Happy Easter - April 5, 2015

Sunday - April 5th

It's Easter!  The kids had a fun Easter morning.  They woke up around 7:00am.  They were excited to get downstairs and find Easter eggs and their Easter baskets.  Alissa found hers first.  Her basket was hiding in the washing machine.  She walked straight to the laundry room first thing.  I was like, "What the what?"  She said that when she first looked, she didn't see anything and was going to go search somewhere else, but when I made a comment, she knew she had to be in the right place, so she searched a little more and managed to find it.

 Brinley found hers next. Her and Parker were having a hard time, so they wanted to play hot and cold while they found it.  Brinley's was in the oven.

 And Parker's was in the closet with the water heater.

 The first thing Parker noticed was that he got some water balloons.  He was so excited about that.

 They were all so excited to see what they got, then search for their eggs.  I didn't let them find all of the eggs, so they could have another Easter egg hunt with Benji.

 Parker and Brinley were excited to fill up some water balloons.  Luckily, it was a really nice day outside.

 When Benji got here, the kids were excited to help him do the Easter Egg hunt.  they were also, confused.  The plan was that they would all do the Easter egg hunt when Benji got here.  They were confused and thought the Easter egg hunt was only for Benji.  So, they helped him and went through the house and gave every egg they found to Benji.  He had a bucket that was overflowing.  The kids were excited for him, but I could see that they were feeling a little jealous that he got so many and they hardly had any.  I explained to them, the mistake they had made.  When Andrea saw how much candy he had, she insisted that he share with the other kids.  So, Parker grabbed his bucket and they put half of the eggs in there.  So, it all worked out.  Benji was really cute looking for the eggs.  He is a cute kid.

 After hunting for eggs, Brinley, Parker, and Benji went outside to blow bubbles.  Benji thought it was so fun.  He loved the bubbles.  It made him laugh a lot.

 We decided to go play at the Bothwell park for a little while.  Parker and Brinley were excited to show Benji all the fun things on the playground.  Roger, Dan, Alissa, and I all walked over to play basketball for a little bit.  we played a really long game of 7 on the line.  Roger won.  After that, we played one game of lightening, then we went back over to the playground to watch the kids play.

 Brinley found the Kool-aid packets and water bottles in the back of the truck.  So, she got them out and was excited to fix herself a drink.  The boys walked over to the bowery and noticed that there is a vending machine.  

 Dan gave Parker a dollar, so he could try and get a treat.  Something was wrong with the machine.  Parker tried for a long time but it wouldn't take his dollar.

 The girls came over and took turns trying also.

 The boys got bored and headed over to the baseball field, while the girls stayed and kept trying.

 Finally, it took their dollar and they were able to get a candy bar!

 While the girls were still trying, Roger and Dan told us about the way they tricked the vending machine when they were in school and they got it to give them lots of candy for free.  Later, when we were getting ready to leave, a couple of boys came to the park and tried to get some candy.  They vending machine wasn't so stingy with them.  It took their dollar, gave them candy, then gave them their dollar back.  They were excited and were trying to get as much candy as they could.  I thought it was ironic, that Roger had just been telling us how they tricked the vending machine and took more than they should and as we walked past those boys who were taking advantage of the broken machine and getting as much candy as they could, Roger stopped to remind them that what they were doing is dishonest and maybe they should stop.  I'm glad Roger said something, I just thought it was ironic, that's all.  The boys agreed that they should stop, so they took what they had gotten and left.

Parker thought it was fun to run the bases kicking up as much dirt as he could.

 Benji was excited to play.  When everybody came over and got started playing, Benji felt left out.  He stopped what he was doing and stood there with his head down, making the cutest little pouty face I have ever seen.  It was so cute!  I didn't get to take a picture of him making the face.  I wasn't fast enough.  When we saw his face, Dan made sure he was included and he felt happy again.  We had a lot of fun playing baseball.  We started out using the white ball.  It wasn't heavy and you couldn't throw it very far.  I thought it made the game kind of funny.  the ball never went the way you would have expected it to go.  I found myself laughing a lot at how funny it was.  It was annoying for them to play with, so they switched to a different ball and the game was more fun for everyone.

