Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Easter and Before Easter

We were sick. The end.
Well, I wasn't. But everyone else was. We had to miss church and everything. Rad paid a visit to the ER earlier in the week too. Something nasty made its way through our town! But we made it through and God was merciful :) We survived by watching movies and I kept my sanity by eating the Sees Easter chocolate that I ordered. I did not lose weight :)

In other news, the murder mystery I wrote for MOPS was completed and executed and went very well! It was really tricky to write; a progressive dinner mystery for an unknown (until the last day) number of all female participants where parts were not assigned ahead of time...I probably put 25+ hours into that thing over the course of a few months. I'm SO relieved it's done!

Blake graduates in just a couple weeks and is done with classes in less than one week!!!!!!! This is basically the biggest news ever :) :) :) :)
Our one special Easter activity was an egg hunt and picnic with our play date group in Williams in between bouts of sickness. It was windy but fun.

Our chickees were so little!

Blake and I made some emergency candles :)

She chose her outfit :) I think she pulls it off!

First dance/movement class!




Rory introduced Rad to bubbles.

Trying on her Easter present, Obviously not feeling great :(



Looking grown up



Trying to get his picture for the alumni magazine

New Easter train

Rad got a seaplane for Easter in honor of his Seattle heritage. He wasn't overly impressed :)



Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Signs of Spring

Well, it's been a whirlwind last couple weeks. I helped out with baby showers two weekends in a row (for two good friends- so exciting!). Then last night I orchestrated a murder mystery for the MOPS progressive dinner! I worked on the storyline off and on for over a month; it came little by little and I was a tad stressed about it by the end. But it came together and it seemed like people really enjoyed it. The hardest part was coming up with the basic premise, and not knowing how many participants to expect made it more complicated. I'm relieved to have it done! Oh, and Blake graduates one month from today- whoo hoo!!!
Oh, and we got our baby chickees (as Bash calls them). They're soooo cute; we got buff orpingtons (if that means anything to you). They'll grow into the golden colored, stereotypical looking chickens. We're dreaming of fresh eggs in six or seven months!!

Building our rabbit cages!

Sleepy little guy

Our little rogue

Love the lion jammies!

Such a goof


Baby Houdini doesn't need clothes.

I think this picture makes it look like Bash's foot got sliced off!

Sweet siblings!

We made the big move and put the toys in a newly formed "office and play room." We made the former toy spot a reading area, and brought out the art supplies. They still play out in the living room most of the time anyway :)

Bashy picked out his outfit for the first time. Notice a theme? This boy loves tractors.


A snapshot of our life :)

Fun times at Bearizona

He finally likes food! French fries are a favorite :)