Eggs to Dye For...

Easter weekend was wonderful. The boys dyed eggs and added some glitter. Austin let me know that he does not want to crack his green one. He wants to keep "him" safe forever! We went camping at Lake Grapevine (the boys and Ed camped, Paige and I returned home late in the evening, after the egg hunt, scooter rides, water battles, grilled fajitas and fresh guacamole, white wine and a sunset. Paige and I made it to church so she could show off her fun, green Easter dress.

An Artist At Work

"I sort of like eggs; they're just not my favorite"
(looks like lots of chef salads for Mommy)

The Admiring Observer

Egg-stra Dry Time

Egg Hunters

Every Bunny Loves Me

Snow Day

Last week was the culmination of an unusually cold and wet winter in north Texas. Grapevine got ~8 inches of snow! Ed and the kids got the day off from school and fun was had by all.

Snow Tunnel

Ed constructed a snow tunnel with fallen branches and packed snow. The boys, including the neighbors enjoyed the tunnel, but really enjoyed destroying it the next day.

Snowy the Snowman

Aidan built his snowman and pecan shell eyes, a cool hat and juice from holly berries to make the mouth.

A Work of Art
Austin's snowman required Mommy's hat and scarf.

Austin is 6

Wow - time is flying by. Our little Ausitn turned 6. He wanted a "war" party at the house. If it had been warmer weather we would have played capture the flag in the yard, but seeing as it is actually January, it was necessary to stay in side. This year Austin was willing to invite girls (although we didn't). He said since it was a war party they could just watch.

So 10 boys got decked out in camo (except for Austin who always seems to change his mind on the day of). We painted their faces, handed out dog tags and tatoos and sent them on their way to basic training with Ed. They enjoed the jungle crawl through the hallway and just ranning around, playing war and doing some nerf gun target practice.

Ed tried to get the boys to work on some "first aid" training. He had one of our friends posing as an injured soldier. When he asked the boys what they should do (hoping they would shout something like "Get the Medic"), he got responses like - "Take over command" and "Kill him". Alas, none of these lads are likely to be medics.

A White Christmas

MAKING COOKIES FOR SANTA

PLEASE COME VISIT OUR HOUSE SANTA

THIS WAS DADDY'S IDEA - I AM NOT A BUCKETHEAD


FIRST WHITE CHRISTMAS IN NORTH TX SINCE 1926!

All Hallow's Eve

A Happy Halloween was had by all!

We had a little neighborhood gathering prior to trick or treating. The weather was fantastic - just a cool fall evening. All the boys enjoyed playing, but little Madison (a neighbor in Austin's kindergarten class could not be convinced to join the photo with all the rowdy boys).

Aidan was a sargent in full camo. Austin was going to be a bat (and was earlier in the week), but his game day decision was Boba Fett. Paige was a pumpkin.

The boys had a lot of fun trick or treating with friends. Aidan lagged a bit behind the group as he was interested in looking at every piece of candy as it was acquired and he also followed directions and did not run across any lawns, but instead used the sometimes winding sidewalks.

My favorite haunts in the neighborhood are the stiltman's house and the house with the haunted castle blow-up that you have to walk through.

Out of all the candy, Aidan said the mint (a red & white dinner mint) was his favorite. Of course, that turned into drama when 10 minutes later his brother ate it and there was only one! Austin's favorite is the lollipop, followed closely by Hershey's chocolate.