 After we all tired of playing baseball, we went back over to the playground for a while.  We really like this playground.  They have a lot of fun playground equipment.

 Alissa was being funny.  she found a dead Box Elder Bug.  She drew a head stone for it and wrote RIP.  Then she drew a circle around it.  She wrote, "Dead Box Elder bug" and drew an arrow pointing for it.  This is her sad face as she is pretending to mourn over the dead bug.  There were a ton of Box Elder bugs at the park.  They were a little annoying, but we got used to them and they were easy to ignore.

We came home from the park and ate a late lunch.  We had a ton of food left over from yesterday, so we enjoyed that.  We relaxed and watched tv for a little bit, then the Sorensons headed home.  We had a really nice day.

Easter Fun - April 4, 2015

Saturday - April 4th

Roger's friend, Dan Sorenson and his little family came to spend Easter with us.  They didn't get here until close 5:00pm.  While we waited we made some candy melt suckers and decorated our Easter eggs.

 Parker ended up falling asleep before the chocolate was melted.  I tried to wake him up so he could help make them, but he didn't want to get up.

 Parker woke up in time to enjoy the finished products.  Roger was playing World of War Craft while we were making the suckers.  When we finished, Alissa sat down next to roger, so he could teach her a little more about the game.  She's played it before, but it's been a long time since she has played.  She needed a refresher course.

 Every year, it seems like the kids are so frustrated because I didn't make enough eggs for them to decorate.  So, this year, I made a lot.  I bought these super cool egg holders with paint to make it easier.  Here's Brinley's first egg.

 The kids had fun decorating their eggs, but they tired of the decorating really fast.  The year I finally made them a lot of eggs, is the year, they poop out after only a few.  Crazy kids!

 After Dan and his family got here, the kids went outside to play, while Roger was out back making the barbecue.  Brinley and Parker had a lot of fun playing with Benji.

 The Sorensons brought lots of meat with them.  We ended up having a ton of food!  It was really yummy.  After eating and relaxing for a while, Roger and Dan went to see if they could get a room at the Hampton Inn for Dan and family.  Dan's wife, Andrea is pregnant.  They usually spend the night here, but she was worried about keeping us awake with her constant trips to the bathroom and with how much Benji wakes up in the night, so they thought they'd be more comfortable at a hotel.  Roger and Dan came back to let us know that they got a hotel room and they found out that the pool is open 24/7.  So, we all got our swimsuits on and went swimming at the hotel.  Roger took a picture of us in the truck while we were waiting for them to meet us at the pool.

 There were a lot of fun bouncy balls in the pool.  We had so much fun playing games with them.  We played monkey in the middle, dodge ball, and we just threw the balls at each other.  We just had a ton of fun.  We were laughing so hard.

We were really tired by the time we got home.  The kids went straight to bed afterward and they fell asleep really quickly.

Happy April Fools! - April 1, 2015

Wednesday - April 1st

I am loving April Fool's day more and more.  I just love to play dumb funny little pranks.  I think it is so funny.  So, before I went to bed last night, I prepared a few pranks for the kids to enjoy this morning.  Last night, as I was putting the kids to bed, Alissa asked me to wake her up first, so she could prank Brinley and Parker.  She wanted to go in their room with me and wake them up, telling them that we slept in and Brinley was going to miss the bus.  In the morning, she realized it was more believable if I did that.  so, I woke Brinley up and told her she was going to be late if she didn't hurry and get up.  She whined a little and said, "I'll just go late then."  and rolled back over to sleep some more.  She woke up when Alissa and I were laughing and telling her April fools.

We all got out of bed after that and came downstairs.  I said that I really wanted to think of a prank to do on their dad when he got home.  The kids helped me figure out what to do.  We decided to leave the lights out, hide, then wait until he came in and flipped on a light, and then we'd jump out and yell, "Surprise!"  He was definitely surprised.  He said he could tell we were down here, but it looked like the kids were just having a hard time waking up and they were laying under the blankets sleeping.  We thought we were pretty funny.  After that, we all went in the kitchen to get some breakfast.  Roger was the first person to look for a spoon.

