Easter Vacation

This year for Easter, our kids had Thursday through Monday off. We had a staycation and did lots of fun things around here. Thursday, we decorated eggs with grandpa and grandma Foulger.  Friday, Grandma Foulger came over and hung out with us for the afternoon. That night, we decided, on a whim, to head out to the hills and look for geodes. It was a beautiful evening and we really enjoyed being outside enjoying it! We were able to find a few geodes, but none of them were very spectacular. The boys thought all the "caves" were really cool and called them all man caves. The one below was the best one!

All my boys hanging out. Christian has one of the geodes we found in his hand.

Saturday, we got ready and headed to Grandma Asay's house for the day. We helped clean up her yeard, had lunch and then the kids did an Easter egg hunt. They had lots of fun finding the eggs and seeing what was in them. After lunch, we worked in the yard some more and when we were done, I took Landon home for a nap while the other boys stayed with Christian and helped out around the farm. When Landon woke up, we headed back out and had dinner and visited while the kids played. Carson, Travis, and their cousin Stetson looked for hours to find any and all bugs they could. They each had quite the collection in their jars that grandma had given them.

Working away.

The kids waiting for the Easter Egg hunt to begin.

Grandma Asay hiding eggs. She hid 100 eggs for the grandkids to find!

Carson reaching high for an egg.

The kids finding eggs.

Travis and Kandace searching for eggs

Poor Kandace was "lucky" enough to find the egg that Christian took the candy out of and placed a GIANT nasty cricket in(you can see if on the ground by her left foot)! When Jan said he had done it, I thought it was just a little black cricket...not one of these kinds! She was very upset and Christian end up giving her a dollar to replace the nasty bug. She kept saying he was the lamest uncle the rest of the day!

All but little Miss Paige who was sleeping.

Uncle Jared gave the kids a little ride in the loader bucket. Most of them thought it was great. Landon was not such a fan. I actually think he is scared of heights!

Those who were brave enough stayed in the bucket to get an even higher ride!

Easter Sunday, Carson and Travis were up around 8:30 and wanting to find their baskets. We waited a few minutes and then woke Landon up too so they could find their baskets that the Easter Bunny had hidden and still have time to get to church on time.

Carson found his basket by the garage door.

Landon  showing off his new cow he got in his basket that was hidden in the entertainment center.

Travis found his basket on the basement stairs. They were bot pretty excited to have new fishing poles!

All three boys got new goggles to use this summer.

Happy kids!

When the boys were all ready, we tried to do a little photo shoot outside of the boys and their new ties. I don't why it's such a task to take pictures...but it is...every time! Here is the proof:

Making crazy faces without being asked to!

Landon hamming it up!

Super cheesy!

Finally, a semi normal one! Love these cute guys!!

I. LOVE. THIS. FACE!

Landon made a bunny mask in nursery and was modeling it for us all on our way home from church.

Monday, I had a meeting in the morning and then Carson wanted to go visit Grandma Foulger since "it had been forever since he's been to her house."  We had lunch with her and grandpa, looked at their house, and then played tennis for over two hours. After we had dinner, we went down to the pond and let the boys practice casting with their new poles. Between casting and throwing rocks, family home evening was fun for everyone!

 On a side note: Last Wednesday, Travis had his kindergarten screening and it looks like he is all ready to go! After his screening, we decided it would be fun to go to lunch with Carson. I try to go to lunch with him once every year and  this year I thought it would be nice for Travis to get to experience it and see how things are going to go next year! Travis keeps asking Carson when he can come and have lunch with him again, so he must have enjoyed it!

Enjoying their lunch!

Dying eggs

Last night, we had grandpa and grandma Foulger over for dinner and then dying eggs. The boys were so excited to finally get to dye their eggs! Grandpa and Christian were a big help with the egg process while my mom and I cleaned up dinner. We had some really great looking eggs this year and are ready for some egg salad sandwiches and deviled eggs!

So excited to start.

Grandpa and silly Travis waiting for the dye tablets to dissolve.

getting things all ready.

Carson deciding what color to do next.

We got to facetime with auntie Butts while we were dying our eggs. It was the next best thing to having her here with us!

Landon working away.

Grandpa and the boys trying to figure out how to get the shrink wraps on the eggs properly.

