Happy Spring! Happy Spring Break! Happy Easter! Happy Esther's Brithday!!!

Happy Spring!

 My mother-in-law gave me some tulips, and my mother helped me plant them.  Hurray for mothers!  The tulips were fully open and beautiful, but they took a beat down from the heavy rain we had.

 Nate had a week off the week before Easter.  We went to the Air Force science musuem early in the week.  We watched a fighter airplane IMAX.  During the show, Josh told me he didn't want to be a firghter pilot when he grew up.  I was fine with that.

Later in the week, we went bowling.  Fun, fun, fun.  The boys beat me during the first game, but I had an awesome come back in the second game almost beating Nate.  The boys and Esther had fun.

 On the day before Easter, we went on a Easter Bunny Train Ride just southeast of us.  The train drove us to an Easter Egg Hunt.  The boys were at the perfect age for this particular egg hunt.  There were 40 or so children in their age group and about 150 eggs for them to find.  The orchestrator anounced that each child could get 5 Easter eggs.  You do the math.  Josh found 4, and Caleb found none.  Luckily, Caleb and Joshua were more into the experience of it all then the lack of equal opportunity rights.  Also, Joshua shares...most of the time.  He gave one to Caleb, one to Esther, and one to a sad little boy who found no eggs.  All in all it was a FUN (Josh wanted to type a word) trip.  We drove by the Wright brother's bike place and homestead and had a good lunch at a place called Roots. 

Happy Easter!

Aunt Sarah came to visit!  What fun!  She helped us dye Easter Eggs, watched the old school batman with us, went to the Gibby Family Easter Bash on Sunday with us, went to the zoo with us, and hung out with us.  Thank you, Sarah!  We're  glad you could visit.

Happy First Birthday, Esther!!!

She had two eager helpers assist her in unwrapping her presents.  Caleb particularly enjoyed bumping the presents on her head.

She had a Chocolate Mint Cake and liked it, but she liked the vanilla ice cream better.

Esther is a delight.  She smiles, laughs, and says, "Hi."  She loves playing in the sandbox, eating bananas ("Nana"), playing with balls, putting blocks and other items inside containers and taking them out again, laughing with her brothers, climbing up stairs.  She lets all her joys, sorrows, frustrations, and laughs known to one and all.

She's been taking a couple of first steps and even a second step, but not walking yet.  I get to hold onto my baby a little longer. 

The Macaroni and Cheese War

This recipe tastes like quiche. Should I have known from the egg to cheese ratio? The fact that the macaroni and cheese recipe calls for eggs should have been a red flag. It's not that I don't like quiche. I just don't want my Mac and Cheese to taste like it. Josh liked it, but he was in the minority, the minuscule minority.

Sorry the picture turned out small.  I'm testing new technology.  I'm not too happy with it at the moment.

Nate's Birthday

Nate had a good birthday. It's hard not to have a good birthday when stuff like Caleb's standing up in his chair singing "Happy Birthday" on the top of his lungs is going on. I tried getting a video of it, but I kept pressing the wrong button (new camera). The video I ended up getting is their third or forth time singing (poor ice cream cake). They needed a little help.
I tried doing an ice cream cake for Nate. Unfortunately, I put the fudge sauce on while it was too warm which gave the ice cream a slight freezer burn taste. I'd like to try it again for my birthday. I'll do a normal one for Esther's birthday coming up, though (She's turning one! Hurray!)