 I hid the silverware in the dishwasher and put some cookies in their place.

There is some of our old silverware in the top drawer behind the cookies, so Roger just grabbed on of those.  Brinley is the one who started searching.  If it weren't for Alissa sitting at the table and glancing over when Brinley opened the dishwasher, Brinley would have been searching a lot longer.  The kids though it was funny.  I think part of what made it fun, was that I thought I was so funny, so I was laughing every time they found something and I said, "April Fools!"  I really didn't do that many pranks, but we had fun with the ones I did.

 I stuffed toilet paper in the bottoms of their shoes, so when they put them on, their shoes wouldn't fit.  I also filled their shoes with fake flowers.

 I colored our milk yellow, pink, and blue.  I also made Jello in cups with straws, so I could offer the kids some kool-aid and they would be surprised to find it is jello.  I did that one last year and they remembered.  They still thought it was fun.

 I took all of Brinley's stuff out of her backpack and turned it inside out.  I was going to do that to Alissa's also, but she had way too much stuff in hers.  So, Brinley was the only one who got to enjoy that prank.  She loved it though.  She, figured out a way to keep it inside out and wear it to school that way.

 Here's Brinley showing us the flowers from her shoes.

 I put card games in Parker's shoes.

 I also flipped a bunch of the pictures on the walls upside down.  It was late start, so Alissa had some time to relax and play the computer before school.  Since Alissa was doing that, Parker decided to play Minecraft.

 Here's Alissa, chillin' at the "puter" (that's what she called it when she was little).

 At lunch time, Parker and I decided to drink some milk.  I had the last of the yellow milk and some of the blue milk, so my milk was green.  Parker had blue milk, but he wanted to have strawberry milk.  When I added the strawberry syrup, Parker's milk turned purple.  Yummy, yummy!

I had a bunch of tricks that I wanted to play on Roger, but none of them worked out.  I bought a window cling that made it look like a rock smashed into your window and broke it.  But, I couldn't get it to stick on the truck window and it didn't look very realistic.  I was going to put a sign on the back of the truck that read - 

Honk, wave, and yell, "Hi Roger!"

He doesn't know this is on here.

Happy April Fool's Day!

I didn't get to do this prank because I realized that I didn't have any tape that was safe to use on the truck.  I was also going to move the truck and park it on the side of the building so it wouldn't be there when we walked outside to run our errands today.  That one didn't work, because I waited to long to do it.  I thought that I was supposed to wake Roger up at 2:00pm, but he woke himself up and was down here in the living room at 2:00pm.  I had planned to move the truck, then go wake him up, but since he woke himself up, I didn't have the truck moved in time.  It would have been funny, but oh well.  I'll try again next year.

We all had fun with April Fool's Day.  Anytime we did something weird or funny, we said, "April Fool's!"  It was fun.  Oh!  I almost forgot.  Alissa pranked Brinley before they went to bed.  She went in Brin's room and told her that, mom had forgot to tell us, but she got a letter from the school explaining that they are canceling spring break this year.  Brinley was pretty sad about that, but Alissa didn't let her be sad for too long before she told her "April Fool's!"

Another funny of the day:  A week or two ago, I started a water fight with Roger.  He warned me that it is not over.  So, while I was fixing his lunch for him to take to work, Alissa said something about a water fight and Roger getting me back.  As she was saying that, Roger came in the kitchen to get a drink.  I got panicky because I thought he heard what Alissa was saying and I thought he was going to throw his water on me.  He said, he hadn't been planning on it until I started panicking about it.  I grabbed my phone and showed him that I was putting my expensive phone in my pocket, so he should not throw water on me.  He managed to get the phone away from me and pour his water over my head.  Then he turned to fill his water up again.  I ran to stand beside his computer, hoping that would save me.  He ended up pushing me away from the computer and getting me again.  He got me really good.  The water fight didn't end there.  He followed me back in the kitchen.  I was laughing so hard, that I had to go to the bathroom.  He followed me in the bathroom and kept throwing water on me so I couldn't go.  I ended up getting soaked and he only had a few drops of water on him.

It was funny though.  We had fun and we laughed a lot today.