School Kid’s Easter Parties

We had a FREEZING cold Easter egg hunt for the 4th graders.  It was miserable!  BUT, it didn’t deter them any.  Emma was quite happy to find the golden egg.  Lucky girl!  Dane photo bombed our Emma and Serena picture.

Claire spent her time with Justin’s class, they had lots of games and fun.

Rett and Kaleb were so cute in Heidi’s bean bags and banana chairs.  These two are in the beginning stages of a life long journey of terrorizing sisters and scaring their mother’s to death!

But they sure are cute little brothers right now!

We always have a great time at school, we are fortunate to have good teachers who take care of our kids!  We love them!

Eggcelent!

Claire and I got all of the Easter eggs ready for the kids school parties. 

She organized them, and color coded them!

Of course the favorite GOLDEN egg.

She counted them,

and counted them!

I will be bringing them to her class next year!  What a pretty helper!

Concentration!

This boy has to have his mouth open to make things work!

Especially important hard things like the marble game!

And he figured out how to push the little lever to open the flap so the marbles can go.

So funny!

Ashley’s First Trip to The Temple

Ash lucked out and made it to her first temple trip by four days.  It worked out perfect for her.  She was a little nervous, but mostly excited.  I got to go with her.  It was great, she is fitting right in with this group of Beehives!

This was a huge group for us, it was fun to have so many kids come.

We had a great time, and it is always fun to go with the youth.

After School TORNADO!

We have a daily (well twice daily) tornado roll through our house.  The first one is right after school.  We just leave everything where it falls off of our bodies!  Then the backpacks open and the paper work flows out, then the projects begin.  Last year I made a rule, no projects after 3:00 pm.  I need to resurrect that one again.

Is that really a scooter on the floor? 

We also have the last HAIL MARY before bed too.  I don’t know why but the house becomes a disaster during the bed time routine.  

Someday I’m sure I’m going to miss this….

Moon Dough

This stuff is the BEST!  It has sat in the kids cupboard for two years (someone got it for a birthday present from a cousin I think)  It has been played with maybe once?  Rett discovered it and has been playing with it every day this week.  I had to move it to a cookie sheet, but he spends HOURS seriously loading his trucks and tractors up with this pink stuff.  It is so nice to have him into something that he can be into!

Claire worked at it too for a minute, but hasn’t been into it since I took this picture.

Justin comes home and digs around in it every day afterschool.  I think it resembles dirt a lot.  And you know how boys and dirt are!

I tried to find some more at walmart and they didn’t have any, I have wiped up swept up about half of the container I hope we don’t run out before I can find more, hopefully in a more manly color!

Ashley’s BIG Birthday Party

Why does Ashley’s party post start out with a picture of Justin and one of his BF’s?  Because that is the kind of sister she is.  Justin had a friend over(who happened to be having a birthday too) Justin taught him heavy heavy hangover.

We had a house full of girls!  Ashley gave out 10 invitations and we had 15 at the party….  I counted heads over and over, I couldn’t figure it out until all the chaos left and I figured out how we ended up with 150% attendance?  Why don’t I have that many at Relief Society meetings?   It was great, I was happy Ashley has so many friends.

We really only had a plan to watch a movie and have a treasure hunt, BUT when you get a house full of silly loud girls they don’t want to sit and watch a movie.  So I scrambled for games, which thankfully I had enough Telford/Woodland games rolling around in my head we survived.  The girls LOVED them and it was fun.  We did have a treasure hunt planned for them to find their party favors (thankfully I somehow had enough, well Ash and E didn’t get one but all the guests did).  It was fun to see them run from place to place.  It was a picture hunt so it was kind of tricky to find the places I had photographed.  I have lots of running pictures.

Ash enjoyed all of her presents, lots of jewelry, nail polish and girlie stuff.

Blind mans bluff was by far the favorite  (kind of lame I know, but I didn’t plan very good but I lucked out and the kids LOVED it)

Jaci is the blind man.

Dillon and Justin hopping around, Erica was the blind man.

FOOD, they ate the ENTIRE chocolate fountain (three bags of chocolate chips) in 10 minutes flat, it was GONE!  These girls are choco lovers! 

So Ash wanted the chocolate fountain, crème puffs, pasta salad, and pretzels, oh and cake and ice cream.  With soda and cranberry juice mixed together.  And they ate. it. all!  It was wild and crazy, but a really fun time.

I don’t plan on another one for Ash until she is 16, that is a LONG ways away…. just like 12 was a long way away…

Children’s Theater

The kids participated in the play again this year.  It was the Secret Garden.  They all did a good job, Justin probably wont do it again.  It is a pretty intense full week of practice, I think he was pretty exhausted, as were the girls.

Justin was the garden (4th from the end.

Emma was one of two squirrels, Serena was the other, just perfect.

Emma, Serena, and Caleb

Emma and Serena “fighting”

PERFECT roll for these two.

Ash was a goose.

Jamie, Ash, and Luke

Ashley and her friend Jamie.

It was a really cute play, so glad that it is over, I drove two and from the school 8 times in 2 hours, it got a little ridiculous!  The girls just love it though.

Claire Bear

The week wouldn’t be complete with out a Claire Bear post.  Claire is loving Lala Loopsies, side ponytails, littlest pets, and all things girlie.  She is a fun one!

I keep asking her what am I going to do next year with out you?  She keeps reminding me that Rett will be my helper.  Oh dear!  I REALLY need her to stay home from Kinder!

Ashley’s BIG Present

We were all so excited for Ash to get an Ipod. I told the other kids she was getting it and we couldn’t hardly keep the secret. 

It came in the mail but then we didn’t have any time for her to open it when we were all together.  The other kids had given me such big reactions to finding out the exciting news that I thought Ash would do the same so I recorded her opening it.  Yeah, not so much.  She is just kind of a quiet, kind of girl I guess.  She was excited, just not jumping up and down excited.  Maybe she isnt a crazy teenage girl just yet!  (thankfully)