Easter Weekend: A Day on the Farm

This year we traveled out to the Myrick homestead to color our Easter eggs this year. Jonah has entered a phase where you can tell he's not having that much fun. When you snap photos, it shows. Katie John is having a great time though. She colored many patterned and colorful eggs.
Keira and Sariah did the most eggs. John helped out so that Keira didn't get colored herself. All during the day a big bonfire was burning the extra orchard sticks. We spent a while sitting around the fire, even roasting some marshmallows YUM! Julie grabbed my camera from me and took this nice photo of Katie John in the grass near the fire.

Lucas and I are having a fun time! At this point I think we'd watched the men (Jesse, John, Jonathan and Shaun) attempt a few catapult launches. There is always an element of excitement and danger when you see grown boys dangling from 30 feet up in the air trying to swing the arm of the catapult down for the next launch.
Julie (still with my camera) took the girls to the field next door where some baby goats lived. The baby goats were very cute and loved to nibble hair.


Look how cute, all looking the same direction. It's harder than you think to get a kid to cooperate. I had a fun time looking through about 150 photos and I have yet to watch the two videos. I guess I should do that.
Jonah and Mason have fallen into the starcraft hole.

Grandma Betty came out for a visit and we got this cute picture with her holding all the babies. Lucas is about 3 1/2 months old, Sofia and Caleb are about 8 months. A behind the scenes photo would have been hilarious as we all tried to get the babies to look and smile.

Sariah and Keira wrap up our day with a fun photo near the bonfire. We had a great time!

Laundry Day

Lucas was helping me with laundry today. I do a LOT of laundry. We took this picture document all the fun we were having!

The Zoo 2

Spring break is notoriously hard for me to organize fun things for the kids. This year it came quite naturally after we started the week off with a fun birthday party for Jonah with Mason and Max unexpectedly spending the night for added fun. Christina came Tuesday night to pick up her boys and Jonah for a few days of running and leaping at her house. Also on Tuesday Katie John had a playdate with her friend Lauren who had just gotten a baby guinea pig. Katie John also had a scheduled playdate on Wednesday with her friend Norena. That left me with two small girls and a baby in need of something to do. The zoo seemed like the perfect thing.
By going earlier in the day than our last zoo visit we were able to see a few more animals. The orangutans were out and playing. The otter was running around and we could actually see the bongos. Sariah is doing a school project on the Red Ruffed Lemur so we were hoping to see one. Sadly they only had Black and White Ruffed Lemurs. She wanted to so badly to draw a picture of one.
For a special treat we rode the merry-go-round. Both girls had a blast!
Now, this whole time Lucas was being toted from one enclosure to the next without really caring about the animals. He slept a lot. After the merry-go-round he was wide awake. Recently he's learned he has a tongue. It's quite cute seeing him constantly stick it out. So while we rested in the shade from our long walk we laughed and took pictures of this cute boy.

This was a fun opportunity to spend time with just my two smaller girls and Lucas. It's not often we have time for such activities during the busy school schedule. Spring break this year so far is full of fun, what will we do with the rest of our week?

Jonah turns 11

I can't believe our little boy is getting so big! It seems like life is really flying by! Jonah has been looking forward to this birthday party for a long time. We planned a big bowling and laserX birthday. He was able to invite 5 friends: Mason, Max, Jacob, Mitchell and Joey. Since his birthday landed during spring break we were able to have the party on his actual birthday. The boys arrived and then zipped off to the bowling alley. They played for about an hour, poor Jonah came in last with a score of just 63. It seemed that the boys preferred the laser tag game and talked about it non-stop when they came back. The off-site activities took longer than expected so I had to contact parents and let them know to come later to pick up their boy(s). We quickly lit the candles and then sang happy birthday.
Jonah was very happy with his bowling cake and did his best to blow out the strategically far apart candles on the first try. Happy Birthday Jonah! We are blessed to have you in our family!