Jesus, Eggs and Bunnies

For Easter we made lots of Easter eggs.  The boys were very excited to color the eggs and had been asking for days.  I forgot all the prep work involed.  We needed to hard boil some eggs, then blow some out.  It was a lot of work, but the boys and Daddy were a great help.

Chase blows an egg out

Owen blows an egg

We had our annual Easter Egg hunt at the park, in the freezing cold marshy area.  The kids had a great time!

Receiving instructions

Chase eagerly awaits the hunt

My two lovies

Preparing to raid the eggs

A neighborhood friend.

Owen and Chase were off and I couldn't find them!  Chase went to the playground and found tons of eggs.

Chase

Owen went to the open field

Easter morning was lots of fun, but we made sure to remind the boys what the real reason of Easter is.  One of my traditions growing up was that the Easter bunny left a small gift at the foot of our bed.  Chase woke us up at 3:30 a.m. to tell us the Easter bunny had left him a present on his bed.  I didn't know if we'd get him to go back to bed, but he did!  When he got up at his normal time he made sure to go in and get Owen and tell him the Easter bunny had come.  Jeff went downstairs to see if the bunny had left and I crawled out of bed.  The hunt was on.  The boys remembered that they got little toys in eggs last year so that's what they were hoping for.  They didn't like the candy inside, which made Jeff and I laugh.  They found their big baskets with toys and were very very excited.

Chase finds some eggs

Owen tries to sneak by Chase

Finding their baskets

Chase, Owen and I before church

Owen claimed this was a smile.  :)

Clearly these pictures are out of order and I just don't want to deal with fixing it.

Owen's looking for more eggs in the snow

Chase

The Easter bunny brought eggs for all

Chase, Paige and Owen, all born within 6 weeks of each other.

Our family

Love this one

Owen and Chase had to look in their eggs right away, so they went to the picnic table and opened up their goodies!

April 11th and Snow

That's right! Most of you are in the same boat as us, so you understand.  When the boys saw the snow Owen cried (real tears) and Chase yelled, "Yeah"! 

The drive to work today was the worst of the year.  Thank goodness I don't have far to go and hopefully this will melt soon!

Oh, the Things Kids Say!

Setting:  Dinner at a restaurant
Waitress to Chase:  I like your puppy hat!
Chase:  Thank you,  My mommy's having a baby!

Setting:  Basement with Chase, Owen and Jeff
Chase and Owen:  Daddy, don't see us.  We're super spies.
Jeff:  Ok.
Jeff:  (waiting a while) I hear something (playing along with the game), it must be Chase and Owen.
Chase and Owen:  Don't say our names!

Setting:  Breakfast with Chase and Owen
Owen:  Chase when you said that it hurt my feelings.
( I was so proud of him for stating what he felt and what hurt his feelings)
Chase:  No I didn't.  (nice job Chase)

Setting: Chase and Owen playing and Chase was copying Owen
Owen:  Chase, don't 'peat after me.
Chase:  It's not 'peat, it's repeat!

Setting:  Chase, Owen and Susie looking at photos of Susie pregnant with the twins
Owen:  Mommy, look at your chubby tummy!

I opened the bad tasting polish I use to keep the boys from sucking their thumbs.  Chase said, "I smell the stuff that tastes bad!"

Chase, what are you doing? "I'm picking my nose."  Why? "Cuz I want to wipe it on my underwear"

We were planning to visit my parents and for days before Owen would cry and cry because he wanted to go "now."  Then my parents got sick and we couldn't go.  I told this to the boys and Owen started crying again.  I asked why he was crying and through his sobs he said, "Cuz Nana and Papa are sick!"  Such a sweet boy.

We were talking about Easter a few days before it occurred.  I said, "Why did Jesus come?"  Chase said, "To save us from our sins." Oh precious!

Owen still says "yellew" for "yellow".

Boys still say "peanut biber" for "peanut butter" even though they can say butter just fine.

Owen says everything is a "good igudea" (a good idea)

crib

The crib went up a few weekends ago!  I was having a mini anxiety attack with all the crap that was laying around the baby's room.  So, to help out Jeff put up the crib. It was very strange to see it in the guest room-now to be baby's room.  Plans to decorate are starting to form in my mind, but we have a way to go. 

 

Chase and Owen had to pretend they were sleeping.  They actually wanted to sleep in there that night.  This was Owen's crib and he loved it so much.  They had fun playing and enjoying the crib again.

Chase peeks over teh edge of the crib and Owen has some transformers.

Sledding Fun

Back in February we took advantage of a beautiful Sunday afternoon and went to the sledding hill in Chaska.  We had a BLAST!!! I was a bit concerned about going down the hill being pregnant, but C & O had so much fun going by themselves that I didn't have to go often.  We had a couple close calls where the trees got a little close to Chase.  The boys were taught how to roll off their sleds if they were heading toward danger.  We were outside on a beautifully warm day for about 2 hours.  The boys cried when we had to leave.  I'm not sure how much longer they would have stayed, but they had a blast!

My two tiny boys walking up the big big hill with their sleds.

Run Chase!

Chase keeps running!

Then he falls.

Owen is loving the snow and the sledding!  He was a maniac.  He wanted to go over the jumps and just loved it!

The boys got to ride together and were yelling and having a blast.

Here comes Owen

Owen got taken out a couple times by sledders. He liked to stay at the bottom of the hill and watch, however it wasn't easy for sledders to miss him.  He took a pretty good hit once, but thought it was fun!

Owen goes down all by himself.

Mommy and Chasey wait for our ride

Jeff gets Chase going.

Owen gets a push from Daddy so he can go over the jump.

Valentine's Day

I am way behind!  Valentine's Day was a lot of fun at our house. The boys and I stopped and got some streamers and had fun decorating the house before Daddy got home.

Owen's Valentine bucket from school with all the great Valentine's he got. 

Chase and Owen decorated their chairs with cards from Nana and Papa

We did some fun workbook activities