Easter 2011

Well another year is here and we have the privilege of celebrating the resurrection of our Savior Jesus Christ. As always, we started off Easter Sunday with finding their Easter baskets that are hidden somewhere in the house. Then we go to church to remind ourselves of the true meaning of Easter. The boys get a new Easter outfit (they have always gotten matching shirts) and we take pictures of them looking dashing in their new clothes. 

In the afternoon we have a wonderful Easter dinner and then the annual Easter Egg hunt. The adults hide all the eggs with candy and money and the kids go crazy finding the eggs. To my surprise the kids want to find the eggs with the money in them instead of the candy. That is when I truly know that they are my children!!

Easter is always a good day filled with good memories, family, food and a reflection on how grateful we are for the great blessing of our Savior in our lives.

Until next year! Happy Easter!

The boys in their Easter Outfits!

 The aftermath of a good Easter Egg Hunt!

Jordan wanting some yummy candy!

A fake smile from Dylan trying to please a mom who is taking some Easter pictures

Luke discovering the treasure from his hunt.

Dylan doing the same.

The smile that comes to a boys face when he gets some candy. I love it!!

Happy Easter!

"We are too sexy for this post"....

There are those Saturday mornings when my kids are not rushing to get to school or are in a hurry to get some where and they spend their time doing "boy" things which always end up being stupid and meaningless. One Saturday morning after the kids had finished decorated some Easter Eggs they started to prance around and show off their "white boy" moves without their shirts on.  Obviously, they thought they were "it" and began to pose and flaunt their bodies by doing many different interesting poses. Of course, they wanted to me to take pictures of their awesomeness. So, here is what I had the pleasure of documenting with my camera.

Ladies, here is Mr. March. The man with the ribs and tattoos!

The coolest pose Mason could come up with!

"The Lady Killers".....Not!!!!

Don't mess with a 4 year old without his shirt on!

Don't ask me what he is doing in this picture. Who knows?

Hey there! You are a 9 - you'd be a perfect 10 if you were with me.

Turning Seven is like a piece of Heaven!!

                                                                 Dylan's 7th Birthday

The kids get to have a friend's birthday party every other year. They talk about where they are going to go for their birthday party for a year and who they are going to invite. This year Dylan decided that the big event should be held at Chuck E Cheese. He was in heaven!

The boys having pizza and having a blast!

Some people stay up all night and decorate their child's birthday cake but this mom picks up the phone and orders hers.

Being the birthday boy at Chucky E Cheese comes with some special privileges. Some of them are that you get a birthday crown, medal and you get a trip in the ticket blaster. The ticket blaster is a container that blows tickets in the air and you get one minute to catch as many tickets as you can.  Well, being the very clever people that we are, we told Dylan to get in the ticket blaster and start picking up the tickets on the ground first and stuff as many tickets as he can in his clothes. That is exactly what he did. Their was a few tickets in the cage worth 500 tickets. He gathered over 1600 tickets!! He was able to cash those in and get some cool prizes at the Chuck E Cheese store!

Dylan counting his tickets after the ticket blaster experience!! He is stoked!!!!

Some special treatment offered by Chuck E Cheese himself.

Say Cheese!!!!!

Presents!!!!!

Dylan opening up presents on his actual birthday!

He is excited!

More presents!!!!!

A Skateboard!!!!!

Happy Birthday Dylan! We love you!!!

Kung Fu Fighting

Since our boys need a little help in self control and discipline we thought we would try to get them into Karate. We tried it once before but they were really young and it was pretty expensive. Years have gone by and we thought we would give it one more try. We found a dojo (don't I sound fluent in Karate lingo) in Roy that was more "low key" and had some reasonable rates. We tried it for a month but Luke really wasn't into it and started to complain about going and Dylan could take it or leave it. So we thought we would put our money into better use and do something else with them. I think the only reason why they even wanted to try Karate is to wear the outfit.

Right after we started Karate, Dylan did a school report on Karate. We took some pictures of him for his report in his Karate outfit doing some poses. This is what we ended up with....

Aye ya!!

The eye of the tiger!!!

If looks could kill...

I have no idea what this move is but he thought it looked good!

Being flexible isn't in his blood.

Dylan showing respect by bowing.

The famous "Karate Kid" move...

Luke's Basketball 2010

Luke has been begging to play basketball, so we enrolled him in Junior Jazz. This was a learning season for him. He learned, he had fun and he got some exercise. It was a successful season because he enjoyed himself and wanted to do it again the next year.

Here are some pictures of a game that Luke played in during the basketball season.

NDPA Halloween Carnival

Each year the boy's school has a Halloween Carnival. It is one of those events that the kids think is SUPER awesome and the parents dread but grin and go because they want to create fabulous memories for their kids. But just to give you a picture of what it is like: Imagine hundreds of people both old and young wandering through the narrow schools hallways in costumes trying to get to each classroom to play little games, win prizes and dealing with their impatient kids who want to do everything in 5 minutes and get upset when they can't. Even though you want to scream and pull your hair out after an hour, you stay and take a couple of Tylenol when it is all over.

One of the classroom at the carnival had face painting. The line was about a half hour long but the boys really wanted to have it done. The volunteer at the face painting station did a pretty good job of painting a picture on their cheeks of what they dressed up as for Halloween.  Here is what they ended up with:

Watch out Batman! Here comes Mason! He dressed up as Batman his favorite Superhero for Halloween.

Dylan dressed up as a piece of pizza for Halloween and this is the face painting from the Carnival. He was embarrassed about his costume because people kept making comments about how they wanted to eat him. He didn't like that!!!

Luke was Superman! He was also embarrassed to dressed up like Superman and didn't want to go because he thought people would make fun of him but just the opposite happened. People kept commenting on how cool his costume was.