Beautiful Week

What a beautiful week it has been.  The sun has been shining all week!!  It still has been chilly, but at least we've gotten a little vitamin D!!  Friday and Saturday were the BEST days though by far!!!  Today it reached 70!!!  We have been very busy this week!!  Thursday we attempted to go to the zoo with Garrett's preschool but the weather said it was suppose to be 58 degrees....and it might have been but it was windy and kinda rainy here and there!!  Both of the kids were so cold!!!

This what a cool picture though we got that day!!  Garrett things the seal came because HE knocked on the glass!!

Look at what a big boy he is!!!  He has a school child face!!  It's not a toddle face anymore....but still very handsome in my opinion!!  

Friday was a MUCH nicer day, so we decided to go back Friday afternoon.  I had skills day at work, which started at 7am so one of my good friends, Kelly was so kind to take the kids at 6:30am so I could get there and get it done.  After I got back and picked up the kids we went home to take a quick nap and then met Kelly, her husband Mike and their precious baby daughter, Savannah at the zoo!!  AND IT WAS GORGEOUS!!!

I LOVE these pictures!!!  Garrett thinks this spray is a whale because we saw whale sprouts at Depot Bay a few years ago with my parents!!

Haylee and Savannah rode in the wagon a lot and Haylee loved feeding the "baby" cereal!!  She opened her mouth too!!!

Baby Savannah completely exhausted after a long afternoon at the zoo!!

Saturday Josh had to go to the school for a couple of hours and the kids and I went to an Easter Egg Hunt some people at our church put on!!  It was fantastic!!!  There were so many goodies, kids, and eggs!!!  My friend Amy and her three kids joined us as well!!!

After the Easter Egg Hunt, Garrett had a T-ball game which was as fun as usual!!  We probably needed to come home and take naps but I just couldn't bear to loose out on even an hour of sunshine, so we traded naps for the park!!!  I heard NO complaining from the kids!!

We stayed at the park for about an hour and then came home and colored Easter Eggs.... IN THE SUNSHINE OF COURSE!!!

What a fun weekend!!!  Unfortunately the forecast doesn't predict such weather for Easter Sunday!!  Tomorrow is suppose to be 55 degrees with light rain!!  Oh well!!  Sun, we enjoyed you while you lasted....see you in July.

Bunny Cupcakes

WOW!!  Three post in one day....look at me!!  :)

So here's how I did the Bunny Cupcakes....SUPER CUTE and again SO EASY!!!

1.) Make cupcakes and frost with white frosting

2.) OPTION (Sprinkle with coconut)....I did half with and half without...and to be honest the ones without were easier to make.

3.) Cut a LARGE marshmallow in half and dip the inside cut in sprinkles

4.) Use jelly beans for the eyes and nose

5.) Use little marshmallows for the cheeks!!

Silk Tie Dyed Eggs

So I know I put a link for these on the previous posting but I wanted to tell you how to make them so you can try it out!!!!  SO EASY AND FUN!!!

1.) Get 100% silk ties (I got several from Goodwill for $2.00 each)....the darker the better!!

2.) Cut the ties big enough to go around the egg...we put the eggs in the tie and bunched it up at the top like a gift basket

3.) Cut up an old white t-shirt the same size at the ties

4.) Take RAW eggs and wrap the ties tightly around the eggs

5.) Wrap the white shirt around the tie and egg (helps keeps the color in)

6.) Fill a pot up with water to cover the eggs with vinegar (I just poured some in the pot)

7.) Bring to a boil and boil for 20 minutes.

8.) Unwrap when cool enough to touch and look at your creation!!

Here's some pictures of Garrett and Haylee's best friend Noah!!

They are all watching Dora together.

Garrett and Noah kissing Haylee!!

Parties, Parties, and MORE Parties

Our lives are SO much fun right now!!  The kids LOVE playing with other kids and there are so many kids around here that we are having a BLAST!!  Our life has been filled with PARTIES lately and I love it (so do the kids because they get lots of sweets!!)

I offered my dear friend, Amy some help making her daughter's 6th birthday cake and she took me up on it!!  Instead of helping her though.....she turned it into a PARTY!!!  She baked about 15 little cakes and then cakes for her daughter's cake and showed about 25 women how EASY making cakes was!!  It was a blast and her daughter's cake turned out SUPER CUTE!!!

The birthday girl and her family!!!

This party was after the kids went to bed though and Garrett heard about it and did NOT think it was fair that I was going to a party without Daddy, Haylee and him, so we decided to throw Daddy a "Made-Up Daddy Day" party!!  Garrett wanted to wear his Sunday clothes (we did not get pictures because it was his Easter outfit) and Haylee had to wear a dress!!  They drew Daddy pictures and went and got him a present!!  Daddy was very surprised!!

Here's a RANDOM picture of Haylee dancing!!  Getting ready for Lindsey's wedding!!!  We are going to rock the dance floor!!!

Today I threw a Easter Party Play Date!!! 

