Other half of April

Every year Todd's grandparents have an Easter egg hunt at their house. Here are the kids in their backyard:

Then they decorated Easter cookies:

In Abbie's Easter basket, she got an "Alice in wonderland" theme: A book, Queen of Hearts Tarts, and Tea Party Lemonade. (I printed out pictures and glued them on the packages):

Katherine got a bunny theme: carrot seeds, jelly beans in a rabbit jar, a real rabbit, Rabbit lemonade and a Peter Rabbit puzzle in a box (that she loves):

Alex and Nathan got: seeds, a popcorn bowl, jelly beans in a rabbit jar, chocolate milk (covered in an Easter picture that I glued on as well), a how to decorate cool sugar cookies book (for fun or for a business for them), magic card tricks, and a recipe binder to write down the recipes they learn with their daddy:

Todd made Easter bread bunnies:

Here are my beautiful and handsome kids ready for Easter Sunday:

For our homeschool group, I did an "author's guild" once a month for boy's club. The kids would write something on a theme I would give them, and they would come and turn it in at the activity that would have to do with that theme. This month it was "miniature theme" and I read "The Borrowers" with the boys and then they wrote about if they were little. The kids loved that book, and they are now convinced that Borrowers are real, and want to go in the crawl space with flashlights to look for them. For the activity, we met at the park and ate a miniature meal: pie, soda, banana, potato and hot dog (lil smokies in a bun Todd made) on little plates:

Easter chicks and a bunny

First, here is our new coop and run.  Cute, huh?? The front door opens, and that side door is for collecting eggs. We had someone make it for us. It even has window boxes and a light inside:

We got an incubator and hatched chicks for Easter. They hatched 2 days before Easter. We all had a GREAT time! Some of the chicks hatched in our hands. We just went in the bathroom, shut the door and turned on the shower to keep it hot and moist. The kids LOVED the chicks (especially Nathan and Katherine).

Out of 23 eggs, 15 hatched, and 11 lived, but one dissapeared (I think a hawk got it- and I think it was a hen-dang it!), so we have 10 chickens, 5 I think are hens and 5 I think are roosters. We can have 6 hens, so we went and bought 2 hens just a little younger than our chicks, in case one dies. We are planning on eating the roosters, but we'll see if that actually happens, especially with "Fluffy".

Here's what the chicks look like today, at 9 1/2 weeks:

This one is "Fluffy". He was the first one born and my favorite. He just happened to sadly turn out to be a rooster:(.

Also, a picture of the bunny Katherine got for Easter. We had 3 bunnies, but one died yesterday (we don't know why), and one escaped and never came back (my favorite:(). so this is the remaining bunny:

first half of April

I'm playing catch up! This is for the first half of April.

For General Conference, we went to Todd's grandparents' house on Sat., and Ryan and Shannon's house on Sun. since we don't have cable. We made the kids an activity pack and a snack bag:

In April, Thanksgiving Point did a tulip princess pageant. I'm not about pageants, but I am about the tea party in the garden for those who went! (We ended up not being able to go to the tea party the day they had it, though:()

For the pageant, they had a beauty school do all the girls' hair and make up:

...and gave all of them a crown:

They did her hair really cute:

 
Abbie didn't get hair or makeup done:)

They had the parents write up a little thing about each girl to read out loud while the princesses walked each girl to the front of the stage. While the girls were in line, Katherine had a peepee accident right on the stage. We got a picture of her standing daintily with her little pink purse next to her big puddle, but I think Katherine deleted it because the picture mysteriously vanished.

Her is Abbie on the front stage:

Here is Katherine. She did a courtsey (they told everyone to, but she was one of the only ones who did it:)):

Katherine and Abbie and the other princesses:

Afterwards, they gave them all a prize bag. Then we went to the garden restaurant:

Then the kids ran down the hill and we played at the gardens. Look at Katherine in the next 2 pictures:

 Alex rolling down the hill:

Since the girls were in their pretty dresses, I took some pictures of them:

 twirling:

running around:

 My people:

 "Hmm, what is that you're holding, Mommy?"

 "EEEEEE!" (translates to: I want that!)

"ok, plan B"

My cute boy is growing so fast!:

 

Other pictures:

Katherine said she made herself a lunch. She sat there with her bag, her carrots and spinach leaves, and ate it on her plate (a tupperware lid):

Manzo when he just had a bath: