Circus Fun and Camping

April 27th we had a full day as we headed to the circus and once it was over we headed to Yankton for our first camping trip of the year.  Once again the kids enjoyed the circus and Great Grandpa Melvin and Grama Verni came along for the event.  Makenna got a lot more out of the circus this year and was excited to see the tigers as Denver was as he had taught her how to go hunting for tigers!

Look the tigers!!

Pretty sure he's "hunting" the tigers here.

When we got to the lake it was beautiful out.  We unpacked, the boys fished a little, made supper, and then we took the boat out for a ride.  Little did we know at that time it would be the only time we take the boat out that weekend as the wind came up the next day and made camping quite miserable.  Friday morning we woke up to a strong, miserable wind so we decided to take the kids to the aqaurium and hatchery and ran to town to do some things.  Papa Rodney and Grama Verni came to the lake Friday evening and missed all the nice weather.  We did some geocaching together, spent time playing & visiting in the cabin, and due to the wind we even ate one meal out!

The kids enjoying the fire before their bed time.

Daddy caught a nice walleye!

Checking out the 1 day old walleyes at the hatchery.

Feeding the rainbow trout.

My boys doing what they like best, fishing!

Easter 2011

In effort to once again try to get up to date on the blog (starting to think I'm never going to achieve that) this will be one big post of pre-Easter and Easter.  On Evan's birthday (April 23rd), our Church had their Easter event for the kids.  Unfortunately, Evan had to work, but I was able to talk Grandma Kim into coming along with me and helping the kids so they could still go and have fun and help me keep my sanity in the process! :)

Filling eggs with different symbols of the Easter story.

Ready for the Easter egg hunt....or should I call it the mad dash!

Petting the baby lamb.

Denver and his friend Samuel.

Saturday night before bed we finally made time to dye eggs.  Due to some miscommunication I did this with the 2 kids by myself.  I'm sure if some one had this on video it would be quite hilarious.  Kenna kept thinking she needed to crack the eggs which led to some quick action on my part several times....there were several eggs that we could not dye.  Both kids had a blast and wanted to do it all by themselves.

After a lot of contemplating I decided to buy the dye that you use a bag for as I thought that might make less mess....at least we couldn't have a spill of dye all over the place, right?!

After I got the kids cleaned up and Kenna to bed, Evan joined Denver and I as we finished dying the rest of the eggs.

 Our finished product.

Easter morning the kids got Easter baskets.  I wish I had the camcorder going, they both were so excited.

Denver got a baseball glove (for the "right" hand...for the left...we have a lefty or so it seems and of course we had bought him a right handed glove first) and ball and Kenna got her first fishing pole (Princess of course!)

We had lunch at Grama Verni and Papa Rodney's where we shared our Easter eggs that we dyed.

I peeled it all by myself Mom!

Yum!

Peeling another with Great Grandma Waltner.

Kenna playing

My babies all dressed up!

Playing with bubble-foam (can't remember the name for it, but a "toy" that Kenna won at our Church Easter event that is like bubbles, but instead of bubbles makes foam).