Easter

I know....Easter was awhile ago but I am way behind so we have a lot to "blog" about!!!

EASTER
We had a great easter this year. On Saturday morning, we went to our neighbors house for a huge easter egg hunt/breakfast. Thanks Heather for working so hard...It was a bit cold, but nobody seemed to care and the kids had a blast. Emery didn't really get the idea, but it was fun to watch her try to figure it out.

That night we decorated easter eggs. It always sounds like a good idea, but turns out to be just a big disaster. Oh well..It's all about the memories, right? That's what I keep telling myself anyways...

Cole would rather eat the eggs than decorate them.

This is as good as we got on Easter pictures. I'm not sure why I even try but it does make for some good laughs.

The boys have been begging and begging for a pet. Since neither Ryan nor I like animals, the Easter bunny decided that fish would be our family pet. So Easter morning the boys came down to 4 pet fish. Apparently our family isn't the "pet" kind of family because all of the fish have already died. At least we tried huh?

Happy 1st birthday princess....

WE MADE IT...to a year. Actually I should say Emery made it to a year. There have been many times that I wondered if she was going to make it (because of the boys of course), but she made it and we are even more excited to have her here now then the day she was born...It just keeps gettin' better. We love our little poopsie!!

We were going to have a princess theme, but couldn't find a princess cake pan so we settled on what they had...a butterfly and yes I made it so don't look to closely at it. After I got done making it, I realized the frosting wasn't going to be as fun as it should be for a 1 year old so we sent white grandpa to the store to get a cupcake that she could enjoy eating and we could enjoy watching. When he came home he had balloons for her. Who knew that balloons were soo exciting. Sorry about the sideways video, again... Thank you black and white grandma and grandpa for coming to Emery's birthday party. We love you!!!

The boys thought it was hilarious when she shoved her face into the cupcake

YUMMY!!!

White grandma and grandpa gave her this baby and stroller. She loves to walk her baby around the house.

Emery giving the baby a kiss.

Black grandma and grandpa gave her this cute cabbage patch doll. Funny story about that...Everyone always tells me that Emery looks like a cabbage patch doll. I totally agree and have been looking for the exact replica of her. I know it's out there somewhere. My mom found this one with light brown hair and blue eyes. I wanted dark brown hair and blue eyes, but we we haven't found it yet, so the beautician in her decided that she would just dye the hair brown. Well after a full day of trying, she found out that plastic hair doesn't dye quite as easily as real hair. Oh well, Emery didn't care if the doll had dark brown, light brown or any hair, but thanks for trying anyways mom. Love you!!! Ü

Cabin fun

Over President's Day weekend, we met Britney's family and my parents up at their cabin in Island Park. It has been a while since we have been up there and I forgot how fun, beautiful and COLD it is. It was so fun to see the cousins play just as we did as kids.....so many memories. It is my kind of vacation....eat, relax, play and eat some more. Noah couldn't get enough of the snow machines. He was pretty sure that he could drive it by himself but a 5 year old on a fast machine with lots of trees didn't seem like a good idea so we let him "drive" us around. He added a snow machine to his list of must haves...after a boat, motorcycle and a truck of course.

Noah giving grampa a ride...

It was Kannon's 2nd birthday so we had cupcakes to celebrate.

Our fam..
Let me out of here!!!!
So we dared Mckeyan to jump off the deck in his underwear....and he DID it. Except I don't think he thought about having to run back up to the cabin afterwards. It was really funny to watch.

Rhyan and Brinley

Coley bear

Kannon, Cole, Noah, McKeyan, Rhyan

Noah jumping off the deck

Rhyan and Crew

Noah and Cole

Grandpa's signature picture. Emery sure loves her papa.

4 kids on 1 bed. Looks comfy doesn't it?

From boys to men....kindof

Cole got some shaving cream and a fake razor for his birthday, so shaving has become part of our morning routine. It has been so funny watching the boys shave. Cole gets it all over his face but Noah is very good. He is very serious about it and has to be perfect, if you can believe that.....

Here comes trouble.....

I walked around the corner the other day to find Emery having a blast with this toilet paper. She is so much fun but I have a feeling she isn't going to be as sweet as she looks. I was hoping for ONE child that wouldn't be so busy, but I don't think it is going to happen. It's just not in our genes. BUT, she is so much fun and a great baby so I am not going to complain. We love her here at our house.

Happy birthday Cole-bear!!

It was Cole's birthday this week. I can't believe he is 4 years old. He wanted to have a party so we invited a few of his friends and went to Jungle Jim's. They had so much fun and it was fun to sit and watch 5 boys run from ride to ride, giggling and laughing for 2 hours. They had pizza, ice cream and cupcakes. It seems like yesterday that all these handsome boys were little babies. What great kids.

Since Noah and dad weren't able to go to his birthday party, we had a little party of our own at home. Cole informed me all day that he didn't actually turn 4 until he blew out candles. So we ran to Harmon's and he picked out a cake. We went to Red Robin (his choice) and came home to open presents and blow out candles so he could be 4, finally!!

Thanks "white" grandma

Thanks "black" grandma

Ryan and I finally broke down and got Cole a Nintendo DS for his very own. I was tired of he and Noah fighting over Noah's. They have had a blast racing each other..

Noah got he and Cole Bronco's jerseys.

At times I wonder why this little guy is how he is, but I would never trade him or his one of a kind personality for the world. We love you bear!!!!