klp looks SOOOOOOOOOOO STINKIN' CUTE! 

By the end of the decorating fun, not only were they all brown, but I don't think there was a single one that wasn't cracked.  The boys were just a little rough.  YIKES! Q's name one, literally had egg coming out. sheesh.  

Our final collection.  We ended up boiling a few more eggs, but by the time we got done, it was late and the boys had moved on to something else.  That was ok though because then me, KLP, and Kinsey got to decorate one.  It was fun! :) Notice all the nice, spider webby cracks.  

On Sunday, we woke them up early so they'd have plenty of time to hunt eggs before church.  Nothin' like sleepy face Easter basket pics! :) 

headed out the door! 

klp wasn't all that in to the hunting.  He would gasp when he found one (whether he really saw one or not) but was pretty much done after 5-6 eggs......all he wanted to do was swing.  

so swing he did! :) 

I deleted the picture of Q hunting, but he did good.  He didn't move fast, but he stuck with it and had fun.  

Here they are with their eggs :)

These pictures could be titled: "While the neighbors were calling CPS" I wanted to take picture before church because I wasn't sure what state the boys or their clothes would be in after church.  The boys were NOT COOPERATING.  We were begging, threatening, clapping, yelling, and threatening some more to just get them to LOOK.  They weren't being bad, they just wouldn't LOOK! UGHH!!  But we got a couple. And woke up all the neighbors, And probably scared all the neighbors.  Oh well.  

We were able to take a few after church and they seemed like they were in more of a mood for looking at the camera.  Too bad I hand't wiped klp's lunch off his face as well as I thought I had.  

Though this picture needs to be cropped and I'm awkwardly bent over trying to help klp stand up, I had to post this because of q's pose.  What in the world???!! haha!  Oh yeah, and there's my belly.  Its getting pretty big.

 One last brother pic to end the post.  

March in Review

March is already gone and I missed a lot of blogging, so here is a picture overload month in review.  

Our friend Greg came back to stay with us for a while.  He's a boy from Kory's hometown that is a freshman at Harding.  We get to be his home base when he can't quite make it all the way back to Montana.  During his spring break, he spent a few days with us and the boys LOVED it as usual.  

We went to my grandparents' house one afternoon to fish.  He and Kan man had a great time.  

This hat that klp is wearing is classic.  My grandpa always had lots of caps on hand for everyone to wear.  The same ones we wore still hang by the back door so its fun for the new kids to wear them.  :)

q L-O-V-E-S his Daddy.  He wanted to snuggle with Daddy a little bit one night before bed.  

While the boys were all gone to the state tournament, us moms got to spend lots of time together.  Rachel came to Longview to join the fun.  Here are way too many kids in one tub.  We planned on splitting up bath time, but they would have nothing of that plan.  

Enjoying the nice spring weather creating masterpieces on the sidewalk.  

Spaghetti anyone?

q spends more time painting his arm than he does his paper.  Oh well.  Personal expression, right?

"STICK 'EM UP"

Both boys LOVE to dribble Daddy's basketball.  This day q managed to get Daddy's shoes on too.  He was feeling reeeeeeeeeal big.  

Both boys had on sunglasses in the car one day and it was funny because they put them on themselves so they were sideways and upside down.  I tried to take a picture, but i was driving so I just held up my camera and took it.  I completely missed klp, but caught q jammin'.  

March Maddness is taken very seriously around here.  A game on the TV and a game on the iPad.  We can't miss a MINUTE.  :)  

Chandler wore her boots to church one Sunday so we got this sweet pic of the kids with their boots on.  

klp  had a check up with the Developmental Disabilities Clinic at Scottish Rite.  Its always a LOOOONG day.  This time we were there 2 1/2 hrs and that was our shortest visit yet.  We like it though because lots of people check in with him and we get to talk a lot to the Dr. and we really like him.  We are moving right a long with most things and have a few things to think about/work on, but are thankful for progress and maturity!  Kory went with me so we had a fun day with just Kan Man (while Q was at home with Gay Gay all to himself).  Here is the big boy walking down the hall at the hospital.

...and checking out the fish

We did a little bit of shopping and then ate lunch before heading home.  Days like this make me feel like klp is so big!  He was such a treat all day and we had a great time.  

We left early that morning, so he was zonked out about 5 min. into our trip home.  sweet boy. 

I have made smoothies for klp for breakfast for a couple of years now. I can put lots of stuff that he needs in there all while squeezing 300-400 calories into the smoothie. It never occurred to me to give them to Q (dumb me, I know).  The other day I had made a big batch of smoothies and he kept asking me for "Some Movies"  It took me forever to realize that some movies=smoothies.  Cuteness.  He got his some movies and loved it.  

We went to the park one morning with some buddies.  There was an entire playground and bike riding going on, but q spotted the basketball goals and that is ALL he wanted to do.  So we played pretend bball until I could peel him away from that to join his friends.  :)

We had a tragedy at Christmas....we lost klp's hat.  We have looked all over and can't find it.  So for his birthday I wanted to get him a new one.  We couldn't find any good Montana State ones like he had so my AWESOME sister in law, Sydni got on it and sent us not one, not two, but three MSU hats!! Both boys are SOOOO happy! (and the baby will no doubt be happy with his/hers too!)

klp got a Dr. kit for his bday.  Here they are playing Dr. with some animals.  The first time we played with it, I told q that maybe the elephant needed a shot and so he held up the toy and started making a gun noise.  Oh dear.  Not that kind of shot.  Its still 50/50 whether or not a Dr. shot is going to be more like a gun or an actual injection.  boys boys boys.  

We got klp a little slide/climbing toy thing for outside.  We wanted him to have something outside that he could do 100% on his own.  Kory put it together one night after work and it was dark before he finished but the boys just had to get in a slide or two before bed.  

The next morning we were out on the "slide" ASAP

They didn't even want to leave it to eat their apples, so they ate them right there.  

klp made this sweet hat at school the other day.  

Thats March in a nutshell....a big nutshell.

Sidenote: As I finish typing this, my boys are beside me saying "POO POO!" to each other and DYING LAUGHING! Really???!!  I have a lifetime ahead of me of taming potty humor, I didn't expect it to start this soon.  Sheesh.  :)

Quinn

I adore my kids every day and there hasn't been a day that I haven't thought they were the cutest boys on the planet.  But sometimes there are those days that you just can't get enough of their sweetness. You know, that "I could eat you with a spoon" kind of feeling.  I've never understood all the "I could just eat you up" talk but I say it all the time. I really could just gobble them up sometimes.  Last Thursday was one of those days.  Kanyon was at school for the morning so it was just me and Q doing our thing.  We ate breakfast together, read some books, and then headed outside to play.  Somewhere in there we left out putting on his clothes, but if you've seen this blog much, you know that is not uncommon.  We got some hand me down crocs that stay by the back door so we slipped them on and headed outside in perfectly matching blues.  

I mean really.......surely I'm not the only one who melts looking at this picture.  

He had the best time finding little sticks and putting them through the fence.  He was just working so hard and it was KILLING ME.  

My azaleas didn't all bloom at the same time this year. In fact, I'm a little worried some of them might not bloom at all. But my small ones bloomed great so I wanted to take a picture of them.  Just the flowers would've been boring, so I added a model.  He's not the kind of model that smiles real big....he's more the serious, contemplative type.  

his attempt at "cheese"

He's always been an eyebrow furrower.  Its just so him.  

I believe I'll keep him.