We had lots of food and fun activities!!  We made little chicks out of paper, SILK TIE EASTER EGGS, RESURRECTION ROLLS, and did an Easter Egg hunt!!!  What a BLAST!!

The resurrection rolls are a really neat idea to do with kids.  You wrap Jesus (a marshmallow), in a blanket (the roll), put him in the oven tomb, and when they are all done Jesus has resurrected!! 

I also made these BUNNY BROWNIES for all the moms!!  It's a really neat gift idea and you can do it for any holiday!!

As Haylee is getting older, she is discovering she likes Garrett's things too!!!  They have started fighting and I'm NOT a fan!!  There is a lot of screaming at out house right now (we are currently working on that right now....but it's a working process) and a lot of tattle telling!!  I've started making them work things out on their own (AFTER they use their kind words with each other) and look.......

......they DO know how to compromise!!!

Haylee being a little mommy!!

All Kinds of Good Stuff

How cute are they?  I couldn't help it, this was after church today and they both looked so pretty in their Sunday clothes...and if you didn't know PURPLE is Garrett's favorite color (has been for a long time), but purple doesn't usually look good on him but this shirt is very handsome!!

Last Friday God decided to tease Oregon.  We had 64 degree weather and SUNSHINE!!  That's right, we got a little real life liquid vitamin D!!!  I was so sick with a bad cold, but I did not care....we were outside all day!!!  That morning we went to the park and had a picnic lunch with some friends!!  

Has you can tell these children are from Oregon because at this point it's about 58 degree and we are sporting sunglasses, a summer dress, short sleeves and of course a bottle of water because of the heat!!

After nap time we back out.  I was meeting a family up at Pittock Mansion to take some family portraits and I decided because the weather was so gorgeous I would take some of the kids as well.  Our friend Leni and her mom Chris decided to join us for the fresh air as well!!

What an AWESOME Friday...even if I didn't feel good!!

Saturday was a big day for Garrett!!!  TAKE ME OUT TO THE T-BALL GAME!!!  Garrett out his first T-ball game and it was about the cutest thing you have ever seen!!!

Garrett's team....the TIGERS!!

Garrett running in for his first "run"  (they don't have run's in t-ball.  All the kids get to bat on one team and then they switch....they go back and forth for an hour.  They do count outs which ALWAYS happens on first base.)

Garrett's Cheerleaders!!

Saturday night Josh and I had girls/guys night with our friends Aric and Kristin.  Our kids needed to go to bed on time with our busy day and church in the morning, so Josh went over to their house and did whatever boys do, and Kristin came over to our house and we had a girls night (which lasted WAY TOO long....we didn't end up going to bed until about 3am!!)  It was really fun though and didn't put any stress on the kids!! 

Josh and I made caramel corn for the night though and kids kept watching up make it.  They were so excited that we were making pop corn and then throughly disappointed they couldn't have any after it finished popping it.  It takes about an hour to make and they just kept coming over and watching....until Haylee finally couldn't take it anymore......

This is a girl who LOVES her popcorn!!!

Super Mom

After Haylee was born I didn't think I wanted anymore kids.  I had my boy and my girl and we were done.  Then after a few months....really after I forgot about the HORRIBLE pain, I thought that I might want one more.  Then we moved to Oregon and go to a church where several families have 4 or 5 or even 6 kids and it's so neat watching the families interact.  All the brothers and sisters, and grandchildren.  How awesome would that be!!!  The only thing is....can I handle 4 or 5 little ones?

On Wednesday I declared I CAN!!!  Some friends of ours had their baby six weeks early and baby Joshua has to stay in the hospital for a few weeks until he can start eating and gaining wait, but they have THREE little ones at home.  A kindergarten (I'm not sure how old she is), a four year old boy, and a two or three year old girl.  I offered to watch them (the two younger ones....the older one was at school) yesterday so they could go spend some quality time with Joshua in the hospital....the only thing is I HAD to go to the grocery store!!

We ate lunch, then I packed all four kids in the car (may I add that four car seats take up a lot of room), and we headed to WINCO (for anyone that doesn't know what WINCO is....well let me say it's worse that Wal-mart!! It's the cheapest place to shop around here but it's HUGE and the carts are horrible and you have to bag your own groceries (but you save a TON of money)!  I got one of those kids carts....the one that makes your cart extra long.  I put the two little girls in the seats and then the boys stood at their feet and held on.  We made it through in an HOUR!!  A WHOLE WEEK OF FOOD THROUGH WINCO IN AN HOUR!!!  

We got home, I put a movie on for the older ones, put the littles ones down for a nap, put dinner on the stove, and had all the groceries unpacked in 30 minutes!!!  Can you say SUPER WOMEN?!?!

The kids had such a good time playing together!!

Haylee needed her picture taken too!! 

Playing Catch Up

Here are some of the photos from early this week!!

Tricycle Diaper Cake I made for a baby shower!!

On Friday we took a trip to Woodburn, OR where they grow the tulips!!  They aren't in full bloom until the middle of April, but Gene and Jody won't be here then, so we decided to go ahead and go!!  They got the idea!!