Easter Weekend

On Saturday we brought the kids to an Easter egg hunt. They all had so much fun! Kenton even had a blast running around collecting eggs! Too bad most of them ended up being filled with Now&Laters, he was bummed when I wouldn't let him eat them!
The Easter Bunny made an appearance and there was a firetruck there to check out as well!

 

Kenton was more interested in wanting to eat the eggs (shells on) and kept trying to pick up the colored water to drink!

Happy Easter!!

They sure don't ever make it easy to get a decent picture!

The white clothes are never a good idea. We packed up a few new markers to use at church this morning (Mom's big 'ol dumb idea) so that got all over their clothes, along with some of their lunch! At least they looked nice for a few minutes!

I had to work in the kitchen today so poor Corey got stuck with 3 sugar high kids throughout church. Poor guy :P

(P.S. - A Happy Birthday to me, I am a quarter of a century old today... :) )

the snow is melting!!!

When his brother and sister go outside to play and he's stuck inside with Mom he loves to watch from the windows and bang away to get their attention.

Mom actually wants to spend time outside the past few days and he's loving it! He might be a stinker this summer though, as soon as we go out he loves to head straight for the road!

We are seriously loving this weather though! The snow has been melting like crazy! Can't wait to see it all go!

He finally just fell asleep after getting home from church tonight after 9, he did not want to go to bed! Lil stinker kept hollering until I brought him down to play/snuggle for a while. After Kael was sleeping I brought him back up and he just wanted to stand up in his crib and yell at Kael. All is quiet finally!

Happy and Blessed Easter weekend!

Kael was taking a time out in my bedroom, supposed to be laying on my bed and calming down. Kenton wandered into the room and was playing around with him. After he walks out Kael yells after him, "Kenton! Come back! I thought we had something special!!"

And last night after I tucked Kael in bed and sang 'Jesus Loves Me' he told me he had a song that we should sing at church, "Heavenly Father, I will drink my milk...! Don't you think so Mom!?"

Mmmhmm...

Haha!

Jason Aldean

Corey got me tickets to a Jason Aldean concert for my birthday. It was on Friday night down in Duluth, we had so. much. fun! We got some dinner at Texas Roadhouse (yum!) and the hubby embarrassed me by telling them it was my Birthday, so, lucky me got to sit in a big 'ol saddle just to score one scoop of ice cream with some sprinkles on it. Ha!

Thomas Rhett opened first with only a few songs.

Jake Owens came out and sang for over an hour, he was great! We were super impressed! 

He loves getting his picture taken...

Ah! Then Jason Aldean. He is amazing in concert! I had never been to a concert before and maybe expected him to sound quite different, but he was great!

 

And for the 4 year old I made sure to get a video of his favorite song!

If anyone knows how to upload a big video file directly onto here(??) Blogger will not let me load up any video from my camera, so I set up a YouTube account so I could post this...!

good morning, sunshine

I absolutely love that Kael is learning to write! (check out the chalkboard behind Kenton) He knows most of his letters and asks me how to spell things. Every new step with kids is exciting but makes me wonder where does the time go!? I can't believe he turns 5 and is going to be in Kindergarten next year! 

We pulled him out of preschool for the last session because it was SUCH a fight to get him to get up and get dressed in the mornings. (Not a morning person like his mom!)  He was always telling he didn't want to go. So one morning while he sat in the corner in his pjs I told him if he wasn't going to get ready to go we were done. He was happy he got his way that day but when Thursday came around and he actually wanted to go to school, he threw a fit. I feel a bit of relief that I don't have to rush in and out of the house anymore, it would have been easier if I didn't have to bundle up 3 kids!

There's just something about this that strikes me as funny. For the past week or so he has been drinking his milk out of his cereal bowl and it makes me giggle every time. 

I. love. him!

"Take a picture of me, too!" 

And the 4 year old tells me, "Don't take my picture! I'm eating my breakfast!"

gone fishing?

After their fishing trip was cancelled while we were in Florida these guys decided to have some fun with the mounted fish that were hung in the rental house...

Ha! And...they each wanted their own solo shot!

back to reality...

It's been a busy few weeks! And I feel well traveled! I spent some time in Florida, Detroit and everywhere inbetween...a few hours in Minneapolis, New York, and even saw Chicago. Wow. I am ready to stay home for a while.

We had fun while Jessica and Justin were here! Lot's of visiting and a few late night Rook games, I haven't played that game in years, SO fun!

We make our guests eat at the kids picnic table...haha!!

We made it Florida for a few days of sunshine! The temps were around the mid 60s which was perfect since we didn't have time to spend at the beach. The wedding was in St. Augustine, it was a gorgeous gorgeous town and the wedding was absolutely beautiful!!

 Mr. & Mrs. Johnson

 

 Mini golf!

 

...we left a little surprise for the newlyweds ;)

We got home from Florida on Sunday night and pulled in the drive about 5 minutes before my brothers Brandon and Matt, who were coming from North Dakota. We got up at 4 Monday morning and headed to Michigan.The kids were already there, they went back with Jessica and Justin when we headed to Florida. Corey had to stay home to work so we missed him!

I'm not sure what was going on with my camera in these next 6 or so pictures, but here is a few pictures from home...

 I had sick kids the entire week we were at my Mom and Dad's! I could probably count on one hand the amount of times they have ever been sick at home. It seems anytime we head out of town is when they end up sick. It was the stomach flu and poor Kenton started puking on Monday night right after I got into town, Audrina got it a few days later and then Kael was up all night sick the night before we had to leave. Needless to say it was a LONG (14 hour) drive home with the kids still not feeling 100% and I was going on no sleep. It was nice to come home on Saturday so we were able spend the day with Corey on Sunday. He hadn't seen the kids in over a week.

More Rook!

"Mommy, where am I...!?"
...trying to stay entertained on the drive home. I have to say they were all pretty good for the drive! Especially since they weren't feeling well.

The Chicago skyline. We had stop and go traffic for quite a while through here. Which is expected but frustrating with kids wanting to go! We normally head through the U.P. but weather looked horrible so we opted for the Chicago drive and had dry roads the entire way.

So back to the grind over here! Hopefully a healthy household and looking forward to Spring. We are more than sick of snow!