Earth Day

I have one of the coolest kids going. Isabelle is amazing and the ideas she comes up with on her own are great. Besides having lots of fun on Earth Day, we also helped to make the earth a little bit cleaner around our neighborhood. There is a wash, or run off area close to the house that sees lots of trash. So Isabelle thought it would be a good idea to clean it up. We collected six bags of trash from said area. Granted there is a little bit of construction going on right now so that does not help with the amount of waste, but we helped clean up. All the kids help to make the world a better place to live and a healthier place. I did hurt my heart that we bagged up recyclable items, I just was not sure how to handle that. Maybe next year we will bring out our bins to collect those items. Either way, happy Earth Day. What did you do to help make the Earth a better place to live?

The Renaissance faire is always one of my favorite spring time activities to do with the whole family. But of course we have a very busy spring so it seems to get harder and harder each year to get there. The kids love it so I think we will have to make it a priority. This year we were joined at the fair with my parents. The got a chance to see the kids enjoy something they introduced my brother and I too when we were kids. I know they have gone with us before but now that the kids are older it is so much more fun, to see how excited they get over the fun, food and games. We did things a little differently this year, we gave each of the kids an allotment of money and that was theirs for the whole day. Once it was gone they were all done. Mom and Dad were not going to pitch in any more money. Barrett had to learn the hard way what that meant. But in the end it all worked out and they still had lots of fun. They were asking to go back as we were leaving. If only we could scrape out two weekends to go to the fair. Maybe in the fall we can go down to Plantersville.

Easter

I know I'm way behind but last week was a little rough. Either way, here we are now and who could pass up the fun times we had on Easter day. We started our morning off my dying eggs. We were super busy that week and did not have time to do it before hand so we dyed them on the day. Everyone got in on the action including Decllan. And why not Easter egg dying is great fun. Cooper did a little two fisted dying and so did Bear.

Then before we had lunch we started the Great Egg Hunt of 2012. Cooper got a couple minute head start since he is younger than all the other kids, and they were off. There were tons of eggs and no one was left out in the goodie department. Collin had lots of fun scaling the playground to reach the eggs. Isabelle was pretty intense about her searching and Bear was just a little perplexed at times. Not really but he sure does look so here.
All of the kids had a blast and found a great amount of eggs. Money, play dough, silly putty, and candy were just a few of the scores. Cooper even stopped to eat one his hard boiled eggs during the hunt. Too funny, I don't think it cost him any time or booty.

Quater Review

Well, I don't think I have been doing so well with the blog posting as I would like. Part of that is my own nerosis, of wanting to post a picture with each post and lack of time. What lack of time you say, surely you have all the time in the world, as a stay at home mom. Ha, ha, what a myth. But most of you should already know that. Either way, I will still try to post something once per week but it might be hit or miss, or a little bit of catch up.

I have done ok, with my scrapbooking, I think I really only lack about 5-8 pages to keep with my goal of 5 pages per week. Which when you consider I scrapbook for five different books is a not so bad. But I am happy to report soon it will just be two, and the others will get "copies" from the family album. I have a plan, I just need to put it into work.

I think I have been doing ok at taking more pictures of Decllan, although some have been on my phone, which is not so good but easier than bringing out the big camera. I might need to get a point and shoot to carry in the diaper bag.

My house, ah what can I say. I have four kids and it is a full time job keeping this place picked up. Makes me want a smaller space but then where would I put all of the crap. Maybe, I would have to get rid of some of it. Oh, usually it's really not too bad, today would be an exception. It will be clean before the weekend, we have friends coming over for Easter dinner.