Parker turned 4!

Well, Parker turned 4 this past weekend (the 30th).  It was a fun, busy weekend and even though it was fun, I'm glad it's over.  We started off with a "friend" party on Friday night.  We just invited a couple kids and Parker's cousins.  It was a Pirate Party, so Jeremy got into character and dressed up and took them on a treasure hunt. Jeremy made a map and we had a neat little treasure box that we filled up with candy, jewels, and gold.  We ate hot dogs and cake and opened presents and played with Parker's new toys.  It was a really fun night for the kids. 

Group picture!

His pirate cake that I made him.

The kids yelling "ahoy",or something like that, during their treasure hunt.

Checking out the treasure with Captain Jeremy

Presents!

Time to blow out his 4 candles!

On Saturday, his birthday, we took him to Chuch E. Cheese.  Mistake?  Maybe.  It was very busy, but not so busy we couldn't have fun. We invited Jer's family to come with us and celebrate.  We ordered pizza, opened a few presents and played!  He got lots of pirate things from Grandma and Grandpa and a bike, baseball things, and a few other small presents from us.  He also got a gift card to Toys R Us from Grandma Linda. I think he was happy!

Mmmm...pizza!

So excited!

Happy to have won the "jackpot" and got over 100 tickets! 

Collin loves to drive

I think Parker really had fun! 

Checking out his new bike

New T-ball set that broke within 15 minutes! 

Easter

Easter was wonderful, as usual.  We dyed eggs, did a couple egg hunts, went to church, and had a super good ham dinner at Jeremy's parent's house.  It was a great week and Easter day!  Here's A LOT of pictures to recap the week! :)

Coloring Easter Eggs:





Jeremy needed a little siesta after work while we colored eggs :)

Maple Hills Egg Hunt on Saturday:

Easter Sunday before church (Collin wouldn't wake up to be in the picture!):

Easter afternoon at Grandpa and Grandma Klein's house, and egg hunt in their basement!:

Happy Easter!!!

Livin' On The "Farm"

Some might say we have a little farm going on in our backyard...I'd say so as well. Since we've moved into our house, which we've lived in for three years, we've accumulated 6 chickens, and 2 rabbits, and we already had 2 cats. Unfortunately,we just have one cat now. One of ours had an accident and is no longer with us. But, I sure do feel like we have a farm going on here! I get to take trips to the local farming store and buy things like hay, chicken feed, rabbit pellets...all that fun stuff. It actually is pretty fun. The bonus of the chickens is, of course, the fresh eggs. The rabbits are fun for the kids (and me!). And, our kitty, Shadow, is a great cat that we've had since Sam was a year old. She's family.

We just recently got some fuzzy yellow chicks, which is what inspired me to do this post. I just had to show off all our critters! 

We have our cat, Shadow...

And, our bunnies, Ella and Oreo...

And, finally our four big, black chickens

Jeremy had fun with the eggs one day...

And, this is what my van looks like after going to get hay for the rabbits and chickens...Normally Jer gets it in the truck!

The joys of animals!

HELP!

My latest post (Collin Turned 2!) looks horrible. The spacing is terrible! Blogger is acting up on me and I don't know why. Everytime I got the spacing just right, I'd post it and it would look totally different than what I had done! OR, when I tried to fix it, it wouldn't even do what I wanted. SOOOO frustrating! So, that's the story. If you have an idea of what I'm doing wrong, please, please let me know...My Spring Break post isn't right either :(

Collin Turned 2!

We brought Collin home the night before Easter, two years ago, which is funny because I just realized that I'm posting about his 2nd birthday the night before Easter. Anyways...we came home around 8:00 pm and we had to get Easter baskets ready and settle in and get ready for Easter Day. It was an exhausting night!

The next two pictures are the morning (at the hospital) and night (at home) of that day...

 

Now, here's our "baby" boy all big now! Where has the time gone?! Collin turned 2 on April 10th. We had a truck themed party with Jeremy's family. We BBQ'd, opened presents, and the kids ran around like crazy. Fun night!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He just blew out the candles and dug into the rock candies already.

What a great day! We love you Collin!!!

Spring Break!

We had spring break the first week of April... We didn't do anything exciting, but we did take one day out of the week to play! Jeremy took the day off and we woke up bright and early (to snow!) and headed to Denny's for breakfast, which was super yummy. Then we finally decided to go to the Science Center in Seattle. Originally, we wanted to go the Family Fun Center, but since we woke up to snow we thought it would be warmer to go to Seattle. The day went great. The kids had fun. Other than the fact that the place was packed because of the Star Wars exhibit, it went pretty smoothly. We came home after our Seattle outing and took late naps then got up to head back out. We went to Southcenter and did some shopping and ate dinner at The Old Spaghetti Factory. One of my FAVORITES!!! I love it. Even though we didn't go to some warm vacation spot, it was a great day to spend with the family!