Buried treasure

Today I turned on my cellphone, which I haven't used in a year, and noticed that there are a bunch of pictures on it from around the time Isaac was born:

Uhhh, I dunno

Not sure why I haven't been blogging. Part of it is the fact that there's no job news to share and it's a frustrating time of year. Sigh.

Another reason is that every time I sit down at the computer Isaac ends up trashing the house. That boy is crazy. I'd like to attach a camera to his head so you could see the world from his level. He wanders into the kitchen several times a day and gets food out of the cupboard (stupid rotating cupboard that I can't lock, but it's the only decent place to put food) then he takes that food and puts it random places in the house. Then he wanders into the bathroom and gets his favorite hairbrush and puts that somewhere random. He's always so busy. I can't clean up fast enough!

Last week at church I had several people comment that they can't believe how big Isaac is and that he's not a baby anymore! He is such a toddler now - he's learning how to communicate, he has opinions about everything, he's learning how to run and he loves to play! Last week we got him an early birthday present.



Aldi had these for a good price and I thought the kids would all enjoy it. I wanted to get it now since the weather has been so nice and they are outside so often. I put water and sand in it the first time we used it, but it immediately became mud, so I emptied out the water and just put sand. When it gets hot I'll put water in both sides.

This afternoon we made grahmn cracker houses. I wanted to get rid of some frosting that I had in the fridge and we have way too much Easter candy, so we did these. The kids had a blast.






I threw away the leftover candy, so now we just have a few Peeps around here somewhere, and a bunch of Valentine's Day candy still - ugh!

If I don't blog again for a while it's just because I'm waiting for some news to share. When we know where we are going (or staying) we'll let ya know!

Extra Lucky Charms

At our primary activity yesterday the primary president had a bunch of different items for the kids to make their own "trail-mix". One of these items was a container of marshmallows - ya know, the type found in Lucky Charms? I was like "uh, did you pick these all out??" She told me she got them from an Amish bulk food store in Iowa and someone else chimed in that you could also get them at the bulk food store right outside of Kirksville. I had passed this store a few times and always wanted to stop but never had, so on our way home from Nauvoo we stopped by. We found a lot of yummy stuff! But the best thing of all was this bag of tasty marshmallows!


I've had about three bowls of cereal today with extra marshmallows! (Of course, we don't buy Lucky Charms, I think ours are called Marshmallow Stars or something)

How am I ever going to lose weight? Maybe I'll add some to my Fiber One :)

Easter, Conference and Spring

Saturday night we colored eggs. Roy did some abstract ones. Blaise put happy faces on all of his. Isaac was mad that he couldn't help.





Easter morning I let Roy sleep in (since we didn't have 9am church!) but I let the kids have their baskets when they woke up and then we did a egg hunt later in the day.

(Filled with mostly clearanced items from last Easter!)

Watching General Conference and playing tootsie roll BINGO!
While we were watching conference, Isaac was trashing the playroom.

Emptying their eggs. I didn't post the video of them doing the egg hunt because there were too many shots of my fat behind.

Tuesday was a lovely spring day. I just love this picture of the kids!


A chalky footprint
From a happy baby (who is really more like a toddler!) Here's a video that shows how quickly he can get around!

10 minutes of waiting, 1 minute of hunting

The city does an annual Easter egg hunt and they have it on Truman's campus. They divide the groups up ages 1-3, 4-5, 6,7,8 and maybe 9,10 - not sure about that one. Anyway, you have to get there fairly early to get a good parking spot and find a spot on the quad. Roy took Rae and the camera to her area and I stayed with the boys in their area. It's tough to keep a huge crowd of kids waiting on the edge of the grass! A siren goes off and it's a rush to get as many eggs as you can. Blaise took a while to get into it, but there were plenty of eggs and lots of other kids who didn't really know what they were doing. Isaac was happy to hold two eggs. All of the eggs had tootsie rolls - so that was kinda lame, but the kids love them. It was a gorgeous day on Saturday! There were some beautiful daffidols growing all over campus. You can see some in the first picture.

Gotta get this tip out there!

When you are coloring eggs this year, give your kid a wire whisk to put their egg in. Then dip the whisk into the dye! No more cracked eggs! Genius huh? I saw this idea in Family Fun. Also, make sure you pick up some some Paas Color Snaps! We used them last year and loved them! I got a bunch on clearance last year after Easter and I am excited to have plenty to go around this year.

I'm gonna boil up 2 dozen eggs, because Roy and I enjoy coloring them as much as the kids do! We probably won't be able to eat them all but it's cheap entertainment!