Easter Sunday

Just a quick look at our cute boys on Easter Sunday.


Bradley--Handsome and hugely tall!


Bryson--Also handsome and a great babysitter for Brock!


Blake--aka Blakers the Man of Mystery or Mischievousness (the eyes give it away!)


and Brock--Cute as a bug which he fortunately didn't try to play with today during our brief photo shoot!

Happy Easter!

An Egg-cellent Saturday!

Our Easter Weekend started with the Fathers and Sons Camp Out of which I think I am grateful there is no photographic evidence. So after gathering in the troops and legions of dirty laundry we headed to Mom and Dad's for a family BBQ and Easter Egg Hunt.

The food was delicious as always! (Thanks to contributions by Mom, Dad, Grandma-ma & Grandpa, Cassi and Kaley. They took pity on the size of my belly and impression of John Wayne after riding the range wayyy too long and gave me a pass on a food assignment).

Adam and Brock had their own area to hunt for eggs--which they did over and over and over so we kept hiding them over and over and over!

Here's Double Trouble at the beginning of their hunt!

Cute pix of Adam. Brock was too busy looking for eggs to stop and smile for very long.

Katelyn, Bryson and Bradley had a separate area to find their eggs after which they had to solve word puzzles that were inside them. Since we're taking a family trip to Maui after school is out all the words had to do with our vacation. They sorted like eggs and then had to unscramble the letters to make the word. Yeah, we make our kids work for their Easter Candy!

Cute Katelyn.

Determined Bradley.

Energetic and Entertaining Bryson!

Blake and Megan had the same task as the older 3 just simpler words.

It wasn't really that sunny outside but Megan and her purse are always prepared for anything!

Meanwhile we hid eggs for Brock and Adam . . . . again.

Here the older 3 are counting their eggs only to find that they are missing one! Where is the egg map when you need it? Fortunately, Grandma-ma found the egg!

After this I stopped taking pictures because I was on duty to hide the eggs yet again for Brock and Adam. It was more like feeding chickens though. I'd just throw the eggs out onto the grass and they'd race to pick them up. They could have done that for hours! We missed not having our whole family there to participate in our Eggs-tra Out of this World Egg Hunt. But there's always next year!

Ducks in the Pond--or Pool that is. . .

So, Mom calls this morning after the 3 older boys had left for school and says "There's ducks in the pool. You have to bring Brock over to see them." So Brock and I load up in the car to see not just ducks but a whole flock of ducks--12 ducklings and a Mamma duck to be exact--swimming around in the pool!


We parked near the gate and went in the backyard. I told Brock he had to be quiet or it would scare the ducks. He was actually really quiet most of the hour we were there on our Zoology Field Trip. Here he is peering through the pool fence.


Soon Mom and Dad came outside and we all went in the pool area. There were a few moments when I'm sure Brock had lost interest in watching the ducks and was really trying to figure out the best way to make his escape into the pool with them.


At one point Dad was trying to help shew the ducks out of the pool but as soon as he would wander around near them they would follow the Mamma and swim to the other side. Brock observed this phenomenon and said "Grandpa, go over there!" I was more concerned with the ducklings being sucked into the gutters on the sides of the pool so I started chanting "Swim Away, swim away!" (Ode to Finding Nemo--Nemo really is never there when you need him!)


In the end Dad got all the ducks out of the pool with the use of pool rafts, flat pool net scooper thing, and shewing them through the yard to the canal. We'd gone home by that time. I really wished I'd stayed and gotten pictures of all that! The next day Brock wanted to know if we could go to Grandma's house and see the ducks. First I told him they flew away. That reason didn't really satisfy him so I switched to "They went to the Zoo." That seemed to be a good enough answer. This all just goes to show you never know what is going to show up at Grandma and Grandpa's house!