Happy Easter

Usually I do the Easter shopping but this year I sent Oscar to do the shopping. I told him to get outdoor toys like sand castle buckets and sports equipment and to get each kids a package of candy like M&M's or something. He came back with plastic eggs and a bunch of little toys and a lot of confetti. It was a mess but they had fun. For the boys he got rubber band plains and a badminton set and Sarah got a bunny. It was a mess but they had fun.

Zander was a little scared of the confetti eggs at first but he got over it.

Hannah came home with us after church so Sarah selectively shared her treats.

Instead of candy Oscar bought two kind of Yogo's snacks. They are Tanners favorite but I never buy them because they are too expensive and I hardly ever give them fruit snacks.

Brendan is our not messy child so he cautiously opened his eggs behind the couch to avoid getting dirty.

Sarah and Hannah had a blast with the confetti while the boys ate all the treats.

After eating like 16 Yogo's Brendan decided to cut them open to find out what's actually in there. He was a little disappointed to find that they aren't actually filled with yogurt like the box said. We always make them wait until after church before they get their treats and every years some one wakes up and asks why the Easter Bunny didn't come. Every year we have to remind them that we don't have an Easter Bunny we have an Easter Daddy and they can have treats after church.

We also make them write down everything they know about Easter

Brendan - I know about Easter day that the Christ died and it really is supposed to be about Jesus and not that Easter Bunny. He died for us and we got to give away all of our sins to him. He died for our sins.

Sarah - Easter is when Jesus died for us. He died to repent for our sins and the very next Easter he came back to life again. That is why we have Easter. She also drew a picture of Jesus on the cross with a speech bubble that says I repent for everyone, please for give them.

Hannah - What Easter really is made of. Easter is when Jesus died and repented for our sins and came back to life but first he stayed on the cross for three days stinking and rotted and dead and then he came back to life again and so will we.

Tanner - Easter is the day Jesus rose from the dead. We are not supposed to be celebrating, we are supposed to be calm.

Zander drew a picture of a bunny because he couldn't draw Jesus he said. I think he's a little upset that we don't have an Easter Bunny but he'll get over it.

Time Out

Apparently Time Out is exhausting. Two of the kids went to time out for biting and pinching other kids. After a few minutes I noticed they weren't crying any more. When I went to check on them they had both crashed. My day just got a lot easier. I love early naps!!

Blog Award

I was nominated by Sharla for this award. I wasn't much of a blogger until someone told me about blog books and how she prints her blog every year because she never has time for scrap booking. I'm now addicted to blogging because it is a lot less mess than a scrapbook.
Thanks Sharla for the award.

"These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award."
Here are my eight nominees:
Cassity

Cindy

Denise

Emily

Ginny

Michelle

Randi

Shannon (not me)

Family Pictures

Last Saturday we went to the Botanical Gardens for family Pictures. My friend Denise took the pictures while her husband Robert tried to entertain children. She is so amazing and she even got pictures of all of my children to smiling at the same time. We do pictures every year and every year they are terrible. Zander is always grouchy, Brendan has a fake smile, Sarah never sits still so she is usually a blur, and Tanner is usually making funny faces. In the end Oscar usually looks angry and I look like I am going to scream out of frustration because no one cooperates. This year was different though because I bribed Zander. I told him if he was good I would let him play in the mud and he was good. When he behaved they all behaved.

If you click on the last picture you'll notice that Tanner snuck in bunny ears.

Chunky Monkey

It took a lot of searching but I finally found a baby picture of Tanner in a box this morning.

He was such a chunk!

What's for lunch?

Okay, so I think my husband is trying to fatten me up before he leaves so I don't run off and divorce him while he's in Afghanistan. (because that happens) He keeps bringing me treats and junk food. Today he surprised me with my favorite lunch ever.

Seasoned fries and blue cheese dressing from the farmers market. There was also a giant brownie, but I ate it, this is the leftovers of my lunch. At the Ridgmar Farmers Market you can get a huge basket of fries(that basket was over flowing before I ate them) and a giant brownie for $2 so whenever my husband has to go to the base during his lunch break he stops at the farmers market so he can surprise me with lunch. It used to be a once every couple of months thing, but now it happens a couple of times a month. He also keeps bringing me chocolate bars and cookies and on his drill weekends he brings me whoppers he says because there is a Burger King on the base but I think he has other motives.

Candled Eggs

Candling eggs is like a sonogram for chickens. Here are some pictures of our candled eggs that we have been incubating.

The first is a fresh egg that we candled for comparison.


This one is an older egg and contains a large chick. The big dark shadow is the chick.



This is a younger egg with a smaller chick.


Here is a green egg that we candled with a very small chick.

I wish my camcorder worked in the dark so I could post a video. When you candle the eggs you can see the heart beating and on older chicks you can even see them moving around. There were a couple of very active chicks that seemed to be jumping in their shells. They looked like early baby sonogram videos.