Why is it...

that it's easier to clean someone elses house than your own? I was pondering this today as I was cleaning my own house. I woke up this morning and had the sudden urge to clean everything in sight. By the time I finished loading the dishwasher I was over it. I have no desire to finish cleaning up around here. But, I would have no problems going and cleaning someone elses house (minus the bathroom anyways). So, I got to thinking, why don't we all swap houses for a day and clean. Then, we could all return home to a clean house that we didn't clean!! It would be like going to work and coming home to a house that magically cleaned itself. Wouldn't that be glorious?! And that folks, is my random thought for the day.

Easter Pics of the Kids

Usually we do our Easter egg stuff on Saturday, but for some reason it just didn't work out that way this year. We ended up coloring Easter eggs on Saturday, which ended up...interesting. I boiled about 9 eggs. One of them exploded while boiling and after the rest had cooked and cooled I set them on the table next to Jacob and started making the dye. Well, I turned around and found that Jacob had crushed 3 of them. So we ended up with a total of 5 eggs. It was still fun. Jacob had fun coloring on the eggs with a crayon before I dipped them in the dye. He was so excited to see them change colors. It was cute.

I was sick for some of the weekend, including Sunday, but I bucked up and after Mike got back from church we had lunch and then had an Easter egg hunt. We had to do it inside since it rained all day Sunday. Jacob LOVED it. He got right to finding all those eggs and toys. I helped Lizzie. She found one egg and was done. It was all colorful and she was mesmerized by it. I stuck a couple more eggs in her bucket just so Jacob wouldn't get them ALL. Then I helped her find a few toys that I hid especially for her. Here she is with that first egg.

Here's Jacob with his Easter bucket, finding all sorts of eggs.



While Jacob was off gathering up the rest of the goods, Lou Lou settled on the couch and checked out some of her stuff.


One of the things I got specifically for Jacob was a Madagascar sticker and sticker album. I am glad he found it last, because once he saw it, it was all over. That is all he cared about. He just stared at it. He LOVES Madagascar 2. He calls it "The lion movie" and he could watch it all day if I let him. We watch it EVERY DAY. Sometimes twice a day.

Here they are on the couch with their buckets.

He had fun finding the eggs, but then he discovered that there was actually stuff inside of them. He thought that was even cooler.


Lizzie preferred the chocolate while Jacob ended up liking the jellybeans more.

All that candy makes a kid THIRSTY!

Lizzie sorting through her loot.

MY EGGS!! Back off!!

Lizzie and her sweet butterfly shades.

Jacob needed his shades too. When he puts his on he says, "Coo dude". It's very cute.

Then he decided he wanted to try on the sweet butterfly shades. Come on...they are pretty stylin'.
I think they had fun. While they were eating their candy we had a short lesson on the meaning of Easter. I don't know how well it took. :) Next year we will go back to our regular Easter schedule. My friend Aubrey says her Mom always told her, "Saturday is for the Easter Bunny and Sunday is for Jesus". We grew up the same way, but I just liked the way she put it. :) I personally like having the two separated. So, next year, that is how it will be.

Happy Easter

Mike's Cake

Mary reminded me that I have neglected to once again display my magnificent cake making abilities and post a picture of Mikes b-day cake. We unintentionally ended up with a Wii theme. I ordered a game for his birthday a few months ago and kinda last minute he decided he wanted to have people over and play Wii games. I figured why not go with a Wii cake. We came up with this idea the day of.


If I'd had a few more days to think about it I think they would have turned out a little better, but I thought they looked pretty good. :)

Mermaid??

Yesterday we went to walmart to do our grocery shopping. We had two carts. One for the kids and one for the groceries. When we were just about finished I remembered I needed to buy a new bra, so I took the kids with me and left Mike to finish getting groceries. I went to the bra section and picked one out and as I was holding it up examining it to make sure it was what I wanted, Jacob grabbed it from me and says "Mermaid!!" and proceeds to hold it up to my chest. (The Little Mermaid is one of his favorite shows.) I (laughing) quickly grabbed it from him before anyone noticed, and stuck it in the cart far enough away that he couldn't reach it, but then he started freaking out and yelling, "MERMAID, MERMAID!!!". I decided at that point that it would be best to leave the underwear section as quickly as possible and find something else to distract him with. He wasn't easily distracted, but at least out of the underwear section people didn't know what he was talking about. :)

Happy Birthday Mike!!

Welcome to your 30's Hun!! :) That's right. He turned the big 30 today.

Here he is as a baby. Wasn't he so cute?!?! I mean, he still is and all, but he was an adorable baby!

And here he is today, doing a manly pose for the camera.

This one was while he was too busy to pose for the camera. He was actually working on something for his cake...cause he's a perfectionist and I wasn't doing a good enough job. haaahahaha. Just kidding. He really is a perfectionist, but I actually asked him to take over this particular project. I will post a picture of the cake later.

Happy birthday Suga Lips. :) I love you!!!!

The Beginning of the End

Today is the first day of Mikes very LAST rotation. HALLELUJAH!! Since April is pretty much the last month we will be around (we will be out of town most of May) this really is the beginning of the end for us. So with that in mind, I bring you...The Final Countdown. (assuming you can get passed the painfully long intro and the bad 80's hair, etc.)