Thank You Easter Bunny!!!

You would think with Easter being a little later in the month this year that I would be more on top of things.....well, I'm not! But, it will all work out. I am learning that slowly....

We went to the mall to visit the Easter Bunny on Wednesday evening. Ava looked all excited walking into the little area then saw him and turned around and was ready to BOLT! She is not my character lover at all! Aiden never cared much, she on the other hand doesn't like anything in costume! So Daddy held her and wasn't going to make her sit...but Mommy was getting the picture no matter what, so I took her and put her down on the Bunnys lap...this was the best picture we got which isn't all that bad, she didn't cry she just looked down the entire time. I think she was concentrating on the many ways she was going to get me back for doing this to her and Dadd was sure to tell her, that he had not part in making this happen. Aiden could have cared less about anything, he was more interested in getting to eat pizza at the mall for dinner.

I did find time this week to gather all the Easter treats and candy and put their baskets together so I won't have that to worry about this weekend. I also filled all the plastic Easter eggs with way to much candy...we still have candy in the "grey bucket" on top of the fridge from Halloween, Christmas and Valentine's Day...we don't need ANY more candy! But, it's Easter and I figure I can secretly just dump the candy in a bag and bring it to work, no one will ever know! Seriously now that I think about it there were gum eggs in there from last Easter last time I looked....that's bad!

So our plans for this weekend are to attend early church services tomorrow, I loved that the offered Saturday services. We will then go to dinner and visit with Chris's Brother and his kids. Grandma is coming into town tonight(Chris's Mom). On Easter Sunday, we will just hang out at home. I am making a ham, cheesey potatoe cassarole, a broccoli cassarole, some green fluff (watergate salad) maybe some deviled eggs and Chris is supposed to make some type of pasta. We all are back to school and work come Monday :-( Hopefully the weather will be nice but, forecast looks pretty wet for the entire weekend....blah....then sunny and 80 early next week...it figures!

Happy Easter!

Beacon Fun Fair

This is the basket I made for the Beacon Fun Fair...it was auctioned for $73.00!

The fun fair is an annual fund raiser for Aiden's Elementary school. There is food games and raffles for baskets and all kinds of treats!

Aiden playing the pick the nose game at his fun fair...


This is the game Aiden helped me work for an hour :-)

Chuck E Cheese

The party!

ME and My Little Birthday Girl!

The Cake

Ava in her Birthday shirt enjoying her party!

Reading her cards

Mommy, Ava and Daddy

Opening presents



Playing chalk with Maddie

TwO YeaRs oLD

WOW!!!!!!

Ava is officially TWO years old!

Life has been extremely hectic the past few months! I haven't had much time for anything other than work, the kids and just keeping my head above water trying to keep up with everything that goes along with them! But we are all doing well!

Ava's Birthday was April 13th, we celebrated with a party at my parents with our family and friends. It was a wonderful party! Since her Birthday was on a Wednesday, we took her to Chuck E Cheese for dinner. She had a good time there as well! She is still singing the Happy Happy Birthday to you song from Sprout! She is talking soo much more the past couple weeks. She loves playing ring around the rosy! She enjoys Barney and Superwhy but most of all playing outside! She is just happy as can be when she can run around with the other kids and she gets right in there with them!

Aiden is starting spring flag football, this is a different league than he played in the past. He in on the cowboys. He would also spend all of his spare time outside if he could! We try to encourage him to play outside as much as possible. Last night was a battle trying to get him to come in for the night to do homework and get a bath. I guess that is better than playing video games non stop all day. He has been testing us with talking back, so that is a work in progress...I am really hoping this is just a testing phase and will pass.....soon....

I have been extra busy at work, I now work for Centurylink instead of Qwest. All the changes are keeping me extremely busy! I am looking forward to this summer. Ava needs to get her tonsils out in June :-( not looking forward to that but she has had a rough winter!

These pictures I had taken last weekend, she had just gotten up from napping and wasn't in the mood to smile but we got a few really cute pictures anyway...this one say's it all! It needs a caption saying "Really Mom, can't we just be done with all this?"

COCO Bean

We call COCO our little "COCO Bean" ...she is such a sweet little puppy. Housebreaking is a "work in progress." We keep in in the laundry room and she has a potty pad in there that she will use, which is good. I would rather her go outside all of the time but, if she is going to go in the house, I am glad she atleast "gets" that she needs to go on the pad. We do have some accidents but we are getting less and less. We re-invested in a new Bissel green machine which is awesome! ( I highly recommend this investment for anyone with pets or children!) We had one from years ago that no longer would squirt out the water so we got a new one since we are using it so much with COCO. At least I know we will be getting new carpet once she is fully housebroken! :-) She is also a bit spoiled already and would rather go potty on the deck instead of going out into the cold grass....so we have some work a head of us this spring! The kids LOVE her and she loves to lay on your lap when you are watching tv, I just LOVE that! She likes to chew on everything but all puppies do, so we have to be careful when she runs off with one of the kids toys instead of her own!

After this task....we will be working on potty training Ava!!!!!! Lord help me!

Jurrasic Adventure

Last Saturday we took the kids to the Jurassic Adventure Exhibit at the Ohio Expo Center. There were tons of replicas of dinosaurs for them to look and and touch. It was extremely busy and the line to get in was a mile long but....we waited and made the best of it! It wasn't the Smithsonian by any means but, we are in Ohio! After so many cold winter weekends you look for anything fun to do until spring!