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).

Halloween 2010

We were able to attend our Harvest Festival at Church again this year which is always a lot of fun, but also a little chaotic (at least to me!).  The kids had a blast and were able to dress up in their Mickey and Minnie Mouse costumes that I had made for them.  I decided next year I need to cut down on the "details" of the costumes.  In my head I wanted every thing perfect, but do you think the kids agreed with me?  No!  Neither of them really wanted a black nose, nor did they want to wear their white gloves, and the ears weren't always a hit either!  Oh well, in my opinion they were still cute!  Here are some pictures from the Harvest Festival.

My only picture of them together.

No cooperating this year.

No pictures mom!  Let's go have fun!

Love this picture of her!

I can't remember what was going on that she gave that reaction...probably Dad making a funny face!

One of Denver's favorites, the slide!

 And the other favorite...the jumping house!

Mmmm...candy!

Kenna loved the jumping house too!

Frosting cookies may have been 1 of the top highlights for Kenna!

TIRED!

 The slide is really hard to get up so the youth help the little kids get up.  Denver thought they were pretty funny!

Then on Halloween we went "home" for some light trick or treating.  We started at my parents house where they got dressed ( and Evan and my dad were able to get their guns sighted in for deer hunting the following weekend).  Then we headed to town to see Great Grandma Waltner who happened to be in the hospital at the time, then to Great Aunt Carolyn and Uncle Loren's house, then to Great Grandpa Melvin's house who then took us out for supper, chislic, a favorite in our house!  After we were done eating supper we went to Evan's parent's house where the kids were able to show off their costumes, play, and wind down a bit (if that's even possible) before changing into jammies and heading home.  Here are some pictures from our trick or treating adventure.

Trying so hard to be good and take a picture for Mommy, but soooooo hard!

In the parking lot to see Great Grandma!

Playing on Great Grandma's walker.

Having a chat with Great Grandma!

At Great Aunt Carolyn's

Trying on scary masks of Drew's!

Poor Kenna was scared when Daddy put them on!

Great Grandpa Melvin!

Cash and Candy...what could be better! :)

Grandma Verni and Kenna

Auntie Em

Playing with Grandpa and Grandma

Is it going to come out?

Sure enough, there's the cat!

Silly Grandpa David!

Denver LOVES to play farm with Daddy's old farm set!