And now on to Easter...

So we had the annual Easter egg hunt at the park, which Jake was able to join in the final minutes of his trip here!

It was rainy but the kids still had a great time and found plenty of eggs!

Then on to the Easter basket hunting! As usual the Easter Bunny was a little easier on Araleigh, as she found her basket first.

A chocolate bunny!!! Yay!

Traeden found his next, which leads us to...

Jaxon's annual grouchy "I'm never going to find it!" face!!!

But what do you know, there it was! Not so "impossible" after all!

Spring Break

This year instead of going away for spring break we had a stay-cation, and the boys were very excited to have their cousin Jake come stay with us for the week! They have really missed him and it was so much fun to get these boys together again! They really had a blast! They had fun taking him to all their favorite places - dinner at Cici's, milkshakes at Steak n Shake, and of course a day in the city!

They loved showing him their favorite spot on the river, and the building Dave works in. They were excited that the river was still a little green from St. Patricks Day. Next we had to hit the Lego store, of course! They were very excited to show him all of their favorite giant Lego statues.

Then we headed over to the "bean" at Millenium Park, one of the boys favorite Chicago sites!

They had to show Jake what to do... He thought it was pretty funny.:)

And of course from there we had to head over to the "spitting fountains." Unfortunately the water was still turned off.

They still had a great time playing tag and running around!

And I just had to throw this pic in because its funny. And she's super cute!

Hey I'm back! So yes, it's been a rather long hiatus from blogging but here I am playing catch up as usual! So way back in March we took a ski/snowboard trip and I need to document! When we arrived there was very little snow, but the day we hit the slopes there was 18 inches of fresh snow! It was beautiful, we even got hot and had to remove layers. It was perfect!

Traeden did great snowboarding last year, but this year he decided to go back to skiing, since he is faster at it. All day he was challenging Dave or his grandmas to race him down the mountain! The kid is fast! It was a lot of fun to watch him zoom past me! (since I spent most of the day on my butt)

Jax decided to stick with snowboarding, and he did great! He is mad that we only do this once a year, because he wants to be good like his uncles! Hopefully next season we'll be able to go more than once! But he did great!

I thought this was a great shot of Dave. He is an amazing skiier!

Except for when he tries to show off by making me think he's going to crash into me, and then really biffs it :)