Easter and the Walk for Babies....

Easter was really great this year. We dyed eggs - kind of. Mom the control freak put the eggs in the color, the kids just told me what to do :) It was the only way to do it in a short time and keep everyone clean....

The Easter Bunny came and left us each a treat - and eggs all over the house.

All dressed up in our Easter clothes!

We got ready and went to church. Another mother-of-the-year moment - notice Jaron's feet. I didn't realize he didn't have any shoes on until we had taken five minutes of pictures. Awesome.

After church, we went down to continue the Easter Celebration at the Sampsons. Ian told the kids how/where the indoor egg hunt was going to happen. The Criddle's just got back from a cruise - so Addie's hair is all in braids

The hunt!

Last Saturday we participated in the March of Dimes Walk for Babies. My office raised over $10,000 this year, which was totally awesome. All of our kids were premature and have benefitted from research done by the March of Dimes. In typical Seattle Weather, it rained. But we had a good time anyway!

The Princess is FIVE!!!

The day she has been waiting for has finally come - Kenzie is five! To celebrate this grand occasion, we had a Tangled Princess Party. Invitations went out, and 8 beautiful Princesses joined us for the party.

We painted finger and toe nails (thanks DeAnn and Jeanette for all of the help!). We made tiara's and put on earrings and rings. Then, we were ready for the main event - watching Tangled.

After an hour of the movie, we stopped the show to open gifts and had cake. You will notice that Mom of the year forgot the candles, so Kenzie had to blow out a number 9 candle. Oh well, she had a good time!


Happy Birthday Mackenzie!!!

Congratulations Brian and Emily Criddle!!

Emily (Paul's sister) and Brian were married on March 24th and we are so happy for them!

The kids were pretty good while we were waiting for the wedding. Thank heaven for video games :)

Emily bought them all new clothes (wahoo for free easter clothes!) They all looked so great. We got a great picture of Ian and Gail, and then Paul and I took one of our own.

They had a photo booth for people to take pictures, and then leave one for them in a scrapbook. It was so much fun - we took up an entire page.

Paul taught Jaron a new trick - it was a lot of fun to watch him. This kept him happy through a few minutes of the open house :)

We are so excited for Emily and Brian!!

Earthquake Video (sorry it is sideways)...

At the Seattle Pacific Science Center they have this really cool globe. Normally they have the actual weather patterns showing when we go. The last time we went, they had a video of the earthquakes that have happened in the past month. If you look - there is a key that shows the size of circle indicates the magnitude, and the color indicates the depth of the earth. You can see the date rolling. Watch for New Zealand's big one and also all of the activity in Japan. We watched it for a while.

This is probably the coolest thing I have ever seen...

Star Wars and the Farm

It is sad to say, but my kids are definitely city kids. For preschool we went to the Farm on a field trip. If you ask Jaron, he would tell you his favorite part was the cow, and feeding the chickens. There was not a cow, just a spotted horse. But no matter how many times I told him, he was convinced it was a cow. The kids got to pet a pony, sheep and a rabbit and feed chickens and a pig. The pig was 600lbs, and very wooley. The farmer asked the kids which weighed more, Mommy or the Pig....we won't be going back :) The kids got to card wool and use it to make a sheep at the end. It was a lot of fun.

Star Wars came to the Pacific Science Center! We went (Jack and Paul are going to go again), but here are some highlights:

February Recap...

Paul turned 32! Kenzie and Jaron helped make the cake. Jack and Jaron helped Dad by doing the laundry.

Grandma and Grandpa Buckley and Aunt Natalie came to visit during mid winter break:

Here is a recap of February....it snowed, it melted. The kids were actually able to make some snowmen (brother and sister snowman are the names in case you were wondering).

Memories...

So I am going through all of our old photos to make some albums that the kids can pull and look through and found some things that made me laugh. I thought they would be worth reposting :)