Landon and his eggs. He went through his pretty fast but had a good time doing it.

Travis' creations. He was really into the shrink wrap things you can put on the eggs after. He also hoarded all the colors while dying! He would place about six of his eggs in colors at one time!

Carson's eggs. He was very methodical with his color choices and creations. He definitely had some really interesting colored eggs.

Easter egg hunt

Today, we braved the cold wind but had a fun time with our friends. A friend of ours organized an Easter Egg hunt for a big group of us that have kids the same age. We each brought a dozen filled eggs for each of our kids that were going to participate and a snack to share with everyone. The kids had a good time finding eggs and hanging out with their friends while the moms got to talk. We wish the wind wouldn't have been blowing so hard so we could have stood to stay longer and play at the park. Oh well. I guess that's Spring in Wyoming!

Landon liked keeping track of his basket on his head.

Travis looking for eggs.

Landon found one!

Travis found a "jack pot" egg as he called it because it was full of coins!

Landon and his basket full of eggs! He was one happy boy!

Enjoying some lunch after the Easter Egg hunt!

The weekend.

We haven't been up to too much lately. We have been able to enjoy some really  nice Spring weather...finally! It's supposed to be even nicer this week and even make it up to 70 degrees one day! 

Christian's grandma Asay was able to sell her house, so this week we were in and out visiting her and Christian's aunt (Sylvia) and uncles (Gaylen, Clark, Eric and Bruce and cousin Spencer) while they were here helping go through her stuff and  moving out everything for the new owners to start moving in today. 

Friday night, we went and visited and looked at some old slides with a projector. It was so fun to see Stan and his family when they were younger and to hear the stories behind the pictures. We enjoyed some pistachio ice cream too that night!

The group looking at some slides.

Saturday was the big move out. Everything had finally been decided on where it was going so they were able to move it all. Christian and Travis went over around 8 and started helping take loads to a storage unit. Carson stayed to help me get things ready to take lunch over for everyone. We joined them around noon. Travis was in heaven (he's our little hoarder) and got himself some great treasures from great grandma Asay. We were able to get some old books that belonged to Christian's grandpa, a couple of folding tables and lots of folding chairs and some other odds and ends. It will be so strange to not have here living here any more, even though she has been living with her daughter in Washington for a while already. We will sure miss getting to see her.

We set up the ipad so the three 2 year olds could watch a movie and so Emily and I could try to help do something.

Some of our crew enjoying lunch outside in the sunshine.

Carson and Stetson played checkers and chess for a large part of the day. Christian's cousin, Spencer (who is 18), would play with them when there wasn't any moving to be done. They thought he was the coolest!

After a long day of moving, we enjoyed Saturday evening by making a fire in the fire pit. We roasted hot dogs for dinner and then just enjoyed the rest of the nice day.

Auntie Butts come to town!

We spent this weekend hanging out at grandma Foulger's house while my sister, Megan, was in town for a couple of days. Now that her husband is a pilot she gets to fly anywhere she wants for free...pretty sweet benefit, if you ask me. She decided to come and hang out with us all Saturday and had to fly home Sunday. We went with my mom and dad to pick her up in Cody and then had lunch before we headed back to Powell. We met Christian at my mom and dad's new house to check out the  progress. After looking at the house, we went to grandma's house where the boys FINALLY got to ride their electric scooters they got for Christmas. They rode them until they were dead and loved every minute of them. Travis still needs to work on his stopping skills, as his scooter is missing a bunch of paint on the bottom where he would lay it over on it's side when he was trying to stop. The adults played some cards while the kids napped and then we had pizza for dinner and Jason and Cassie joined us. It was a short visit, but we are so happy that we got to see her for a bit!

Carson concentrating pretty hard as he was trying to get the hang of the whole thing.

And this is why the side of Travis' scooter is all scrapped up!

The adults enjoying the sunshine. It was super windy but actually quite warm

Landon drove the truck around in circles until it would get stuck and then he would push it out. He usually has to ride shot gun because one of his brothers is driving, so he was in heaven.

Riding around.

Travis trying to figure out his scooter.

Christian even took Landon for a ride on one of them.

Travis doing a trick in the back of the little pick up.